The “Legal Difficulty.”

THE Hon. Mr. Ellis was the first objector, and pointed out what he called “one legal difficulty.” “If this resolution is given effect to,” he said, “it would be a practical interference with the King’s prerogative in appointing Governors to represent him and would limit the circle from within which he could appoint.” As if practical interference with the King’s prerogative was so novel a thing in British constitutional history! As if it was not by such interference, pursued not as an abstract ideal but as a practical objective, that the people of Great Britain came to be the master of their own household that they are to-day! Further the objector forgot that it did not rest with the Punjab Legislative Council or say Legislative Council in India to give effect to the resolution.