The pleasantest change for members is the shifting of the half-day sitting from Wednesday to Friday. This is an improvement which has been advocated by many embers for a considerable time, and it will probably meet with very little opposition, although it will not be altogether agreeable to the organisers of public dinners, The advantage, of course, will be that member kt their week's par-Jiament o'clock on Friday evening and be able to get away into the country till Monday morning. There are a number of other alterations of the rules of procedure; but these are the principal ones. One great: object which has been aimed at is to put an end to the long useless debates which always arise when the Government claims the time of pri-vote members for the rest of the Session. The rules are intended to work automatic cally. Private members will know from the beginning of the Session what hours will belong to them, and what to the Government. Neither' motions for adjournment nor questions of privilege nor anything else he allowed to upset. the regulations. There wilh no doubt be fights over details, but the scheme as a whole is well described by the "Times" as a serious and well-conceived attempt to remedy the defects of the existing Parliamentary system.
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