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nates, the rest are elected (p. 103), whereas there are 
separate chambers of the Council and the Assembly. The 
Assembly, or local House of Commons, was in Session, 
and Mr. FROUDE did attend one meeting of that body, 
but he cared for none of those things, and frankly says :— 
" The most interesting part of the thing to me was the 
" hall in which the proceedings were going on" (p. in). 
He spent a day at Farley Hill with the late Sir GRAHAM 
BRIGGS, whose subsequent death he describes as depriving 
Barbados of one of the ablest of her legislators, although 
that gentleman had not for years sat in the Legislature. 
He found Sir GRAHAM very down upon his luck, and very 
sore on account of the falling through of a movement in 
1886 for a Treaty with the United States, by which the 
West Indies would have secured a good market for their 
produce. Of the veto put upon that Treaty by the 
Imperial Government, Mr. FROUDE says in one place 
(p. 108), " The Board of Trade had, no doubt, excellent 
" reasons for objecting to an arrangement which would 
" have flung our whole commerce with the West Indies 
" into American hands, and might have formed a prelude 
" to a closer attachment. It would have been a violation 
" also of those free-trade principles which are the 
" English political gospel." In another place (pp. 371, 
372), our unreliable author thus denounces that same 
veto : " The English Government, on some fine-drawn 
crotchet) refused to Colonies which were weak and help- 
less what they would have granted without a word if 
demanded by Vicloria or New South Wales, whose 
resentment they feared" ! Those who knew the late 
Sir GRAHAM BRIGGS will not need to be told that, if he 
did say anything to (justify Mr. Froude'S conjecture 
