One of the difficulties of summarising the debates in the
House of Lords is the very great ability shown by speakers. There are practically no twaddling speeches such as are to be heard in the House of Commons debates,—speeches which can be altogether ignored without the slightest loss. The speeches of Lord Courtney, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, the Bishop of Birmingham, Lord Morley, and Lord Salisbury, to mention only a few names, all deserve fall notice, but unfortunately it is quite impossible for us to do justice to them. We can only say that if this is to prove the last debate before the House of Lords is extinguished—or rather reduced to a body for record- ing after a little delay the decrees of an omnipotent single Chamber—the -Upper Chamber will certainly go down to history as having been destroyed when its powers of dis- cussion were at their height. At the end of Thursday's debate, after the Lords' Resolutions had been carried without amend- ment, Lord Rosebery took, as we conceive, the very proper course of moving that his Resolutions should be communicated to the House of Commons. His proposal was adopted.
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