BULGARIA AND THE TREATY OF SE'VRES.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—To those of us who remember Gladstone's magnificent appeals in favour of the Bulgarians some fifty years ago—and I am one of them, for I begin my eighty-eighth year to-day- the letter from Mrs. Archibald Little in your issue of Febru- ary 11th comes not a day too soon. I join with "Mrs. Little in every word she says in favour of that down-trodden nationality, and whether the restoration of Dedeagateh to them, or an equiv- alent elsewhere, be decided upon, I fervently trust you will use your great influence in urging upon the Government the perfect reasonlibleness, the fairness, more than that, 'the abso- lute justice, of allowing the Bulgarians every facility for expansion on such equitable terms as are accorded to others. But for bungling they would undoubtedly have been on our side throughout the war; EO it appeared to most of us at the time. There is another admirable defter in the same :number
of perhaps more importanoe—on " The Aliens Order and Ameri- can Visitors," by Mr. Hooper. It appeals to us in Liverpool
ery strongly, and ought to be immediately attended to. Not to take up your space too much, I may just say in conclusion that whenever I introduce an American to a friend here I always add, pleasantly, after giving his name, "Not a foreigner, an American."—I am, Sir, &c., TAMES IRVINE. 20 Castle Street, Liverpool, February 16th.
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