The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-07 00:00:00

Milittton.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

RIPON RACES.
(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

STAND STAKES.

Roxana
Exmouth

Prince's Mixture

Four ran.
MEMBERS' PLATE.

Soleatar
Atherstone

Five ran.
Hamby did not get off.

NARING RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH)
SEBASTOPOL PLATE.

Battle
Cato
Fireband

Ten ran.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(T,HIS EVENING.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wool-
sack at five o'clock.

SALE OF BEER BILL.
Earl GREY presented 14 petitions in favour of the
ab )ve bill, signed by upwards of 6,000.
Lord MONTEAGLE presented several petitions to
the same effect.

Lord BESSBOROUGH presented several petitions
from Bradford and York against the Beer Bill.

RAISING SUNKEN VESSELS.

The Earl of HARDWIOKE presented a petition from
a gentleman named Mr. Edward Austen, the inventor of
a patented plan for raising sunken vessels, and also for
lifting them over bars. The petitioner stated that
he had laid his plan before the Admiralty Board,
and who had reported favourably of the plan, but in
consequence of the board's hesitation to adopt the ap•
paratus, the petitioner applied to the Turkish ambas-
sador, who on the part of his. Government was disposed
to accept the plan, and thepetitioner applied to the Board
of Admiralty for a copy of the report in order to
lay it before the Turkish authorities. The statements
contained in the petition were highly important and in-
teresting, and deserved the most serious consideration of
her Majesty's Government at this particular moment.
The noble lord proceeded to read a number of letters,
all spcaking in the highest praise of the invention, and
also stated that there could be no doubt of the value of
the invention. The Board of Admiralty had declined to
produce the report asked for, and the petitioner there-
fore applied to this house for redress.
Lord REDESDALE presented a petition from the
Manchester Chamber of Commerce against the Limited
Liability Bill.
NEW RIVER COMPANY BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
INVERNESS BRIDGE BILL.

On the motion of the Duke of ARGYLL the standing
order No. 179, sec. 4, was considered and dispensed with,
and the Inverness Bridge Bill was read a second time.

NUISANCES REMOVAL BILL.

This billwasread a third time and passed.
LIMITED LIABILITY BILL.

Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY then rose to move
that the Limited Liability Bill, having been introduced
and passed by the House of Commons, in conformity
with an unanimous resolution of that house declaring
" that the law of partnership which renders every person
who, though not an ostensible partner, shares the
profits of a trading concern, liable to the whole of the debts,
is unsatisfactory, and should be so far modified as to
permit persons to contribute to the capital of such con-
cerns on terms of sharing their profits, without incuring
liability beyond a limited amount ; and the progress of
the bill having been delayed by the lengthened discussions
on the conduct of the war, which prevented it being
sent up to this house at an earlier period, and great in-
convenience being experienced from the suspensionof many
undertakings of great importance, consequent on the
stoppage of all charters and acts of Parliament for giving
limited liability, in the anticipation of Parliament legis-
lating on the subject, the circumstances which render
legislation cn the subject matter of the said bill expe-
dient are of such urgency as to render the immediate con-
sideration of the satne necessary. The noble lord proceeded
to urge the importance of the measure, which he said
involved a principle to which no well-founded objection
would be offered. It was of the highest importance to
pass such a measure, as the Board of Trade had refused
to exercise the power of granting charters to companies,
in consequence of the invidious position in which they
felt such a power placed.them. A vast number of valu-
able undertakings were waiting fur the settlement of t he
question in order that they might be
_brought into
existence.

Lord REDESDALE opposed the motion on the
ground that the noble lord had failed to make
out that this measure was one of such urgency as
to demand a suspension of the standing order. He con-
tended that the government were themselves to blame
for not bringing forward the measure until towards the
close of the session. He did not mean to pass any opinion
upon the merits of the bill itself. All he felt it was his
duty to do was to oppose the suspension of their
standing order on the simple ground that there was no
caie of urgency shown in respect of this measure. The
effect of the standing order had been most beneficial in
facilitating the progress of business in both Houses of
Parliament.