A beautiful and a soothing sight, which affects to tears some of the Commons, who sit in the Gallery, and look down upon it.

Business done.—Lords pass Report Stage of Irish Land Bill.


"HOME, SWEET HOME!"

(New Version, by a Much-Worn-out M.P.)

"The welcome cry, 'Who goes home' sounds like a melancholy dirge through the rapidly-emptying lobbies."—Mr. Osborne Morgan, M.P., in the "Nineteenth Century."

Midst clauses and paragraphs though we may roam.

Be it ever so dirge-like, there's no cry like "Home!"

A charm undefined seems to hallow it there,

After Tanner's loud shindy and Conybeare's blare.