Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . )ut thequestion, and read the titles ofmeasures. On the other handhe is the direct representative of royalty onall occasions when the sovereign communi-cates with Parliament, and he is the repre-sentative official mouth-piece of the Houseof P
Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . )ut thequestion, and read the titles ofmeasures. On the other handhe is the direct representative of royalty onall occasions when the sovereign communi-cates with Parliament, and he is the repre-sentative official mouth-piece of the Houseof Peers when they hold intercourse withpublic bodies or individuals outside. When the Lord Chancellor takes hisseat, which is shortly after four oclock,be wears a red robe and an erminemantle, a tremendous wig, and three-cornered hat. At his feet are seatedclerks in magisterial robes, and on theright of the wool-sack is another clerk. whose duty is to keep a list of thosepresent. Private bills are first con-sidered, the stranger gaining nothingfrom the mumbling formula that theChancellor reads, except that the Con-. JOIIX riiotograph by Elliott & Fry, London. tents have it; and tlieu ])ushiess pro-ceeds very much in the same order as inthe House of Commons, with the ex-ceptions above noted in tiie paragraphfiom Mr. Escotts volume. The INIinis-terial Whip, or whipper-in, or, to be moreexplicit, the able gentleman who makesit his business to see that members areon hand for party piiri)oses at theproper moments, is as prominent afeature of the House of Lords as of theLower House. The spiritual peers, thebisliops, and the gathering of Privy 578 EUROPE jy STORM AXD CALM. Councillors and sons of peers in thespace in the Strangers Gallery- are feat-ures which will strike an American asver} odd and curious. In the LowerHouse forty is a quorum; in the UpperHouse, three. In the Lower House par-ticular notice is required for the aslviugof questions of ministers, and the ruleis ve
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