3 FEBRUARY 1883, Page 13

PRINCE BISMARCK AND THE ENGLISH SUNDAY. [To THE EDITOR OF

THE " SPECTATOR.")

SIR,—What wonderfully short memories we have ! That story about Prince Bismarck being prevented from whistling in Hull on a Sunday, and in consequence proceeding to get into the fire from the frying-pan by taking steamer to Edinburgh, which, as telegraphed to the Standard from Berlin, has been so much criticised this week, by the Pall Mall Gazette and other journals, was told at a Versailles dinner-party in the autumn of 1870. It will be found at p. 222 of the English translation of Dr. Moritz Busch's famous "Bismarck in the Franco-German War," published by Messrs. Macmillan and Co.—I am, Sir, &c., W.