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A SECOND CHAMBER.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Snt,—I chanced to-day on the following passage in Lord Morley's "Oliver Cromwell," just at the beginning of the chapter headed " Growing Embarrassments "

:-- "There is no branch of political industry that men approach with heart so light, and yet that leaves them at the end so dubious and melancholy, as the concoction of a Second Chamber. Crom- well and his Parliament set foot on this pons asinorwra of democracy without a suspicion of its dangers."

Surely the writer of these words—words that inspire the thought Absit omen—cannot share the avowed light-hearted- ness of Mr. Lloyd George.—I am, Sir, &c.,

Beckbury Hall, Shifnal. A. C. Das.

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