THE PARLIAMENT BILL.
[To THE EDITOR ON THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sra,—Lord Midleton, in his speech of May 23rd in the House of Lords on the Second Reading of the Parliament Bill, to which you refer at length in your first leading article of May 27th, said that grave amendments to the Bill would be proposed in Committee, since such questions as the power and position of the Crown, the establishment of National Councils in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland, and other Con- stitutional issues cannot be left to the hazard of a chance majority in the House of Commons. Is it not strange that he did not mention emphatically the question of the duration of Parliament ? If the duration of Parliament is to be settled simply by the House of Commons, is it not certain that we shall not have another General Election till Mr. Redmond gives his permission for one to be held P-1 am, Sir, Trinity College, Cambridge.
BASIL EDWARD HAM3IOND.
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