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pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." _I SIR,—Perhaps you

can find room for another story of Dean Mansel. To a friend who remarked that though the Ministry had been frequently defeated, they pertinaciously stuck to office, he is said to have replied, " Yes ; they possess in an eminent degree the virtue of patience, but have evidently yet to learn the grace of resignation ! " I rather think it was Manse! who replied when asked : "Why do the geese on Port Meadow always rise directly we come in sight ? "—"I suppose it is because they have a keen (vip) vision." But were wild geese to be seen there so recently ?—I am, Sir, Sze.,

H. S. G.