When the royal assent (says de Lolme) is given to a public bill, the clerk says, _le Roy le veut_. If the bill be a private one, he says, _soit fait comme il est desire_. If the bill has subsidies for its objects, he says, _le Roy remercie ses loyaux sujets, accepte leur benevolence ainsi le veut_. Lastly, if the King does not think proper to assent to the bill, the clerk says, _le Roy s'en avisera_; which is a mild way of giving a refusal. This custom was introduced at the conquest, and has been continued, like other matters of form, which sometimes exist for ages after the real substance of things has been altered; and judge Blackstone expresses himself on this subject in the following words:--"A badge, it must be owned, (now the only one remaining) of conquest; and which one would wish to see fall into total oblivion, unless it be reserved as a solemn memento to remind us that our liberties are mortal, having once been destroyed by a foreign power." (De Lolme.) Under the walls of the _legal_ parliament, there is held an _illegal_ parliament, composed of _livery_ men, who assemble in the members' servants waiting-room. Every year, a speaker or chairman is chosen, and each member addresses the other by the title his master bears. In case of disputes, &c., the speaker (who sits in an elevated chair) decides, and if there is any unparliamentary conduct, the party is fined. This _ground_ parliament has powers peculiar to itself, and never interferes with the _upper_ parliament under the same roof, its powers not being so great as the "_Senatus populusque Romanus_." It is an annual parliament, but does not extend to universal suffrage. The members vacate their _seats_ or _stands_, when discharged by their masters in the _upper_, or legal parliament. This parliament prints no journals, its _acts_ not extending beyond the room, except when the _Irish members turn out_ in palace yard. N.B. No member can be admitted till the fees are paid. For further information relating to this self-elected parliament, see the rules and regulations over the mantelpiece in the room. P.T.W. * * * * * FINE ARTS. * * * * * THE COLOSSEUM. _(For the Mirror.)_ The legitimate name of Mr. Hornor's colossal edifice in the Regent's Park, we believe, was first set forth as the Gyrorama, Girorama, Panopticon, or General View. The Catholic Church of Berlin, although diminutive in proportion to the Marylebone wonder, is, with the solitary exception of the Pantheon at Rome, the only structure, perhaps, that bears any resemblance to it in form and feature.