30 MARCH 1872, Page 15

[TO TIM EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

you kindly allow me to point out that the words " minority " and " majority " in my letter of last week were used, as in the letter of "B. K. A.," with reference to Nonconformists only ? From this point of view the case of the North-West Riding election does not affect my position.

If "B. K. A." be a Nonconformist layman, I can only say that his disguise is perfect. His very brethren do not know him. The hands are the hands of Esau : the voice is not the voice of Jacob.

—I am, Sir, &c., CAliTAB. [Where did our correspondent receive plenary powers to speak for all Nonconformist laymen ?—En. Spectator.]