On Tuesday, Lord Carnarvon resumed the debate in a speech
in which he frankly acknowledged his dislike to the tendency of all recent Reform measures, while declaring himself, never- theless—in some private sense of his own—an adherent of the democratic principle ; and Lord Derby, who spoke next, insisted that the House of Lords existed only on condition that it should not exercise to the full its so- called Constitutional rights, and that if the Lords threw out this Bill they would be acting with very much the same im- prudence as a society of landlords who should exercise their full legal right of evicting their tenants. It was no more threatening the House of Lords to say what would be the result of rejecting this Bill, than it was threatening a man to tell him that he would get a wetting if he could not find shelter from a rising storm.
