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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3953, 30 August 1881, Page 3

(To the Editor of the Evening Stae.)

Sir,—ln Friday evening's issue of the Evening Star there was a letter from a certain person who signed himself " Good Templar," in which he regrets that Mr Speight has not a chaperoue to " give him some useful hints." In tlie middle of his letter he says " That all right thinking men in the Black North are banded together to put down sedition and assasainatiou iv every shape and form, and are giving neither sympathy nor assistance to those men who are misleading the poor but misguided peasantry of Ireland." I am snrprised that "J&ood Templar" should be so ignorant as to identify " assassination .aud sedition " with the. principles of the Irish Land League. Those who have read the papers know full well that the Irish 1- aders in the House oi" Commons are foremost in regretting the numerous outrages which have recently taken place is Ireland. If he will but peruse the opinions expressed by the leading English journals, (whether Tory or'Badical) he will find that the English public, through their mouthpiece the daiV -fc*re3B, recognise the necessity for a complete revolution in the existing land laws of both Ireland and England. At the &£jtaP time they deprecate "assasina-; tiou v_nd sedition" as much as " Good Templar " could, do/ It as a pity that there ia not more men in the community, who, like Mr Speight, is fearless in expressing his honest convictions even though he should have to run the gauntlet of public opinion. Go home; "Good Templar " and beware above all, of "knowingly wronging a member of the order," or you may possibly be expelled from the Lodge.—l am, Another Good Templie.