Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-01-06
written expressly for tho Dayton Emplrel
A SU MER In EUROPE.
NO. XIX.
coURrs-nousr OF LORDS.

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Westminster Abbey are all in the same vicini.
ty,and whenever there was an odd hour thatwas
not otherwise employed, my steps very natur-
ally turned in thst direction The entrances
TO the court rooms are from each side Of West
minater Hall a passage so grand in its di-
meusions that the six thousand poor of Lon.
don, who dned there once the same hour
did not fllh The court rooms are all small
not one Of them being so large or as comforts.
bly, furnished as is that in Dayton but the dig
nifty of the venerable judges in their robes
and wigs, the acuteness and high bred court
esy Of tho barristers, also in gown and wigs
made these courts intensely interesting to me,
and inspired me with some feelings Of respect
and awe never felt in such place before,
In no other country in the world is there
greater respect paid to the law than in Eng
land and 80 long il is administered as now,
by men Of the highest integrity, impartiAlity
and ability, controlling tho pauper, the no
bles aud the sovereign alike, the permAnAncy
of those institutions, which that nation has
been Building for ages and cementug With
its beet blood, and which probably are as near
perfection as anything human can be made,
will never be endangered. Respect for thd
law, and the persons Of its administrators is
almost universal sentiment and public
opinion, which is above all law, gives them an
undivided support
Through the kindness Of friend, we OBJ
tanned tickets Of admission TO the gallery OF
the House Of Lords, and we looked in on
them, one afternoon about five o'clock The
session had Just bggan and they still called it
morning. At the lar end of the long, but not
very large room, is the throne on which Her
Majesty sils at the opening Of Parliament, and
in front Of this is the dais or ottoman Of the
Speaker On each side, sre long benches,
covered with rad leather cushions, on which
the peers sit, the ministerial or government
party occupying those on the left, the opposi
ton those on the right We were looking
upon the deliberations of one of the highest
| legislative tOdes in the world and this thought
| kept our heads uncovered in spite of the ex-
ample of the gentlemen on the benches, al,
most every one of whom sat as he has legal
right to do, with his hat on, removing il only
when he arises to make some remark When
we first entered, one of the peers, Lord Chol-
mondelay, whom the English, with most
barbarous disregard of lingual proprieties,
call Lord CHUNKY, was on his legs, and al
though he continued TO talk for q half an hour
or more, he never once created the i'm pres
sion that he was making a speech. He seem
ed to have n subject on hand that by some
means he was more familiar with than his col
leagues, and, in plain conversational way,
| Al. u
they all listened as if they were interested and
and instructed, There are no representiyes
from BuncOmbe here, and no man thinks OF
taking the floor, unless he has something TO
say Those two gentlemen in full cannoni-
calls look straagely out OF place in such body.
They are "lords spirtuals" and one Of them
is the archbishop Of York the name of the
other | could not learn. That fat old gentle.
man who wears wig and sits upon that awk-
ward looking ottaman near the middle of the
room, who rises when question to be put
aud calls m Idly for the "contents," and then
for the "non,contents" is the Lord Chancellor
= WisburY. Those three individuals in tremen
} dous wigs and long black gowns, which inspire
the beholder with a solemn awe who ait al
J desks in the space in the center Of the room
between the rows Of benches are nothing but
clerks, aud not worthy Of half the attention we
have been giving them, That very neat gen
teman, who fills out his coat so roundy, auC
who has ust responded to an inquiry with
= some remarks which showed he was no orato
q il Brutus was, is the Duke Of Newcastle thu
r guardian of the Prince Of Wales when he tray
+ eled in America, from whose yigiant care, /
all stories be true, the young man frequentl,
r escaped, and saw great deal OF American
a life and manners by gas-hght, when he wa
K thought to be safe in bed, That slender ole
2 fellow, who wears tall VII ite hat with hlacl
Q band around it, pulled far down over his eyes
, is Lord John Russell one OF the great leader
a Of English politics. and the able advocate 0
y strict neutrality on the part Of England, to
, ward both the Northern and the Southern
: States Of America
r A division was called for on some question
o and the tellers announced "nneteen content
o ---siK1y,six nOn-eontents, making sghty.6v
. peers prssent-eyery one of whom is a ger
9 tleman in the conventional meaning OF III
d word, having noble birth broad acres an
p plenty of cash 0utwardly they are like oil
or men, but how different they must bo /
70 their daily lives and current Of thought The
10 come into theworld TO fndwealth honorand big
10 position already appropriated to them andAl III
d objects Of the ambition Of ordinary msn theil
10 without an effort thought the noat Of thel
70 looked ennuysed, as il they needed some grel
ID stimulus TO bring into use the abilities the
as possesssd-as II they were locomotives on ii
r. track without any steam
70 AR uther grrseted us as We came out, vii
n the question would you like to visit ii
ly House OF Commons Certainly" was OF