11 JULY 1958, page 22

Nights Of Bath

SIR,-1 suspect Mr. Celadon August of being some- thing of a wag, so I must not take him too seriously. I would, however, like to make it clear that it was the gesture and not......

Canal Boatmen

SIR,—Your 'Roundabout' correspondent, writing about canal boatmen, is singularly misinformed. None of my colleagues is particularly inbred, suspicious, tiny or flat-faced. The......

Pay As You View

SIR,—As . one of the speakers for the Popular Tele- vision Association (now renamed Popular Television Committee) during the campaign to introduce com- mercial television into......

Sir,—mr. George Gardiner's Letter, In Which He Believed...

was correcting some of Mr. James MacGibbon's statements about the social and political attitudes of Oxford undergraduates, was so absurdly inadequate and so patently illiberal......

State Pubs

SIR,—It was encouraging to hear recently that the Government had struck a blow against monopoly and the 'tied house' principle by banning 'solus' petrol stations from the new......

*the Death Of 2nd Lieut. Browne'

SIR,—While agreeing with your correspondents 2nd Lieuts. Vivian Sutton and Simon Gillett that the efficiency of any army unquestionably depends upon the qualities of its......

Black And White In Rhodesia

Would not presume on your space to answer the charge made by Mr. McCarty that a part of my previous letter was ridiculous and hysterical. The verdict can be left to those who......

Appendicitis

SIR,—Your medical correspondent, Miles Howard, asks what influences surgeons to operate for appendi- citis. The main reason is that any surgeon of ex- perience has seen a......

Zbe Opettator

JULY 13, 1833 IT is evident that there is no sacrifice of political prin- ciple which the Duke of WELLINGTON is not prepared to make rather than suffer a permanent exclusion......

Sir,—none Of Your Correspondents On Sunday °wets Vance...

pointed out the important fact that, though the Christian Church substituted the weekly commemoration of the Resurrection as a day of worship for the Jewish Sabbath, it was not......