Will you dine with me at the
House of Commons one night next week?"
Now this ambergris is a very curious substance, and so important as an article of commerce, that in a certain Nantucket-born Captain Coffin was examined at the bar of the English
House of Commons on that subject.
'But you have not imparted to me,' remarks Veneering, 'what you think of my entering the
House of Commons?'
He made a successful first speech in the
House of Commons. He endowed a church in a poor neighborhood.
The facts were stated, exactly as they are stated here, in the
House of Commons. Whether they afforded as much entertainment to the merry gentlemen assembled there, as some other most affecting circumstances of a similar nature mentioned by Sir Samuel Romilly, is not recorded.
By the time that Lord John Russell's measure was being debated in the
House of Commons, there was a new political animation in Middlemarch, and a new definition of parties which might show a decided change of balance if a new election came.
In Great Britain it is the province of the
House of Commons to prefer the impeachment, and of the House of Lords to decide upon it.
The first to which this character ought to be applied, is the
House of Commons in Great Britain.
There was Charles James Fox, who never rested until he had silenced our enemies in the
House of Commons.
From the
House of Commons to the House of Correction, there is a general profession of morality, except among our people; it really is that exception which makes our people quite reviving.
He became Treasurer of the Exchequer, Speaker of the
House of Commons, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and last of all Lord Chancellor of England.
Thus at an age when the gentlemen above mentioned employ their time in toasting the charms of a woman, or in making sonnets in her praise; in giving their opinion of a play at the theatre, or of a poem at Will's or Button's; these gentlemen are considering the methods to bribe a corporation, or meditating speeches for the
House of Commons, or rather for the magazines.