Sir Lewis Pelly has made a capital suggestion. He fancies
that now the Closure is accepted, Members will be silenced, and, therefore, recommends that they should establish a journal, to contain "all the speeches they wished to deliver." We entirely support that suggestion, and would add that the journal, which should be called the "Dead Speech Repertory," should also be entrusted with all the speeches which Members intend for their constituents alone ; all motions they wish to make, but not to carry ; and all questions intended rather to embarrass than to elicit information. If to this collection were added continuous Irish speeches designed only to keep the speakers in front or to obstruct business, the journal would be the most useful in London. It would relieve the House of half its diffi- culties, and materially help legislation ; while, as no human being would ever read it, it could do no possible harm, except, perhaps, to the printers who set it up, and who would have to. keep awake.
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