LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
JUBILEE BONFIRES : NO POSTPONEMENT OF DATE.
[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—In answer to " Fen-de-joie's" interesting suggestion, in the Spectator of May 22nd, that the Jubilee bonfires should. be postponed till Midsummer Eve, I beg to say that a large correspondence shows me that many Jubilee committees have determined to make the bonfire a kind of wind-up of the Jubilee Day's rejoicing. They could not postpone it. The central committee certainly would not at this late hoar of the
day venture to suggest any such alteration et the date as proposed by your correspondent. At our meeting in London last week it was decided that all bonfires in connection with the national plan in England, Ireland, and Wales should fire up at 10 p.m., as already agreed, on June 22nd, and that Scotland should light up at 10.30 p.m.—I am, Sir, &c., H. D. RAWNSLET.
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