blin Castle. Since then
there has been no more persistent caviller at the Irish policy and
the Irish Party in company where he believed such cavilling paid.
When Home Rule was proposed by Mr. Gladstone, he had a thousand
foolish sneers for the measure and its author. When the Bill was
defeated, he elected Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Goschen, and Mr. T.W.
Russell as the gods of his idolatry. Such a nature needs a patron,
and Mr. Webb, Q.C., the Tory County Court Judge who doubled the
sentence on Father M'Fadden, was the patron to be selected. It is
shrewdly suspected that he supplied most of the misguiding
information for Dr. Webb's coercion pamphlet, and it is probable
that Dr. Webb gives him a lift with his weekly letter to the
_Manchester Guardian._

(_UNITED IRELAND_, JUNE 23.)

MR. JOHN F. TAYLOR.

_To the Editor of "United Ireland."_

Sir,--You would not, I am sure, allow intentional misstatements to
appear in your columns, and I ask you to allow me space to correct
three erroneous observations made about myself in your current
issue--

1. The first statement is to the effect that I owe everything I
have, or that I am, to the Irish National Party. I owe absolutely
nothing to the Irish Party, except an attempt to boycott me on my
circuit, which, fortunately for me, has failed.

2. The second is to the effect that I made "frantic efforts" (these
are the words, I think) to enter Parliament, and besieged Mr.
Dillon's house during the time when candidates were being chosen. I
saw Mr. Dillon exactly twice, both occasions at Mr. Davitt's
request. Mr. Davitt urged me to allow my name to go forward as a
candidate, and it was at his wish and solicitation that I saw Mr.
Dillon.

3. It is further said that I begged a Crown Prosecutorship.
Fortunately, Mr. Walker and The M'Dermot are living men, and they
know this to be absolutely untrue. I was offered such an
appointment, and, contrary to my own judgment, I allowed myself to
be guided by Mr. Davitt, who thought the matter would be
misunderstood in the state of things then existing. I believe I am
the only person that ever declined such an offer.

As to general statements, these are of no importance, and I shall
not trouble you about them.--Yours very truly,

JOHN F. TAYLOR.

_P.S._--The introduction of Dr.