THE "ARROGANCE " OF THE LORDS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman is reported as taxing the Lords with " arrogance " in rejecting or amending his legisla- tion. Has he forgotten that their rejection of the Home-rule Bill, to which, as a member of Gladstone's Cabinet, he had been a party, was emphatically approved by the nation ? Why does be not, with his enormous majority, reintroduce that Bill P Is he not, by the course he takes, recognising in a most momentous case the necessity of a revising power ? One is glad to see Lord Rosebery taking up the subject, which he will approach as a statesman, not as the leader of a party. But be will have to part with the hereditary principle, which has no ground whereon to stand, rational or historical.
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