AN ERROR OF TUB FRU,. TO THE EDITOR OP USE
seEcTATOR.
24. Wilton ereseent, 27th May 1933.
isra--iti your paper of yesterday, I observed, with no small surprise, words attributed to me, to the effect that beer-shops were the cause of our agricultural distress. Your remarks, though little flattering to County Members, least of all to myself, are yet conveyed in such a pleasant marine:, that I can scarcely find in my heart to disturb the application of them. Truth, however, which is, as you say, oftener found floating upon the surface than at the bottom of a well, compels me to decline the honour of haviag imparted to you this new dis- covery in political economy ; inasmuch as I was not present during the discus- sion you allude Se. I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
G. J. VERNON.
[We have been misled, and we crave Mr. O. J. VEnNoN's pardon. We found in the Morning Chronicle report the remark ia question, given to a "Mr. Vernon ; "and we did not at the moment reuollect that there was any gentle- man of that name in the House, except the Member for Derbyshire. On re- ferring to the reports of the Parliamentary proceedings of that day, in the va- rious Daily Papers, we find that in some of them the observations made in re- ference to Mr. ConnETT's petitions on agricultural distress are entirely omitted ; in others, they are attributed to Sir Henry Verney: Sir flgrtav must be the man 1—" so much for Buckingham ! " We are given to understand that our correspondent, the Member fur Derbyshire, is quite incapable of making the discovery which excited our admiratIon.—in.]
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