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forthcoming work, which you were good enough to forward to 

 his Excellency, and I am to state in reply that, though his 

 Excellency is convinced of the value of your work, he regrets 

 that he is not in a position to promote its free circulation in 

 Ireland. 



* 4 1 am directed to return the sheets of your work, and the 

 enclosures of your letter. 



" I am sir, your obedient servant, 

 (Signed.) "EDMOND R. WODEHOUSE. 



"J. H. Dickson, Esq." 



What a mistake it has been on the part of Lord Palmerston 

 that he did not select a viceroy for Ireland, out of the many 

 rich of his noble acquaintances, one that had the means, as 

 well as the eye, understanding and heart, to see and promote 

 what would create permanent employment for the people. 

 "We have here before us a letter by order of our Queen's 

 representative in Ireland, saying ' 1 that though he is con- 

 vinced of the value of a work calculated to promote what he 

 recommends the people of Ireland to push forward, as the 

 only hope of national prosperity," he regrets he is not in a 

 "position to promote its free circulation," not in a position to 

 pay £66 — barely the price of printing and binding ; had Lord 

 Palmerston, if he could not get another Duke of 

 Northumberland to make Dublin merry at Christmas, 

 selected Mr. Ben Lee Guiness, a merchant prince in 

 Dublin, or some of the merchant princes in this city, like 

 Sir J. Duke, or the late Mr. W. Cubitt, to whom £20,000, 

 in one year, as lord mayor, was no object, no branch of trade, 

 so essential to the well doing; of Ireland would stand still from 

 want of support necessary for its extension ; but so long as 

 men like Sir Robert Peel have a voice in the Castle of 

 Dublin, in the great work of extending Flax culture and the 

 power loom in Ireland, in opposition to Lancashire cotton, 



