7 OCTOBER 1893, Page 18

A PROPHET " MALGRE LUI."

fro TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—" When the Peers begin to be firm and to assert their dignity, it may always be taken for granted that there is not much popular force at the back of the Government." Thus wrote, some years ago, the present leader of the Nationalists in his "History of our Own Times "!—I am, Sir, &c., F. POTT.