1 MAY 1880, Page 14

LORD BEACONSFIELD AND THE CONSERVATIVES. go THE EDITOR OF THE

" SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—It is satisfactory to have one's actions justified or accounted for by such a paper as the Spectator. "The cynical and cruel spirit displayed by the Prime Minister's Bulgarian and Afghan speeches" turned me, a voter for two counties, from a Conservative into a Liberal,—and such I hope to remain. I feared I was in a minority as a "humanitarian," but such seems not to be the case.—I am, Sir, &c.,