A CHANNEL TUNNEL.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—A tunnel between England and Ireland—emphatically, yes. It will be an additional argument for having the same Govern- ment at both ends of it. A tunnel at our front door, with one end under the control of a foreign Government, however friendly— emphatically, no. When the Germans, or their successors, are as near Calais again as they were two years ago, imagine the frenzied consultations between the two Governments, by telegraph, as to whether one is to be allowed to blow -up, or flood, the joint possession of the other I Both would wait and see, till the third party -Bayed them the trouble of deciding. Quos Deus vult [We do not agree. Enormously costly bridges like that over the Danube at Czernavoda have been blown up at the proper moment. So would the Tunnel.—En. Spectator.]
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