4 DECEMBER 1880, Page 3

It is not often that the Times makes so funny

a blunder as it does in the Dublin letter published on Wednesday, where it transforms the "hanging gale,"—or arrear of half a year's rent on an Irish farm,—into a "banging gate." "Mr. Low, in reply to the chairman, stated he owed. Mr. Boyd one and a half year's rent, with a banging gate,"—certainly a most jarring and tumultuous appendage to one and a half year's rent. We are not so much surprised to find that Mr. Boyd "would not accept it," if " it " included, as it appears to do, the "banging gate." • Much as we have heard upon the Irish land question, it does not seem that the commonest phraseology connected with it has yet sunk into the minds of English journalists.