Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-12-02

TO be- cnsblcd -tlc whole was n macs os ir,o
y. Even the House of Lords shabby ROOM deco
iatcd without taste, and married by temporary crcctons
destitute Of utility convenience We do not rrieye
therefore, that they arc swept away.
IL As strange, but less true than strange that few if
any improvements IN the public buildings OF England,
take place without FIRE. Even i'm the widening of a
street fire IS the precursor If not fire, then there
must he murder An old house ovcrhangng the street
Is seldom removed, until it, walls have buried few pas
sengcrs under the ruins II tumble down ind Kill
few worthy citizens before any idea is entertained of
repairing IT, There must in all improvements ca
tastrophc before efforts are made To remedy an i'm
pending evil or glarng nuisance.
We not informed whether more than a few lives
nave nien sacrifices 10 the burning of the two Houses
OF Parliament but enough has transprcd TO convince us
at Lord Ntiorp scrup,cs overcome. and that
near million of money will be expended before build
ngs worthy of the age and adequate To the accommoa-
ton OF members can be erected This viii call for fresh
taxes but We have the consolation in knowing that the
money which gives employment to the laborrr will be
well spent Half the sum expended upon useless com
missions, and upon trumpcry Investigations and worth
less parliamentary returns would buildings
mat would reflect merit upon the declining arts OF q
sinking country.
The xt consideration is how are the unhouscd nc,n
beers To obtain even 4 temporary accommodation? The
King has offered them Buckingham Palace; but there
Is no house in England arranged for the purpose
There are not two good in the whole pile and not
one That would contain the members of the House of
Commons ST Jamcss Palace is little better for there
they would be puzzled TO find committee rooms and other
apartments The Pcnitenary Millbank is spoken of
but 1t would have cvinced better have named the
tousc OF Correction at Spafcds not by any means am
ineligible spot, seeing that il contains a treadmill To
send member to the mill for cockcrowng, splitting on
the floor. being convicted of lying woi be proper
punishment. If every low-nostrum vcnder every po-
cai barker, every puier living by quackery and fraud
every trader upon rotten prctcnson every school
Ter, who, like Thclwall lectures he goes and cheats
the natives by false pretencesall these fellows pass
ing rs honorable members, and fleeing the public by
every species OF deluson would be properly treated II
placed under the control of Sir Charles Sutton
IN the ratio OF their respective and peculiar mposons
for specific periods, to The mill
But If this, our wholesome advice, be unattended to-
and the House of Correction be deemed an unsuitable To-
caity, what objection there be housing the menu
bers IN the large commodous and empty warehouses
the East India Company iThcy may be had almost rent
Tree In the present tororn state the national finances
when The fund holder has of promise than of avaa
Die funds To look to for the payment his dividends we
feel satisfied that the East India Company would willing
~ give their empty buildings ofbrck to the members of
the reformed parliament The east end of London is
certainly UNREASONABLE place but this surely can be
no objection the part of reormers and patriots They
must despise any thing like aristocratic apartments
They will find themselves quite at home in Mapping
and in the vicinity of Bllingsgate They inipRt
indeed Ind more convencnces in the Tower but would
be mexpedicnt to disturb musxets other munitions
OF war; IN order To make for who hold these
articles in great contempt The warehouses present the
eestrereat and upon principles of economy,
hdent Lord Althorp will be of this opinion.
AT any rate difficulty arises from the crcuu
stance, that the 23d of this the commissioners
OF the prvy council bound and prorogue
Where they meet? The Houses of Parliament have
no locality. There is throne house. no footsteps
leading to the place of Majesty, left 1t would he un-
scemly to meet IN e-slop, in beerhouse in
tavern smelling of bcef-steaks and onions-bct where
are the Lords Commissioners to prorogue Par
lament? They have power but the representa-
hves OF the King, and the Kings presence alone can
give authority TO the place of their meeting But We
there must be confusion, and stretch of constitutional
and legal powers.