RECRUITING IN IRELAND. [TO THE EDITOR OF TUE " SPEOTATOR.1
Sna—The enclosed extract from a Dublin paper of last week may interest your readers. Comment is needless.—I am, Sir, &c., Tirreaslay.
" The Freeman's Journal, the official organ of the Nationalist Party, set forth yesterday the conditions under which voluntary recruiting can receive another chance in Ireland.' Ihey are as follows :—(I) Conscrip- tion must never be introduced in Ireland without Ireland's consent. (2) The abolition of martial law. (3) The dismissal of General Sir John Maxwell. (4) The withdrawal of the Coalition system from Ireland.
(5) No further harassing ' of Irishmen temporarily resident in England.
(6) Resumption of the work of preparing the Orders in Council for bringing the Home Rule Act into operation. (7) No imprisonment of Irishmen without trial. (8) Tho treatment of Irish rebellion prisoners as political prisoners. (9) Tho. Rome Rule. Act must. provide for the ' ultimate integrity' of Ireland. The Freeman's Journal says thit the
observance of all these conditions by the British Government will revive voluntary recruiting in Ireland."
[These clauses remind one of the impossible conditions introduced into bonds in the days when legal fictions held sway in our law. " If John Styles shall ride to Rome in two days "—then the bond was to be invalid.—En. Spectator.]
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