THE DUTY OF THE GOVERNMENT.
[To THE EDITOR OF TER "SPECTATOR."] have never hitherto taken part in political controversy, -oral or written, but I can no longer refrain from expressing a -very earnest hope that, as you urge in last number, the Govern- ment may be able to face the situation without flinching. The mass of intelligent voters cannot constantly show in a palpable form the emotions by which they are animated. But I am con- fident I utter the feelings of very many quiet, educated men, when I say that I look on the present condition of Parliament with "silent ferocity."
Let the Government stick to their Queen's Speech, and— avoiding, if flesh and blood can, any heated words which might give a handle to bitter enemies—let them hold on like grim death, till they fulfil its promises. And yet, while writing thus, I am conscious how hard that may be. Three years of baffled efforts will try the temper and shake the pertinacity of any man, or group of men. And when I think of the treatment in store for the Prime Minister during such a Session of de- termined effort, I do so with a sense of pain and shame which words cannot express.—I am, Sir, &c., A SCOTCHHAN.
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