IRISH GUARDS.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—We are at last to have Irish Guards—so far so well— but how are they to be recruited ? The Inspector-General of Recruiting supplies the answer. He writes : "The only solution of the problem appears to be the assurance of work on leaving the colours." Last year there were thirty-two vacancies in the Dublin Metropolitan Police, and five hundred and fifty-six in the Royal Irish Constabulary, of which just three were filled by Reservists. This is not the way to en- courage recruiting in Ireland. These five hundred and eighty-eight posts should have been filled by Irish ex-soldiers, —and none others should be accepted for the Constabulary. We should thus secure for the Irish Guards recruits of splendid physique, and in sufficient numbers, by doing away with recruiting for the Constabulary.---I am, Sir, &c., Moystown, Belmont, King's Co. BOLTON JOHN WALLER.
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