Marvels in Marine Natural History, 549 Fragments of Life, 281.-Two Marys at Pretender, the Young, and the Rebellion of R Royal and Illustrious Ladies, Letters of,- 176 307 482 N Schiller, Life and Writings of, Sharp's 433 Nelson, Lord, Despatches and Letters of,- Select List of Recent Publications, 144, 288, 94 432,572 Newcastle, Duchess of, Margaret Lucas,- Shetlanders, Manners, Traditions, &c, of,- 67 Fraser's Magazine, 464 Newspaper Press in France, British Quar- Sikhs, Their Rise and Progress, 242 372 Spain, State of Political Parties in, -Foreign Quarterly Review, 209 P Parliament and the Courts; or, Question of Steppes of the Caspian, Travels in,-For- 116 1 St. Bernard, The Great, - Metropolitan, 444 Pilgrim's Progress, Modern, Blackwood's Planet, The New Discovered, 278 Tyrant's Tomb,-Tait's Magazine, 160 Torch,. 479 Victor Hugo, Fraser's Magazine, 508 W POETRY-The Other Day, Το My Daughter 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- 1. Minutes of the Proceedings of the House 3. Minutes of the Proceedings of the House of Lords, July 10, 1845. 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 |