The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-14 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS—Tms DAY.
The SPRAirrat took the chair at the usual hour.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills wore read a third time and passed:
—Assam Company ; Kilrush and, Kilkee Railway, and
Poulnashery Reclamation ; Sidmouth and Budloigh Sal-
terton Railway ; and Sidmouth Railway and Harbour.
TESTS ABOLITION (OXFORD) BILL.

Mr. GOSCHEN moved the second reading of this bill,
which he contended was one that would confer great
benefits on a very numerous body of gentlemen. The tests
now in existence he looked upon as quite below the en-
lightenment of the present day, and he thought that
nothing but the greatest good could result from the bill
which he had the honour of introducing. The object
of the bill was to remove all subscription to the 89
Articles, to throw open all academical degrees, without any
test whatever to give a vote in academical affairs, and to
admit all to certain emnluments from which they were at
present virtually altogether excluded. The bill was not to
hand over to the Dissenter the emoluments of the Church
of England, but to throw open to many of them that which
they could not hope to attain under the present system of
tests. He thought handing over and throwing open would
be thought by the majority of the house to mean two
totally distinct things. The great question which they
had now to answer was. whether they were prepared to
maintain that all the emoluments and franchises of the
universities should be retained for one Church which
comprised but half of the population, but out
of this half to those members only who were pre-
pared to take all those complicated tests now in existence.
He thought the greatest good would result to the Estab-
lished Church by the passing of this act, and trusted that
a majority of that house would be of the same opinion.
Mr. DUFF GRANT thought the bill one that ought to
bo generally supported, as it gave to the dissenters from the
Established Church an instalment of their just rights to
the benefits of our universities.

Lord ROBERT CECIL said he did not object to the
bill, because it adopted that which was known as the Cam-
bridge compromise to Dissenters wishing to take the
degree of master of arts, but he objected to it most strongly,
because he considered it would deliver the government of
the universities into the hand of Dissenters. He thought it
of the highest importance that good religion should be
taught at our universities in preference to good classics.
Ho moved that the bill be read a second time that day six
months.

(LEFT SITTING.)

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Brougham.)
IN RE LORD HENRY GORDON.

This bankrupt was described as the Right Hon. Lord
Henry Gordon, of Hampton Court Palace, and also of
King William-street, tobacco and colonial broker, and to-
day was appointed for an audit meeting. The amended
accounts show Dr. to Cr. :—Unsecured £627, creditors hold-
ing security £B2O, less value of security held by them £758,
to rank on the estate £7O, principal debts £6lB. Cr.—By
household furniture £l4O, other property £750, estimated
surplus £192. The bankrupt ascribes his bankruptcy to
the delay he has experienced in procuring the receipts of
his private assets. The expenditure has been at the rate
of £5OO per annum. Amongst the creditors are Messrs.
Coutts and Co., the well-known bankers of the Strand,
who claim £3lO, and hold a lien upon a legacy of £5OO, left
to the bankrupt by the Dowager Lady Amherst. His
lordship has a pension, as captain in the Hon. East India
Company's service, of £l7O par annum, but that is returned
as of no value to this estate. This morning Messrs. Law-
rence, Plows, and Boyer, on behalf of tho creditors, asked
for a day for the declaration of a dividend, and it was
arranged for June 21st.

(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
IN RE C. JOYCE AND CO.-HEAVY FAILURE.

These bankrupts were described as merchants and un-
derwriters, of Moorgate-street and Alexandria. The debts
aro stated to be £320,000, and the assets £120,000, to be
chiefly realised in Egypt. To-day was appointed for the
proof of debts, and several large claims being admitted
assignees were chosen.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBING A COFFEEHOUSE' KEEPER.—Thos. Challenger, a
lad in the employ of Mr. Andrew Scherzer, coffeehouse
keeper, of No. 7, Leicester-street, Regent-street, was
charged before Mr. Mansfield with stealing .£3, the moneys
of his master.

From the evidence of Mrs. Sophie Scherzer, wife of the
prosecutor, it appeared that she gave the prisoner, who
was employed as a porter, three soverigus to pay a butcher's
bill. The prisoner did not come back, and she afterwards
found that he had spent the money in the purchase of a
suit of clothes in Seven Dials.

Elliott, 43 C, said the prisoner admitted stealing and
spending the money.
Mrs. Scherzer said the prisoner was taken into the house
with them out of charity, as ho had no home, and he was
paid three shillings a week with board and lodging, and
was to have had a new suit of clothes given him that very
day, and shortly an increase of wages.
The prisoner pleaded guilty.

Mr. Mansfield said the prisoner was a foolish fellow, as
he had been treated with great kindness. He was now
disgraced and degraded, and all through foolish vanity.
Ho should commit him for a month with hard labour.

Central Criminal Court—This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Befoie Mr. Baron Martin.)
THE FIRE AT MESSRS. BARRY'S WHARF.

The trial of the Messrs. Barry, wharfingers, and three
of their servants, Thom, Amott, and Sedgewick, on a
charge of conspiring to defraud various insurance offices
of certain sums of money' on account of property insured
with them against loss by fire, which property had never
been destroyed. The case, it will be recollected, occupied
a long time at the Mansion-house, the principal witness
being a person whohad been in the employ of the Messrs.
Barry. He said the tallies had been removed from a great
many bales of jute brought by the ship Onward, and sub-
stituting others of a different description.
The case will occupy two or three days. There are no
less than thirteen of the loading counsel engaged in the
trial.

THIRD COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.)

SENDING UNWHOLESOME MEAT TO MARKET.

James Loseby, 33, butcher, was indicted for sending to
Newgate-market 501bs. of pork for sale for human food,
well knowing the same to be unsound and unwholesome.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
The judge sentenced the prisoner to 12 months' im-
prisonment, and to pay a fine of £5O, and not be liberated
from custody until the fine was paid.