Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-08-30

ence Betweea it and our House Of Repre-
sentatiUes.
From the Editorial Correspondence Of the n. Y Times
The House of Commons never loses its inter-
est for me. Itgoverns England-although Eng
land is monarchy. 1t is common for Ameri-
cans to speak of the disorder that is supposed
to prevail during its sessions,--but this is a
| great mistake. remember reading some letters
| in one of the New York religious journals last
Summer, from distinguished clergyman of your
city, in which the impression conveyed was that
our House of Representatives was far superior
to the House of Commons in the order and de-
corum of its proceedings Yet, the only point
which he specified in the alleged contrast was,
that English legislators sit with their hats on,
while our members do not. But have seen
members OF our House of Representatives, while
the House was in session, with their feet upon
the desks in front of them-and considerably
higher than their heads-this seems to me q
more unbecoming and indecorious attitude than
sitting with ones hat on. Hats are removed in
the presence of superiorS,-but in Parliament
every member is supposed to be upon footing
of equality with every other Whether one sits
covered or uncovered, therefore, is matter of
mere convenience None buta member would be
allowed to wear his hat for moment. Indeed,
no one but member is ever alloweded upon
the floor or III seats of the House. LISA breach
of privilege for any one not entitled to it to take
a seat upon the floor while the House is in ses-
sion. Whenever a member rises to speak he
removes his hat. Whenever one rises to go out,
he bows to the sperker as he passes his chair.
There is no running about the House, convers-
ing with members, reading newspapers OF writ
ing letters while debate is going on. Respect
full attention is always paid to any speaker who
has anything to say,-though if one were
to attempt to read an hours speech upon
things in general, without the slightest refer
ence to the question before the body, he
would undoubtedly find himself interrupted
by cries of 'question" and F'divide, di-
vide, divide" from all parts of the House. In
our House of Representatives nothing is more
common than for member to be reading or
making a speech to which not solitary person
| in the House is even pretending to pay the
slightest NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. walking about,
converSing in groups, reading, writing or sleep
ing, or Tapping for messengers to carry off cart
loads of documents for their constituents.
! spectator looking on from the gallery finds it
impossible to detect any appearance of anything
| like business in the confused scene before him.
and it is only when some attentive doorkeeper
points out to him the only person on the floor
who is standing still, that he begins to under
stand that debate is going on. Nothing like
this can happen in the House of Commons
Members in the first place, sit upon plain
benchcs-not in arm-chairs,-and have neither
desks nor tables before them. They are com
PEELED, therefore, to attend to what is going
on. since they have no conveniencies for Going
anything else. Whenevera member is speaking,
he must either be heard or stopped. If he talks
common sense, and seems to be doing his best,
he is heard attentivcly;-if he is an intoerabe
bore, he is very speedily "taken down." The
practice of expressing assent OF dislike of what
is said, prevails in the House,-but under con-
siderable restraint. None but members are in
dulged in it, to begin with If applause or
Kisses were to come from the spectators CALLER
les, they would he cleared very promptly. But
the Houseitself is frequently in a buzz,-mem-
bers applauding what is said or whispering CEN
sure of it These manifestations grow palpably
out of the interest felt in the discussion, and
arc not forced oriaffected They seem, therefore,
to help forward debate instead of lnterrupting
i-as Speakers always taks e thsg fqf prs H
which their remarks are received.
GRAND FLARE UP BETWEEN SPIRITUAL ISM, %
"RoMAN-lsM," "PusEY-lsN," "HIGM CHURCH
EpIscorAI1AN-1sN," ETC, ETc.-The Freeman's
Journal (Roman Catholic paper, and the Spirit
ual Telegraph ('Rapping" paper,) are kicking
and cutfngo one another in style compared with
which the famous demonstration of the Kilken-
ny cats was positive love feast. The cause of
the quarrel is the recent baptism of Miss Mar
garetta Fox, and her remuneration of Spiritual
ism.
| tFtom the Freeman's Journall
| A Poor DoDGE.-We understand that the
Spiritual Telegraph Spirit-rapping Journal
is accounting for Miss Fox's remuneration of ia
miliar.spirit intercourse on the ground of her
peculiar state of mind If this means that
her disapprobauon of spiritualistic practices
constitutes peculiar state of mind nit means
nothing. If the meaning is to hint that she has
become a Catholic, because there has been any
thing out Of order in her mind, we would ask,
simply, whether this Spiritualism OF the rappers
has already fallen into premature Cl"tage?-
Puseyism or High Church Episcopalim,isr, is
compelled to cry out "crazy" whenever distin.
guished professors of that persuasion act logi-
caly, and join the Catholic church, of which
Puseyism keeps talking This is because
Puseyism Is dying sect. We had thought
Spiritualism more robust We thought its
professors affected to look with indifference on
the movements Gifts individual mediums This
wincing at the conversion of Miss Fox shows
Spiritualism, so-called, to be,a weaker and less
dangerous delusion than we had supposed The
Spiritual Telegraph is reported as saying that
Miss Fox "does not deny the reality Of the spl-
ritual origin of the rapping sounds, !" etc. That
is not the question. The question is, whether
--'0hen peal--they originate with good or ex-
clusiyely with bad spirits-with good angels, or
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