A MOCK PARLIAMENT.
A' good and amusing story is related in the Court Journal about whit happened in the House of Commons immediately after the Parnellites had perforce permitted the Speaker to go home. It is the custom in the House of Commons, as soon as Parliament is up,'to take up the matting, prorogue from the speaker’s chair, and dissolve the collection of papers and hooks on the table. Within a quarter of an hour of the prorogation, eight or ten workmen took possession of the front Opposition Bench, and one gentleman in his shirt sleeves seated himself in .the Speaker’s chair A disorderly scene followed,, about eight right bon. gentlemen speaking at once, the remarks being mingled with expressions which,even in these times, would certainly be called uuuailiamentary. At length one of their number, a gentleman of the carpenter persuasion, shouldered a large hammer and introduced himself as the Sen* geantsat Arras, whereupon Her Majesty’s Ministers and Her Majesty’s Opposition—once more working in hearty unison—set upon him and roiled him over. The sitting was then suspended.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1201, 6 March 1885, Page 3
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177A MOCK PARLIAMENT. Dunstan Times, Issue 1201, 6 March 1885, Page 3
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