ON

PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT

IN

ENGLAND:

ITS ORIGIN, DEVELOPMENT, AND PRACTICAL OPERATION.

BY

ALPHEUS TODD

LIBRARIAN OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF CANADA.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL I.

LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

1867.

The right of translation is reserved.

TO THE

HONOURABLE JOHN ROSE, M.A., Q.C.

A MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF CANADA

FOR THE CITY OF MONTREAL

This Volume is Inscribed

AS A TOKEN OF RESPECT FOR HIS PUBLIC CHARACTER

AND PRIVATE WORTH

AND IN

GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT FOR MANY ACTS OF KINDNESS,

BY HIS OBLIGED FRIEND

ALPHEUS TODD.