24 NOVEMBER 1894, Page 2

On the House of Lords, Mr. Asquith, spoke at considerable

length, and to the following effect,--that as the House of Lords either rejects or mutilates the measures of a Liberal Government, and passes without a scruple the measures of a Conservative Government, the proper course is to handcuff it, but not on any account to replace it by any Assembly which would be more impartial or more conciliatory to a democratic House of Commons. In other words, he seizes on the excuse that the House of Lords is biassed, to remove all obstacles from the path of the House of Commons, rather than so to reform the House of Lords as to make it impartial, and therefore useful to the nation.