The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-26 00:00:00

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LONDON :
THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1837

There will be found in ancther part of our Paper a
communication from a Correspondent on the subject of
Parliamentary Privilege, to which we invite the atten-
tion of our readers. This subject, it may be remem-
bered, was a good deal discussed some months ago,
both in and out of Parliament, in consequence of
Chief Justice DENMAN having, in the course
of a trial in the King's Bench, wherein a plain-
tiff sued the printer of a Parliamentary Report
for a libel, called in question the privilege of
the House of Commons to publish that which
the law of the land considered a libel. The
view which we took of the matter differed from that
which air our Tory and most of our Liberal Con-
temporaries adopted. The Hanoverian journalists
were horrified at the deadly attack made by the House
of Commons upon the liberties of the people, and ap-
plauded Lord DENMAN to the echo for resisting their
unheard-of tyranny. Had the House of Commons
been in good odour with the Tories at the time—had
it been at the beck of a PITT, a LIVERPOOL, or even
of a PEEL—we doubt whether we should have wit-
nessed so simultaneous and so enthusiastic a burst of
patriotism from their organs.
To us it appeared impossible to refuse to the House
of Commons the privilege claimed, without admitting a
train of consequences equally mischievous and absurd.
It seemed not consistent with common sense, either that
an inferior Court should sit in judgment on the acts of
a superior one, or that the proceedings of the Court of
King's Bench, however libellous, might be blown in
every eye by every printer and billsticker in the king-
dom with perfect impunity, while the House of Com-
mons should be liable in damages for letting the
people who elected them to their high office know
what they are doing. Nor could we see, as some of
our Contemporaries did, the great benefit which would
result, in a constitutional point of view, from the gag
attempted to be imposed upon the national representa-
tives, between whom and the constituent body we had
imagined the most unrestricted freedom of communica-
tion should prevail. Our conclusion was, that although
inconvenience or injury might occasionally accrue to
individuals from the exercise of this and other privi-
leges of the House of Commons, these privileges
were necessary to the due discharge of its functions
—and, further, that the House, and it alone, must
be the judge of its own privileges. We are
gratified to find our views amply corroborated by
various decisions of the Court of King's Bench, while
it was graced by some of the brightest names in
British jurisprudence. Our Correspondent " A Re-
former" has given, in the letter to which we have
referred, a luminous sketch of the cases in which the
privileges of the House of Commons have come into
question in Courts of Law ; and the uniform result
has been that the Court has no jurisdiction—the
Houses of Parliament are the sole judges of their own
privileges.

The sale of the loyal Stud, about which Sir
FRANCIS BURDETT has been making such a fuss
in the Tory Newspapers, took place yesterday, at
Hampton Court, and realized—will our readers
believe it ?—the enormous sum of 15,0001.!
This is the amount of the horse-flesh which, if
dispersed, was declared by Old Glory to be preg-
naia with ruin to the country—was to in-
flict a blow as irrecoverable as if our whole Navy
were destroyed. 01(1 Glory, we know, is not a con-
juror. He made that fact manifest enough when ►le
welit to St. JOHN LONG to have the gout charmed
out of his toes, by tickling his back-bone ; and every
thing he has done since, down to the lerenziadc
about the loyal Stud, has tended to confirm it.
None of the horses brought great prices, " Colonel,"
the only really superior horse in the whole lot, fetched
no more than 1,550 guinr:ds, and was bought by Mr.
TATTERSALL. It ';iotlld not have been a matter of
the least consequence had every one of them been
transported and Old Glory along with them,

Want of space alone prevented us from noticing
earlier the proceedings at several public meetings
re-
cently held nt Bheffield on the important subject of
National education. The Dissenters, ever foremost
iu nc'cive exertions to promote the moral and intellec-
tual improvement of their fellow-countrymen, and of
mankind zencrally, have called several public meet-
ings for the purpose of petitioning Parliament in
favour of a National System of Education, in the
bleWngs of which all classes and sects may freely
participate. From the report of a public meeting
held at Sheffield on Wednesday last, given at great
Itrigth In the Sheffield chronicle of Saturday,
we regret to find that the Clergy of the Established
Church are prepared to throw every obstacle in the
way of the Dissenters, unless the latter consent to
place the new system of education, together with the
funds voted to support it, under their exclusive ma-
nagement. This is a COIICCSSiOII which the Dissenting

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