LAST HOURS OF PARLIAMENT.

Press, Volume XL, Issue 5860, 25 June 1884, Page 2

LAST HOURS OF PARLIAMENT.

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OTTR COK&SSPOS»TBST'I WELLINGTON. *£•%» The Parliament in New the month of March in England, *«**£ comes in like a lion and lamb. Its lionlikeaspect waa eeesmw» sth instant, when the session waa £»«»- by His Excellency the Governor, e*» a *~J . playing of bands, the flring of caimon* "» all the pleasant associations *&%%? presence of the youth and *«£ tingtozi was able to afford. »«£tJ2r . occasion of the prorogation, &**?*£%> . was emphatically lamblike. Gortrnor, no music, no artillery, «J «J" the youth and beauty, * « e »jjf .; cuous by their absence. .The «Jg2». - wae performed by Commienon, th*w missiolers being the ?on.the Speg^ 2 p.m., wMle the m the Wg Hoase, not content *i» *JJ$ -• the full honoranwm for afl . inely brief session, ■we™ ;JS«SP ovVthe question of how • times w Mr Speaker ~ the floor of the House, «"» £° d & tb4, .

not to be afraid o! a real live Commoner when they caw one, and Sα JjWhitßiore, minus bis decorations, lookLL mm if the whole thing were rather a SLeadhewieheditwasallover. There «*aasood attendance of members of the Snrer House, but the galleries were Ilaoet deserted, presenting a marked eonV teotto their appearance on the opening 1 lav The Clerk read the Koyal Commis--2b after which Sir Wm. Fitzherbert ZsßOußoed that by virtue of that f ormiddocument the Commission did, in His ■R-meflencj'e name, and at hie command, fSozne Parliament until the 24th July J aext. Then the members betook themggtres back to their own quarters again, ■mhete for some time they were observed aimlessly up and down, gazing g£ the comforts and conveniences ZJnieii aany of them might never see •sain, at any rate in the same capacity which they then beheld them.