POINTS FROM LETTERS
CL7BAN SUGAR FOR NEW ZEALAND.
Cuba is now exporting sugar to New Zealand, where Fiji is the usual source of supply. If there is room for West Indian sugar out here, it seems a pity that it cannot come from British islands, or do they lack the capital and organization ?— R. II. FITZ-HERBERT, Havelock North, Hawke s Bay, New Zealand.
LORD BIRKENHEAD.
In the many pleasing notices which I have read about Lord Birkenhead I have not seen any allusion to an important change of law, for which I believe that he was wholly respon- sible. I allude to the abolition of Copyhold land tenure. That he was a great lawyer nobody can gainsay, but without doubt he might have been one of the greatest lawyers of all time had he not handicapped himself with the stultifying shackles of politics. The one great reform of our legislative system, the codification of our laws on the lines of the Code Napoleon, which we need so badly, is a colossal work, which, 1 believe, could have been accomplished by Lord Birkenhead.
1'. BACON l'unaars, Burgess Hill, Sussex.
QUESTIONS ON TITE PRAYER BOOK.
Surely the questions on the above in last week's Spectator are more one-sided than one would naturally look for in your paper, with its tradition of broadmindedness. After such a question as No 8, "Where in the Prayer Book does the word 'Protestant' occur ? " we might well have had following "Where intheRubrics of the Prayer Book does the word Altar' occur ? " Of course the answer to each is "Nowhere." And yet multitudes of Church people think they have unquestioned right to use the terms, the one party " Protestant " ; the other "Altar." It is curious that the one service of the Church in which the word " Protestant " "The Protestant Religion is found is also the one service in which the word "Altar" is used instead of the regular " Table " or "Lord's Table." And perhaps the conjunction of these two, "Protestant Religion" and " Altar, ' and all the ideas that these words connote, illustrate, as well as anything could, the true character of the Church of England and its Prayer Book.—A. CAMPBELL FRASER, Rokeby Rectory, Barnard Castle.
SAVING TILE COUNTRYSIDE.
Those who have been about the despoiled countryside this summer must have noticed the number of cardboard film boxes and cigarette and chocolate cartons in the universal litter. Could not the makers of films, chocolates and cigarettes offer small rewards for the return of the coverings of their wares, say five shillings for a thousand covers ? This would be an advertisement for the makers and would automatically produce an army of " tidiers-up."—Docu.
To SAVE THE 'IMPLACABLE.'
The Lord Mayor of London is presiding at a meeting at the Mansion House, at 3.30 p.m. on Monday, October 20th, the eve of Trafalgar Day, to save the ' Implacable ' as a National Monument and as a holiday training ship for boys. The Implacable,' which fought at Trafalgar and was captured later, is now the oldest warship afloat. Admission to the meeting is by invitation, and those interested can obtain particulars from the Secretary, Implacable Fund, 10 Bouverie Street, London, E.C. 4,
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