Vie Opectator
AUGUST 31, 1833
LONG SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Sir ROBERT INGLIS, on Thursday, upon presenting the Forty-first Report of the Committee upon Public Petitions, called the attention of the House to the length of its sittings during this and preceding sessions.
It appeared from a statement, which had been prepared with great care, that the House, during the present session, had sat more than twice the number of days and nearly three times the number of hours that were occupied in the session of 1826, during which the House sat 64 days, or 457 hours. Even the great Reform session of 1831 sat only 98 days, or 918 hours; while in the present session, the House had, up to yesterday, sat 142 days, or 1,270 hours. The session of 1806, it appeared, had occupied 125 days, or 645 hours, giving an average proportion of 5 hours each day; the session of 1807, 86 days, or 434 hours, giving also an average proportion of 5 hours each day. In 1811, the Parliament sat 135 .days, or 588 hours, which gave an average of only 4+ hours each day; and in 1814, the sittings occupied 127 days, or 476 hours, which was not 4 hours each Jay.
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