INDEX TO THE ECLECTIC MAGAZINE,-VOL. VIII. terly Review, 187 PORTRAIT-THOMAS HOOD, by Lewis, Algeria, Past and Present, -Foreign Quar Algerines, Life among the, Literary Gaz., 364 Hood, the late Thomas, Dublin University Gilfillan's Gallery of Literary Portraits,- 202 Graham, Sir James, -Fraser's Magazine, 181 H Hommaire's Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian, Foreign Quarterly Review, 116 Anecdotes, Jesse's, of Dogs, Lit. Gazette, 495 Magazine, 289 Household Verses, Bernard Barton, Eclec Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, 299 tic Review, 257 B Hume, David, Life and Writings of,-Dublin 80 Bacon, Lord, and Sir Thos. Moore, Edinburgh Review, Hume, David, Passages in the Life of,- 258 322 Hugo, Victor, Fraser's Magazine, 508 Barton, Bernard, Household Verses by,- 257 Haydon, B. R, Sketch of, 565 a'Becket, Thomas, Life and Times of,-Athe K naum, 229 Bell's Life of Canning, Tait's Magazine, 332 Keats, John, Literary Portrait, -Tait's Mag Blanchard, Laman, a Brother of the Press, British Poetry, past and present condition of, Fraser's Magazine, 128 Behind the Scenes, 557 Leibnitz, Life and Speculations of,-North British Review, 448 C Letters, Travelling, Charles Dickens, 45, 239, 397,510 Chaucer, his Age and Writings, British Quarterly Review, 161 Literary Men, History of, -Fraser's Magazine, 128 Christianity, an Organ of Political Move ment,-Tait's D Dalton, Life of,-Westminster Review, 's Magazine, Contemporary Orators, Fraser's Magazine, 181 Lucas, Margaret, Duchess of New Castle, Dickens, Charles, Travelling Letters, 45, 239, 397, 519 221 Literature of the Eighteenth Century,- 532 56 Despatches and Letters of Lord Nelson.- Metropolitan, 273 94 Middle Ages, Popular Superstitions of, Dogs, Jesse's Anecdotes of, -Literary Gaz., 495 Atheneum, 176 More, Sir Thomas, and Lord Bacon,-Edin E burgh Review, 322 Murillo, the Painter without Ambition,- 251 iv Marvels in Marine Natural History, MISCELLANEOUs, British Opinion of Jona. Edwards, Burying Alive, 141.--The Transformation of the Locust, A Ready Pen, Curious Legacy, African Exploration, • 142.-Remarkable Feat in Metal Casting, 170-Famine in Jerusalem, 180.-Religious Toleration in China, 202-A Mistake, 280.-Anecdotes of the Swan River Natives, 284.- Telegraphic Communication between France and England, A Poem by Abd-el-Kader, 285.-Scraps from Punch, Lord Palmerston in Paris, Inauguration of a Synagogue, 286.-An unpublished work of Linnæus, Painting and Painters, 287.- The Nebulæ, Should Study be confined to one subject? 425.-Dissolution of the Society of Useful Knowledge, Indian Vocabulary, 429. Wholesome unfermented Bread, Pronunciation of Indian Proper Names, Increasing Strength of the British Navy, 430.-Detached Thoughts from Jean Paul Richter, 431.-Literary Impositions, 570.-Detached Thoughts from Jean Paul Richter, Drunkenness in Cork, 571. 549 Fragments of Life, 281. -Two Marys at the Tomb of Christ, Old Friends, Sleep, Three Mansions, 282. - Stanzas to the Art of Printing, Alone, The Harmony of Nature, 283.-Truth and Beauty, A Day of Spring, 426.-The Real and the Ideal, The Living and the Dead, A Victory, Memory, 427.---Blind Girl's Lament, Morning, Sonnet to Truth, 567.-Deeds not Words, The Grave of Two Sisters, Life according to Law, Labor's Thanksgiving Hymn, 568 -A Steed in the Desert for me, A Night Thought, 569. Popular Superstitions of the Middle Ages,Atheneum, Pretender, the Young, and the Rebellion of '45,-Eclectic Review, R Royal and Illustrious Ladies, Letters of,British Quarterly Review, S SCIENCE AND ART-Early Map of the World, Steam Boilers, 176 307 482 143 N Schiller, Life and Writings of, Sharp's Magazine. 433 Nelson, Lord, Despatches and Letters of,North British Review, Select List of Recent Publications, 144, 288, 94 432,572 Newcastle, Duchess of, Margaret Lucas,Fraser's Magazine, Shetlanders, Manners, Traditions, &c, of, 67 Fraser's Magazine, 464 Newspaper Press in France, British Quar Sikhs, Their Rise and Progress, 242 terly Review, . 372 Spain, State of Political Parties in, Foreign Quarterly Review, 209 Steppes of the Caspian, Travels in,-Foreign Quarterly Review, St. Bernard, The Great,-Metropolitan, 116 444 Magazine, T 458 Planet, The New Discovered, 278 Tyrant's Tomb, - Tait's Magazine, 160 Quarterly Review, Poets, Last Lines of, - Edinburgh Torch, POETRY-The Other Day, To My Daughter on her Birth Day, 137.-Farewell LifeWelcome Life, The Tree and the Spring, Believe Me, The Death-Bed, Sleep, 138.Early Flowers, Lines to a Motherless Babe asleep, Hymn, 139.-An Evening Hymn, Have Faith in One Another, 140. Wilkes' Exploring Expedition, Edinburgh Review, Z Zschokke, Heinrich, Autobiography of,Chambers' Journal, Victor Hugo, Fraser's Magazine, 508 W 352 299 From the Edinburgh Review. THE QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE. [The following eloquent and manly defence of liberty has been imputed to the pen of Lord Chief Justice Denman. Though specially de signed to rebuke an encroachment upon pop ular rights which does not exist here, its noble principles and fervid arguments will find a response in every free heart.-ED.] 1. Minutes of the Proceedings of the House 2. Minutes of the Proceedings of the House 4. Report from the Select Committee (of the 5. Minutes of the Proceedings of the House who conceived themselves injured by false evidence, given against them behind their backs, to Committees of either House, brought actions for the purpose of vindicating their character from the slander; and that each House, on being informed, by petition of the party sued, that such action had been brought, sent for the plaintiff and his attorney, and, by direct menaces, compelled them to stay their actions, and so far submit to the imputations which the evidence had brought upon them. This was said to be done in exercise of Privilege of Parliament. The fact cannot fail to awaken the most serious reflections in all constitutional minds. To interpose the authority of either House between any one of the Queen's subjects and the remedy which the law may give him against another for an invasion of his personal rights, would appear to be a most questionable practice; yet the step was taken by the House of Commons almost as a matter of course; in a thin house, towards the close of a session, with scarcely the form of a debate, and without any division. This vote of the Commons became a precedent for a similar vote, on a similar THE proceedings of both Houses of Par- occasion, in the Lords. The greatest judiliament above referred to, show that persons | cial body in the empire was strongly warnVOL. VIII.-No. I. 37 |