15 AUGUST 1885, Page 18

LOCAL AND IMPERIAL TAXATION.

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sta,—Although you have placed your veto upon this discussion being carried any further, will you spare me just a line or two for a " personal explanation P"

The allusion in my first letter to "an event that took place about two hundred years ago " was a reference to that wholesale con- fiscation of State land by the Parliament of Charles II., by which a number of landholders converted themselves into land-