A NOBLE WOMAN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3661, 9 April 1883, Page 4

A NOBLE WOMAN.

The follow lug extract, which Aye take from the London Daily News, Avill be read with interest, as breathing, in the reply of Lady Cavendish, the purest, the liighest spirit of humanity :—A letter from Lady Frederick Cavendish Avas read on Monday night at a meeting of the Skipton Liberal Association. It was"written in answer to a request of the Rev. S. Lloyd, who had asked perm-'ssion to dedicate" to her si sermon upon the assassination of tho late Chief Secretary. Lady Frederick Cavendish says: "The Dublin disclosures do indeed teach the awful lesson contained in the last verse of the third chapter of 11. Samuel. You will, lam sure forgive me if I beg you. before send'ng the MS. to the printers, to look through it first, with the special view of seeing if there is any word that could be turned into a desire for vengenance. You wi". readily understand how I must shrink from any such feeling. I Avould rather, as far as I reverently may, adopt the Lord's prayer on the cross—'Father, forgive them, for they knoAV not Avhat they do? The law, I knoAv, must take its course, for the sake of the unhappy country itself. I pray that neither the unspeakable greatness of my sorrow, nor the terrible wickedness of those men may over blind either myself or any of the English people to the duty of patience, justice, and synqxithy in our thoughts, words, and deeds with regard to Ireland audits people at length.-Believe me, dear sir, yours truly, Lucy Caroline Cavendish. P.S. —I cannot say how deeply I feel all thcl-'udsympathysliovvunic, niostespecia I !}' by Lord Frederick's constituents.''