Sir Benjamin Stone's pictures; records of national life and history reproduced from the collection of photographs made by Sir Benjamin Stone, . Mace on the Table—though not exactly the bauble to which Ci-omwellshowed so little respect when he tm-ned the LongParliament out of doors—would be jjassionately Royalists and the Nationalists united in vehementopposition to it. Not a penny of the peojjles moneyshould be spent on a memorial to the executioner ofCharles I., said the one Party; nor, said the other, tothe author of the massacres of Drogheda and motion according
Sir Benjamin Stone's pictures; records of national life and history reproduced from the collection of photographs made by Sir Benjamin Stone, . Mace on the Table—though not exactly the bauble to which Ci-omwellshowed so little respect when he tm-ned the LongParliament out of doors—would be jjassionately Royalists and the Nationalists united in vehementopposition to it. Not a penny of the peojjles moneyshould be spent on a memorial to the executioner ofCharles I., said the one Party; nor, said the other, tothe author of the massacres of Drogheda and motion accordingly was withdrawn. But strange, indeed, was the ending of the memory of Cromwell at Westminster is nowperpetuated by a noble bust in the outer lobby, and bya heroic statue in the garden of Westminster Hall. Nopublic money was spent upon them. Both memorialswere the gifts of private donors. That being so, noobjection to their acceptance was raised in Parliament. The statue was presented by Lord Rosebery. Astern figure, on a lofty pedestal, it makes a very strikingobject on the sunk grass-plot by the side of WestminsterHall. 70. THE CLERKOF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Sir Courtenay Peregrine Ilbert was a Parliamentarydraughtsman, liaving been for thirty years engaged inthe preparation of k^gishitive measm-es, botli in Knglandand in India, before he was appointed Clerk of theHouse of Commons, in 1902. For four years he was a legal member of the Councilof the Viceroy of India. In that capacity he wasresponsible for several important Bills revising therelations between landlord and tenant in many partsof India. On his return from India in 188G he wasappointed to the Parliamentary Counsels Oflice—theDepartment to which Ministers send their suggestionsof proposed legislation in rough outline, in order to havethem embodied in Bills—^and ho draughted some of themost important enactments between 1886 and 1902. The daily routine of the Clerk of the House ofCommons, duiing the
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