13 JULY 1895, Page 3

As we predicted last week, the country is interpreting Lord

Rosebery's cumbrous phrase, "the annihilation of the House of Lords as regards its legislative preponderance," as abolition pure and simple. The Daily Chronicle of Monday announces that the Lords' agitation has already produced "a swinging election song " entitled, " Yes ! Let's End 'Ern." The chorus

of the song runs

Oh ! let's end 'era, we can't mend 'em, They are rusted through and through Long past mending, ripe for ending,

That's the proper thing to do."

This doggerel, no doubt, accurately reflects the feeling o!, those who are supporting Lord Rosebery's attacks,