THE ATTACK ON THE LORDS.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—That the Radicals are hard pressed to make out a case against the House of Lords is clearly shown by the enclosed extract which appeared in Tuesday's issue of the Manchester Guardian. When such a high-class journal as the Manchester Guardian stoops to "Limehousing," one realises very forcibly that other things besides the security of property are threatened by this Budget and the Chancellor of the Exchequer's methods of advocating it.—I am, Sir, &c., ERNEST J. WALTHEW. Green Moor, Buxton, Derbyshire.
""Loan No Zoo' Mr. G. W. E. Russell is one of those who believe that Lord Lansdowne has been thrust into his present line of action by fear of a stampede of the back-bench peers, whom Mr. Russell typifies as 'Lord No Zoo'
' So, when the momentous day of the Division in the Lords arrives, Lord No Zoo and his companions will arrive from Northumberland and Cornwall, Suffolk and Shropshire, and we shall see the real rulers of the House of Lords. And now I have to walk warily. • . . Let us, in order to avoid personalities, expand the name of No Zoo till it covers all the Backwoodsmen, past and present. There was Lord No Zoo the dipsomaniac, and Lord No Zoo the kleptomaniac, and Lord No Zoo whose keeper had to con- duct him to the door of the House; and Lord No Zoo who was a patron of forty livings and died in a house of ill fame ; and Lord No Zoo who beat his wife, and Lord No Zoo who cheated at cards; and Lord No Zoo who, according to a recent book of Memoirs, exhibited his dead wife's decayed • teeth to a bachelor friend; besides a host of No Zoos who were merely nonentities.'
Mr. Russell adds that he has deliberately used the past tense, 'but let no one dream that the House of No Zoo is extinct.' "
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