Lord Stradbroke has met the charge brought against him by
the Times' reporter in the simplest and manliest fashion. In a letter to that journal, he states that the account of Burgess's cottage -quoted in our columns last week is strictly true, but he is not responsible for the state of affairs. He has only recently pur- chased the property, and was about to examine this very cottage when his tenant told him it needed nothing. The former owner had divided a good cottage into two bad ones, and the tenant was unwilling to disturb an arrangement which brought him £3 10s. a year. Lord Stradbroke, however, as an immediate remedy, intends sending the sick daughter to hospital, and making the two sons find work at some little distance. He says he wants no quarter for anything done on his property, either in Suffolk or Waterford, and expressly endorses the state- ments of the Times' reporter as to the condition of many cottages in Suffolk.
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