COMPENSATION AND COMMON-SENSE.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Si,—In the course of the article under the above heading which appeared in the Spectator of March 28th, you point out that the simplest way out of the difficulty of compensation would be the institution of a system of high license duties. According to your view, the dispossessed publican would find adequate compensation in the relief that would accrue to him through no longer being under obligation to discharge this duty to the State. But the simple fact that he has no longer to meet a charge upon the profits of his trade will hardly com- pensate the publican for the deprivation of the revenue out of which that charge was defrayed. I fail to see that the adoption of a high license duty would prove a solution of the difficulty of compensation.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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