21 JANUARY 1888, Page 15

THE LUCK OF INANIMATE THINGS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Welsh jurymen are not devoid of ordinary intelligence. They did not condemn the gun because it had " shot " two men, but because there was something faulty in the mechanism. My countrymen are led by greedy, selfish politicians who are seeking only their own personal advancement, into many quag- mires just now ; but their own natural good sense is rapidly helping them back to solid ground.—I am, Sir, &c.,

Tre-Anna, Anglesey, January 17th. M. K. JONES.