As a consequence of these discussions, Lord Wemyss re- newed,
in the House of Lords, his proposals for peace ; and gave notice that he would move, — as he did move, — on Thursday, a resolution accepting virtually the offer of the Government, and declaring that if the House of Lords took up the Franchise Bill again, a Session, for the purpose of discussing Redistribution in the Commons, should be held in the autumn, a proposal which the Government accepted. Lord Salisbury summoned a meeting of his party on Tuesday to consider Lord Wemyss's proposal, at which no reporters were present. We understand, however, that the Members of the House of Com- mons who had shown anything but valour in that House, became valiant to rashness when they wished to push the Lords to the front; and we hear it strongly asserted that a considerable section of Peers who were eager for the compromise got no chance of speaking at all. The party meeting rejected Lord Wemyss's proposal by what seemed to be acclamation, but chiefly an acclamation of Commoners, the Peers, whose interest in it was the deepest, being more or less overborne by the enthusiasm of the Commoners for the battle which the Peers were to fight,— and of which the Peers must bear the cost.
