31 JANUARY 1835, Page 10

It is usual to designate Parliamentary Committees by the names

of the bills which they sit to consider. A few years ago, a bill was intro- duced into the House of Lords for enclosing lands in the parish of Great Snoring, in the county of Norfolk, and was in regular course committed to a Select Committee. It is sometimes a practice to move that on a Select Committee all the Lords who attend it shall have voices ; and Lord Eldon, then Lord Chancellor, one day rose with the greatest gravity and said, " I request your Lordships' serious attention to the motion I am about to put ; it is, that all the Lords who attend the Great Snoring Committee shall have voices."—Herald.