LORD ROSEBERY AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " BrI0TATOU.1
SIR,—Lord Rosebery has now for the second time distinctly announced that for him party interest is the one paramount consideration. AS before, he declared that though on principle the approved of Establishment, the Scotch Church must go because it was an instrument of the Tory party, so now he 'declares himself definitely a "Second Chamber man," and yet proposes to destroy the House of Lords without substi- tuting anything else, because it is, he says, organised to sup- port the Tories. Next week we shall perhaps have him declaring that, though he loves the British Empire, it must be let go to the dogs because Imperialists are Tories.
And his economics are as queer as his words. According to his theory of Napoleon's Old Guard, it is a gross blunder to keep anything in reserve, because if it is at last expended in vain, you are then ruined. Surely such a Minister pour rire has never been seen outside Gilbert's comic operas.—I am,
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