To the Editor of the "NontH-Ciins Day News."
'Sm—We here, pensioners, dere-jets, and the like, are often told that' if we returned to the Settle ment we should hardly recognize it; Shanghai, (I have heard it ad nauseam) is ea changed. skyscrapered Bund," they say, "Four and five storeys all down th? Malo," they say, "Kelly and Walsh /swept aside and the Bowling Alley transferred to. Hungjao." "Well, Jdovelopments such as these were to be expected, might even have been regarded as inevitable. There are like alterations in Kensington, and even Regent Street is not what it was before the War.
Changes in outward appearances jate seldom fundamentally disturb-ting if the heart beat as before. Else, when the "Herald" became unman: logeable at breakfast and unbindable for record, I might have been disquieted. As a matter of fact the Supreme Court.and Consular Gazette" seems to me to throb with much of its old regularity.
Tam, however, moved to ex-! postulate when the Secretary of the Council, writing his routine letters, says that he "has the honour to request that his correspondent will good as to favour him with an expression of views" on this or that subject in hand. In the past Chairmen, who gave of their intelligence fand' leisure without reward, were wont to write that they "had the honour" to say this or that, but Secretaries were always the obedient servants of the Community, without honour but upon the receipt of adequate monthly pay for the work they did, Tam, ete, W. E. Leveson, 123 Pall Mall, London S.W.1,, Oct. 28.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.