The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-08 00:00:00

THE "NO HOUSE."

Mr. COBDEN took the opportunity of this motion
to direct attention to the conduct of one of the door-
keeper's yesterday on the occasion of the " no house."
He with several other hon. members were waiting
in the lobby before four o'clock waiting until the
Chaplan made his exit, but the door-keeper kept the
door closed until the house was counted, and the conse-
quence was, he and others were unable to get admission
in time to make up the number of 40. He complained
also that several members of the Government' exerted
themselves, and even canvassed some of his own friends
to prevent a house being made, which he considered was
highly improper. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. LEWIS did not think that any blame was at-
tributable to the door-keeper, because he distinctly
heard that functionary throw the doors open and say,
" Prayers are over, gentlemen." (Hear, hear.)
Lord D. STUART said the "no house" was caused
by a shabby trick of the Government, and the sooner
such manoeuvres were put a stop to the better. The
noble lord the member for Scarborough persuaded seve-
ral members, in his hearing, not to enter the house, be-
cause it would be inconvenient to the Government,
and that was the reason there was no house. The
fact was the whipper-in of the Government yes-
terday acted as whipper-out. No doubt the
leader of the House of Commons would disavow
these proceedings of his subordinates in the same
way that the Premier had disavowed the sentiments of
the noble lord. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. AGLIONBY said they were making too much of
this matter, and for his part he thought honourable
members themselves were to blame for allowing any one
to whip them out. (A laugh.)
Mr. BROTHERTON denied that any blame attached
to the door-keeper. The fact was, his hon. friend the
member for the West Riding and his friends were loiter-
ing about the lobby when they should have been in
their seats.

Mr. A. PELLATT was one of those who happened
to be in the house when it was counted, and the diffi-
culty that he felt at the time was not being'able to get
old to tell hon. members in the lobby what was going on
The forms of the house, he believed, would not allow a
member to quit the house, when once in, until after it
was counted.

' The SPEAKER said it was the duty of the door-
keeper to keep the door closed while prayers were on,
hut after that the doors were thrown open and kept
so until the close of the pro eedings. It appeared in
this inotance, that the doors were closed during prayers,
but opened immediately afterwards.
The subject then dropped, and the motion for printing
the evidence in the Peterborough election case was
agreed to.
COURT OF COMMON LAW (PLEADING) DILL.
The house then went committee on this bill.
[LEFT SITTING.]

SECONDARIES COURT-(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. Secondary Potter.)
CORDENZEZ V. THE HON. FREDERICK WALPOLE.

This was an action to recover compensation for ser-
vices rendered by the plaintiff as assistant secretary to
the Quartzbnrg Gold Mining and Importing Company,
of which defendant was alleged to be a director.
The defendant pleaded that he was not indebted.

The plaintiff was called and proved that he had been
engaged by Mr. Mettram, the secretary of the company,
and it was endeavoured to be shown that defendant was
one of the directors—that his name appeared in the
prospectus issued by the company, and that he had at-
tended the meeting of the board in the capacity of direc-
tor. To prove the last point the plaintiff was asked
whether he had not entered the minutes of the meetings,
and knew from them that defendant was present as one
of the directors.

The question was objected to.
Plaintiff's attorney then called for the Minute Book,
to produce which notice had been given.
For the defendant, it was urged that the book was
not in his possession, and that secondary evidence ought
not to be admitted. There could be no doubt there had
been such a book, and plaintiff had sworn that it was in
his own handwriting, and he ought to have called upon
the party who had the custody of it to produce it ; but
when produced it might not prove the plaintiff's ap-
pointment or the defendant's liability.
The Learned Secondary concurred, and the plaintiff
elected to be nonsuited.