21 APRIL 1883, Page 14

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Can your correspondent, Mr.

Hume Elliot, or his friend the Wesleyan minister, tell us the name of the squire men

tioned in the former's letter to you dated the 9th inst.? Was it by any chance Sir Joseph Bowley ? Sir Joseph's biographer states that Lady Bewley introduced pinking and eyelet-holing among the men and boys in the village, as a nice evening employment, and had the lines,

" Oh, let us love our occupations !

B!ess the Squire, and his relations ; Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations,"

set to music, on the new system, for them to sing the while. Surely the squire in question must have been Sir Joseph Bowley, or else the young Wesleyan minister was cruelly hoax ing your correspondent.—I am, 'Sir, &c., C. A.