A Radical Conference was held at the Westminster Town Hall
on Tuesday to concert the programme of the National Reform Union with relation to the House of Lords and other =attars, Mr. Philip Stanhope, M.P., in the chair. Mr. Labouchere addressed it, and of course expressed his determination that the House of Lords should be first paralysed and then abolished, in very strong terms; but he did not give the least conception of the mode in which this could be done constitutionally without the consent of the House of Lords itself, though he used very violent language against the notion of giving it any voice in the matter. It appears that he thinks the people likely to rise in their millions, and intimidate the House of Lords ; but be did not produce even an atom of evidence that this is the intention of the people. At a moment when even the Gladstonians go by preference to a Peer for their Prime Minister,—and when both Conservatives and Liberal Unionists look to a leader who is also in the Peers,—we do not see that. Mr. Labouchere has any chance of effecting the revolution he- so eagerly desires. The House of Lords owns the favourite- Mr. Labouchere is quite out in the cold.
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