11 JUNE 1904, Page 16

. . LTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—If your

columns are still open to specimens of " mixed metaphors," you may think the following, both from Irish Members, worthy of being placed on record. A certain Irish- man, when he wanted to denounce a Member on the opposite side of the House, said : "The honourable Member is a dis- grace to the colours he is flying under " ; and to kill a Bill that you do not like perhaps nothing is more forcible than : " Sorr, I intend to drive the last nail into the coffin of this

unborn babe."—I am, Sir, &c., W. N.