2 AUGUST 1924, Page 12

THE BISHOP OF OXFORD'S BILL.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I appreciate the disinterested character of Lord Astor's advice. Does he, however, seriously contend that the speeches of the Earl of Birkenhead, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Sumner, Lord Cave, and Lord Dawson of Penn were a mere tissue of vague irrelevancies and actual inaccuracies ? After all, even a Bishop's blessing cannot convert a bad Bill into a good one, and I would submit the Bishop of Oxford's Bill to be as unsound, inequitable and disingenuous a measure as any that the present century has produced.—I am, Sir, &c., 5 Upper Belgrave Street, S.W .1. F. P. WUITBREAD. .