But of the main matter, and I think the chief cause of your ire, I am quite in a position to speak.

I have read at least a score of Mr.Taylor's letters to the _Manchester Guardian_, and I have always found them very intelligently written, and invariably characterised by a spirit of fairness and moderation; indeed, the chief fault I found with them was that they took too favourable a view of the motives, if not the acts, of many of our public men, but notably of Messrs.

Dillon and O'Brien.

You may, of course, fairly say that I am not the best judge of either the acts or the motives of these gentlemen, and I freely grant you that I may not, for my way of looking upon the Irish question is quite other than theirs; but what I must be excused for holding is that both I and Mr.Taylor have quite as good a right to our opinions as either of these gentlemen, or as any other member of the Irish Parliamentary Party.

But this is the very last right that people are inclined to grant to each other in Ireland just now.