6 FEBRUARY 1892, Page 15

THE QUEEN'S DESCENDANTS.

[TO SHY EDITOR OF THY " SPYCSATOL"]

SIR, —You state that the Queen has seventy-two living descendants. Do you not mean George III. ? Her Majesty's seven children, thirty-three grandchildren, and twelve great- grandchildren only amount to fifty-two. The nine living descendants of the King of Hanover and the eleven of the late Duke of Cambridge make up the other twenty.—I am,