Mr. CLEMENSTON, the deputy serjeant, advanced to the Table of the House, and announced that having found a stranger in the Members' gallery, he had, in accordance with the Standing Orders of the House, taken him into custody.
MR. JAMESstated, that the gentleman who had been taken into custody was a personal friend of his own. He was unacquainted with the numerous passages in and about that part of the House, and having been misdirected by a policeman, he had unfortunately stumbled into the Members' gallery. The occurrence was quite accidental, and he begged to move that he be discharged out of custody.
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The following is the Officer's record of the transaction:—
The Serjeant at Arms attending this House, informed the House, that he had taken into his custody Charles Francis Alder, a stranger, whom he found in the Gallery appropriated to the Members of this House;
And a Member present having stated, that he was acquainted with Mr. Alder, and that, in consequence of misdirection, Mr. Alder had entered the part of the House appropriated to the Members, and that he was sorry that he had transgressed the rules of the House;
Ordered—That the said Charles Francis Alder be discharged out of the custody of the Serjeant at Arms attending this House.
§ The House adjourned at a few minutes past Eleven o'clock.