1 JULY 1911, Page 20

0 WIZ EDTros Or TEE "SPZCTATOR."1 Sin.,—On reading your last

week's article, "The Political Crisis," I was struck by the absolute certainty with which yen assume two points. First, that a dissolution just now could possibly do no good to the Unionist party; and, secondly, that the very idea of the King's refusal to create peers is "too mad to be even argued about." The King is in the enjoyment of immense popularity. Suppose him to be called upon by the Government to create peers on a scale for which there is no precedent. Suppose him to refuse and to dissolve Parliament. The Unionists would go to the country with the cry, " Save the King from being throttled by the Government into submission to a preposterous demand. Your King appeals to you." Sentiment would kick politics into a corner. Mr. Balfour might accept office in ease of the King's refusal to create peers, as Pitt did in 1783, in the teeth of a hostile majority in the House of Commons, and the result would be, for the time, the same.—I am, Sir, &c., D. C. PEDDRB, Applegarat, Ogbourne St. George, Marlboro-ugh..

[This is a proposal for gambling with the Monarchy and the future of the Unionist party which will not, we believe commend itself to men of political light and leading. Happily there is not the slightest chance of the King lending himself to so unwise a proposaL—En. Spectator.]