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pro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' rejoice to see that

the suggestion of a Royal Com- mission on Free-trade versus Fiscal Reform to be agreed to by both sections of the Unionist Party has the support of the Spectator. What we sorely need is breathing-time, and the gathering together of all our forces to resist Socialism, whether in its cruder or its more insidious forms. And, from the line consistently followed by him since the question was first raised, we have in our present leader, Mr. Balfour, the right man to bring about such a modus vivendi among Unionists of all shades of thought.—I am, Sir, &c., G. B. BAKER WILBRAHAM.

Rode Hall, Scholar Green, Cheshire.