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24 Jan 1885: Three bombs exploded in London, in the House of Commons chamber, in Westminster Hall and in the Banqueting Room of the Tower of London. Two police officers and four civilians were injured. Two men; Henry Burton and James E. Gilbert, were sentenced to penal servitude for life as a result
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Title: Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass., C.A. Nichols
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ancient;that be his chief quality,— sits in a chamber which is modern when com-pared even with theHouse of Representatives in Washing-ton. It was onlycompleted in 1860, and Sir Charles Barry seems lather tohave overdone thestained glass, the escutcheons, the uni-corns, i^he lions, tliegilding, the poly-chrome coloring. Lord Redesdale isreported to havesaid that the Houseof Lords resembledthe parlor of a casino.M. Philippe Daryl.in a spiteful moment,remarked that, ongrand days, whenthe peeresses fill thegallery, in their blue dresses, red flowers and fans, and pale-green feathers, theappearance is that of a Bohemian glassshop filled witli por-celain. This spiteful saying exaggerates the somewhat glaring incongruities of color and of costume perceptible at an assembly of rank and f asliion on the occasion of a speech from the throne. The three great archways with their wall frescoes, the canopied niches with pedestals sup-ported by angels bearing sliields, illustrated
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RECENT DYNAMITE EXPLOSIONS AT THE HOUSE OF COMMONSIN LONDON. with tlic arms of the barons who wonMagna Charta from King John, the flat ceiling with its royal monograms and its heraldic devices, the walls covered with oaken 576 EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. panellings and busts of the sovereigns of England, the galleries with red metal railings, the great throne at the southend covered with its pretty scarlet car()et bordered with white rows of lions, and fringed with gold colors, the Peers Lobby and the Library, a superb range of rooms, and the decorations of the cor-ridors which lead to the Central Halland thence to St. Stephens, and so to the Westminster Hall entrance, — are all imposing but scarcely harmonious. The throne is of course the chief feat-ure of the House of Lords, and is al-ways saluted by a peer upon his entrance as a kind of concession to royalty somnipresence. There are three divisions of the throned canopy. On the central one the Queen takes her seat; on the right, the Prince

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