28 MAY 1904, Page 15

SIR,—Your correspondent's delightful collection of mixed Metaphors culled from the

present House of Commons in the Spectator of May 21st reminds me of an earlier example for which that same august Assembly was responsible. It was a Member of Parliament who expressed his sense of the de- moralisation of the country by remarking that "the flood- gates of irreligion and intemperance are stalking arm-in-arm throughout the land."—I am, Sir, &c.,

Patrington Rectory, Hull. J. C. V. DITRELL.