22 SEPTEMBER 1923, Page 13

P.R. IN IRELAND.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your last issue (September 15th) appears a letter dealing with the results of P.R. as shown in the recent Irish elections. Is there not, however, some mistake in the writer's calculations ?—e.g., in the last column (proportion of seats to votes) the figure for the Anti-Treaty vote is given as 40.4. which is, so far as I can make out, correct. The figure (57.3) for the Government votes, however, should be 61.5 and not 57.3, in which 'case the figures for Farmers, Independents, &c., would also be found inaccurate:—I am, Sir, &e.,

Hookland, Midhurst. WADE CAtivoEiLD (Rear-Admiral).