'11111 CONSERVATIVE PARTY IN BATTERSEA AND MR. BURNS.
[To THE EDITOR OP ins "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. Hirst suggests that, the Unionist candidate should retire from Battersea as a
"handsome return" to Mr. Burns for his independent action in " checking the manufacture of paupers " (Spectator, December 18th). I think it was Mr. Long who said in the House of Commons that Mr. Burns ought to be made the permanent head of the Local Government Board. Curiously, many of us in this neighbouring borough have lately expressed a wish that Mr. Burns might retain his present office even though the Conservatives should secure a majority next month. To all moderate men, and especially to those who have some knowledge of social and Poor Law questions, this arrangement would appear not so much a " handsome return" as a return to political sanity.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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