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Lend HOWICK tht,ugt wiser .plan wood cer.
tainly be to follow the advice Of his Ho cte3.
Friend, and reserve the discussion until the) Lat. the lot, repo:
of the Committee before them. Supposing, as it was stated,
that the levy should be made, and the damages taken, it was
better to allow this, than to take an inconsiderate step. It
would still be in their power to compel the parties who had
received them to refund, and to punish the parties who had
been in any way instrumental in carrying the execution into
effect. This would, in his opinion, be a much better course
than to take any inconsiderate step. They would then hay?
the advantage of waiting for the report of the Standing
Orders Committee, and avoid being committed at present to
any specific motion.
The SCLICITOR-GENERAL thought that it would cer-
tainly be better to postpone the discussion until they got the
full report of the Standing Orders Committee, and they would
then see what would be the better course for them to adopt.
The Hon. Member for Montrose (Mr. Hume) seemed to
think the the full reuort of the Committee ought now to he
laid before them ; and doubtless, if they had had the
advantage of that Hon. Member's industry, intelligent dili-
gence, and business•habits, it might perhaps have been ready,
but circumstances had occurred:, hat had rendered it impossible.
The members of that Committee had been most indefatigable,
for in the midst of numerous private engagements ttey had
closely attended to their duties. He should move that when
the order of the day were proposed to be read, that it be post-
poned till Monday next.
After a few words from Sir T. 'WILDE and Sir F. PEEL,
Mr. HUME said that he should move a resolution to t; e
effect, that it should be a breach of the privilege of the House
to levy money on any servant of that House executing a war-
rant.

Lord HOWICK trusted that the Hon. Member would
delay his resolution.
Lord JOHN MANNERS hoped that the Hon. Gentleman
would persevere.
... .

Mr. 'HUME said he was anxious to proceed, and he would
now move that it be a breach of the privileges of the House to
levy any sums of money on any servant of that House executing
a warrant.
Mr. ROEBUCK seconded the motion.

Lord HOWICK thought it would be better that the House
should not pronounce any opinion on this matter, but that it
would be morn expedient that the debate be adjourned, which
he moved accordingly.
Sir R. PEEL said that it would amount to the same thing
if the Noble Lord would not put his amendment, for the House
would not in either case come to any decision on the subject.
Mr. LABOUCHERE agreed entirely in the amendment of
the Noble Lord, and thought the House should in same degree
consult the impression which would be made upon the public,
who at this moment were under a great misapprehension re-
garding them, and which would be much strengthened by the
course which the Right Right Hon. Baronet who had just sat
down proposed. He could not help expressing his entire assent
with the Hon. Member for Montrose, though he could not sup-
port his motion that if the threatened proceedings wore perse-
vered in the parties who promoted and abetted them would be
guilty of a gross violation of the privileges of that House.—
( Hear, hear.) They were now about io be engaged in a cen-
diet to which they should not lightly commit themselves, but
upon which, when once entered, they should act firmly and dc.
cidedly.—( Cheers.) He would support the amendment of his
Noble Friend.

Sir R. INGLIS said, though unaccustomed to concur with
the Hon. Member for Montrose, he agreed with him in think-
ing that it was more desirable that the House should now come
to a decision on this important matter. Now was the time fur
them to decide, for it would be idle further to talk about the
inviolability of their privileges after they had been violated.—
( Hear, hear.) For his part, he did not think they had been
violated, but if they were to take up their stand against the
law of England, now was the time.

Mr. ROEBUCK was not at all influenced by the observa-
tions of the Hon. Baronet the Member for the University of
Oxford. When Hon. Members talked of haste and the
necessity for deliberation, he begged to ask them how long had
this measure been under consideration? Every individual
Member was now as well prepared to come to a decision as he
could be on Monday night. The question went far deeper
than it would at first sight appear. —( Hear, hear.) • The Hof.
Baronet and the Noble Lord opposite were opposed to the pri-
vileges of the House, rnd he could not wonder at it. So long as
the House merely represented the aristocracy, none could be
more chary of its privileges than the High Tory party ; but
the moment it became, in part, at least, a House in which the
people were represented, that moment they abandoned them.
He saw the Noble Lord opposite shrugged his shoulders when
he said " representatives of the people," and he (Mr.
Roebuck) had no doubt but the Noble Lord re-
garded such representatives in a very contemptuous light.
(Cries of " Oh, oh.") He would not dwell further on that,
but would tell those Hon. Members that he for one was pre-
pared to pit the House of Commons against the Queen's Bench
from the first hour of its exissence to the present moment. The
Queen's Bench had always been opposed to the liberties of the
people, and had often been the abettor of wicked and tyrannical
monarchs.—(lronical cries of " Hear, hear.") Did they
deny this—he was prepared to prove it from the history of this
country.—( Hear, hear.) Might he not refer to the days of
Hampden, and to cringing favouring judges, chief justices, too,
who were willing to gratify the propensities of the Sovereign
at the expense of justice. In those days the Queen's Bench
abetted the King in his assaults upon the liberties of the coun-
try, whilst that House manfully stood by them and resisted
such encroachments. He had no doubt but the Hon. Baronet
the Member for Oxford would have been very anxious for the
privileges of that House in the days of John Wilkes—he would
then have fought as manfully as anybody for their privileges,
not because they were the privileges of the House of Commons,
but because he could contend for them in opposition to the
liberties of the people. They must now make a stand for their
privileges or give them up altogether, and permit the House to
become a mere secondary authority—inferior to the meanest
court of justice in the kingdom.--, Hear.) Within the last
four weeks a gentleman had appealed to the British law for his
liberty, but the Court of Queen's Bench yielded with perfect
acquiescence to the Royal Court of Jersey, told him he rcust
submit to the constituted authorities of this realm, and sent back
ti:e unfortunate man to be dealt with as the Royal Court of
Jeraey might think properr. But if the House of Commons
dared to interfere, even for the protection of its own privileges,
then the Queen's Bench stepped in and treated as waste paper
their rules and privileges. " Who is the House of Commons ?"
said the Queen's Bench ; " what are we to know about the
House of Commons—the Court of Jersey is a constituted au-
thority; but who are they—why:should they bring the man to the
bar?" He was brought here by the warrant of the first
officer of that House ; a warrant, worded with all formality and
regularly prepared, and to say that such a warrant should not
be valid, was to forfeit all their privileges as representatives of
the people of England. He (Mr. Roebuck) was prepared to
carry the matter out and abide the consequences.—( Hear. )
Suppose there should be at a future time a chief justice who
would be the pliant tool of a despotic sovereign ; and supposing
that House to come into collision with the Queen's Bench,
what would he the result—how was the House to guard against
the precedent which Hon. Members opposite were so anxious
to establish ?—( Hear, hear)—The Queen's Bench would
persevere in its course, and it might come to pass that the
Sergeant-at-Arms, having no domicile.— (The Hon. and
Learned Member here let his voice fall to so low a key that
several; Hon. Members, unable to catch the last word, asked,
"No what ?" The Hon. Member replied, in nearly as low a
tone, "No domicile." The question was repeated by Hon.
Members in a distant part of the House, upon which the
Hon. and Learned Gentleman. with a loud voice and irascible,
shouted out, " No domicile," which occasioned roars of laugh-
ter from all parts of the House.) The Sergeant-at-Arms
having no domicile, the Queen's Bench would issue a warrant
against his person, and the catchpole might seize him by the
neck—no, he would not say in that House—they would not
dare to venture so far—but in its precincts, whilst executing
the business of the House, and drag him before the Court.
Where. then, was the great bulwark of the liberties of the
English people? They would no longer be in a position to be
their protectors. They would have lost their independence,
and could not be thereafter designated what they were now
proud to assert, the representatives of the commonalty of
Eng!and.—( Cheers..

Sir JOHN HANMER agreed with the Noble Lord, and
would support his amendment.
Mr. WARBURTON would support the motion of his Hon.
Friend the Member for Montrose.

Mr. D'ISRAELI said the Hon. and Learned Gentleman
had deseribed those Members on the Ministerial side of the
Horse as opposing the privileges of the House of Common.,
because the House now represented the feelings of the people
of England; and then the Hon. and Learned Gentleman in
describing with extraordinary inconsistency those privileges, so
important to the public interest, and so indispensable to the
liberties of the public, turned round and said—" Where would
you have been if a Hampden had not arisen and vindicated
the privileges of that House." But that Hon. and Learned
Gentleman ( Mr. (Roebuck) appeared to have forgotten that
at that time it was an aristocratic assembly that supported the
privileges of that House—an assembly not elected by the con-
stituencies so numerous as those represented by the pre-
sent House of Commons. He could not understand why the
Hon. and Learned Gentleman should impute to Members on
his (Mr. D'lsraeli's) side of the House, a desire to give up or
repudiate the privileges of the House, because that House repre-
sented the people of England to a greater extent than it had
done before the recent alteration made in its constitution, and
at the same time appeal to the times of Hampden, when the
House of Commons had asserted its privileges.—( Hear hear. )
It might be true that judges had been and might be
corrupt, but the Hon. and Learned Gentleman should have
been the last to assert that Parliament had not been corrupt also.
He was sure the people of England would be able to distin-
guish between the Parliament of England and one branch of
the Legislature. In dealing with this subject, he did riot
dwell much on what the House of Commons might have done
in former times ; hut he might state, that every case of tyranny
that could be brought against the Court of Queen's Bench,
might find its parallel in the proceedings of the House of Com-
mons. He agreed with the Hon. Gentleman opposite, that it
was necessary to try and settle the great issue so long pending.
—(Hear, hear.) He wondered that any one should say that
there had not been sufficient time allowed the House to de-
cide upon the course it should take. It could not be asserted
that the subject came upon them suddenly. Ever since he had
held a seat in that House, the question had been often mooted,
and Hon. Members had always evaded the difficulty—had in-
variably procrastinated the evil hour.—( Hear, hear.) Let
the Hon. and Learned Gentleman and his supporters try the
case, and send the Lord Chief Justice of England to the
Queen's Bench, and then it would be seen with whom the
affections of the people of England rested.—( Hear, hear. )
He was of opinion with the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, that
the time was come when the House should stand forth
and try the question between the privileges of that House
and the authority of the courts of law, but he (Mr. D'lsraeli)
could not conceive how any one could stand up in that House
and assert that they required time to consider how they should
treat this question ; or could assert that it had come suddenly
upon them—that it had fallen like a star in the serene at,
mosphere of Parliamentary discus-ion—or like a comet, th
course of which could not be ascertained, and the aypearance of
which was altogether unexpected. It was by this continual
system of procrastination that they were now brought to the
extreme point—like a man in difficulties who had always put
off the evil hour. After the judgment of the Court of Queen's
Bench had been vindicated under circumstances the most igno-
minious, uoipteirmtupnoistsyiblsetiflolr
remainedthe Ho "
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to trtooffe r the pre-
tencjustice
thatit was q
opportunity the
of that decision. 'f he Right Hon. Gentleman they the
Member for
Taunton (Mr. Labouchere) dwelt strongly
on the advice which
he gave in reference to the public opinion oat of doors,
(Mr. D'lsraeli) wanted to know what public
lie
judgment of the Court of Queen's opinion? The
Bench he found
was vindicated in the property or person of the
chief officer of that Court, and the
would not refine much upon the
sj'"eopie 10, f the country
un-
derstand that an humble. subject ofq 'heir 11.1aje heawdould
ha daring to put himself in collision with the House4sy tylof
Comtd the
and had gained the decision and authority of the
courtsotnolns,
in his behalf. There was not a man in the country thatwould
had
believe that the alleged privileges such as tlwyw
been de-
scribed were necessary to the liberty of the subject, but on the
contrary they would look upon them as injurions.—( Hear,
hear.) He (Nlr. D'lsraeli) should not at all deplore the
catastrophe alluded to by the Hon. Gentlemen opposite, the
champions of those privileges, but he considered those pri-
vileges which the Hon. Member for Bath declared necessary
ev
for the liberty of the people—privileges whichlhiotroer
wl_rit
all gentlemen of his school, be might avoid dep

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oroceedings 01. that :• •i- - mil the present questien.—t Hear,
hear.) They sympathised ssith tte courts of law, aid they
looked upon them as the protectors of tlseir rights and liberties.
—( Hear, hear.) It was a profound sentiment in the mind of
the people to support the law- of England. They had asso-
ciated the law of England with the security and welfare of
public liberty.—( Hear, hear.) The feeling out of doors was
one of satisfaction at the decision of the entirts of law, and he
had only risen to repudiate the idea that the people of this
country had airy wish to curtail, or war against the just privi-
leges of the House. He exposed the assumption of such pri-
viierses because he considered them inimical to popular liberty.
The Hon. and Learned Gentleman would " suppose a corrupt
judge—suppose a corrupt court presided over by one who had a
dark design against public liberty." The same might be said
respectiog the House of Commons, and the real question was,
whether the House of Commons should be invested with a su-
preme irresponsible power, or wise :her the dignity of the law as
administered by the judge, should not be respected, upheld,
and supported ?—( Hear.)
Mr. F. KELLY submitted that the only coarse for the
House to pursue, was to agree to the motion of the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman the Solicitor-General, which he had pro.
posed at the express suggestion of the Hon. Member for Lon-
don. That. suggestion was agreed to, :mod then the al n.
Member for Montrose proposed his amendment. 'The Noble
Lord the Member for Sunderland also had an amendment, by
which he sought to postpone the coo-Perm ien of the qimstion
till next Monday week ; hut the colesticn was, sheuid the dis-
cussion also be postponed till the same time. (laving briefly
stated the facts of the Howard v. Gossett case, tie. Hon. and
Learned Gentleman proceeded to say that it ws now their
duty, and one of transeendant importance. to decide what course
should be adopted by the House, by which, on the one hand,
due respect would be manifested for the lasso and the Courts
which administered that law ; and, en the other, by which the
undoubted privileges of the House might be maintained. The
question ought not to be prematurely discussed, nor without
careful deliberation. The question had been referred to a
Committee, that Committee had thought it best to consider the
question fully in all its hearings—that Committee had expressed
an unanimous wish that it was necessary that the question should be
postponed, and therefore he considered the House ought to
postpone the discussion till the time proposed. He considered
it was the duty of the House to accede to this r quest of the
Committee. The discussion could be as well taken next Mon-
day week as to night. It was necessary that they should ven-
ture upon no course without due deliberation. They should
not act prematurely, but take the proper and reasonable course
suggested by the Noble Lord the Member for London, and
moved by the Hon. and Learned Solicitor-General.—(Hear,)
Sir T. WILDE said that he considered the course recom-
mended by the Noble Lord the Member for London the
proper cm. se to take. On a former occasion, when the ques-
tion of privilege was under their consideration, he had opposed
the course then taken. Proceedings had been instituted against
the officer of that House, and the matter was brought before
the House. A vote was come to, the House agreed to appear
and plead, and the consequences were well known to all the
Hon. Members present. But now the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman said, let the execution take place. He regretted
the subject bad not reee;ved in that House she benefit of the
talents of his Hon. and Leartied Friend. Pis the-,:co bed pre.
vented that. He (Sir T. Wilde) miglit say, that whin he
was consulted on that occasion by Mr. France, his ! I n aid
Learned Friend took some interest in the question. H. 's:s T.
Wilde) advised Mr. France to petition, nod dress lip
a petition for the purpose, when his II Gnoti r thl e
and Learned Friend being consulted on this subject advised an
exactly opposite course.—( Hear, hear.) The part he had
taken had been less disinterested than that of his Hon. and
Learned Friend, for he (ilir. Kelly) was the volunteer counsel
of the House of Commons. He trusted that the House would
give them each an unbiassed hearing. If he thought his Hon.
and Learned Friend could carry his resolution, he would second it
with all his heart, for, in his opinion, it was a very proper re-
solution to be moved ; but when the House was told, that it
was not competent to proceed, and that it was placed in the
power of the Court of Queen's Bench, he could not suppose
that any such power could exist. The answer to his resolu-
tion would be what the Hon. Member for Oxford had stated,
that it would be ridiculous, after the fine had been levied, to
talk any more about it, and his reason for suggesting the post-
ponement was, that it would prevent the execution being
stayed, and hinder the alternative of bringing a writ of error.
He admitted it was a sad step to take to levy the execution.
He considered that the present was the last occasion on which
the c,uestiou could he discussed with the advantages
it row possessed. If a future great occasion arose
when the House was intercepted in its proper functions it
would cut through all that had been accomplished as the
scythe levels the standing corn. It appeared to him that the
, method hitherto pursued was highly discreditable to the House.
It was a surrender of the constitutional privileges of the House
and with it a yielding up of the great principles of the Consti-
tution itself---( Hear, hear.) He trusted he should convince
the judgment of curry Hon. Member that the decision of the
Court of Queen's Bench was false in every particular, and that
the warrant Viet had been issued by the House was good.—
( Hear.) The judgment of the Court was contrary to law, and
compromised the honour and privilege of the House. The
warrant, on the face of it, was direted to the Sergeant-at-
Arms, to take into costody a certain individual, and was per-
fectly correct. But whether the Queen's Bench was right or
wrong in its decision, the question to decide was, slid it prg_
sess the power to interfere on a Parliamentary warrant. He
would say and maintain that Parliamentary powers were only
amenable to Parliamentary role:—( Hear)—and he thought
the Court of Queen's Bench had greatly overstepped its autho-
rity in endeavouring to set aside the wartant that had been is-
su,d. He would say that when his Hon. and Learned Friend
told the House that it would sustain no injury by levying the
execution, it would sustain greater evil by refusing to
sustain a writ of error in prevention.
Mr. KELLY rose, and said he wished to explain. The
question had been put to him whether, if the sheriffs were to
submit to the House of Commons, and refuse to levy the writ
issued by the Court of Queen's Bench, would they be proteeted
by the House of Commons? His answer was, that if the
sberfffs refused to levy any writ they would he liable to attach-
ment and imprisonment until the writs were levied. His Hon.
and Learned Friend had accused him of having been the volun-
teer counsel oa the argument that bad taken place, bot he
would tell his Honourable and Learned Friend that he had re-
tainer in that case, and he argued the case as he would have
argued any other case, and there was nothing inconsistent ins
what he had done.
Mr. DUNDAS expressed his surprise at the observations
that had fallen from the Honourable and Learned Gentleman
over the way. He felt persuaded that he of all men ought not
to have tied his hands and have fettered himself as a Member
of Parliament, by rec&ving a fee in .nogg a case. The Hon.
and Learned Gentleman had s^id Uhl.; &civics was required on
the question, he would willingly give it, notwithstanding the
retainer he had received, but .re would nave the House to be
cautious how they received his gratuitous advice. The
[lnure of Commons had acted right when they availed
themselves of the only legal measure of letting the Court of
Queen's Ilensh know what and how great were their privi-
leges. The law officers of the Crown had been instructed to
defend the action ; hut he would deny that at any titnethe House
of Commons yielded to the decision of the Que., n's I?euch
those privileges to which they were eons'itutionellv ei%titled.
It might, perheps, be a matter of regret that t.', C .11' ' ,f
Queen's Bench had ever, in any way, been 'Morro
fere ; and he would contend that no Court in Gre..; '‘,11.a1,1
should ever be permitted to decide on their pr;vileges.—
(Hear, hear.) It was now known that the Committee of In-
quiry had reported as their opinions that a writ of error should
be issued into the Court of Exchequer. Now he could not
imagine how the Hon. and Learned Member could even con-
sent to an appeal to the Court of Exchequer ; but the appeal
would be made if his motion were carried. He (Mr. Dundas)
would advise a bold step, and let us remain as we are--( Ili ar)
—and abide by the loss, if any shell accrue. The public would
stand by us in the position we assumed, and our honour and
privileges would remain untarnished and undiminished. It
would be advisable to follow the advice of the Noble Lord the
Member for Sunderland, and depend on ourselves for relief
as to the difficulty. He, for his part, would support the ?no-
tion of the Noble Lord, and only regretted that his Hon. and
Learned Friend should have proposed so ungracious a resolution.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said it appeared to him
inconsistent with the privileges of the House to allow this
matter to remain in its present position. He would entirely
tcaokinecui.de
Ninvate view
shthee which
xeeu his
execution
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thoewritd
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pro-
ceeding to extremities? If the House intended to interfere
sfuurrtehteur
sittawteohuul dwbfearptrhoep3er for those
, i
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suggested
in es tted itatthi s
course.rnea.
It would not satisfy the honour and privileges of the House if
they rested merely with the punishment of the irresponsible
subordinates. All persans, no matter what their stations
were, ought to be proceeded against, who interfered with
the privileges of the House.—Hear, hear.) The public feeling
would be carried with you in the prosecution of such a
course. Public opinion would sustain them if they did not
flinch from m. intainiee unreservedly the dignity of their
rights. When a warrant had been issued against the Speaker
upon a question where the privileges of the House had been
concerned, the House had allowed the Speaker to appear and
plead against the action. From the year 1810 until the year
1836, no occasion had arisen in which it had been necessary for
the House to decide whether it was right or wrong
to pursue a similar litre of proceeding. In 18* 6
the question aroee to which all their difficulties might
be teesed. This was the direction to plead to time Isamu of
Stockdale against Hansard, which hat itself been occasioned
by the publication of Messrs. Hansard of the Re, art of the In-
spectors of Prisons, part of which report had
been published by Stockdale himself; to that
action the Attorney-General had pleaded the general issue.
He had pleaded the general issue under the orders of the House.
It had happened unfortunately on that occasion that the Lord
Chief Justice had expressed a strong opinion on the right of
the House to enforce any such order, or to express any opinios
of the conduct of their fellow-subjects which might not be ex-
pressed by any person out of that House. That eminent per-
son had, it is true, in the most generous manner. en another
occasion, lamented the warmth of expression into which he had
been betrayed at a subsequent opportunity, when he gave
judgment in the case of Stockdale. Ater that time a Cm_
mittee had been obtained, and that Committee came to a ieerie3
of resolutions, which were
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House,
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to Only two days after that time, the Attorney-General had
taken an active part in the debate, and had expressed himself
very strongly on the subject. On the Bth of June, after that
period, the Attorney-General had come downes
from
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a
breach of privilege by commencing
After this, in 1843, this action was biryouaochiton iinneaoncso,.urgut
eonfeleawo.f
what had taken place ;in 1810, notwithstanding it had been
said that any one going into a court of law would be guilty of
a breach of privilege. The resolution come to on that occasion
was that the Sergeant-at-Arms should plead to the action.
Now, when the House came to this resolution, it was impos-
sible to say to the House when they went into the Court of
Queen's Bench, what view that Court might adopt.
It was, therefore, impossible that the House should
know what view the Court would take at that time,
of the case of Stockdale and Hansard, or whether they would
take the question of privilege into consideration at all. The
Court bad refused to be fettered by the question of privilege,ressits
and had entered into the ehole question.
from the lion. Member for Worcester
suppose - that such would be the case, e
Friend at the head of the Government
that the court of law might not enter
and he (the Solicitor-
could not consistently give General) thong .
his saw:
M nntrope.
the 1-lon. Member fo.rli
cie
into a court of law wit i
might take or have a
come to an unfavourable
that decision, and he thought.
endeavour to carry their resolutions Sitrnodnugceef them to
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