We wonder that Mr. Asquith or Lord Rosebery, or some
other long-headed man among the Home-rulers, does not in- tervene to prevent himself and the causellbeing made so supremely ridiculous, as it is being made by the present attempts to overawe the Lords. Have they never heard of the three tailors of Tooley Street P On Monday, the Council of the Home Counties Division of the National Liberal Fede- ration met at the National Liberal Club to protest against the House of Lords. With that extraordinary stodginess of perception in regard to the fitness of things which charac- terises the middle-class Englishman, the conveners of the meeting did their best to get a Peer to take the chair, and when they failed to do so, naively announced their disappointment to the world. In the deeply regretted absence of Lord Carrington, a Mr. Charles Morley took the chair. Among the protestors there were only three Members of Parliament. Two of these, we venture to think, not one of our readers has ever heard of before (Mr. Clough and Mr. Baker), while the other, the holder of a minor post about the Court (Mr. George Leveson- Gower), is hardly better known. As may be imagined, these gentlemen felt somewhat forlorn without the accustomed lord to lead them. They did, however, succeed in passing a resolution, declaring that the House of Lords is "a grievous hindrance to legislation, and ought to be abolished." And yet we are told that the feeling against the Lords in the country is "deep but not noisy "! Would not " inaudible " be the better word P
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