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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 727, 28 January 1910, Page 9

.LorcV Curzori lias :set up a defenco'.;of. tho House 1 of Lords on historical grounds ' which '.contains, some-.notable matter.' '.A.' few ; of liis principal facts, are worth giving,' whatever---views - one may .'hold :of the '.peculiar constitution\ of tho. English Upper .House -(says the English : correspondent jof, the; "Ago").' In answer to state-■ merits made by Mr. Churchill 'arid the , Chancellor of. tho Exchequer, he produces records - which; show, the'jextent ,to which the-Government of the country lias been 'directed. in tho past from ' tho Second' Chamber. .'■ v'.'Dqring the last.: 200 'years," ho,- states, .''of . Prime Ministers 4-i liavo 6at in the House of Lords and only .17' in'..the Commons: of ■ our Foreign ; Secretaries ,56 in' the Lords and only 8. iii thQ Commons! of .our Colonial Secretaries,' 46 in the:Lords.and-25 iii''.the' I 'Commons; of our IVar Ministers, .20 in. tho Lords and 31 in the Commons;.of First Lords of the -Admiralty,; :-18 iiiithe Lords and 28-in the Commons: : That,': I'think,' is a very r'cmarknblo' distribution, of. offices between our two - Chambers' among ; our foremost men." .' Dealing with ; comments on the unrepresentative, character of .tho' Houso of Lords, lie points out that- U includes 170 members' who, . before.'their, "elevation," had been . selected by . popular constituencies for.. tho ; House of Commons, somo of them once, many of ; them twice, and some throe times, ov more, v "And whcn'we are taunted-with being idlers," ho continues, "T. thinlc.it is open to us to sayi. that 180 of, ouv number have served his Majesty in the regular l army, not including the auxiliary army, end 20 in tlie navy, or 200 in all, and that of that number 100 liavn seen . activo .servico ».on tho battle field." The social gathering at which a presentation .is -to' he mado to Mr. E. Gallicliari. takes placo in the Concert Chamber, Town Hall, this evening, at 8 o'clook. Sir Joseph Ward .is" to make : tho presentation, and: Ifr.\E. J. Hill is arranging the musical, programme. German sch'oolohildrcn number 9,750,000. - The roclc on whioh-Gibraltar ' stands ■rises 1433 feet from the : .