HC Deb 23 April 1875 vol 223 cc1508-9
MR. DILLWYN

gave Notice that on Tuesday he would move that— Whereas by the ancient custom of Parliament strangers are not to be admitted while the House is sitting; and whereas inconvenience has arisen from the observance of this rule; and whereas also a Committee of this House, the Report of which was, on the 28th day of March 1871, ordered to he printed, recommended 'that strangers shall not be directed to withdraw during any debate except upon a question put and agreed to without amendment or debate;' be it resolved, that in future strangers who may have obtained admission to the House in the usual manner shall not he directed to withdraw during any debate except upon a question put and agreed to without amendment or debate.