Contents. Purchase of the Suez Canal Shares Bill for the assumption by the Queen of a new title in India. Action of the Government after the Treaty of San Stefano Retirement of Lord Carnarvon and Lord Derby. Despatch of native Indian troops to Malta Proclamation of the Queen as 'Empress of India' Restrictions placed on the Indian Vernacular Press. View of England as an Asiatic Power . Expenditure in support of the policy pursued Liabilities of the country under the Cyprus Convention Liabilities incurred by the purchase of the Suez Canal Shares . Legal and Constitutional aspects of the movement of Indian Practice of consulting Parliament in reference to the making Absence of any Parliamentary check on such financial under- Prerogative of the Crown in Colonial Administration Growth of the Colonies in political importance. System of powers and checks provided by the Act Ineffectual opposition of the Indian Councils to recent acts of Contents. Injury to private rights from the expensiveness of law Legislative invasions of private liberty on behalf of public ANALYSIS. CHAPTER I. THE CONSTITUTION AND ITS MOVEMENTS. Nature and elements of the Inquiry. Necessity of studying institutions in their working, development, and mutual dependence. Moral as well as legal elements in the Constitution. Sources of information as to its variable elements: Acts of Parliament, Judicial decisions, Current interpretations of acknowledged principles, as shown in deliberate utterances of statesmen, comments of scientific writers, manifestations of popular feeling, reports of executive acts and their reception by Parliament and the public. Organic unity of the Constitution. Necessity of treating every part of it in its relation to all the other parts. CHAPTER II. THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. SECTION 1.-COMPOSITION AND MUTUAL RELATIONS OF THE Parliament the organ of Constitutional change. |