The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-09 00:00:00

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EMPEROR'S PLATE.
Won by a neck.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

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

Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the
omnibus and hackney carriage proprietors, praying that
power of appeal be given by the Hackney Carriage Bill
against the decision of the Commissioners of Police.

Lord CAMPBELL said he was opposed to the prayer
of the petition, because he thought the Commissioners
of Police would exercise the power proposed to be given
to them in a manner beneficial to the public. If an ap-
peal was given, he hoped it would never come to the
Queen's Bench, because he felt himself entirely incom-
petent to decide upon such matters.
Lord BROUGHAM laid a bill on the table to amend
the law with regard to the law of arrestment for debt.
The LORD CHANCELLOR expressed himself fa-
vourable to the principle, but suggested that time should
be given to the large number of persons concerned to con-
sider it.
Lord PANMURE was glad to find that the subject
lad been taken up by the noble and learned lord opposite,
because he thought that the present state of the law had
a great deal to do with the statement which had lately
appeased in the public prints relative to the enormous
.onsumption of spirits in the large towns of Scotland.
The bill was then read a first time.
Lord LYNDHURST presented a petition against the
Charitable Trusts Bill from the Incorporated Law So
ciety.

BURIAL GROUNDS BILL.
The report with amendments on this bill was brought
up and agreed to.
HACKNEY CARRIAGE (METROPOLIS) BILL.
Lord STANLEY of Alderleymoved the second reading
of this bill. The present condition of the hackneycarriages
•f' the metropolis was far below that of all the continental
capitals and many of the provincial towns in this coun-
try. The noble lord entered into a detail of the provi-
sions of the bill, which have been fully laid before the
public in the debates before the House of Commons. The
noble lord gave notice that he should propose a clause to
put a stop to the nuisance of advertising vans. He be-
lieved that a great saving would be effected to the pub-
lic), while the cab proprietors would enjoy a largely ex-
tended traffic.
After a few words from the Earl of WALDEGRAVE and
Lord WYNYORD the bill was read a second time.
CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL.

On the motion of Lord STANLEY of Alderley, this
bill was read a second time.

DRUMMOND'S kDUC DE MELFORT) RESTITU.

TION BILL.
Ou the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, this
bill passed through committee.
The Income Tax Bill was read a first time.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS EVENING.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
Mr. E. DENISON moved that the report from the
select committee on St. Margaret's Church, Westmin-
ster,_ in session 1844, be referred to the committee on
the Westminster Improvements Bill—that the committee
on the Westminster Improvements Bill have power to
report their obserTations thereupon to the house.
Agreed to.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
—Poulnasherry Inclosure ; Rochester Bridge ; South
Eastern Railway (Canterbury and Whitstable, &c.) ;
South Eastern Railway (North Kent Railway to the
Thames, &c.) ; South Eastern Railway (Strood to Maid-
stone) ; Witham Drainage Second District ; East Lon-
don Waterworks.
The report upon the Wimbledon and Croydon Rail-
way Bill was considered, and agreed to.
CLARE ELECTION.
Mr. MILES brought up the report of the committee
on this election, unseating Sir J. F. Fitzgerald and Mr.
Cornelius O'Brien for the county of Clare. The resolu-
tions of the committee have already been published in
The Sun.
Mr. J. D. FITZGERALD moved the issue of a new
writ for the election of the two members in the room of
the members who had been unseated.
Mr. MILES said the feeling of the committee was
that there was no reason at all why the writ should not
be issued, but he thought it would be better to delay it
until the evidence was in the hands of members.
Mr. F. FRENCH considered that there was no earthly
reason why the writ should be postponed.
Mr. WARNER, as one of the members of the com-
mittee, entirely concurred in what had fallen from Mr.
Miles.
Mr. BOUVERIE said it was the usual practice to
issue the writ at once, where the members were not de-
clared guilty of bribery.
The SPEAKER stated that the motion was perfectly
in accordance with the rules of the house. It was only
in cases where bribery had been proved against the
sitting member that seven days' notice of a motion for
issuing a writ was required.
Mr. J. D. FITZGERALD said his object in making
the motion was to prevent the election taking place at
the same time as the assizes in the county. (Hear.)
The motion was then agreed to.
Lord HOTHAM presented several petitions from
Yorkshire and other counties against the Registration
of Assurances Bill.
Mr. PHINN presented a petition from the Catholics
of Bath against the inspection of nunneries.
Mr. MIALL presented several petitions from dis-
senting bodies in Lancashire against the Education Bill.
Mr. E. BALL presented petitions from Cambridge-
shire to the same effect.
Mr. W. J. FOX presented petitions from benefit
societies in Oldham against the Registration of Assur-
rances Bill.
Mr. T. PARKER presented similar petitions from
Preston.
Mr. EWART presented a petition from the colony of
Victoria in favour of the ocean penny postage.
Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition from Manchester,
complaining of the duty imposed on salt imported into
India, and praying that it be admitted either free or at
a nominal rate of duty ; also, several petitions from Kent
in favour of an affirmation being substituted for an oath
in cases where persons had a conscientious objection to
take the latter.
Mr. J. BELL presented a petition from emigrants
about to sail to Australia in favour of the ocean penny
postage.
Several petitions were presented from solicitors and
others against the Registration of Assurances Bill.
Mr. A. PELLATT presented a petition from Egham,
Surrey, against the Government Educational Bill.
Mr. Sergeant MURPHY presented a petition from
Cork, against the inspection of nunneries.
Mr. SPOONER presented a petition from places
in Warwickshire, against the opening the Crystal Palace
on Sundays, against the Maynooth grant, and in favour
of the Combination of Workmen Bill.
Mr. HEYWOOD presented a petition in favour of
granting Parliamentary representation to the University
of London.

Mr. M. CHAMBERS presented a petition from
Greenwich and Deptford, against the opening of the
Crystal Palace on Sundays.
Mr MILES presented several petitions from diffe-
rent places in Somersetshire against the sale of all in-
toxicating liquors on Sunday.
Mr. COWAN presented several petitions from diffe-
rent places in Scotland, in favour of the Affirmation Bill.
Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from Yorkshire
against the Government Scheme of Education.
PETERBOROUGH ELECTION.
On the motion of Mr. K. SEYMER, the evidence
taken before the Peterborough Committee was ordered
to be printed.

CLARECTION.
On the motion of Mr. MILES, the evidence before the
committee on this election was aleo ordered to be
printed.

ASSESSED TAXES.
fora return of the twenty
Mr. PELLATT moved
highest (in amount) contracts of composition for assessed
whether such contracts
taxes under the Act 13
armorial London district ; distinguishinig4 Vic" e• 96, within the
and the number
are renewed contracts orrroiargigiesnalt
setg '
forthcorn -
of servants, four-wheel ca
Glint
horses, dogs, hair powder, and carriages,
pounded for in each contract, under each schbeedari:
in the contract of composition ; and stating
of duty which each party so compounding willelaixna
pay for the number of servants, carriages, horses, have to
hair powder, and armorial bearings, under the n'es,,,,,
duties proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as-
. .1...,5,-------1:4.10, suming that the number of taxable subjects kept and
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31:3 ';,-:.*,-1.•>•, acontra,cts of composition.— Agreed to.
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COUNTY COURT FEES.
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COURT OF EXCHEQUER-(THIS DAY).

(Before Mr. Baron Parke and a Common Jury.)

BATEMAN AND OTHERS V. GREENWOOD AND ANOTHER.

This was an action brought by Messrs. Bateman,
Daniel Bateman, and Samuel Bateman the younger, of
Brighouse, near Bradford, in the County of York, card
makers and manufacturers, against Mr. George Oates
Greenwood, of Keighley, near Bradford, gentleman, for
the recovery of 2661. 18s. 3d., the amount of certain
goods supplied by the plaintiffs to a Mr. Leonard
Greenham, trading under the style of " Leonard Green-
ham and Co."

The plaintiffs relied upon certain agreements between
Mr. Greenwood, the said Leonard Greenham and ano-
ther, by which it was sought by the plaintiffs to establish
that those gentlemen were partners, so as to fix the de-
fendant Greenwood with liability for goods purchased
from the public by Greenham. The arguments relied on
were put in evidence, and at the conclusion of the
plaintiffs' case Mr. Watson, Q.C., as counsel for the
defendant Greenwood, submitted to his lordship that
the agreements did not establish a partnership between
the parties, so as to make the defendant Greenwood
liable for goods purchased by Greenham. In this view
his lordship concurred, observing, at the same time, that
Leonard Greenham had no right, in his purchases of
goods from the public, to have used the name of the
firm of " Leonard Greenham and Co." His lordship
stated that he was clearly of opinion that the plaintiffs
should be nonsuited, and directed a nonsuit accordingly.