[To THE EDITOR or Tee ..Spronoros.^J SIR,—In an article in
your issue of February 16th you put forward a suggestion for a reform of the House of Lords, one feature of which will be that when the two Houses cannot agree in any other way, they sit together and vote as one body. In order that this suggestion may be acceptable to the Lower House, you propose that the number of Peers be reduced (at any rate for this purpose) to two hundred. It appears to me that the small number of Peers who would thus be voting would render the proposed scheme quite useless. As things stand at present, what could two hundred Peers avail against a Government majority of three hundred and fifty, even supposing (which is most undesirable) that they all voted the same way? The fact that the membership of this reformed body was confined to men of distinction and political experi- ence would, though an advantage in debate, count for nothing when the question was one of votes.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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