• flow that perhaps you will allow me to suggest
a concrete instance in which, in Ireland at ally-rate, and possibly in England also, .such a lead might be given. Would it not • be well if High Sheriffs of counties could agree to cut down their expenditure
on the occasion of Assizes Why should not the quasi-obliga- tion, imposed by custom, of giving an expensive luncheon to Grand Jurors (and, in sonic counties, to many others as Well) be suspended during the war and the lean yeats that are likely to follow it No one surely, at such a time as this, should wide to be regaled with champagne and all the delicacies of the seastm: And why sheitild not the javelin men, who require. or expert, to be equipped with new uniforms by each successive Sheriff; be replaced by less picturesque but cheaper and equally efficient policemen ? • Individual Sheriffs are naturally reluctant- to start rettenchments of this kind, but if a, leach were given them by an assurance that it is the wish: of Government that such expenditure should not be incurred, their way to set a good and conspicuous example of economy would be made tenis paratively easy.--I am, Sir, &,e., Inisn GRAND J trnou:
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