Marvels in Marine Natural History, N Nelson, Lord, Despatches and Letters of,- Newcastle, Duchess of, Margaret Lucas, Newspaper Press in France,-British Quar- P Parliament and the Courts; or, Question of Planet, The New Discovered, Political Parties in Spain, State of,-Foreign Poets, Last Lines of,— Edinburgh Torch, Fragments of Life, 281.-Two Marys at Popular Superstitions of the Middle Ages,- R Royal and Illustrious Ladies, Letters of,- S 176 307 482 94 432,572 Shetlanders, Manners, Traditions, &c, of,- 67 372 Spain, State of Political Parties in,-Foreign Quarterly Review, 209 Steppes of the Caspian, Travels in,-For- eign Quarterly Review, 116 1 St. Bernard, The Great,-Metropolitan, From the Edinburgh Review. 1. Minutes of the Proceedings of the House 2. 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 5. Minutes of the Proceedings of the House was taken by the House of Commons almost of Lords, 10th and 14th of July, 1845. as a matter of course; in a thin house, to6. Lord Brougham's Speech on Privilege wards the close of a session, with scarcely of Parliament. With his Protest against the form of a debate, and without any divithe decision of the House of Lords. July, sion. This vote of the Commons became a precedent for a similar vote, on a similar occasion, in the Lords. The greatest judicial body in the empire was strongly warn 1845. THE proceedings of both Houses of Parliament above referred to, show that persons VOL. VIII.-No. I. 37 |