The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-14 00:00:00

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

ADDITIONAL ARRIVALS.—Snowdon Dunhill, Rosalie,
Cardsharpar, Catharine Parr, Happy Joe, Haricot,
Surveyor, Diligent, Monitress, The Sutler, Nancy Mar-
tinson.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF LORDS--(THIS EVENING.)
The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the
following bills :—The Consolidated Fund (4,000,0001.) ;
the Burghs (Scotland) ; the Sheriff and Commissary
Courts (Berwickshire) ; the County Election Polls
(Scotland) ; the Sale of Bullion ; the Aggravated. As-
saults ; the Cardiff Waterworks ; the Sheffield Water-
works ; the Liverpool Borough Court ; the Cambridge
University and Town Waterworks ; the Stockport Im-
provement ; the Brighton, Hooe, and Preston Water-
works ; the Edinburgh High-street and Railway Sta-
tion ' - the Scottish Central Railway; the Midland Rail-
way Act Amendment ; the Blackburn and Layton, with
Warbrick Improvement ; the Wolverhampton Markets
and Fairs, &o.
.

The. Lords Commissioners were—the Lord Chancellor,
the Duke of Argyll, and Lord Stanley of Alderley.
The LoRD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

The Earl of RODEN presented a number of petitions
from the counties of Tyrone and Monaghan praying for
the inspection of nunneries.
Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from Monaghan
against the extension of the income tax to Ireland. The
noble and learned lord said he dissented entirely from
the prayer cf the petition.
The Earl of ABERDEEN presented a petition from
Plymouth in favour of marriage with a deceased wife's
sister.

MR. KEOGH AND THE LATE GOVERNMENT.

The Earl of EGLINTON said, in allusion to a state-
ment made the other night in this house by the noble
duke at the head of the Colonial-office, that he was
authorised by Lord Naas to state that he distinctly and
unequivocally denied ever having offered or having been
authorised to offer office to Mr. Keogh or any of his
political associates.
GREAT EXTRA-MURAL CEMETERY ASSOCIA-

did not think there was sufficient ground for witholding
the writ.
Sir F. THESIGER supported the original motion.
Mr. AGLIONBY said the house had issued a writ in
the Plymouth case, which was parallel to this, and he
could see no reason for withholding the writ in the
present instance.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE gave it as his opinion that
Harwich was ripe for disfranchisement, and, therefore,
he recommended the house to pursue an half measure
but disfranchise the borough. at once, as it must come to
that at last. •
Mr. MASSEY said it would be unconstitutional to
issue the writ without previously inquiring into the co.r-
rapt bargain upon which it was alleged the late member
was retained for Harwich.

Sir R. H. INGLIS argued that the house had no
right to withhold the writ, because the committee which
had already sat upon the subject, had reported that no-
thing had come out in evidence to justify the suspension
of the writ. •

Lord J. RUSSELL could not agree with his honour-
able friend that the house had no right to suspend the
writ, because the house had exercised such a right since
the period of the revolution.. However, the question
which the house had now to decide was this—ought they
to make Harwich an exception to the other cases which
the house had disposed of this session. The chairman
of the committee which had sat upon the petition was of
opinion that' nothing had been proved to justify
their withholding the writ, but how was that ? (Hear,
hear.) Why, the witnesses who could have proved
extensive bribery, absconded, and the inquiry was
therefore stifled. That was a strong reason why there
should be a further investigation, and he was ready to
vote either for that inquiry, or for a bill to disfranchise
the borough, which he thought ought to be done for the
sake of the character of the house. (Cheers.) In the
meantime, however, the writ ought to issue.
Mr. WADDINGTON supported the issue of the writ.
[LEFT SITTING.]

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JUNE 13.
This day had audience of her Majesty—Shaffee Khan,
to deliver his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary from the Shah of Persia ' • and the
Count de Vitzthum, to deliver his credentials as Minister
Resident from the King of Saxony ; to -which audiences
they were respectively introduced by the Right Hon. the
Earl of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty's Principal Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Major-
General the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., Master of the
Ceremonies.