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LONDON, FRIDAY, 11 AY 15, 1868.

Occupied as they are at this moment by an eager
and exciting party struggle, and engrossed by
heavy arrears of important business, the members
of the House of Commons have still some leisure to
spare for their own particular and personal griev-
vances. To judge from the complaints and lamenta-
tions made last night, the distinction of having
designed the existing House of Commons is less en-
viable than our rival architects seem to imagine! Mr.
OSBORNE, indeed, with characteristic impetuosity,
declared that he wondered Messrs. PUGIN and
BARRY were not each anxious to throw upon the
other's ancestor " the odium of having constructed
a building in which there was not a single useful or
comfortable room." Mr. OSBORNE did not content
himself, like some other members, in criticising the
minor details of management and ventilation, but
complained of the construction of the House itself
and its approaches. The arcade in Palace-yard
called forth his particular censures. It bad,
in his opinion, ruined the facade, damaged the
building, already placed in a hollow, and darkened
the rooms of the officers of the house who resided in
that part of it." Then came complaints about the
statues which had found their way into Westminster
Hall, and a dispute arose, en passant, as to whether
WILLIAM RUFUS Or RICHARD 11. was the original
designer. Statues in the costume of GEORGE 111.
ought not, according to some Parliamentary critics,
to

stand in a hall whose origin, whatever its date,
is undoubtedly Gothic. But, unluckily for archi-
tectural harmony, some of England's greatest men
flourished in the reign of the wigs, stiff collars, and
other inelegant phases of modern costume, so if the
statues are to be life-like they must be anachronisms.
Mr. LOCKE, indeed, suggested that, as they were to
be so particular, they had better dress themselves in
the Gothic style, since they sat in a Gothic building.
Altogether there seemed some reason for his mock-
ing assertion that the members of the House of
Commons did not know what they wanted ! They
are better informed on more practical matters, how-
ever, and complain very decidedly and unanimously
of the lack of space and ventilation. There is good
reason for them to complain when on an afternoon
like yesterday it was found necessary to appeal to
the Sergeant-at-Arms to give an order that the win-
dows should be opened. With the thermometer
standing at its present height, the penance of spend-
ing an evening in a full House, over an exciting
debate, not with clesel doors, but with closed win-
dows, would be punishment enough for all the sins
of omission and commission of which this moribund
House has been guilty.

The want of space is another serious trouble.
The House of Commons, it is gravely as-
serted, is only calculated to hold about 350
members, ;and consequently when the reformed
constituencies return members who are expected to
be present on most important occasions the pros-
pect is somewhat alarming ! As it is, on grand
field nights the galleries, the tea-room, the dining-
room, the library, and the lobbies are thronged with
seatless members, and a humorous picture was
drawn last night of the frantic anxiety of these
stragglers rushing in at the sound of the division
bell without having heard either debate or ques-
tion, and asking every one which way they are to
vote ! It is not always that they can solve the
difficulty by watching the movements of the rival
leaders, though of late they might have often done
so. It is rather absurd to talk so much about the
increased representation of the people, while there
is not actually room for the members to assemble.
As time goes on we are certainly more

likely to incroase the numbers of our mem-
bers of Parliament than to diminish them, and
consequently the subject is one that really demands
inquiry. These unfortunate M.P.'s, too, are not
allowed to solace themselves by obtaining comfort-
able refreshments, for the size of the dining room is
another subject of complaint. Here, again, there
is the lack of ventilation, which is so unnecessary a
grievance ; and surely it needs no fresh Act of Par-
liament or vote in the Estimates to obtain a little
fresh air.

in this respect our legislators are no wiser than
the rest of their coantrymen and countrywomen.
We all of us suffer needless martyrdoms in summer
weather from the short supply of one of the pri-
mary necessaries of life. Beginning in the domestic
abode, where the housemaid's horror of dust keeps the
greater part of the establishment hermetically sealed,
in our schools and colleges, our churches and cha-
pels and theatres, our public conveyances, our pri-
vate entertainments ; above all, in our courts of
law, and as we see in our Houses of Parliament w e
are all made unnecessarily miserable. English win-
ters and November fogs may inculcate spacial care
in such seasons, but when the sky is blue and every
breath again soft and balmy, why is there a general
understanding that it is desirable to have as few
windows open as possible ? There would be much
less fever and illness of various kinds in circulation
if nature's grand preservative were tried a little
more confidently, but from the pale-faced child
cooped up in a hot school-room, or close nursery, to
the venerable judge smothered under his wig in the
stifling Court, we have all to fight against an actual
deficiency bf what is more important to life and
health than even a sufficiency of food or fire.

Notwithstanding the gloomy prognostications
that have been made the Boundary Bill has not
founJ so formidable an obstacle as some have ima-
gined it would receive. On the contrary, we may
fairly say that the Government have got on very
well, and that the arrangement entered into is as
good a one as could be made under the circum-
stances of the case. Mr. GLADSTONE, in a truly
characteristic speech, said that he had no desire to
make auy remarks that could be disparaging to the
commissioners, whose zeal and ability bad been
great, but nevertheless he proceeded to suggest
several alterations that might advisedly be made.
Every one knows that there is nothing easier than
to take exceptions at a thing like this, and so com-
plicated an affair as the boundary settlement may
well afford a captious critic like the Opposition
leader an opportunity for descanting on the failure
of this scheme and the faultiness of that proposition.
Still, at the same time, it must be admitted that Mr.
GLADSTONE on this occasion confined hi.lindignation

to words, and did not act hastily or injudiciously.