[TO TRH EDITOR OF TR& "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I am rather amused
at Mr. Martin Wood's not over- civil outburst (Spectator, September 9th), but am quite content to leave the fitness, or otherwise, of my comparison to your readers' judgment, merely asking them to read again Carlyle's* account of the matter, checking it by Gardiner's.t I may, however, call attention to Gardiner's note on Vane's apparent breach of faith with Cromwell as emphasising the special point of resemblance between him and Mr. Balfour—" I am loth to believe that Vane and the rest after promising to endeavour to stop the Bill should have gone to the House in the morning with the deliberate intention of pushing it on. Vane was capable of finessing, not of a deliberate breach of promise"—and to his description of the Rump as " the little knot of men who, with parliamentary government on their lips, bitterly distrusted the nation on which all parliamentary
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