The Queen's Reporter.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 5203, 9 February 1892, Page 1

The Queen's Reporter.

It has not; yet been decided whether tlio unotlicial post of Queen's Reporter, which was held by Lord Dartmouth until his elevation to t.iie House of Lords, is to be lilled up. says the World. The practice of sending every night a descriptive report of the proceedings in the House of Commons to the Sovereign was commenced in the days of Lord North, and the duty had always to be undertaken by the leader of the House unt.il 187'!, when, on Mr Disraeli coming into ollice, lie confided t,he task to the late Lord Harrington ; and when Mr Smith became leader of the House it. was undertaken by Lord Lewisham. The Queen now reads a full and accurate report of the debates in the morning papers, anil it has boon suggested that a news agency should be employed to telegraph an hourly account of the proceedings to Windsor, or wherever tlio Court, may happen to be. Sir Theodore Martin printed a few passages from Mr Disraeli's House of Commons Reports during Lord Derby's second Administration in the "Life of the Prince Consort.," and they are very brilliant and incisive. It would boa great thing if the Queen would consent to publish a selection from the reports of Lord John Russell, Sir Robert Peel, Mr Disraeli, and Lord Palmerston, coming down to the fall of Lord Derby's second Ministry in Juno, 185!). They would form a most interesting and valuable addition to the literature of the present reign. The whole of these reports, from 1837 downwards, are preserved in the Queen's private library at Buckingham Palace, where all her Majesty's political correspondence and papers aro kept. According to the World, this correspondence has been placed at Lord Lome's disposal in preparing his monograph on Lord Palincrston, shortly to bo published.