27 JANUARY 1933, Page 17

[To the Editor of Tim Sracrecoa] Sm,—Reading my own letter

in last week's Spectator, I realize that I seem to have referred to the existence of " dis- honest benches." That is an unfortunate phrase, for I have certainly not come across any instance of a bench of justices who deserved it. Rather ought I to have said that dishonest justices may, as is sometimes said, exist. Having never actually met one whose personal integrity I doubted, I do not wish, for the purposes of controversy, to assert, at if it were a fact within my own experience, what I have only

heard from others.—I am, Sir, &e., A CLERK.