among our legislators over the business. They are to be charged stiffly for luncheon, they are all to be charged for seats, and they are to be charged rathior heavily for the berths at the great naval review, Tt was me tended at first to convert Westminster Hall, the scene of the trial of Charles I, and of so many other epoch-making events, into a great Iuncheon room for the occasion; but as certain M: P.'s who did not intend to pay for the lunch defied the Kitchen Committee to shut them out of the Hall, the idea was abandoned and the luncheon will take place in Committee rooms and other small apartments of Westminster Palace. It is certain that in any other country than this the legislators would have been entertained at the expense of the State on stich an occasion, and there is therefore some little ground for the grumbling.
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