CROMWELL AND DISRAELI. ETo THZ EDITOR OF TH1 " SPECTLTOE."1
Sin,—As we have lately heard so much of Cromwell's saying that the " horridest " arbitrariness would be found in the domination of a single Chamber, your readers might like to learn that the same opinion has been pronounced by another statesman who, however inferior to Cromwell in natural ability, had an advantage over him in that, being born much later, be was "heir of all the ages" and " rich with the spoils of time " ; so that, in fact, he was far more in a position to profit by inherited experience. Disraeli in one of his early speeches used language which might well have come from a self-defending Peer or a Conservative commoner of our day :—
"I cannot force from my mind the conviction that a House of Commons concentrating in itself the whole powers of the State might—I should say would—constitute a despotism of the most formidable and dangerous description."
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