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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XIII, Issue 1030, 22 May 1869, Page 2

Mr. Hugh Glass, convicted of a breach of the privileges of the House, and committed to the Melbourne Gaol on the Speaker’s warrant, has been released by the dictum of three of the Judges of the Supreme Court. Speaking of this subject, the Age states : “ The quashing of a warrant for informality may not at first sight appear to be more than an ordinary proceeding on the part of the Judges of the Supreme Court, but there is a significance attaching to their doings, when the Speaker’s warrant for the incarceration of Mr. Hugh Glass was pronounced to be bad, which must not be overlooked by the people or the Parliament.” The Judges have decided that the Speaker of the 'Assembly has not the power of the Speaker of the House of Commons, and that the Supreme Court has a power which is not possessed by any court in England. The Judges held that Parliament has “ no privileges, immunities, or powers, Ouher than those which the J udges are so good as not to overrule.” The Age asserts that this is a people’s quarrel ; one that a free country must pass through before its constitution can be considered established, and thinks that the “ avidity ” of the J udges to snub the Parliament was not seemly. If the resolution of the Assembly can be overruled by the Supreme Court, there is an end to the independence of Paliament.