To tho Editor: Pir, —In a leader in the " New Zealand Freeman's Journal " of tho Bth instant several statements which cannot bo borne out by fact are mado concerning the action of the " Loudon Times " during the progress through Parliament of tho recently passed Irish University Act. I wrote to Ihe "Freeman," questioning the accuracy of the assertions, but the editor of that journal, for reasons bust known to himself, preserved a significant silence, and refused to insert my letter. As tho state ments referred to, together with the observa tions with which they are supplemented, would be calculated, if unrefutcd, to mis lead the Catholics of Auckland on a very important matter, 1 would ask, iv tho interests of truth and fair play, the liberty of correcting the inaccuracies through your columns. The first statement is that the " '1 imes" "compared the establishment of a Catholic University to the setting up of a pest house in the community." Being a subscriber to the " Times" lam in a posi tion to give that statement a categorical denial Tho "Freeman" then goes onto remaik that the language of the "Times" in reference to the University question was that of "low-bred insolence." Now, sir, the progress of the Irish University Bill nowhere received stronger or more con tinued support than that which the "Times" gave them. That journal has been the most powerful advocate iv England ot the Irish people on the question of higher education, and it never ceased its advocacy until the measure just passed was safely placed on Ihe Statute ilook. It scorns utterly incomprehensible that the editor of a respectable newspaper should so flagrantly misrepresent the views and policy of the greatest of British journals, and I am quite perplexed to suggest any reason for the course which the " Freeman " hae adopted. 