31 AUGUST 1872, Page 3

The Spectator was caught napping last week. The story about

Dr. Livingstone which it attributed to Mr. Stanley was, it appears, an invention, a joke intended to show that Mr. Greeley's candidature in the Democratic interest is a most immoral proceeding. We ought to have perceived from the dates that the story was a fiction, but who ever expected a joke, and so poor a joke, from the New York Nation? We should as soon have looked for one from Lord Derby or Mr. Frederick Peel, when addressing the people upon currency or labour. Mr. Stanley, in a letter to the Telegraph repudiating the story, accuses us of constantly misrepresenting him, but as the only article we have published about him was .highly laudatory, that mast spring from his modesty.