6 JULY 1901, Page 23

A CORRECTION.

[TO THE EDITOR OP TUE "SP ECTLTOR.1.

SIR,—The words closely watched slavery mocked with the name of power " are Macaulay's, not Lord Beaconsfield's, though, of course, the latter may have used them in quota- tion.—/ am, Sir, &c., W. G. Howri.L. 10 The Greve, Bkicklicath. S.E.