INSTITUTIONS

OF

THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT;

BEING AN ACCOUNT OF

THE CONSTITUTION, POWERS, AND PROCEDURE,

OF

ITS LEGISLATIVE, JUDICIAL, AND ADMINISTRATIVE

DEPARTMENTS.

WITH

COPIOUS REFERENCES TO ANCIENT AND MODERN AUTHORITIES.

BY

HOMERSHAM COX, M.A.,

BARRISTER-AT-LAW, AUTHOR OF 'THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH,' ETC.

LONDON:

WEET, 3, CHANCERY LANE, FLEET STREET,

LAW BOOKSELLER AND PUBLISHER.

1863.

[The right of Translation is reserved.]

UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

871, 90/1.
Winct Fund.

"The next remove must be to the study of Politics; to know the beginning, end, and reasons of political societies; that they may not, in a dangerous fit of the commonwealth, be such poor, shaken, uncertain reeds, of such a tottering conscience, as many of our great counsellors have of late shown themselves, but steadfast pillars of the State."

Milton's Epistle to Hartlib, on Education.

6947 61-135

TO THE

RIGHT HON. WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, M.P.,

CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER,

THIS WORK IS DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION,

AS A

TRIBUTE OF RESPECT FOR HIS PROFOUND KNOWLEDGE

OF THE

PRINCIPLES OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.