On Friday week last Mr. Mitchell Henry "saw strangers," and
turned the Reporters out. When they wane readmitted, they found that Mr. Mitchell Henry and Mr. Whalley had complained that they were not fully reported, the latter adding that the reason was that the Gallery was full of Papists. The complaint is a little -ludicrous on thesurface, but there is no doubt that there is a distinct decline both in the quantity and quality of Reporting. That may be due, as the Pall Mall observes, to the want of interest felt by the public in the House of Commons, but it may also be the case that the little interest felt is due to bad reporting. Who can be interested in a report cut down to five lines, with all the points left out, and the remaining matter so compressed as to be nearly unintelligible ? Parliament should give Hansard a contract for a daily "Parliamentary Record," to be issued as -an evening paper on the following day, and it would soon coerce the newspapers into decent work, indeed, a good report might be issued every morning at little expense if the House guaranteed 10,000 copies. They would all be sent to Members' constituents.
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