The same note is being struck in all recent meetings.
For instance, Sir Hussey Vivian, addressing a large meeting in Glamorganshire on Tbursday, made it his single text. The right of Dissolution, he said, belonged to the Sovereign acting on the advice of Ministers elected by the people ; and were they going to transfer the power to the House of Lords? Ho thought this Constitutional issue, this demand for "a new sovereign right" made by the House of Lords, the most import- ant question raised for twenty years. He should be sorry to see the Upper House abolished, but it had been out of accord with the people for along time, and if it claimed this new prerogative, it must go. Such speeches from Members of an average type, received, as this one was, by the large concourse of miners pre- sent, with loud applause, are better worth the study of the Peers
than most speeches from leaders who are necessarily and wisely reticent.
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