The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-27 00:00:00

NEWCASTLE RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGIUPII.)
LATEST BETTING.

NORTfiIIMBERLAND PLATE.
4to 1 agst Viudex
sto 1 agst Boltcn.
5 to 1 agst Lady Tatton
Bio 1 agst Courtenay
10 to 1 apt king of Trumps
10 to 1 agst Arribas
16 to 1 agst any other

VT PE BIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMaNS—(THIS DAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at .l 2 o'clock.
The Lords' amendments to the Electric Telegraph
C( ornpatiy Bill, and the International Life Assurance
Sc .ciety Bill were considered.
The Bradford Corporation WatA. Bill, and the Liver-
pc Improvement Bill were read a third time and passed.
The Airdrie Rural District Police (No. 2) Bill, and
th e Connaught Mining Company Bill were considered
an d ordered to be read a tfti,-,1 time.
CARNEGIE'S RESTITUTION BILL.

On the motion of Viscount 7DIINCAN the following
vtlemen wero nominated ss the select committee on
th ei above bill :—Viscount Duncan, Viscount Palener4-
to r, Lord John Russell, Sir James Graham, Mr. Dis-
ra al, the Lord Advocate, Mr. Attorney-General, Mr.
So licitor-General, the Judge Advocate, Sir Frederic The-
sis e Sir Jchn Pakington, Mr. Horsinan, Mr. Brand,
ac d. Mr. Sothcron ; and all the members of this house
wl to are of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Coun-
cil, and al; the Gentlemen of the Long Robe. Five to
be the quorum. That the committee have leave to sit
an d proceed and report forthwith.
PETITIONS.
Petitions were presented by Viscount Eliringtin from
St .Neotts, from Sbi.ffnal, and from Montgomery in favour
of the Marriages Bill ; by Mr. SpOmier, several petitions
In .m different parts of the country against the Maynooth
GI ant.

FORMATION, &o , OF PARISHES BILL.
,Da the order of the day for the second reading of the
above bill,

T 1 .e Mtirquis of BLANDFORD said that, though the
sessi, m was so far advanced, he felt bound to ask the house
to cc ,nsider its principle and agree to the second reading,
even though it should not pass into a law this session.
The Church Building Commission had been founded some
years ago, to dispose of a grant by Parliament f
1,5;00,0001. for the purpose of building churches in
various districts. He should take the first descrip•
tion of districts, called the district parish, in which
ch arches were built by the commissioners, and
pots ers granted to levy rates fur the repayment
of t?ie original loan. The entire district was to he liable
to Church-rates for twenty years. There were 79 of
th, e e districts ; but the commissioners found they were
not sufficient, and they then formed 92 consolidated
chap elries, in which services were allowed to be per-
forini2el immediately on their formation. The
next description of districts were district chapel-
rie3, amounting in number to 578, and they
aff:eted the largest portion of the country, and therefore
the t'aws affecting them were of the greatest importance,
and. the noble lord averred that those laws were in a
state of the greatest anomaly. The result of this variety
of -districts was a source of the greatest complexity,
whi ch would require almost a lifetime to unravel and de-
ter: nine. With regard to the question of church rates, he
believed the law must soon deal with it, and he was far
fro; a wishing the law should deal with that question in
any niggard spirit. (Hear.) But there was one pecu-
liar grievance under the present system, where the pa-
risleieners saw the rates raised from themselves applied
to churches in another parish, not in their own district,
and with which they had nothing to do. Under the 6th
and 7th Victoria, commonly called Peel's Act, 242
parish es had been created, in which 189 churches had
been built, and he controverted the simple working of
that met with the cumbrous machinery of the Church
Building Commissioners Act, which amounted to 18.
By an act of last session, the duration of these com-
missions was limited to the 26th July, 1856, and
attonipts bad been made to consolidate these acts and
coni'zlnue the powers of those commissioners, but instead
of di ling that, be thought it would be better for the
honed to repeal the 18 acts alluded to and the commis-
sion ibe allowed to terminate, and any property they may
have vested in the Ecclesiastical Commission for Eng-
land, and extend the powers of Peel's Act as far as ne-
cesaary to continue the subdivision of parishes to the ex-
tent required. It was all very well to make parishes
and build churches, but it was also necessary they should
be endowed.

(LEFT SITTING.)

L.A. W INTELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

(Sitting& at Guildhall, before Lord Justice Campbell and

a Special Jury.)

VAN "WAGENINGEN AND ANOTHER V. MARSLURLE AND

ANOTHER.

This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, ship-
owners of Holland, to recover damages from the de:
fen. cants, Australian agents of this city, for an alleged
breach of charter party. It appeared that in March.
1354, the defendants' chartered the plaintiffs' ship, tl'e
Osiris, at 51. per ton for a voyage to Australia, she being
at the time discharging her cargo at Dort. She was
to be surveyed and got ready for sea with all
possible despatch, coming to London to ship her par.
senge re. She did not arttive at the London Docks until
August, when the defendants refused to take her be.
cause, as they alleged, all possible despatch had not been
used to get her ready. Freights having gone down the
defeneants, however, afterwards chartered her without
prejudice to the first charter, for which they gave 4/.
per ton, instead of 51. The action was for the differerce
of amount.

The case was proceeding when our report left.

COMMON PLEAS;
(Before Lord C. J. Jervis.)
The court sat this morning at Guildhall, for the dis-
posal of common jury cases; but the whole list only
occupied the attention of the learned. judge for a short
time, and the court rose at an early hour.