Mr. Harold Spender recently sent to the Times a com-
munication from Professor Roget of Geneva to prove that the Swiss Referendum was inapplicable to England. A letter from Mr. Evelyn Cecil, the Member for the Aston Manor division, appears in Monday's Times, introducing a communication in the contrary sense from Professor Naville, who is not only renowned as an Egyptologist, but is a keen student of politics both in his own country and ours, and a frequent visitor to our shores. Professor Naville, who begins by declaring his belief that most of his countrymen will certainly disagree with Professor Roget in his objections to the introduction of the Referendum to England, shows how it has conduced to the stability of government in Switzerland, and reconciled the democracy to the Council of the States, which corresponds in certain respects to a Senate.
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