Comparative View Of Public And Private Bills.
THE Public and Private Bill department was not increased in corre- spondence with the increased time consumed by the House in public and private business. The following table,......
Returns—accumulation Of Papers.
remarkable example occurred during the discussion of the first and second editions of the Reform Bill ; when the Returns under the Population Act in 1821, which had been in the......
Petitions.
Or file increase of business in this department, a judgment may be formed from the following table of the number of public petitions re- ceived by the House during each of the......
History Of Public Reporting.
THE first Reports of the Debates—those which figure in the older Magazines, where fictitious names were employed to designate the speakers, to which it key was at intervals......
Publicity Of Proceedings.
OF all checks to misconduct, and incitements to good behaviour, publicity is the most powerful. But the House of Commons has never sanctioned the promulgation of their......
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