MR. FROUDE AND THE CRISIS IN IRELAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7602, 3 April 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

MR. FROUDE AND THE CRISIS IN IRELAND.

- _♦ The following letter from Mr. Froude baß been received in Belfast, in answer to an invitation to lecture on the Irish crisis :— " Were there nothing in the way of my lecturing at Belfast but the animosity of the Irish Nationalists, I think I could bring myself to consider, perhaps to accept, your proposal; but lam too old for such a strong adventure. Such little service as I may yet be able to do must by writing more th»n by speaking, and for the preseut I do not see that it will be any use for me even to write. I have done what I could ; but events have their own logic, and the words of the wisest are but as wind. Events will soon utter their own voice, and the dealing with them will pass from the talkers to the actors. The present state of thiDg3 is the inevitable consequence of all that has gone before. It will end as the 1641 business ended, or the 1590, or the 1798. The anarchy will grow till it becomes intolerable. John Bull will then put on his boots, and will do as he did before. What may happen in the interval Ido not pretend to guess. You in Ul ter I hope to see holding your own ground. Stand steady, whatever eomes. The real England is asleep. She will awake before long, and will then know what to do.