Correspondence.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3932, 5 August 1881, Page 2

Correspondence.

Tltcie columns are open to all correspondence of public interest, but we do not hold ourselves resnonsible for the opinions of writcre. Coi.:espondencemust in all sases be authenticated by the real name and address of the writer—not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star)

Sir, —On reading your paragraph lead* ing article last evening, I was astonished, and could not help thinking if the editor was really honest in his opinions of sympathy with the Irish Land League. You did not say what law it was in accordance with, but it caunot be English law, as its meetings are forbidden, and pronounced (and justly so) as illegal gatherings at Home. Surely you mu9t know more of this association, which is agitating the United Kingdom, than you seem to acknowledge. Why, Sir, it is only a soft-sounding name, or an accept* able covering, to entrap weak-minded Protestants into assisting the promoters of a secret organisation for the overthrow of English rule in Ireland, and the establishment of a Popish Parliament in College Green. Why is there such enthusiastic cheering and applause at the League meetings throughout Ireland, when some of the speakers throw out insulting remarks on the Queen and Parliament ? Does it not show, when masses of the Irish Roman Catholics assemble together and get excited, the true object they have in view. Your Wellington correspondent is correct: it is Fenianism, with a vengeance. I don't wonder at Sir G. Grey running in the same groove; but what of Speight, who, I believe, is an Orangeman, and also a member of the P.A.F.S., assisting a cause which the Queen, Parliament, and loyal subjects to the Crown are trying to put down—but, I suppose, because Sir George Grey went, he must go too. That's independent liberty if you like? I believe it will take a bucket of holy, water drawn from an Orange Lodge to wash Mr Speight cleaa enough to appear before his brethren for their support. I claim to know a little about the so called wrongs of Ireland, under its many names. The principal leaders of all the turbulent discontented Irish are disappointed political aspirants who have not been found worthy of better support, and of course to gain their ends of notoriety, &c, they take up the fancied cause of the. discontented, and by their intrigues enlist the sympathy of men of other denominations, who are afraid to acknowledge their true convictions lest it would endauger their owo. political standing.—l am, &c,

A3LOB PATRIiE