A Dublin correspondent has so curiously misunderstood a sentence in
the article " Remember Gweedore ! " which appeared in our last number, as to suppose that the words, " Hardly a week passes without a policeman or a soldier being killed while carrying out his orders and doing his duty," were intended to apply to Ireland alone. Manifestly that would be absurd. It is but very rarely that the soldiery are called out even in Ireland, and, of course, much more rarely that a soldier is killed. We intended that sentence to apply to the whole Empire, as our correspondent might easily have perceived by the context, if he had not been on the look-out for unjust imputations. As regards the police, we were at the time specially referring to London burglaries in which policemen had been recently killed. The passage would be unmeaning if the reader did not understand that what we were trying to explain was the much greater sensitiveness which the Gladstonians now display in relation to the suffering of any so-called political patriot in discharging some quite superero- gatory act of honourable obligation, than they display in relation to the suffering which our regular servants undergo in the discharge of imperative duties.
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