The debate was continued on Tuesday, when the Lord Chancellor
gave his opinion that the Reconstitution Bill, if passed, would provide no remedy for the grievances of the Liberal Party. There would remain a permanent handicap in favour of the Unionists in the Upper House, and at the same time the prerogative of the Crown for creating new peers would vanish. The House of Commons would thereby be held as in a vice; and there would be no escape except by the Referendum, which he distrusted. They would be justly regarded as traitors and poltroons if, with all the omens in their favour, they refrained from pressing forward the measure for their own emancipation. On Wednesday, when the debate was again resumed, the principal event was the speech of Lord Rosebery, with which we deal at length else. where. After many other speeches, including a most able and eloquent defence of the Bill by Lord Ourzon, the discussion was adjourned to Monday, when it is expected to conclude.
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