All along this space, and looking towards uterier of the House, is a long corridor, me breadth too, probably the longest in any building of Britain. All the doors of the many Committees open into it and side seats are ranged along ita length. It is most commodious for the multitude of of people who must resort for various reasons to the Committees. It serves the same purpose as Central Hails servo for the Courts of Justice. Any busy morning, from noon to three o'clock, this immense corridor presents an animated spectacle from end to end. The moving, stirring, restless crowd consists of barristers, agents, clients, witnesses, interested parties, 1 cellaneous spectators. Now and again for a member a may be passing to or the packed throng will part and make way
from one of the Committee rooms. Toa stranger desirous of gathering notion as to how the integral part of the nation's work is. carried on, few sights can be more curious and suggestive than this.
Then the member may descend by a dark and awkward staircase to the ground floor of Parliament. He will notice first: the series of low vaulted chambers where members entertain their friends, especially if the friends be ladies. The provision of modation for the entertainment of less was not contemplated by the desi matter of grace and this doubt-
or architects. Otherwise some space have been allowed conformable to hospit: ble ideas, if such hospitality is to be permitted at all. As it is, no complaint is made of the quaint little apartments, doubtless because the visitors are preoccupied by the incidents, important members coming and going, sitting down to table and rising up again, also by the very distinguished guests who are often assembled, and by the traditions vf the pany adjourns on a fine night to the spot,—especially if after dinner the com-dutiful Terrace about to be mentioned, when the view will be as fine as any to be seen in Venice.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.