DEVOLUTION.
(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sle.—The interesting note in the Spectator of 'June 7th on the resolution adopted in the House of Commons in favour of "the creation of subordinate 'Legislatures within the United Kingdom," recalls the discussion of the question of Devolution many years ago. The lack of a practicable scheme which shall secure an equitable adjustment of the financial claims of national and local government, with provision for adequate control to protect the different interests involved in such a political change, is doubtless due to the attitude of the public in the present day towards all abstract principles. affecting political institutions. It appears to many who went through a course of training in the last generation difficult to find clear and definite principles guiding the actions of those leaders of the' people in political and economic movements to-day. In reference to the subject. of this note, your readers should turn to the lecture by the late Professor F. W. Newman which was delivered at the Manchester Athenaeum in October, lars, and is to be found in all public libraries. It was published with the title Reorganization.of English Institutions, and is a complete scheme for Devolution, and maps out all the divisions, and suggests the methods- of working out the relations of national and local requirements. If "discussion ". is " the mould of measures," it is desirable that students should look up this
Previous page
