2 AUGUST 1884, Page 18

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—Yon ask in your last week's Spectator,—"Now, what example could Lord Salisbury produce of the House of Lords ever accelerating the sluggishness of the Commons, willing, as they always are, to retard still further even its most sluggish pace P" Will you allow me, in the interest of historical truth, and with- out going any further back in the records of the past, to remind you of the Burials Bill of the last Parliament, a question of reli- gions toleration on which the House of Lords was decidedly in advance of the House of Commons.—I am, Sir, &c., M.P.

[That is, when the House of Commons was reactionary, the House of Lords was on one subject not quite so reactionary.— ED. Spectator.]