The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-15 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

LI VERPOOL RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
BICKERSTAFFE STAKES.

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BENTINCK TESTIMONIAL.
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Antigone
Red Lion

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Miss Sarah filly,

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PRODUCE MATCH.

GRAND STAND PLATE.
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Goorkah has been examined, and pronounced three
years old.

BETTING.
GOODWOOD STAKES.
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

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

Some considerable time was taken up with a discus-
sion on a technical point connected with an Estate Bill,
about which there was a dispute as to whether the
standing orders had been complied with. The point in-
volved in the discussion was of no interest whatever to
the general reader,

Lord BROUGRALAW OF EVIDENCE.
ned of the
which his bill had met withcomplai in another place foreatment the
amendment of the Law of Evidence. The bill was in-
troduced last November, and their lordships gave
it a second reading in March, and referred it to
the select committee. After it came out of that
committee, it was re-considered, and ultimately
passed by their lordships. The principal object of the
bill was to correct an omission in the Law of Evidence
Act, and to enable a husband and wife to give evidence
in civil actions. The bill was sent down to the
other house on the 6th of June, and there it had
slept ever since without any step being taken about it,
thus leaving the circuits to commence without
suitors having the benefit of such an important change
in the law. So far as Scotland was concerned the change
had taken place, having been accomplished by a separate
bill ; and they were now in this anomalous state, that
they had one law of evidence in England and another in
Scotland.

The LORD CHANCELLOR could assure his noble
and learned friend that no one could more regret the
delay which had taken place in the passing of the bill than
he did, but he could at the same time tell his noble and
learned friend that no disrespect was meant to him in
the delay. The Common Law Commissioners de-
voted a good deal of attention last winter and
early in the spring to the mode of procedure in
our courts of law ; and it was at his own re-
commendation that his noble and learned#friend
consented to abandon his measure on the subject, and
confine his bill to evidence given by husband and wife.
It seemed, however, that the Common Law Commission-
ers had prepared a bill which embraced precisely the
same principle, and the delay arose from a desire on the
part of the Government, to inquire fully into the merits of
that measure, which was a bill ofin ore than 200 clauses. He
had, however, recently seen his hon. and learned friend
the Attorney General on the subject of his noble and
learned friend's bill, and he had now reason to hope the
bill would receive the attention of the-other house in the
course of a few days.
Lord CAMPBELL said owing to the want of this
bill there had been a failure of justice in many cases, and
he was glad to hear that there was now a disposition to
press it forward elsewhere.

- The subject then dropped.
PRIVATE BILLS.
A number of private bills were then read a third time
and passed, including the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee
Railway, the Tralee and Killarney Railway, Edinburgh
and Glasgow Railway, Forth and Clyde Junction Rail-
way, and the St. Ives and West Cornwall Junction
Railway Bills.