22 NOVEMBER 1873, Page 13

THE LATE LORD LYVEDEN.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "13PECTATOR.1

SIR,—.-Allow me to correct a mistake in your notice of the late Lord Lyveden. I heard the greater part of his hustings and after- dinner speeches. They were by no means foolish or indiscreet ; the particular sentence alluded to in the notice is altogether a misquotation.

At one of the annual dinners, Mr. Vernon-Smith was alluding to various imputations brought against the existing Cabinet by dissatisfied Liberals. One complained, he said, that there were too many lords in it. " But at all events, I am not a lord." "Well, no, but you look like one," was the reply. The story has no great point, but it was good enough to raise a post-prandial laugh, and differs altogether from the fatuous utterance attributed