20 OCTOBER 1855, Page 16

tettro in tbr Cahn.

STATE OF OPINION ON THE WAR.

Reading, 18th October 1855. Sin—I have been now for several years a reader of your paper, and owe you much for the instruction and pleasure I have gained from it. But I cannot go with you about the war. I doubt if you are accurate in saying that no large class of people are yet dissatisfied with our present course. On the contrary, I think that if the press could be silent on the matter, and the people allowed to speak, man by man, for themselves, a very large pro- portion would cry, " Hold—enough." At any rate, I know that amongst my own class this feeling is gaining ground, while many of us have serious misgivings as to the necessity for going into this war at all.