The Report of the Conference on Second Chamber Reform was
published in Thursday's papers, in the form of a letter from the Chairman, Lord Bryce, to the Prime Minister. Writing on Thursday, we have no time to form an opinion of the elaborate scheme recom- mended by the majority, and must defer our comment till next week. The Conference proposed that the Second Chamber should consist of two sections. Two hundred and forty-six persons should be elected for Great Britain, and twenty-seven for Ireland, by panels of members of the House of Commons arranged in geo- graphical groups. Other persons, equal in number to one-fourth of the whole Second Chamber, apart from ex-officio members, should be nominated by a Joint Committee of both Houses, and should be chosen at first from among the Peers and Bishops.
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