26 MARCH 1932, Page 12

A Hundred Years Ago

TEE " SPECIATOR," Rfaxcu 24TIT, 1832.

Tim Count.

A successful attempt was made at the Levee on Thursday to evade the regulation which directs no petitions to be read on such occasions. Lord Mount-ExIgocumbe, who had an Anti-Reform peti- tion from some Magistrates in Cornwall, and Lord Kenyon, who had an Anti-Education petition from the Archdeacon and Clergy of the Isle of Ely, contrived to get the petitions printed on the backs of their respective cards - and so had them read in spite of the regula- tion. Such petty tricks, played elsewhere, would only merit laughter —played in the Royal presence, they demand graver treatment. If Lords will behave rudely there, they must be debarred from entering,