MR. ACWORTH AND THE M.A.B.Y.S.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Owing to absence from home, I have only just seen the paragraph, in your issue of May 5th, referring to the meeting at London House on behalf of the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants, in which I am described as the Rev. Mr. Acworth. Will you permit me to disclaim the epithet, not merely because I have no title to it, but also because it looks like an instance of a tendency—a tendency with which, however, I am persuaded the Spectator does not sympathise—to assume that the only men who can be expected to concern themselves with matters of this nature are those who are, so to speak, "professionally engaged in the case "P—I am, Sir, &c., New University Club, May 15th. W. M. ACWORTH.
[We hardly know whether we owe an apology to Mr. Acworth for our error in identifying him with the clergy beyond that which we owe to our readers for the inaccuracy ; but if we do, we heartily tender it, and entirely disclaim for ourselves the habit of thought which Mr. Acworth so justly denounces.—En. Spectator.]
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