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In the course of his speech on Wednesday night Lord

Curzon declared that the General Election made it clear that the country was absolutely resolved to have a Second Chamber of some . sort, and felt no resentment at the reference of the Budget to the people. Some reforms, how- ever, were generally desired. For a purely elective Second Chamber he had no sympathy whatever. " We do not want two Parliamentary Kings of Brentford in this country." Members of the Upper House should be partly eleoted and partly nominated ; but he hoped that the hereditary principle would not be banished. "It would be absurd to say that the hereditary principle justifies the House of Lords, but it might not unfairly be contended that the House of Lords has justified the hereditary principle."

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