SPECIAL CONSTABLES.
[To TEM EDrroe or Tire “SraCTATOR."1
Stn, —I have read with interest the letter of thanks to the London special constables addressed by the Home Secretary to the Lord Mayor on December 31st, and I am glad that their services should be acknowledged in such handsome terms ; but I regret that Mr. McKenna, in doing a graceful thing, has not done it more gracefully. Why should his app.". ciation be confined to the London special constables P In my provincial town there are something like two thousand citizens who have, since the middle of August, for three hours a night, a fortnight on and a week off, guarded public buildings, bridges, &c.—a monotonous and, in the recent weather, a very trying work. And in the country districts, where the muddy roads have to be patrolled, the duties are, 1 take it, even more arduous. Surely the Home Secretary should have included these men in his letter of thanks.—I am, Sir, dra.,
A. SPECIAL CONSTABLE IN SCOTLAND.
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