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STAMFORD RACES

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
20 SOVS. SWEEPSTAKES.

Margaretta
Red Rose

ST. LEGER.

Dove
Cock Pheasant

BURGHLEY STAKES.

Chief Justice
Pancake
Allegro

Five ran.
HANDICAP PLATE.

Harmony filly

Cavan

Five ran.

GOODWOOD STAKES.
25 to 1 agst Retail (taken).

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(THIS EVENING.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

The Earl of HARIZOWBY presented petitions from
Hull, and Cowes, Isle of Wight, against the opening of
public-houses on Sundays.

BANKRUPTCY (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, in moving the com-
mittal of this bill explained that its object was to assi-
milate as much as possible the bankruptcy law of Scot-
land with that of England, and to make better provision
for the prevention of fraudulent bankrupts in Scotland.
Lord BROUGHAM did not think that the bill went
to the root of the evil which existed in the Scotch
bankruptcy law. It only applied little provisions to the
great defects in the law, and he was afraid it could not
prevent the practice which now prevailed amongst
Scotch traders, of giving one creditor an unjust prefer-
ence over others. He admitted, however, that the bill
was, on the whole, a step in the right direction, and he
was prepared to give it such attention and support as
the importance of the subject demanded. The noble
lord at some length entered into the minute details of the
law, and was

[LEFT SPEAKING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Lords' amendments to the South-Eastern Rail-
way (Canterbury and Whitstable, &c.), and Great
Western (Henley) Bills were considered and agreed to.
The Hall Dare's Estate, Castlemaine Estuary Recla-
mation, and Poulnasherry Inclosure Bills were read a
third time and passed.
The Jesus College Estate and Sergison's Estate Bills
were read a second time.
A great number of petitions were presented by vari-
ous hon. members in favour of the inspection of nunneries.
THE DIVISION OF LAST NIGHT.
On the orders of the day being read,
Mr. H. BERKELEY complained of the short time
which was allowed between the clearing of the house
and the divisions last night. The bell had only rung a
minute and a half, and it was quite impossible for mem-
bers to reach the house from the library in that time.
The SPEAKER said that the length of time which
elapsed between the putting of the question and the division
depended on the number of strangers present and the
time they took in withdrawing.
EDINBURGH AND CANONGATE ANNUITY
TAX ABOLITION BILL
On the motion for the second reading of this bill,
Mr. MACAULAY presented a petition from 7,000
inhabitants of Edinburgh in favour of the bill.
Mr. J. B. SMITH presented petitions against the
bill.

The LORD-ADVOCATE moved the second reading
of this bill. This tax had been first levied in 1661,
for the support of the town ministers of Edinburgh,
to supply the withdrawal of the revenue of the Bishopric
of Orkney. The tax had, however, led to bickerings
and ill-feeling, and the matter having been considered
by a select committee of the house, they recommended
a settlement of the tax, which was substantially
the same in all its parts as the bill now laid upon the
table of the house. The tax was levied upon house
property, with an exemption of the College of Justice,
the judges, barristers, and attorneys, to the amount of
6 per cent. The number of ministers at the present
time receiving was 18. The proposition of this bill
was to reduce the tax from 6 to 3 per cent., to abolish
the exemption of the College of Justice, and to reduce
the number of ministers from 18 to 15. The tax will be
made a regular municipal tax, and paid into the Conso-
lidated Fund ; and to make up for the reduction of the
tax, the revenue of the Deans of the Chapel Royal which
now amounted to about 1,5001. a year, and were enjoyed
by the Principal and the Profassor of Biblical Criticism
in the university, would be after the death of the pre-
sent holders paid to the account of the tax,
and he believed that in a short time the revenue
would amount to 2,2001. In the meantime, until the
falling in of these Deaneries of the Chapel Royal,
an additional one per cent. would be charged. The
stipend for each minister would be 5001. a year. This
proposition was almost the same as that of the late Go-
vernment, and he hoped the house would pass the bill,
and settle a much-vexed question, which, if not settled,
must inevitably give rise to great agitation and ill feeling.
Mr. J. B. SMITH moved as an amendment that the
bill be read a second time this day six months, on the
ground that it was to impose a tax on dissenters to
support churches which they did not frequent. The
hon. gentleman went into a variety of statistics, to
show that the churches, for the support of which this tax
was to be levied, were empty and unattended, and that
the persons on whom it was levied, really attended other
churches which they supported themselves. He con-
tended that there was no right to appropriate the re-
venues of the deans of the Chapel Royal to the
purpose of supplying the tax ; they were not
ecclesiastical property, though they might have
been so before the abolition of episcopacy, but then
they at once became national property. The
proper way of dealing with this question was to return
to the state of things which existed before the year
1806: to repeal that act, which was obtained by fraud,
and to reduce the number of ministers to six, which was
all that the town of Edinburgh was originally liable to
maintain.
Mr. HADFIELD seconded the amendment. He
condemned the proposed tax as being one for the
maintenance of religious doctrines to which the
majority of the people were opposed ; and he
was satisfied the Government would not obtain
any honour in the country by giving the bill
their countenance. He trusted that so detestable
a bill would not receive the assent of the house.
Mr. MACAULAY supported the bill on the same
principle on which he had voted for the measure for the
reduction of the Irish bishops, and said he should with-
out the smallest apprehension, after voting for the bill,
present himself before his constituents, to whom he owed
as much as any member of the house. The right hon.
gentleman then pointed out the grievances of the inha-
bitants of Edinburgh, which he divided into three
heads--first, that the State had laid on them the charge
of an enormously great Church Establishment ; secondly,
that it had exempted from that charge people who were
best able to bear it ; and thirdly, that it had taken

away those ancient Church lands which ought to
have formed part of the charge ; and said the
remedies which the bill proposed were, first, the
diminution of the number of the clergy ; next,
the abolition of the privileges of the College of
Justice, who were exempted from the tax ; and lastly,
the application of the whole or part of the revenues of
the deaneries of the Chapel Royal. This bill, like every
other, respected existing rights. Indeed, he trusted no
bill would ever be introduced into the house which would
interfere with the vested rights of property. (Cheers.)
The view of those who proposed the bill was that in no
case whatever should a single farthing pass out of the
consolidated fund into the pockets of the ministers
of Edinburgh, and he was ready in committee to
agree to any suggestion for securing that object.
Its principles had been affirmed by three successive
governments, and had been approved of by a committee
which had patiently and deliberately investigated into
the subject. The hon, member who moved the amend-
ment even himself distinctly agreed to all these prin-
ciples. Therefore, for the sake of peace in Edinburgh,
peace in Scotland, and for the sake of the Established
Church, he implored the house not to reject the bill.
It was unnecessary to remind the house what melan-
choly outrages and events had been the consequence of
the tax. Could anything be conceived more pain-
ful than a minister being compelled to call out
soldiers in order to protect himself in attending meetings ?
The unpopularity of the tax differed from that of any
other. There was a great distinction between an unpo-
pular Church and an unpopular army or preventive ser-
vice. A Church which was hated was worse than use-
less, for it existed only to inspire respect, and if it gave
rise to feelings opposite to respect, it bad better not exist
at all. (Cheers.) In conclusion, he again implored the
house not to sanction the support of an useless and unne-
cessary institution by means which could only cause it
to be hated. (Cheers.)
Col. BLAIR opposed the bill, and recommended that
it should be amended so as to be acceptable to the
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Lord SEYMOUR likewise opposed the measure.
He admitted the annuity tax was a grievance, and that
its abolition was desirable ; but the provisions in the
bill were so objectionable that, lie could not give them
his assent. He could not see any reason why the con-
solidated fund should be made liable to the support of
the Church of Edinburgh, which would be the result of
the bill. His other principal objection to the bill was
that it would take away the money which belonged to
the deans of the Chapel Royal. lie conceived that the
real grievance was not the tax itself, which had existed
for 200 years, but that the churches of Edinburgh were
empty, and he recommended that, in order to get rid of
that evil, they should proceed in Edinburgh in the same

way that they did in London, where the useless churches
in the city were removed to neighbourhoods where they
were wanted. He warned the house that if it assented
to the bill, it would impose an annual charge on the
consolidated fund.
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Mr. BOUVERIE did not approve of some of the de-
tails of the bill, but should support the second reading,
considering that it presented the only reasonable chance
of obtaining a fair settlement of the question of the an-
nuity tax.

IVir. JOHN MACGREGOR opposed the bill, because
it would impose a charge on the consolidated fund, and
would occasion even greater discontent than now existed
in Edinburgh.
Mr. E. ELLICE, sen., objected to the second reading
of the bill on the same ground.
Here Sir J. FITZGERALD, the new member for Clare,
was called to the table, and took the oaths and his seat.
Mr. MIALL considered that the real principle of the
bill was to provide for the support of the religion of the
small minority of Edinburgh, by taxing the large ma-
jority which was directly opposed to those more enlight-
ened views with respect to what was right and just be-
tween men and men in affairs purely religious, which
distinguished the present day. The bill was not a set-
tlement of the matter, it would merely delay the incon-
venient pressure of the question from themselves to a
future Parliament, it would settle nothing, but in a dis-
guised form would commit a terrible injustice on the
people of Edinburgh.
Sir A. CAMPBELL stated that it was his intention
to vote against the bill. (Cries of "Divide.")
Mr. COWAN hoped the house would at once come to
a division. (Divide.)
Mr. SCOTT rose to express his reasons for voting
against the bill, but had only spoken five minutes when
four o'clock arrived, when the Speaker left the chair, and
the house stood adjourned until six o'clock.
The SPEAKER resumed the chair at six o'clock.
An HON. MEMBER moved that the house be counted,
and there being only 26 members present, the house
was adjourned until to-morrow at 12 o'clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

(THIS EVENING.)

DOWNING-STREET, JULY 16.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Augustus Grif
fiths, Esq., to be Assistant-Colonial Surveyor for the co,
lony of Sierra Leone.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 18.

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The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Giovanni
Maura as Consul in the Island of New Providence for the
Duke of Parma.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
George Moss as Vice-Consul at St. Helena for the Free
Hanseatic city of Lubeck.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE—JULY 18.

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Royal Regiment of Artillery—Colonel Peter Margetson
Wallace to be Colonel Commandant, vice Major-General
Armstrong, deceased ; Lieutenant-Colonel George Brodie
Fraser to be Colonel, vice Wallace; Brevet-Major John
Hill to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Fraser ; Second Cap-
tain Charles Wright Younghusband to be Captain, vice
Hill ; First Lieutenant Henry Lambert Fulke Greville to
be Second Captain, vice Younghusband, June 21; Second
Lieutenant George Joseph Smart to be First Lieutenant,
vice Greville, July 12.
MEMORANDUM—The dates of the promotion of the un-
dermentioned officers have been altered as follows ; viz. :
First-Lieutenant J. T. B. Browne, to June 21; First-
Lieutenant C. J. Tyler, to June 28.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD-LIEUTENANTS.

East Kent Regiment of Militia.—Lieutenant Richard
Daniel Pennefather, to be Captain, vice Montresor, ap-
pointed to the West Kent Regiment, July 10 ; Lieutenant
Henry Braidley, to be Captain, July 11; Ensign Charles
Castle, to be Lieutenant, vice Pennefather, promoted,
July 9:
Regiment of Royal London Militia—Lieutenant John
Harrison Allan, to be Captain, vice James Beat, resigned,
July 12 ; Lieutenant H. J. Ryde, to be Captain, vice
L. M. Prior, resigned, July 13 ' - Ensign H. M. Kennard,
to be Lieutenant, vice John W. Barton, resigned, July 12 ;
Assistant-Surgeon Henry James to e Lieutenant, vice
James Quallette, retired, July 13 ; Ensign John Britten
to be Lieutenant, vice John Harrison Allan, promoted,
July 18 ; Ensign Wm. Bunco Greenfield to beLieutenant,
vice Henry John Ryde, promoted, July 19.
2d or Edmonton Royal Rifle Regiment of Middlesex
Militia—Samuel Smith Millar, Gent., to be Assistant-
Surgeon.
Royal Monmouth Militia—Major John Francis Vaughan
`,o be Lieutenant-Colonel, July 16.
Yorkshire Hussar Reoiment. of West Riding Yeoman

Cavalry—Lieutenant William Sawrey Morritt to be Cap-
tain, vice Viscount Goderich, resigned ; Cornet the Hon.
Alfred Joseph Stourton to be Lieutenant, vice Merritt,
promoted, May 27 ; the Hon. Robert Neville Lawley to
be Lieutenant, vice Lawley, resigned, July 5.
North Devon Regiment of Mounted Rifles.—Sir Arthur
Chichester, Bart., to be Major, June 23 ; Thomas Mervyn
Bourchier Marshall to be Cornet; Samuel Buckland,
Clerk, to be Chaplain, June 28.
Devon Militia Artillery.—William Borlase Stevens to
be First Lieutenant, June 21.
Ist Devon Regiment of Militia.—Philip neatly Douglas
to be Ensign, June 21; Captain David Rattary, late of the
13th Regiment of Foot, to be Captain, Juno 25.
2d Devon Regiment of Militia—John Walrond Walrond,
Jeffrey John Edwards, Sidney Strode, and Massy Lopes—
to be Captains ; Logan Downes, Robert Shedden Sulyarde
Cary, John Camden Goodzidge, and John Machen—to be
Lieutenants ; Charles Hayne, Charles Augustus Coles, and
Robert Trood—to be Emigns. June 25.
BANKRUPTS.
Benjamin Rolfe and Beaufoy Alfred Moore, tailors,
Sackville-street, Piccadilly, to surrender, July 30, at one,
and September 2, at twelve, at tho Court of Bankruptcy.
Canaan, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; James, Staple-
inn.

George Dexter, corn dealer, Egham, July 28, at one,
and August 27, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bank
ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Patterson, Bouveiie-street ; Wools,Uxbridge.
Joseph Archibald Joyce, merchant, Old Broad-street,
July 28, and August 27, at two, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Canaan, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Heath,
Finsbury.

Henry Austen Driver, stationer, Moormte-street, Aug
2d, at two, and Sept. 6, at one, at the bCourt of Bank
ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court
Hewitt, Nicholas-lane.

Samuel Clarke, hardwareman, Exeter, July 27, at
eleven, and September 1, at one, at the Exeter District
Court. Hirtzell, official assignee, Exeter; Force, Exeter.
Benjamin Clark, dentist, Hyde-park-gardens, Aug. 1, at
two, and Sept. 6, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court ; Taylor, Old
Burlington-street.

William Powis, spinner, Somerset-place, Holton,,
August 1, at one, and August 30, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-
court ; Linklater, Sise-lane. '
Robert Rimmer, builder, Southport and Seaford, Lan-
cashire, August 1 and 23, at eleven, at the Liverpool District
Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Frodsham,
Liverpool; Johnson, Southport.
Ephraim Levy Green, wholesale clothier, Bevis Marks,
City, July 28 and Sept. 2, at half-past one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Sole, Turner, and Turner, Aldermanbury ; Reed,
Langford, and Marsden, Friday-street, Cheapside.
Henry Chown, wine merchant, St. Swithin's-lane, City,
and Croydon, Surrey, Aug. 1, at eleven, and Sept. 6, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official
assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street ; Cooper and
Hodgson, Verulam-buildings, Gray's-inn.