Strangers might infer, from the name, that these two chambers, the Houses of Peers and of Commons, constitute nearly the whole building; but, in truth, they occupy only a small part of the area. On the side nearest to Westminster Abbey are _St. Stephen’s Porch_, _St. Stephen’s Corridor_, the _Chancellor’s Corridor_, the _Victoria Tower_, the _Royal Staircase_, and numerous courts and corridors. At the south end, nearest Millbank, are the _Guard Room_, the _Queen’s Robing Room_, the _Royal Gallery_, the _Royal Court_, and the _Prince’s Chamber_. The river front is mostly occupied by _Libraries_ and _Committee Rooms_. The northern or Bridge Street end displays the _Clock Tower_ and the _Speaker’s Residence_. In the interior of the structure are vast numbers of _lobbies_, _corridors_, _halls_, and _courts_. The Saturday tickets, already mentioned, admit visitors to the _Prince’s Chamber_, the _House of Peers_, the _Peers’ Lobby_, the _Peers’ Corridor_, the _Octagonal Hall_, the _Commons’ Corridor_, the _Commons’ Lobby_, the _House of Commons_, _St. Stephen’s Hall_, and _St. Stephen’s Porch_. All these places are crowded with rich adornments. The _Victoria Tower_, at the south-west angle of the entire structure, is one of the finest in the world: it is 75 feet square and 340 feet high; the Queen’s state entrance is in a noble arch at the base. The _Clock Tower_, at the north end, is 40 feet square and 320 feet high, profusely gilt near the top. After two attempts made to supply this tower with a bell of 14 tons weight, and after both failed, one of the so-called ‘Big Bens,’ the weight of which is about 8 tons, (the official name being ‘St. Stephen,’) now tells the hour in deep tones. There are, likewise, eight smaller bells to chime the quarters. The _Clock_ is by far the largest and finest in this country. There are four dials on the four faces of the tower, each 22½ feet in diameter; the hour-figures are 2 feet high and 6 feet apart; the minute-marks are 14 inches apart; the hands weigh more than 2 cwt. the pair; the minute-hand is 16 feet long, and the hour-hand 9 feet; the pendulum is 15 feet long, and weighs 680 lbs.; the weights hang down a shaft 160 feet deep. Besides this fine Clock Tower, there is a _Central Tower_, over the Octagonal Hall, rising to a height of 300 feet; and there are smaller towers for ventilation and other purposes.