11 JANUARY 1890, Page 15

LORD PALMERSTON ON A DEPUTATION.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—May not Lord Palmerston's definition, as remembered in " The Days of the Dandies," admit of a conjectural emenda- tion? Is not the true reading, perhaps : "A deputation is a noun of multitude, signifying many, but not signifying much "?—I am, Sir, &c., F. W. HARPER, ex-Vicar of Selby.