Various. Notes and Queries, Number 32, June 8, 1850
NOTES
PRESENCE OF STRANGERS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
THE AGAPEMONE
LONDON PARISH REGISTERS
FOLK LORE
Queries
POET LAUREATES
Minor Queries
Replies
DERIVATION OF "NEWS" AND "NOISE."
THE DODO QUERIES
BOHN'S EDITION OF MILTON
UMBRELLAS
EMANCIPATION OF THE JEWS
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES
Miscellanies
Miscellaneous
NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC
Notices to Correspondents
NEW WORKS IN GENERAL LITERATURE
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS
Отрывок из книги
In the late debate on Mr. Grantley Berkeley's motion for a fixed duty on corn, Sir Benjamin Hall is reported to have imagined the presence of a stranger to witness the debate, and to have said that he was imagining what every one knew the rules of the House rendered an impossibility. It is strange that so intelligent a member of the House of Commons should be ignorant of the fact that the old sessional orders, which absolutely prohibited the presence of strangers in the House of Commons, were abandoned in 1845, and that a standing order now exists in their place which recognises and regulates their presence. The insertion of this "note" may prevent many "queries" in after times, when the sayings and doings of 1850 have become matters of antiquarian discussion.
The following standing orders were made by the House of Commons on the 5th of February, 1845, on the motion of Mr. Christie, (see Hansard, and Commons' Journals of that day), and superseded the old sessional orders, which purported to exclude strangers entirely from the House of Commons:—
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"Given at our Mannour of Richmond, the third of October, in the two-and-twentieth year of our Reign.
