[ro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — In reference to
the letter on the above subject which appears in your lame of last Saturday, perhaps you will allow me to call attention to the following extract from Mr. Gilmour's book, entitled " Among the Mongols," which you reviewed so favourably some time ago :—" Of all the healing appliances in the hands of a foreigner, none strikes the fancy of a Mongol so much as the galvanic battery ; and it is rather curious that almost every Mongol who sees it and tries its effects, exclaims, What a capital thing it would be for examining accused persons ! It would far surpass whipping, beating, or suspending. Under its torture, a guilty man could not but confess.' Some one in England has advocated the use of the galvanic battery in place of the cat' in punishing criminals, and it is curious to note the coincidence of the English and. Mongol mind." (" Among the ifongols," p. 188.)—I am, Sir, &c., Free Church Manse, Mauchliue. JOIIN I. W. POLLOCK.
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