. The Saturday magazine . M^S^^im^ 16™, 1833. 5 PriceI Onk Penny. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMITTEE OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND EDUCATION,APPOINTED BY THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. Interior of the House of Lords. IL THE HOUSE OF LORDSThe House of Peers, or Upper House of Parliament,uses for its room of assembly, like the House ofCommons, one of the remaining apartments of theold Palace of Westminster. The room in which itnow meets has only been appropriated to that pur-pose since the year 1801, when the addition of theIrish representative Peers and B
. The Saturday magazine . M^S^^im^ 16™, 1833. 5 PriceI Onk Penny. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMITTEE OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND EDUCATION,APPOINTED BY THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. Interior of the House of Lords. IL THE HOUSE OF LORDSThe House of Peers, or Upper House of Parliament,uses for its room of assembly, like the House ofCommons, one of the remaining apartments of theold Palace of Westminster. The room in which itnow meets has only been appropriated to that pur-pose since the year 1801, when the addition of theIrish representative Peers and Bishops imposed upontheir Lordships the necessity of removing from anapartment which had long become inconvenientlysmall for their increased and increasing same inconvenience is felt in the present Houseof Peers; and, if a full attendance of the memberswere compelled, additional accommodation would berequired. The House of Peers is an oblong room, somewhatsmaller than the House of Commons, having theKings Throne at the upper end, and at the lowerend lofty folding-doors, by which the Commonsare admitted: about one fourth of the room atthe lower end, is divided off by a partition, nearlybreast-high, called t
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