New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-06

KEW no more than if he had been born in Mexico.
That the business Of the Empire could be transact
ed a. all. under such systsm, is truly msrvslous
In former years the House used, actually, to hear
and vote upon Appeals as In any legislative bust
new The Court OF Errors in this State, under the
| old Constitution, vas formed on this model, and
W. believe it was often thought to be titly named
| The practical business like sense of the English
people, however, gradually changed this custom
and for more than century the Appeal to the
Lords has been in effect an Appeal to sh' Lord
Char cellor. and such Law Lords q, chose 10 take
part in the hearing. In order to keep up aPpssr
snces, two lay Lords sit with tee Chancellor TO
| ftrm QUORUM. As these assessors are changed
every day, Of course their presence is mere form,
sLd they take no part in the judgment, which is
made up, generally by the Chancellor alone. In
cases Of sufficient interest the Law Lords take
part, give their opinions, and vote. But the lay
Lords scrupulou.ly abstain from exercising their
right though now and then it was hard thing to
do,-ss when the judgment against o 'COnnell was
reversed.
As the Appellate business Of the Lords multiplied
thing must be done to relieve the pressure. The
Iemedy proposed by the presen! Ministry was to
give lawyers of tminsnce life peersges for the pur
pose Of relieving the Chancellor by giving him
eminent lawyers for assess0rs, who would take
portion of the burden eff his shoulders, aud yet
would not encumber the House with what il breads
as Nature does vacuum-s progeny of pauper
Il n.la l.1.
ceiyfd his patent OF life peersge; but was met at
the bar by Lord Derby and other chswpi ,ns Of
their Order aid told he had Lo business there with
no better credentials than that piece Of sheepskn.
The here ditary quality Of the peerage was held to
nhere in ts essence, and attempt to noculate it
with an estate for life thought to eadanger the
sOundness Of it, constitution. The right to create
peers for life is laid down 10 Coke and Blackstone,
and, we believe, wss not denied but it was as
serted that such creation gave no right to seat
in the House or to any privilege Of Parliament.
A, it was prerogstve which had lain dornsnt
for 80 many years-since the time Of Richard H.,
il was sfirmed-it WAS held that it had become
obsolete; snd that an attempt to revive it, except
BY act Of Parliament, was u corp dftat on small
acal, an unconstitutional attempt TO change the
laws Of the realm by the set of the sovereign.
The G5verbment tried to maintain its ground,
but the Esprit ds corps of the Lords more than
match for it, and it had to drop the project. 1t
is Observsbe that, in 1532, when William ". was
reluctantly obliged to consent to aspecial creation
of PEE rs enough to carry the reform bill, this pre-
rogatve of making peers for life was never thought
e 1a&.. att
consisting, as far possible of heirs apparent and
presumptive, and old, childless gentlemen, so that
the numter Of peers would not. ultimately, be ma
terially ncreased but the resource of life peerages
either was not thought OF, or rejected as an i'm
practicable expedient. Had not the Tory majority
yielded to the persOnal influence Of the King, and
10 the revolutionary pressure f om without, this
mob Of nobility, to which the dozen lords made in
batch by Queen Anne were but ~ pnoh of
stuff would lave oyeIpowered all resistance by
their plumbers That surrender WAS, in effect, a
'ruly rev olutiop rs that of l6-7. 1t was an sc
knowedgemenf on the part of the Lords, tia. their
House could no longer oppose an npassable bar
Ter TO tie popular will 1t might be drag on
Il wheels of progress, but could never sgaln et-
itciuslly beck ,htm when the nation was deter
mined t,ey SHOULD roll Onward. The House of
Lords can thus be made h. abolish itself saOud t1e
line ever come WHEN the nation Unlisted on the
sDicde. 1t is ihis elasticity in the Eogisn ma
chine which will almost certsinly save that country
frcm SLY viOt mt IT yOlution on ide Of the regular
fuims of government. The ubyie!ding nature of
,urs, on the contrary " bs seen especially IA the
Senate, in which the Save Power Low sits re-
en,less AID immeysble q, Destiny, is shat most
endbngrrs its peImanancy, srd exposes It b. vlo-
lent destruction should it ever be found irremOy-
ably planted the path of the intelligence aud
virtue of the nstcn.
The Government having virtually yielded the
POINT to the Lerds, the Lords willing to con-
sent to a modification Of the proposition, to De
made by themselye,. And this was, that the Crown
should have the power Of creating two peers Tor
liie TO be Deputy Speakers Of the House OF Lords.
The Crown is authorized to create four such peer
sgts, to provide for the inability from aga or in.
frmiiy of either or both OF the two Deputy Speak
,rs, but Lo more. These Life Lords to receive
salaries like oher judges and to assist the Chan
cellor in the judicial business Of the House, aud 70
lit aid htsr CAUSES, if necessary, during the pro-
rogatoD. But the fiction of the Appellate char
scter Of the whole House still remains The other
Law Lords may yet. with propTiety, sit and vote
on Appeal cases. and in the great msority Of cases
the Chancellor would remain virtually the single
Judge Of the last resort as well ia appeals from
himself in Cbarcery as in other cases. OF the
Law Lords there were Lever rs many as there are
1t this tine. There are less than !hrre tx.
Cbopcellors living, Lords Lyndhurss BroGgham
I'D ST Lfnnatda Resdr the Chancellor Lord