ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD "PARLIAMENT."

It has been observed by a learned annotator on the *Commentaries of Blackstone*, that, "no inconsiderable pains have been bestowed in analysing the word 'Parliament;'" and after adducing several amusing instances of the attempts that have been made (and those too by men of the most recondite learning) to arrive at its true radical properties, he concludes his remarks by observing that "'Parliament' imported originally nothing more than a council or conference, and that the termination '*ment*,' in parliament, has no more signification than it has in *impeachment*, *engagement*, *imprisonment*,…