LIBERALISM AND THE IMPRISONMENT OF RITUALISTS.
ITo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—I was very glad to see the letter of " South Warwick- shire " to you a few weeks ago. No one gauged the feeling of the country before the last general election with greater accuracy than Sir William Harcourt. Has office deadened his faculties ?* If not, he has some ground for becoming anxious about the re- sults of another general election. We are told, on "very high authority," that Sir William Harcourt " has from the outset obstinately declined to advise her Majesty to exercise the Royal prerogative in Mr. Green's favour ; and this is now, as it has always been, the sole obstacle to Mr. Green's being set free.' Your South Warwickshire correspondent announces his deter- mination to abstain from supporting a Ministry which is re- sponsible for this perpetual and illiberal Non possumus. He will withhold his vote, at the next opportunity. He is not alone, and there are others who will go further. I have always supported the Liberal Party as yet, but if at the next election a Conservative candidate will promise to try to get Mr. Green out of prison, and the Liberal candidate will not do so, the Con- servative will obtain a vote from A NORTHERN LIBERAL.
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