On Friday the Report of the Select Committee on the
Reform of the House of Lords was published. Under the belief that the Report would not be issued for several days, we had already written on the forecast published in the Standard. As this forecast proves to have been in the main hot incorrect, we have thought it better to let our article *tend, but must ask our readers' indulgence for the form in which it appears. We may mention here that the Committee, in the course of their very able Report, deal with a suggestion which we have supported for the last ten or twelve years in these columns,—namely, that a deadlock between the two -gouges on a question of grave importance should be solved by resort to the Referendum. In our article we dwell upon an ambiguous point in the forecasts. The full Report gives the explanation. The Committee appear to have been almost equally divided as to whether they should recom- mend that elected representatives from County Councils and municipal Corporations, whether Peers or not, should be introduced at each General Election into the House of Lords for the duration of the Parliament.
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