FEASTING AND FIGHTING.
[To TER EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The formation of the Halsbury Club is to many staunch Unionists a disturbing feature of the political situation, partly because of its evident hostility to the leaders of the party and its intention of perpetuating the memory of an intrigue at once foolish and unsuccessful, but partly also from the fact that the "forward" section of the party seem to think that shouting and feasting are the best weapons with which to fight. They spoke of their Halsbury dinner in August in terms which would have been suitable for Ther- mopylm, and now they talk as if guinea dinners and a club of many peers would infallibly impress the electors with a sense of their fitness to rule the Empire. It is neither magnificent nor is it war, and I, like many other private members of the Unionist Party, am grateful to the Spectator for the Bonn& and sane line you have taken through this trying time, as
as for the restraint with which you have treated the insurgents who, by forcing the rejection of the Budget, have led us into all this trouble.—I am, Sir, &c.,
Oxford. AN OLD-FASHIONED UNIONIST.
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