Excerpt from The House of Commons: Illustrations of Its History and Practice Description of the House of Commons during a division. - The great divisions of 1841 and 1854. - Party conflict the necessity of parliamentary government - Advantages attending our process for taking the votes - The stages of procedure on a bill. - Modern laxity of practice. - Questions put to the Government - Time thus consumed. - Extraordinary results of a parliamentary retum. - The life of a. Member of Parliament - Late nights. - Parliamentary bribery of a century ago - The termination of that vice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.