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Title: Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Thornbury, Walter, 1828-1876
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Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, 1875. the division-lobbies ; and there are similar door-ways as entrances into the galleries. Behind theSpeakers chair is a doorway leading to retiring-rooms for the Speaker, and communicating withcorridors which give access to the Speakers officialresidence. The ventilation of the House of Commons iscarried out on Dr. Percys principle; the freshwarm air passing upwards through the perforatedfloor, and the vitiated air escaping through the of Commons with the Bude Light in 1839, andthe plan was adopted in the following year. In1852, further experiments were made in the presentHouse by the introduction of Dr. Reids system oflighting. This system rendered unnecessary themassi\e chandeliers which were originally suspendedfrom pendants at the intersections of the greatbeams of the ceiling ; substituting, in lieu of them,rings of gas jets pendant to about the level of themain beams of the ceiling. Panels of the flat part Westminster. J THE LIGHTING OF THE HOUSE. 5
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51- OLD AND NEW LONDON. (The New Ijlace, of the ceiling were taken out; and, in the openingsthus made, pyramidal boxes, if they may be sotermed, open at the top, and painted a brilliantwhite, were inserted; through the opening is pendanta gas-pipe, at the end of which is the ring of jets. On building the temporary House of Commonsafter the fire in 1834, a little gallery for newspaperreporters was erected over the Speakers chair.What would Woodfall and Perry have given tohave been thus accommodated in the infancy ofreporting? Is the reader aware of the particularsof the struggle of the press with the privileges ofthe House ? They have been frequently recorded.A century ago, when the Gentlemans Magazine—that most venerable of periodicals—was in its firstyears of infancy, the editor, Edmund Cave, ven-tured to peep into the House, and give the publicsome brief hints of what was said and done. Butthis was soon put a stop to. Tke public, however,beginning to relish periodical news, and

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