24 JULY 1875, Page 15

THE SPALDING SCANDAL

go THE EDITOR OF THE -sescrArea.1 -SIR,—Your remarks on the Spalding case are so distinguished by -their fairness from most of those that have appeared in print, that .1 take the liberty of thanking you for them. It is usual, when a poaching case comes before the magistrates, for the landowner on whose estate the offence has been committed to retire from the bench ; if clerical magistrates would act in the same way when their own parishioners are brought forward, scandals might be

-avoided and better justice done.—I am, Sir, &c., C. J. R.