14 JANUARY 1911, Page 13

7..1:11, FIVE HUNDRED PEERS.

{TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECT/TOR."1

SIE,—Can it be said that the Crown should accede "auto- matically" to a proposal of its Constitutional advisers which is itself unconstitutional? Hallam says :—" The resource of subduing an aristocratical faction by the creation of new peers could never be constitutionally employed, except in the case of a nearly equal balance " (" History of England,"