THE REVOLT OF THE SHIRES.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—If South Molton resembles other rural constituencies, the result of the election there neither means electoral in- difference to Home-rule nor electoral caprice. As a matter of fact, the useful and popular measures of the Government, to which you refer to-day, have found no favour in the eyes of calm and moderate men in the country. And it must be added that men less calm and less moderate speak of the Tithe Act as the embodiment of tyranny ; the Land-purchase Act (Ireland), of treachery ; the Technical Education Fund, of spoliation ; and the Free Education Act, of corruption. Wherever moral considerations are better understood than political finesse, there Lord Salisbury will find that his policy
is condemned.—I am, Sir, &c., SHROPSHIRE. [Our correspondent is in a very good position to judge of the feelings of the latter class whom he criticises, but not at all, we think, of the former.—En. Spectator.]
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