New-York daily tribune., 1856-05-22

lfls TO save MN IlVu INC iuPVituni'cs eoo o~s's
mites urged BY his implacable duns And was NOT
the late Lord Byron only saved TO the legislstion Of
his country when he had twelve executions in
bis bouse BY the inherent virtue OF the peerage,
which ssrike'h awe into your tipstaf as true vir'
pinity doth into your lion How often would
Charles Fox have been in the sptpsing house in
stead Of the HOuse Of Commons had it not been for
thi, protecting mgis which could convert even Jews
| ipto stone, If not into Christians 7 And so OF
many other noble lords and honorable gentlemen.
These privileges our Republican Parament-msn
enjoy as fully as their fellows the water But
We think that the sacred circle Of our legislation Is
not yet sufficiently guarded. Why should they not
have the privilege Of trying one another for any lit
tie improprieties they may have been led into in
stead of bepg subjected to the vulgar tribunals
erected for the common people 1t is true that
the House Of Peers only enjoys this eminent right
in England, but what them Are not We ali peers,
yea, sovereiensi And is not our delegated omni-
potence at Washington entitled to whatever super
emil eDce d domain any aw-making House, how
ever denominated, may lay claim to All meu are
to be taken and considered as innocent till they sre
proved to be guilty, and privileged bodies have been
tsry apt to establish the innocence of their own
members, if any way Of escape could be devised as
the House Of Lords hath shown from time to time,
from the acquttal Of Lord Mohun, hundred and
sixty odd years ago, fJr the murder Of Mountfort,
the player down to that of Lord Cardigan for feo-
ously shooting at Captain Harvey Garnet PhiPps
Tuckest-in both caees for lack of evidence to
prove what every body but the Judges knew to be
true. This would, of course, tend materially to
diminifh the amount Of guilt and punishmentin the
world.
Our own House of Representatives hath shown
its ow leaning to the side Of mercy in its refusal
to set on foot any inquiries to the ndiscretion of
which one Of its members has lately been suspected
toward one Heating, an Irish waiter. Nov,
though the cause of humanity could not desire a
Judge of more mercful make than Judge Craw
ford, still it might be advisable to guard against any
possible injury that might accrue to it through the
perverseness of twelve men picked mp at random;
and so we should recommend that each House
or rather the Democratic part of it erect
itself into tribunal for the trial of all and sim
gular whatever charges may be brought against
their own members Besides, in cases like this OF
Mr. Herbert, Peer of England convicted OF
granddaughter may by statute Of Edward w.
plead his peerage for the first offense and be DIS
charged Oh payment Of his fees. AT least ne
might once, and may still if the said act hath NOT
been repealed of which we are not aware. This
wise clemency the Wicked Lord Byron, the grand
uncle and predecessor of the poet claimed ana re-
ceiyed in 1765, when he stabbed Mr.. Chawortn'
the grandfather of Mary" by candelight at the
Star and Garter in Pail Mall, for saying he had
the more game on his estate.
Now, il noble lords in England enjoy, or ever
did enjoy, the unique privilege of killing one man
apiece with impubity, provided it were done IN
hot blood, why should not those that answer TO
that pri, ilged class here have thesame exemption
Would not a distinction of this kind between tho
two imply that there was difference in their in
h, rent value which no free and enlightened cii-
zen could endure for moment The class to
which this Mr. Herbert especially beonesi strictly
an hereditary slgarcby as much as the peerage Of
England is an aristocracy, only it rests on the
ownership Of flesh and blood instead Of acres, and
it enjoys the preserptive right Of killing e1tpors
pose to recognize this inheren. right OF the order
in its full extent at Washington, as belonging by
nature to all our lawmakers. We shall choose to
have its exercise confined within well-defned lin.
itt-as for instance, the members Of the Border
Ruffan party, proper. We ircine to the
opinion that one homicide each might be
enough to satisfy the demands Of legislative dignity
particularly if liberal understanding should
make common stock Of the common rights, so that
the economy of the Northern Members in their use
Of fthem might enure TO the satisfaction Of the more
liberal expenditures Of their Southern "demo-
cratic" brethren. We trust we shall not be misun-
derstood as including negroes in this limitation OF
legislative homicide. OF course, the Unborn right
TO kill them is beyond mere national regulation.
But We think that an allowance of one Irishman or
Dutchmsn, or other "poOr white trash, per ses-
sion, with niggers discretion, Gas the French res
tauran:s allow pint Of wine and unlimited bread
TO each customer should be satisfactory to oil
parties concerned This jutt moderation, if reli
giousy observed must help to establish the charac-
ter Of our great and glorious country as the Model
Republic, (unless, indeed, the rising greatness OF
Wdkeragus puts her nose out Of joint set up for
the example and instruction Of the elder world
The condition Of Italy seriously affected az