Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-18

young man who gave his name John Sheri dan yesterday gave it as Michael O'Brien Judge Studley found probable cause ana bound the accused over to the Superior Court under $500 bonds. No bondsman ap- peared and O'Brien went to jail.
 In the House of Commons.
 [E. F. Hale in August Wide Awake.l
 had the pleasure of spending the last two evenings in the gallery of the House of Com mons in London. It is not so easy to go into the House of Commons as it is to go to the Boston State House the Capitol at Wash ington. In the first place, the theory is that no strangers whatever are admitted. True, galleries are built for them, and the ''speak. er's galery'' is open to all strangers intro duced in the proper way. Still, if any mem Der of the House were cross enough to look up, and say, 'I see strangers" " the speaker would have to order the sergeant at-arms to clear the galleries. Even the reporters for the newspapers would have to go. More t than half century ago, some 1nember-I think MT. O'Connell-was angry with the newspapers, and for 8 month he had the ! galleries cleared every night, so that nothing of the debates was published but the little \ which members would tell. In the second ! place, the gallery for people like you and me | is very small. There are two large galleries | for the House of Lords. for ambassadors, and for members of the House of Commons if they should be crowded out below. These l were wholly empty the two nights I was there. But for other people-people like you ! ing, hold about 300 or 400 only. Now, all I intelligent people in the world are glad to go, ! so the chances are bad for anyone. In Wash- l ington, nearly 2, Oo0 persons can sit in the galleries of the House. In the Senate gal leries there is room for 10 times the number ! of the Senators.
 1 I obtained, in advance, permit And the manner of entrance was like novel, You l enter through that grand Westminster hall, ! which is often the place of scene in Shake. ! speare- Parliament once sat here. Oliver l Cromwell was inaugurated as lord protector here. There are now fine statues of Eliza beth, of James I. of Charles I. and Charles II and of some other kings, here. Between | Charles l. and Charles II. there is no Oliver Cromwell, however. By the time when you, Phil, are old enough to make the statue we'll, l I think England will be wise enough to place ! it here.
 You pass through this hall over the spot
 where Cromwell was inaugurated and you
 turn to the left into beautiful new hall witt fine statues of orators. From this you come
 to large lobby, full of gentlemen, talking l went at once to side door, and, to 8 mar
 ever saw on a college stage. l said, II an admitted by Hon. Mr.--, who bids m,
 say - to you.'' The word I was to sa. l was the password, as if it were Hanover, ! bnOu8l that was not my paSS. 1uo maI l looked at 8 book, bowed and passed unde l a curtain, upstairs. Here took my place il
 the gallery, among many other men, most o
 them think, workingmen, who were all yer.
 silent and attentive.
 l Opposite us, at the otber end of the lon
 hall, we could see ladies tightly presse' 1 against Gothic windows, with just sucl
 sashes stained glass window has. Tn I result is, that these ladies look, from ou
 gallery, exactly like pictures in stained
 glass window. If had not known better
 so dim was the light there, I should hav
 thought this was line of old stained win 5 dows: The rest of the house is brightl l lighted from above. Beneath them in tw 3 rows, in gallery like ours, were two lines o 3 reporters, 30 or more in all. From us t. t them, one each side of the house, ran th B long galleries of the lords, commoners an ambassadors. Opposite is the speaker chair or throne It is high oh .ir on a dias , with canopy in dark wood over it. This ; evidently studied from the old chair of whio
 you may picture in Copley's painting i
 the Boston public library. That chair wa
 burned when St. Stephens was burned. l Beneath the speaker sit three clerks. H and they are all in gown and wigs Tn speakers wig looks like ''havelock," o 5 like the head-dress of some Egyptian 0 Assyrian kings The clerks sometimes seer 3 sleepy, and I am afraid they nod. Fror them, forward, is the famous table on whict T in theory, papers are "laid." In the ta bl a as I observed, are drawers, which MT. Gla6 stone and other members of the cabinet us 1 to keep their papers in. No other member } have any such place, any permanent seat This remark is important, for the differenc
 between the House of Commons and ou
 assemblies depends largely upon the fac 7 that with us, generally, members sit wit their papers around them if at home, an i, write or read while the debates go on. I, Parliament on the other hand, if they wis
 to write or read, they retire to rooms fo
 that purpose In practice, therefore, th F House of Commons is much more empt than our House of Assembly or of Represer . tatives ever are. Much of the time when
 was in the gallery, there were not 20 men
 bers in the house. On the conservative o
 opposition side there would be only one tn
 whip" as he is called. He is there simpl
 to watch things, and see that the conserve = tive suffers no harm.
 Twice last night the conservative "whip
 rose and said: 1T rise to point of order
 There seems to be no quorum present
 Whoever was speaking had to sit down. O
 the moment. Then the speaker rose an
 said, ''The point of order is raised that ther
 is no quorum" Then he sat down and wal
 ed silent, perhaps minute But, instantly
 summoned by telegraph from the library Q
 lobbies, liberal members came streaming
 and took their seats At the end of the mir
 ute the speaker rose, and began countin
 the House aloud, "One, two, three, four,
 and so on, till he came to 40. Forty is th 2 number for 8 quorum. AS soon as he sai '4e." th- member who was speaking we1 ; on with his speech, and all the new-come, D went out together to their former live r laughing and talking. In this way the COT @ servative whip made sure that many as 4 @ liberals or supporters of government wei
 at hand. Probably he had ready to come e a considerable number of his own side B,
 none of them came on these two calls, bt
 cause they would not be counted. Had no
 39 liberals been on hand to make 40 wit
 adjourned.
 It is part of the business of the iber
 "whip' to keep quorum in attendance - While have been in London, there has bee
 some discussion in the papers as to the e:
 treme difficulty of keeping quorum prese,
 on Tuesday.