The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-09
The English House of Lords.

HOW THE PEERS ARE INDIFFERENTLY REGARDED.
London Gorresponden ce of Boston Post.
The House of Lords has so far faded out OF
public attention that it stands chance ere
long of having its debates known only in their
tendency. For long time past only three OF
the daily papers have professed to treat the
upper House upon the same footing in this
respect as the Commons, and the three have
now declined to two. believe it is literally
the fact that the Daily NeCS, the Star, and
the Telegraph, each have one reporter to deal
with the House of Lords as he thinks fit,
while in the Commons nine or ten reporters
on each journal follow each other in quick
succession. Indirectly, this fact says much
for the altered feeling towards the House of
Peers. 1t is felt that the discussions amongst
the Dukes, Earls, and Marquises are 30 feeble
and conversational, that it was a waste of re-
sources to put six or seven writers into their
gallery to record the remarks that were made.
The only occasions on which | have visited
the House of Lords this year have
served to encourage lower estimate of their
services. A few elderly gentlemen gossip to-
gether for half an hour, one of them now and
then rising, and altering his tone into the or
thOdOx sound of a. speech, but really changing
his observation in very little else. The Irish
Church question must serve presently to stir
them up, and we shall have set orations from
the Tory Lords, and several semi-discourses
bursts but make the ordinary silence the more
perceptiby felt. The day is coming when the
House of Lords will be transformed, so far as
it's legislative power is concerned into an cleo
tive, not an hereditary senate-an assembly
selected from the honest as the rich, the intel
ligent as the ignorant; in which property will
cease to be the necessary title. The first step
will be the creation of peers for life; and if the
Lords offer stubborn resistance to the mea-
sures of the next House of Commons, this
proceeding is tolerably certain OF being
adopted.
There are certain members of the House of
Lords who render something in return for
their dignity mean the law lords. To have
to hear Scotch appeals on broilng hot sum
mer's day is duty which some men would
feel was insuticiently remunerated by title.
When there is a debate in the Commons on
any question of Scotch law it is left to the
Scotchmen themselves. A discussion in Greek
would be much more ineligible to the mass
of the members. Probably this will always
remain so, for Scotch lawyers believe that
their jurisprudence, its outlandish jargon in
cuded, is the finest in the world. To show
Boston readers what English law lords have to
suffer, | subjoin Scotch rule cited to the
House of Lords last week during the hearing
of an appeal case:-
at is always declared that such ta2ies shall
only be allowed in which the forsaid irritant
and TesOluuVe clauses are insert IN the pTocu-
ratorys of resignation, charters, precepts, and
instruments of saesing and the original tailzje
once produced before the Lords of Session Judi
cially, who are hereby ordained to interpose
their authority thereto, and that record bt
made in particular register book to be KEPT
for that effect, wherein shall be recorded the
names of the maker of the tailzie and the aire;
of tailzie, and the general designations OF the
lordShips and baroness and the provisions and
IN ha taf1 tuith h.
forsaid iTritant and resolutive classes sub
joined thereto, to remain in the forsaiC
register, Gd perpetuam rel memoriam, anC
for which record there shall be paid to thu
Clerk of Register and his deputy the sam,
dues as paid tor the registration Of oeasings
and which provisions and irritant clauses shal
be repeated in all the subsequent conveyance
of the said tailze and being so insert, hi
Majesty, with advice and consent forsaid
declares the samine to the real and effeotua
not only against the contrsveneers and thei
aires, but also against their creditors, com