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the whole responsibility of the proceedings on Lord J•
RUSSELL, which had begun, he said, in indiscretion, had
been carried on with pusillanimity, and would end in

defeat.
Mr. JOHN JONES thought Mr. STOCKDALE an in
jured man, and that the Judges shook' be proceeded

against if he were.
Lord TEIGNMOUTH gloried in upholding the privi-
leges of the House, and should be proud of his votes
in their favour on the hustings.
Mr:FRESHFIELD denied the necessity of indiscriminate
publication, and could not vindicate the exercise of that

privilege.
Mr. HUME, as the Member who proposed the resolu-
tion for printing the papers of the House, defended that
course, and hoped the House would never rescind that
resolution. He voted against the Sheriffs with reluc-
tance ; but he had hitherto approved of the course
which the House had followed, and he should continue
to support it.
The RECORDER, wish considerable warmth, impugned
the proceedings of the privilee party, and called on the
House to pause, and not to sacri6ce the liberties of the
people in imprisoning Magistrates elected by them, and
who had equally well performed the duties they bad
sworn to perform, both to the people and the Sovereign.
Mr. EARLE went at great length into the whole sub-
ject of law and privilege and contended that from the
conduct of the Judges in former times, and from the
mode of conducting actions in Courts of Law, the House
could not with safety submit its privileges to the deci-
sion of any Courts. He contended that the law of Par-
liament was the law of the land, and that the Sheriffs
had not done their duty by violating the law of Par-
liament.

Mr. D'IsitIELI said, if the Judges had formerly
strained the law against privileges, so in the same pe-
nod, the reign of CHARLES 1., had the Commons ex-
tended their privileges to a most mischievous length.
They had tortured persons in the name of privilege,
sequestered property, and voted money into their
own purses. He feared the tyranny of pri-
vilege, and stood up for the law. The ques-
tion at isssue really was whether they would
suspend the Habeas Corpus Act, for by committing
these gentlemen without any trial, they would have
no power to sue out their Habeas, and procure their
freedom. He reprobated in strong terms both the folly
and the tyranny of the whole proceeding.
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT took the same side, and
especially condemned the conduct of the House of
Commons, because it was the appointed guardian of the
liberties of the people, and, therefore, like Macbeth
when he murdered Duncan, it committed a double
crime. The Hon. Baronet spoke with all his former
warmth, and all his former rambling ; and in the
course of his oration, unfortunately for himself,
made an uncalled-for attack on Mr. O'CONNELL.
At the same time he denounced, in the strongest
terms the resolutions of the House, and declared against
privilege. He called on the House to define and settle
their privileges by law.
Mr. O'CONNELL, in a short and good humoured
speech, quoted the Hon. Baronet's observations in sup-
port of the resolutions passed last Session in Mr.
Polack's case, for which the Hon. Bart. had voted,
and is. favour of which he had spoken. Mr. O'CoN-
NELL'S showing up of "the faded beau" told well in the
House, and excited some boisterous merriment.
On a division Mr. KELLY'S motion was lost by 99
to 210.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL then moved that the Sheriffs
be committed to the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms,
which, after a short speech from Mr. KEMBLE and from
Mr. GODSON, was carried by 195 to 94.
Lord JOHN afterwards explained that he had
been improperly called the prosecutor in this case.
1-La bad only presented Messrs. HaNsatto's petition,
which he thought was his duty. The Under-Sheriff
iwas discharged on his motion ; on his motion, also,
1 Mr. HOWARD, STocKDALE's attorney, was called to
the bar.
On the first question being put, Mr. LAW objected
to proceeding at that late hour.
Sir EDWARD SUGDEN was against punishing the
attorney, as they had not attacked the counsel.
He announced his intention of moving, at •a fu-
,::‘re time that the Sheriffs be discharged.
Atic! a short but warm debate, in which were re-
peated calls to era!' and some personalities,
expressed his willingness to
Lord JOHN 17 """
p7oceedings till this evening.
postpone further
`hat Mr. Howard attend
He according moved,
was met by a motion
the House this evening. This Al 3
to
.evenin 113. Mr.
for adjournment, which was lost by
HOWARD was ordered to attend the House Ig,
at the same time the anti-privilege party de:dared.
that they would give the further proceedings C.i
the privilege party all the opposition in their power.
On the motion of Mr. LABOUCHERE, a Committee
was appointed to inquire into Railways. The motion
occasioned a brief conversation on the propriety of not
allowing steam-engines to run on the Sabbath. Pro-
bably the Saints will soon pass a law to prevent
fire from burning, and water from boiling on
that day.
The House adjourned at Half-past One o'Clock.

Sir ROBERT INGLIS asked, the night before
last, whether the Judges would not call on the
Sheriffs to raise the posse comitatus in defence of
the r.osins against the House of Commons. He
warned .416 _House that the Judges would be
attended in t..4("Ph by hundreds of the gentry,
and by thousands god tens of thousands of the
middle classes of the' country. The gentlemen
who spoke on the other sLle were equally emphatic
as to the power of the Co'ruli-'ons, and equally
sure that they will be supportej by 1 tl.e po)ular
voice. Sir ROBERT PEEL called on' dis co repre-
sentatives ill most impressive langt,"YS not to
degenerate from their ancestors, and never t 0 b. ban-
don the privileges handed to them. Calm anfl d'`-
passionate observers, belonging neither to the Cou.'ls
nor to the House of Commons, will be apt to infer
from such language that both these bodies are
quarrelling, not which of them shall do most good
to the people, but which of them shall have and
retain most power over them.
It is quite possible that the people may dis-
appoint the expectations of both. Remembering
that one has been only distinguished for making,
during a long period, a multitude of bad, oppres-
sive, and cruel laws, and that the other has been
equally distinguished for administering those op-
pressive laws in an oppressive manner, and making
bad laws where they did not before exist, the
people may look on this quarrel, according to a
well-known adage, with much complacency, and
calculate on many advantages from the mutual dis-
sensions of Parliament and the Courts of Law.
Neither the Legislature nor the judicial power
can now afford wantonly to cast away any of the
respect which yet lingers for it in the public mind,
and if the two bodies which, united, can scarcely
hold their own against the onward march of human
intelligence, were to view matters less through the
medium of blind and arrogant passion, they would
probably conclude,, that the wisest course for them
is, to huddle up their differences as quickly as
possible, and conceal them, with the utmost care,
from the prying eyes of Chlrtists, Democrats, and
Republicans. Sir R. INGLIS seems to have some
foreboding of an unhappy fate, for he conjured
the House not to hasten the decay of authority,
rapidly running to dissolution, and the disasters
that are impending over the country, by bringing
discredit on the Courts of Law.
Sir ROBERT seems to suppose that the Judges,
with their accumulated fictions, and all the grim-
gibber of Westminster Hall, are extremely popu- 1
ler in the nation. They will be followed, the Hon.
Baronet thinks, by tens of thousands in triumph.
Where will they be gathered from ? Let the Hon.
Baronet read the letter, signed " A Traveller," in
our paper, and ask himself whether the middle
classes dare now—such is the condition to which
England has been reduced by the long dominion
of cant and hypocrisy—of Corn-law-making land-
lo7ds and poverty-preaching Bishops—leave their
homes by tens and hundreds of thousands for any
such idle pageantry ? The police, the yeomanry,
the militia, and the army altogether, make a poor
and wretched substitute fora
contented and an
affectionate people ; and were the Judges to be con-
veyed to the Tower to-morrow the gentry and the
middle classes would not, for fear of the conse-
quences, congregate in hundreds and thousands to do
them honour. If they could amuse the people at the
same time, as by a Coronation show,
they
be at ease themselves ; but with the
i gandht
fictions of the law, and with those who administer
it, the multitude have no sympathies, and the
gentry and middle-classes would no more hazard a
great public gathering on their account, than they
now like to call public meetings.
Nor is the House of Commons more popular
than the Judges. There are individuals in that
House who can influence thousands, and even mil-
lions, but not in favour of privilege, nor in favour
of the House collectively. Why, it is so con-
temned
and derided, that the multitude throughout
the land refuse to petition it. All respect and
affection for it are extinguished. It has been made
palpably and painfully apparent, that it is not the
true and faithful guide whom the people seek, and
willingly follow. The power it yet retains is de-
rived from habits which are passing away, from
prejudices and opinions which are dying out, and
whenever the time comes that it must appeal, in any
conflict with the other powers and authorities of