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Updated: June 28, 2025
I will now put upon record a few questions and answers, extracted from the evidence of the aforesaid John Benett, Esq. of Pyt-House, voluntarily given before the Committee of the House of Lords, in favour of a Corn Bill, which evidence was printed by order of the Right Honourable House:
This conversation took place while Sylvius Hogg was walking through the establishment of M. Benett an establishment well known in Christiania, and indeed throughout Norway. It is difficult to mention an article that can not be found in this bazaar. Traveling-carriages, kariols by the dozen, canned goods, baskets of wine, preserves of every kind, clothing and utensils for tourists, and guides to conduct them to the remotest villages of Finmark, Lapland, or even to the North Pole. Nor is this all. M. Benett likewise offers to lovers of natural history specimens of the different stones and metals found in the earth, as well as of the birds, insects, and reptiles of Norway. It is well, too, to know that one can nowhere find a more complete assortment of the jewelry and bric-
Benett proposed to draw the pen through the words "tradesman and mechanic;" which being done the Chairman desired all those who were for the petition to hold up their hats.
Amongst the number of these landholders, the most active and the most forward to promote such petitions in Wiltshire and the West of England, was Mr. John Benett, of Pyt-House, near Shaftesbury, the present Member for that county.
"It was for an entirely different object, I assure you." "Believe me, I am quite at your service." "You are aware, I suppose, that but for the timely intervention of Joel and Hulda Hansen, the Rjukanfos would never have yielded me up alive, and I should not have the pleasure of seeing you to-day?" "Yes, yes, I know," replied Mr. Benett.
But what does that matter so long as the tout ensemble is pleasing to the eye? Besides, if necessary, Siegfrid would not hesitate to go to the elegant stores of M. Benett, in Christiania, to make her purchases. Her father would not object far from it!
"Unquestionably, Mr. Benett. I have never known misfortune to pursue persons so relentlessly." "It seems so, indeed, professor; for right after the loss of the 'Viking' came that miserable Sandgoist affair." "True, Mr. Benett." "Still, Mr. Hogg, I think Hulda Hansen did right to give up the ticket under the circumstances." "Indeed! and why, if you please?"
"Precisely, Monsieur Benett, precisely; but I must beg you to say nothing about it. I don't wish their arrival to be noised abroad yet." "Poor girl!" "Yes, she has suffered terribly." "And you wish her to be present at the drawing, though the ticket her betrothed bequeathed to her is no longer in her possession?"
Old Sir Thomas Baring sent for his razor, and Benett, the member for Wiltshire, for his night-cap; and they were both resolved to spend the whole day in the House rather than give way. If the Opposition had not yielded, in two hours half London would have been in Old Palace Yard. Since Tuesday the Tories have been rather cowed.
This gentleman is consequently the good angel of all tourists desirous of exploring the Scandinavian peninsula, and a man Christiania could scarcely do without. "By the way, you found the carriage you had ordered waiting for you at Tinoset, did you not, professor?" he asked. "Yes. Having ordered it through you, Monsieur Benett, I felt sure that it would, be there at the appointed time."
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