THE IRISH CONSTABULARY.
[To Tag EDITOR or THU " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Recruiting for the Royal Irish Constabulary has been stopped, and rightly, since half the present force would suffice. But here is splendid material to go to waste, while her Majesty's regiments sorely need replenishing. Offer these coveted posts in the Irish Constabulary, after six or eight years' service with the colours, to the two thousand candidates who are now being rejected, and the thing is done. And if England could bring herself to gratify Irish national feeling in a right direction by forming battalions of Irish Guards, these splendid young men, who, having no career in Ireland, go to swell the ranks of Fenianism in America, would become loyal supports of the Crown and Empire. Such was the wise and successful policy of Pitt in forming the Highland regiments. A safe example surely to follow.—,
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