The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-20 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

NOTTINGHAM RACES.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

CHESTERFIELD HANDICAP.
Rotherham
Vindex .

2

Domino .

3

Five ran.
BUNNEY PARK STAKES.

Duet

San Domingo ....
Miss Harkaway .

1

2
3

Cimicina
Nestor ...

Seven ran.
STAND STAKES.

1
2

Le Juif

Ten ran.
PORTLAND HANDICAP.

Saucebox..
Polestar ..

1
2

Fourteen ran.

3

I NIPERIA L PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.--(THIS EVENING.)
The,LOED CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wool-
sack at fire o'clock.

Lord LYNDITEIRST begged to ask a question of the
noble lord on the woolsack with respect to certain mea-
sures of law reform. The noble lord at the latter end of
last se:ision stated his intention of introducing a bill to
alter the law of divorce, and a measure for the purpose
cf transferring from the Ecclesiastical Court to the Court
of Chancery almost all jurisdiction relating to matri-
monial causes. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord had
introduced a bill relating to this subject, but it
was subsequently withdrawn in consequence of some
objection raised to it by a right rev, prelate. The noble
lord bad also introduced the Testamentary Jurisdiction
Bill, which had passed after some discussion, but when
introduced into the other house it was given up. ni
the present session the Lord Chancellor suggested that
the Testamentary Jurisdiction Bid should originate in thii
other hue of Parliament. Isretwitlntanding, Parliament
had met as early as February, the measure was not intro-
duced until close upon the month of May. Several other
law measures promised bad likewise been postponed
until they bad arrived at a period of the session when it
was impossible to pass them. This was a state of things
which he thought demanded explanation. When he
found that such bills, introduced by his noble and
learned friend, as the Registration of Deeds Bill, ob-
jected to in its passage through the House of Commons
by the law officers, he was disposed to think that there
was not a cordial co-operation between the noble and
learned lord on the woolsack and the law officers in the
other house. Not a single Government bill for the pur-
pose of reforming the laws of England had been carried
this session.

The LORD CHANCELLOR observed that when it
was considered that four-fifths of the session were occupied
with questions rel,it:ng to the war, he thought that that fact
was a very good reason why these measures of law reform
alluded to had not been' introduced. IL denied, then,
that there was a waut of co-operation between himself
and the law officers in the other house. Rethought th.t
his noble and learned friend (Lord Lyndhurst) was mis-
taken in 'supposing that the Testamentary Jurisdiction
Bill was delayed this session so late as :May. He
believed it was introduced in March. It was of
course always his wish to consult the law officers
of the Crown in respect to all those measures of
law reform he deemed it necessary to introduce, and to
frame them in such away as would meet with the gene-
ral concurrence. He pleaded not guilty to the charge
of having introduced no measures of importance that
session. He felt that he had introduced a great many
important bills, which he hoped would, become
law in the course of the session. He could not
help thinking that his noble and learned friend
was induced to make those observations because
it was his intention to quit the house for the remainder
Of the session. He was afraid they would have to sit
for three or four weeks longer ; and if his noble and
learned friend had only waited until the end of the ses-
sion, he would be ranch better able'to express an opinion
as to the quantity arid quality of business that had been