25 AUGUST 1877, Page 13

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. •

A DISCLAIMER.

[To TUB EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sin,—I have read your article on Mr. Smith, in the Spectator of the 11th inst. Will you allow me, in justice to myself, to state in your columns that I am not the author of the letters which have appeared in the public Press in reference to the treatment by the leaders of the Conservative party of Borough Members, and that I do not know by whom the letters in question were written. It is true that I have held strong opinions on the subject, which I have communicated to those to whom I thought they should be made known, viz., to the leaders of the Conservative party