EVICTION AND BANKRUPTCY. [To Pax Roma op pax "BpsurAPoa." SIR,—Yon
say in your issue of June 18th :—" If a man buys coffee on speculation, and cannot pay for what he has bought, he is deprived of his home just as much as if he were a defaulting Irish tenant. His lease is taken from him, his furniture is sold, and be must either be assisted by his friends or take refuge in the workhouse." To me it seems that yon speak of a world quite other than that in which I live. I know a man who now lives in a magnificent home, gorgeously fitted,, lighted by electricity, with every appointment of the most sumptuous kind, in the neighbourhood of an English village. with which I am connected. A few years ago that man failed in business. The village watchmaker had entrusted to him hi& savings ; the market gardener, a widow, had supplied him with plants to a large amount on credit. Those savings vanished, that account was unpaid ; yet the man never left his home, one less magnificent than his present one, but of a certain dignity ; his daughters were not withdrawn from an expensive Parisian school ; his style of living was modified, bat not radically changed. Where were the bailiffs, the police, and the soldiers in this case P It is only those whose attention has been specially drawn to the matter who realise how completely doublefaced is English law,—deferential and apologetic to the wealthy scoundrel,, rigidly exacting towards the poor and helpless.—I am, Sir, de.„
A LIBERAL, AND THEREFORE A HOME-RULER.
[The defaulter had probably settled a fortune on his wife.— En. Spectator.]
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