STRANGERS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

Whatever the present practice of the House of Commons with respect to strangers may be, it does not seem probable that it will soon undergo alteration. In the session of 1849 a Select Committee, composed of fifteen members, and including the leading men of all parties, was appointed "to consider the present practice of this House in respect of the exclusion of strangers." The following is the Report of the Committee *in extenso* (*Parl. Pap.*, No. 498. Sess. 1849): "That the existing usage of excluding strangers during a division, and upon the notice by an individual Member that strangers are…