Sir Colman O'Loghlen, Mr. Monsell, and Mr. Shaw Lefevre have
brought in a singular Bill. It provides that no new Peers of Ireland shall be created, that representative Peers shall be elected for each session instead of for life, that election shall be by cumu- lative voting, and that no Peer of Ireland who is also a Peer of Great Britain, or who is a Member of the House of Commons, shall have a vote. That is to say, these gentlemen propose, first, to abolish a valuable prerogative,—which is unconstitutional ; secondly, to interfere with an ancient privilege,—that each House shall initiate reforms in its own body ; thirdly, to double the value of Irish peerages by limiting the number ; and fourthly, to make one section of the Peers responsible to constituents. What in the world has moved them to attempt all those impossibilities for no popular end?
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