Chapter III consists of “Miscellaneous Observations,” contrasts the general deportment of the House of Lords with that of the House of Commons, and rejoices that the art of cock-crowing is yet to be learned by the Peers, and that their Lordships have as yet afforded no evidence of possessing the enviable acquirement of braying like a certain long-eared animal, yelping like a dog, or mewing like the feline creation. It includes also some scandalous accounts of the unconquerable somnolency of a certain Ministerial Duke, and a member of the Right Reverend Bench of Bishops. Chapter IV is entitled “_Scenes in the House_,” and gives a detailed report of two of the most extraordinary of these _scenes_—one occurring in April 1831, on occasion of the King's dissolving Parliament—the other in July 1834, when the Duke of Buckingham thought proper to make some allusions to the “potations pottle deep” of Lord Brougham, which were not exactly to the mind of his Lordship. The rest of the book is {505} occupied with admirable personal sketches of most of the leading members, and is subdivided into _Late Members_, embracing Lord King and Lord Enfield—_Dukes of the Tory Party_, viz: Dukes of Cumberland, Wellington, Gordon, Newcastle, Buckingham, Northumberland and Buccleugh—_Marquises of the Tory Party_, including the Marquises of Londonderry, Wellesley, and Salisbury—_Earls of the Tory Party_, the Earls of Eldon, Wicklow, Limerick, Winchelsea, Roden, Aberdeen, Haddington, Harrowby, Rosslyn, and Mannsfield—_Barons of the Tory Party_, Lords Wynford, Lyndhurst, Ellenborough, Fitzgerald and Vessey, Ashburton, Abinger, Wharncliffe and Kenyon—_Peers who have Seats in the Cabinet_, viz: Lord Melbourne, Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Holland, and Lord Duncannon—_Dukes of the Liberal Party_, the Dukes of Sussex, Leinster, and Sutherland—_Marquises of the Liberal Party_, the Marquises of Westminster, Cleveland, Anglesea, Clanricarde, and Conyngham—_Earls of the Liberal Party_, Earls Gray, Durham, Radnor, Carnarvon, Mulgrave, Burlington, Fife, and Fitzwilliam—_Barons of the Liberal Party_, Lords Plunkett, Brougham, Denman, Cottenham, Langsdale, Hatherton, and Teynham—_Neutral Peers_, the Duke of Richmond and the Earl of Ripon—and lastly, the _Lords Spiritual_, under which head we have sketches of the Archbishops of Canterbury and Dublin, and the Bishops of Exeter, London, Durham, and Hereford. The whole of these sketches of personal character are well executed and exceedingly diverting—some, of a still higher order of excellence. The portrait of Lord Brougham, in especial, although somewhat exaggerated in the matter of panegyric, is vividly and very forcibly depicted, and will be universally read and admired. The book concludes in these words.