JUSTICE TO IRELAND.

Evening Star, Issue 2913, 20 June 1872, Page 2

JUSTICE TO IRELAND.

To the Editor.

Sir, —In reply to the letter of your correspondent “ Veritas,” will you be good enough to publish the enclo-cd from the Daily Telegraph. I hope “ Veritas,” when he reads it, will have sense enough to be “ sorry he spoke.”—l am, &c., Nemo me impure lacessit. The Daily Teleg aph, in answer to the boast of a Dublin paper that fifty-seven per cent, of the successful candidates for the Horae and Indian Civil Service are Irishmen, asks “What was the proportion of nationalities among all the competitors ? Were not the Irishmen also in the majority of the unsuccessful? The truth is, that situations under Government are valued among them to an extent uuequaled in England or Scotland. Not only are the highly-paid Indian posts sought eagerly by hundreds, but even the minor clerkships in the Government offices arc objects of keen desire to thousands of young Irishmen with good birth and even aristocratic connections. The reasons are simple and cogent enough. The Civil Service is the only available outlet for many youthful Irelandcrs. In the sister island trade is ‘in its teens.’ Compared with the rich life and robust vigor of English and Scotch industry, it is but a puny infant. Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, and other places absorb thousands upon thousands of young Englishmen, who enter warehouses as drudges and junior clerks, and hope to rise to the highest posts. Temptations on a similarly large scale are not offered on the other side of St, George’s Channel. The result is curious enough. It certainly reverses emphatically the old grievance of Irishmen as subjects treated with disfavor, and shut out from the service of the Crown by special laws. If the process goes on as it has begun, the whole Civil •Service of the Crown will gradually be Hiberniauised.”