[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
am not going to reply to your article of the 10th inst., in reply to my letter on small landowners in Ireland. When both sides of a special and definite question have been fully and fairly stated, further controversy is of little use. I only wish to remark, in reference to the suggestion about employing the Church surplus in lending it to tenants who wish to buy out their landlords, that there is no money yet available from this source, as the Commissioners of Church Temporalities are, and for several years will continue to be, in debt to the Treasury.
I expressed myself carelessly in saying that the Commissioners of Church Temporalities are not regarded as a Government de- partment. I only meant to say, what is quite different, that the Church property which they sold was not regarded as Government Old Forge, Dunmurry, County Antrim, August 12111.
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