that he might seek for in gaol. If no Act existed to
warrant his incarceration, he would have a legal remedy for what
morally, at any rate, was a false imprisonment.

* * * * *

DEBATE ON THE HUDSON QUESTION.

(_By slight Anticipation._)

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT--Monday, 13th February, 1854.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Their Lordships met at 5, but rose immediately, in order to afford
various Peers an opportunity of hearing what was going on elsewhere.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Petitions having been presented, notices of motion given, and questions
disposed of.

MR. ROEBUCK rose to bring on the motion which he had placed on the book.
He said he should be very short (_A laugh_). He could not express his
loathing and contempt for the vulgar and brutal ribaldry which could
find matter for a grin in a man's appearance. He should be temperate, as
all the world knew he always was (_Hear, hear_), and should merely read
to the House an extract from a document to which the Hon. Member for
Sunderland had sworn, and which that Hon. Member had placed on record in
a Court of Justice, in which MR. HUDSON--(_Order_) What was the use of
the servile pedantry that adhered to rotten forms? (_Order_.) Well, in
which the honourable--very honourable--right honourable--would that
do?--Member swore that he had expended certain moneys, or used other
means, in bribing and corrupting members of the legislature to favour
railway schemes in which he was interested. Conceiving that a legislator
who could bring such a charge against his fellows was utterly unfit to
sit among them, he should--without the least personal feeling--move that
MR. GEORGE HUDSON be expelled the House of Commons (_Hear, hear_).

MR. HENRY DRUMMOND seconded the motion, but only for the purpose of
saying that he perfectly believed every word to which MR. HUDSON had
sworn (_Hear, hear_). He had last session given Lords and Commons, aye,
and Ministers and Knights of the Garter too, his opinion of the extent
to which corruption was carried in these days, and he reiterated his
assertions. Still, though offences were to come, woe to them by whom
they came, and therefore he should support MR. ROEBUCK.

The SPEAKER having put the motion,

LORD JOHN RUSSELL, as leader of that House, said that he should make
very few remarks on a very painful subject. He had carefully looked into
Magna Charta, and also into the Bill of Rights, and was inclined to
believ