9 DECEMBER 1865, Page 2

The Swedish Government appears likely to carry its Reform Bill,

the object of which is to exchange its cumbrous Parliament of four Houses for one on the English model. The Houses of peasants and burgesses eagerly grasped at the innovation, but it was thought that the Houses of nobles and clergy would object. The nobles, however, aware from the example of England .that a

Parliament of two houses can be greatly influenced by an aristo- cracy, have accepted the Bill by 361 against 294 votes. The clergy therefore are left alone, and must give way, as in this generation upon every serious question they always have to do. The reform simplifies the constitution of Sweden, but we venture to predict that when it has been tried the burgesses will like it better and the peasants less than they do now.