ministration take part in debate only when subjects connected with their respective departments are under consideration, leaving the general defence of the policy of the Government to the gifted individuals who are selected to compose the Cabinet. However, I offer you some specimens of my effortsforensic and parliamentary-which perhaps you may not be ashamed of, and which may escape severe censure from my contemporaries. Amidst all the difficulties I have had to encounter, and the disappointments I have experienced, I have never forgotten the motto in the schools at St. Andrew's, our Alma Mater Αἰὲν ἀρισεύειν. I should rejoice if I could think that this would be a lasting memorial of a friendship-as warm and as steady as ever united Brothers-which neither time nor distance nor difference of pursuit has been able to interrupt or impair. It may be that my aspirations and hopes proving delusive, my existence in a short space of time may be known only to my children: but they will be better pleased with the obscurity of their father than if he had gained dishonest fame; -and they will have the consolation to reflect that he never abandoned his principles or his party, and that by remaining true to the cause of civil and religious liberty he always sought the good of his country and the happiness of mankind. It delights me to think that, however I may be tossed about on the stormy sea of public life, you in your retreat are in the safe enjoyment of the refined pleasures of literature and science. "Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, "And round his dwelling guardian saints attend." Through all the vicissitudes which may yet await me, I shall ever remain, Your most affectionate Brother, CAMPBELL. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Speech for LORD MELBOURNE, in the Action of the HONOURABLE GEORGE NORTON, v. Lord Melbourne, in the Court of Common Pleas, before 32 PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.-Speech on, in the HOUSE of COMMONS, on the 81 99 115 136 LETTER to the Right Honourable LORD STANLEY, M.P. for North Lancashire, on the Law of Church Rates STOCKDALE V. HANSARD-Speech on PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGE, in the COURT of QUEEN'S BENCH, on Tuesday, 23rd, Wednesday, 24th, and The QUEEN V. LAWSON-LAW OF LIBEL-Speech for "THE TIMES" Newspaper, in the COURT of QUEEN'S BENCH, before LORD DENMAN, on the 20th of December, 1838. GENERAL REGISTER of DEEDS-Speech on MOTION for Leave to bring in a Bill to establish a GENERAL REGISTER for all Deeds and Instruments affecting real property in ENGLAND and WALES, in the House of COM- HIGH TREASON.-Speech for the CROWN on the Prosecution of JOHN FROST for HIGH TREASON, before the Special Commission at Monmouth, PROSECUTION FOR BLASPHEMY.-Speech for the CROWN on the Trial of J. HETHERINGTON, for a Blashemous Libel, in the COURT OF QUEEN'S ADDRESS in the name of the BAR to MR. JUSTICE LITTLEDALE, on his re- tiring from the BENCH, delivered in the CoURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, February 8th, 1841 614 EQUITY REFORM.-Address to the BAR in the COURT OF CHANCERY in Ireland, at the conclusion of the sittings, on the 17th day of July, 1841 |