PROCEDURE.
Earl STANHOPE called attention to the report of the Select Committee on the Minutes and Journals of the House of Lords. The Committee recommended and the House adopted alterations in its Procedure in taking divisions. The mode of taking divisions has hitherto been extremely defective. The names of Peers voting_ were sometimes not taken at all, sometimes inacemrately taken. The House of Lords has now agreed to adopt the plan of the House of Commons' whereby time will be saved and accurate lists obtained. The minutes are to be improved by adding to the information of the progress of bills through the Upper House, an account of the progress of bills that have passed from the Upper to the Lower House. It was also agreed, that during divisions, unless the House should order to the contrary, strangers might be allowed to remain, except in the space below the Bar and before the Throne.
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