ABSTRACT
It was remarked by an acute and well-judging member of the House of Commons, the other day, that a vast proportion of nonsense which was formerly prevalent in that assembly, under the head of personal altercations had been cut down by a single stroke of CHARLES DICKENS’s pen. He observed that since the appearance of the first number of the Pickwick Papers in which the angry discussion between the linendraper and the founder of the club takes place, we had not been treated with a single scene of this kind, formerly so common, in which honourable Members, after accusing each other of falsehood, swindling, or some other little irregularities of a similar kind, ended the affair amicably, at last, by declaring that these terms were only meant to apply ‘in a parliamentary sense’.
