(To the Editor,) SiR,-Poseibly no biped in God's vast creation more than myself is tempted to write. To the omnipresent and seductive siren I have constantly to say, " Get thee behind me. Satan." Now that I have fled the city and am leading a bucolic lite, 1C appears desirable my scribbling: ehou.d ceaso; but Nemesis pursues, and 1 am compelled to enter the arena. Mr McGinn's letter would pass unnoticed were it not for false eUtementeandinsinua tions with which his production abounds. I never told him that we had a reserve, and cannot divine what he means by the statement. Aβ to the charges against Mr Tighe I know nothing whatever, but shall in my own case neither dissemble nor cloke my ains, but make full and frank confea " (all had the wickedness and presumption voluntarily to set on foot a subscription for tho blind. , _ (6) In carrying out this project I was pierced by cold, drenched with rain, scorched by sun, wrought day and nignt aud Sundays, used tongue, pen and brain, the energies of body and mind, gave time, influence, coin, tho use of horsee and carriages. Poor might be the «urn total, bub all were first fruits. Having travelled as much as 60 miles for 20s, have been can catured, belied, ridiculed, and misrepre sented. In consequence of these efforts, and in spite of my persecutors, the crusade was crowned with euccese. (c) When the fulness of time came I con vened a public meeting, and although every day's labour was reported in tho press, I gavo a full account of my stewardship. If on this auspicious occasion the eye of my mind was dazzled with the brillionce of an apocalypse so great that I saw the whole sale healing of the broken in heart and simultaneous binding up of their wounds, if in thii spectacle the colours were too roseate and tho picture too bright, the sin must be laid at the door of my fervid iinogi dation. (d) At this meeting, a committee or gentlemen, one of the moat representative and influential possible, waa immediately formed. (c) This Council thereafter drafted a con stitution, which wae carefully perused by the whole of tho membors, and afterwards presented to a public meeting for criticism and adoption. 