This settled the question, and Mr.Taylor declined the post, which was subsequently applied for by Mr.Luke Dillon, who now holds it .-- Faithfully yours, JAMES A.POOLE.
29 Harcourt Street.
EDITORIAL NOTE.
_"United Ireland," June 23._ We devote a large portion of our space to-day to the apparently organised defence of Mr.J.F.Taylor and his friends, and we are quite content to rest upon their letters the justification for our comments.

When a gentleman who avows himself a disappointed aspirant for Parliamentary honours, and who owns his regret that he did not become a petty Castle placeman, is discovered writing in an important English Liberal paper, venomous little innuendos at the expense of sorely attacked Irish leaders which excite the enthusiasm of the _Liarish Times_, it was high time to intimate to the _Manchester Guardian_ the source from which its Irish information is derived.

The case against Mr.Taylor as a criticaster is clinched by the fact that his cause is espoused by Mr.John O'Leary.

The Irish public are a little weary of Mr.
O'Leary's querulous complaints as an _homme incompris_.

So far as we are aware, the only ground he himself has for complaining of want of toleration is that he possibly considers the good-humoured toleration for years invariably extended to his opinions on men and things savours of neglect.