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Once again Lord Rosebery showed his remarkable power of diagnosing

and representing what we may term " the better opinion" of his countrymen. We venture to say that when- ever and wherever reasoning men clear their minds of the cant of party and devote themselves to the problem of the House of Lords, they think in regard to that problem very much on the lines of Lord Rosebery's speech. They want what he wants, or, to put it in another way, he interprets to them their real wishes. Whether Lord Rosebery will, in fact, be able to free the problem from the mists of error and con- fusion in which it is enveloped remains to be seen, but that the nation as a whole would be wise to follow his advice, and would like to follow that advice if it were allowed to give its mind its rights, we do not doubt.

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