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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 123 1853

a most disgusting process to be performed by the court on
its own members. (Hear, and laughter.)
Mr. OTWAY believed that if the directors had the
selection they would choose the worse for retention. They
had recently chosen a man of no experience at all for the
office of director. , .

Sir J. HOGG said the law gave the choice to the pro-
prietors, and there was no stipulation that only men who
had lived in India should be chosen. On the contrary, it
was the opinion of all the best authorities that it was not
well to have only men who had been residents in India.
After a few observations from Mr. OTwAY and Mr. RICH,
The clause as amended was agreed to.
The house then resumed, and the CHAIRMAN reported
progress and asked leave to sit again.
Mr. BRIGHT asked when the committee would be re-
sumed?

Sir C. WOOD replied, that it would be resumed on
Thursday, after the report on the Succession Duty Bill.
STAMP DUTIES (No. 1) BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
BRECON COLLEGIATE CHURCH BILL.
This bill was also read a third time and passed.
LAND REVENUES BILL.
This bill was likewise read a third time and passed.
COINAGE OFFENCES (COLONIES) BILL.
. .

This bill passed through committee without amendment.
COPIES OF SPECIFICATIONS REPEAL BILL.
This bill went through committee pro formd.
GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH (No. 3) BILL.
Sir W. MOLESWORTH moved the committal of this
bill, the object of which was to carry out the provisional
orders of the Board of Health in such towns as desired to
have the provisions of the Health of Towns Act applied to
them.

Colonel HARCOURT trusted that next year the
General Board of Health would be placed upon a different
footing.
In reply to Mr. EVELYN,
Sir W. MOLESWORTH said, the General Board of
Health did not hold themselves responsible for the defects
in the drainage works which were said to have caused the
.fevers at Croydon.
Mr. EVELYN—The works at Croydon were done under
the orders of the General Board of Health, and they were
held responsible for these works by the inhabitants of
Croydon and other places in Surrey, who regazded with
dismay the probability of similar works being executed
against their desire. (Hear, hear.)
After a short conversation,

The bill passed through committee.
DUBLIN PARLIAMENTARY REGISTRATION.—
PAYMENT OF BARRISTERS.
This bill passed through committee.
NEWPAPER STAMP DUTIES BILL.
The second reading of this bill was postponed until
Thursday next.

WORKS OF DRAINAGE.
Colonel DUNNE moved for a copy of the certificates
appended by the Commisioners of the Board of Works to
the first plans and estimates of the 12 works of drainage
which have been lately submitted to a commission ap-
poiBs3nted by the Treasury minute of the 13th day of July'
1.

The motion was agreed to.
CANTERBITRY WRIT.

Mr. SEYMER moved the further suspension of the
Canterbury writ till the 29th inst. The Canterbury Com-
missioners had concluded their inquiry, and their report
would be forwarded to her Majesty in a day or two. It
was his intention, on the 29th of this month, to put a
question to the noble lord the member for the city of Lon-
don, whether it was his intention to bring forward and
carry through Parliament any measure affecting the city
of Canterbury. Should the noble lord answer in the affirm-
ative, he should move the further suspension of the writ.
Should he reply in the negative, he should then move the
issue of a writ for Canterbury. At this period of the ses-
sion, private legislation was out of the question, and,
therefore, unless the Government were prepared, on seeing
the report of the commission, to bring forward any mea-
sure, he should feel it his duty on that occasion to move
the issue of the writ.
The motion for the further suspension of the writ was
then agreed to.
SUPPRESSION OF BETTING-HOUSES.

The ATTORNEYS GENERAL moved for leave to bring
in a bill for the suppression of betting-houses. The evils
which had arisen from the introduction of these establish-
ments had been perfectly notorious for a long period, but a
difficulty in legislating on the subject arose from the disin-
clination which existed to interfere with that amount of
betting which had long existed legitimately at Tattersall's
and elsewhere in connection with the national sport of horse-
racing. At these houses, however, a new form of betting
was transacted which had been productive of the greatest
evils, and the object of the bill was to suppress them,
without interfering with the betting as carried on under
the old established method. The bill prohibited the opening
of houses for the purposes of betting, inflicting penalties
upon the persons concerned in such establishments ; and in-
asmuch as mischief appeared to arise from the advance of
money in the first instance, in the expectation of receiving
larger slims upon a given contingency, that was forbiden
by the proposed bill. There was not a prison in London,
or an establishment for the reform of offenders from which
abundant and conclusive testimony might not be gathered
of the vast number of persons, especially youthful persons,
who had been led into crime by the dreadful temptations
held mat by betting-houses. (Hear, hear.) From 100 to
150 of these houses existed in the metropolis, and in all
the large towns they existed in considerable numbers. It
had been said that they ought to be licensed by the Go-
vernment, but he thought it would be discreditable to Par-
liament and to the country to do anything of the kind, for
this would only increase the mischief instead of preventing
it. (Hear, hear.) The bill which he now moved for leave
to introduce would, he hoped, have the effect of remedy-
ing the evils so loudly complained of ; but, at all events,
it was the duty of the Legislature to attempt to put an end
to the existing state of things. (Hear, hear.)
The motion was agreed to, and leave was giveneto intro-
duce the bill.

The other orders of the day were then disposed'of, and
the house adjourned at a quarter to two o'clock.

PARLIAMENTARY IIIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—JULY 11.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of
Commons. )
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.

Clause 3 (Her Majesty to appoint of the first directors
for and years). Amendment proposed to leave
out, at the beginning of the clause, the words, " it shall
be lawful for her Majesty, by covenant under the Royal
sign manual," in order to insert the words, " the Court
of Directors of the said Company shall, subject to the
approbation of her Majesty, to be signified in writing by
her Royal sign manual, countersigned by the President
of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India,"
(Mr. Vernon Smith,) instead thereof. Question put,
" That the words proposed to be left out stand part of
the clause." The committee divided—Ayes 193, Noes
111.

MAJORITY—AYES 193.
Acland, Sir T. Gower, F. L. Norreys, Lord
A'Court, C. H. W. Graham, Sir Jas. Norreys, Sir D. J.
Adderley, C. Graham. Lord M.W. O'Brien, P.
Alcock,;Thomas Greene, J. Osborne, Ralph
Anderson, Sir James Greene, T. Otway, A. J.
Bailey, Sir J. Gregson, Samuel Owen, Sir John
Baines, M. T. Greville, Colonel F. Palmer, R.
Barnes, Thomas Grosvenor. Earl Palmerston, Viscount
Bass, M. T. Hadfield, George Patten, J.
Benbow, John Hamilton, Geo. A. Pechell, Sir G.
Bentinck, Lord H. Hanmer, Sir John Peel Frederick
Berkeley Grenville Harcourt, G. G. Peel, Colonel
Bethel', Sir Richard Harcourt, Col. Pellatt, Apsley
Biddulph, R. M. Eastie, Alexander Phillimore, J. G.
Biggs, William Headlam, T. E. Thillimore, R. J.
Bonham-Carter, J. Heard, J, Pigott, F.
Bowyer, George Herbert, H. A. Pilkington, J.
Boyle, Hon. Colonel Herbert, Sidney Ponsonby, Hon. A.
Brand, H. Hervey, Lord Alfred Portman, Hn. W.
Bright, John Heywood, James Price, W.P.
Brocklehurst, John medley, Charles Prime, R.
Brockman, E. D. Horsfall, T. B. Pritchard, J.
Brown, William Howard, Lord E. Ricardo, 0.
Huller, Sir J. Hashes, W. B. Rich, H.
Butler, Charles S. Hutchins, E. Robartes, Thos. J. A.
Byng, Hn. G. Charles Hutt, William Russell, Lord J.
Cardwell, Edward Ingham, R. Russell. F. W.
Caulfield, Col. Jermyn, Earl] Sandars, G..
Cayley, E. S. Johnstone, James Sawle, C. B. G.
[ Challis, Alderman Keating, R. Scobell, Captain
Cheetham, John Keating, H. S. Scully, F.
Child, Smith Keogh, William Scully, V.
Clay, Sir W. ' Kershaw, James Seymour, 11. D.
Cobden, Richard King, P. J. Seymour, W. I)
Cockburn, Sir A. Kinnaird, A. F. Marto, R. D.
Coffin, W. Laffan, R. M. Smith, John B.
Cowper, W. Laing, S. Smyth, It.
Crauihrd, E. Langston, J. H. Stafford, A,
Crossley, Frank Langton, IL G. Stanley, Lord
Currie, Raikes Lascelles, Hon. E Stephenson, Robert
Dalkeith, Earl Lee, W. &BEng, W.
Dashwood, Sir G. Lemon, Sir C. Strutt,E.
Denison, J. E. Lennox, Lord A. Sutton, J. H. M.
Hering, Sir E. Lennox. Lord H. G. Tancred, Henry Wm.
Disraeli, Benjamin Lowe, Robert Traill, G.
Divert, E. Lytton, Sir E. B. Trollope, Sir J.
Drumlanrig, Viscount Mackie, John Vernon, L.
Duncan, G. Macgregor, James Villiers, C. Pelham
Dundas, F. M'Taggart, Sir J. Wall, C. B.
Elcho, LMrd Maguire, J. Walmsley, Sir J.
Esmonde, John Massey, W. Whitbread, Samuel
'redden, M. Matheson, Alex. Wickham, H. W
Fergus, John Manic, Colonel Wilkinson, W. A.
Ferguson, Col. Miall, E. Wilcox, B.
ritzwilliam, G. Mills, T. Williams, William
Foley, J. H. Moffatt, G. Wilson, James
Forster, J. Molesworth, Sir W. Winnington, Sir T.
Fox, R. Monck, Lord Wise, A.
Freestun, Colonel Monsell, William Wood, Sir C.
Fuller, A. E. Moody, C. A. Wrightson, W.
Gardner, Richard Morris, D. Young, Sir John
Gaskell, James M. Mostyn, E. M.
Geacb, Charles Mure, Colonel
Gladstone, William Murrongh, J. P.
Goderich, Viscount Napier, Joseph
Goodman, Sir George Neeld, Joseph

TELLERS.

Ilayter, W. G.
Mulgrave, Earl

MINORITY—NOES, 111.
Aspinall, J. Grey, Sir G. North, Colonel
Baird, James Grogan, E. Pakington, r ir J.
Ball, John. Gwyn, Rowel Parker, It. Townley
Beckett, W. Halsey, Thomas P. Percy, J.
Bentinck, G. P. Banbury, Hon. C. Phillips, John Henry
Beresford, William Thistle, Archibald Holt, P.
Biackett, J. F. Henley, Joseph W. Rushout, Captain
Blair, Colonel P erbert, Sir Thomas Seymour, Lord
Bramston, T. W. Berries, J. C. Smijth, Sir W.
Brooke, Lord Hildyard, Robert C. Smith, M. Tucker
,-rooke, Sir A. B. Hill, Lord A rthtir E. Smollett, A
Bruce, Cumming Hogg, Sir James W. Spooner, Richard
Buck, Lewis W. Hotham, Lord Stanhope, J. B.
Burrell, Sir C. M. Hume, J. Start. H. G.
Burroughes, Henry N Hume, W. Fitzwilliam Taylor, Col.
Clive, Robert Jolliffe, Sir W. (I. H. Thompson, Mr. Ald.
Cole; Henry B. Kelly, Sir F. Tomlin, G.
Corbally, M. E. Kendall, Nicholas Vance, J.
Cotton, W. H. King, J. K. Vane, Lord H.
Crook, Joseph Knight, F. W. Vansittart, G. 11.
Denison, E. Knightley, It. Vernon, G.
Duckworth. SirJ. Lindsay, Colonel Vivian, J. Ennis
Duke, Sir James Lockhart, A. E. Walcot, Adm.
Dunlop, A. Lockhart, W. Walsh, Sir J. B.
East, Sir J. B. Lowther, Captain Warner, Edward
Egerton, Sir P. M`Cann, James Wellesley, Lord C.
Egerton, E.
Ilmrnlieiyam, V,
E. Basil
Maddock, Sir H.' Whiteside, James
Ellice, E. Malin; Richard Whitmore, Henry
Elliot, J. E. Mangles.
mariorib.R,
k.
B,Wlgram, L. T.
Evelyn, W. J.
Gladstone,
Sir W. P.
Captain Mlloawstebirmaya,n D.
Willoughby, Sir H.
John Wodehouse, E.
Ewalt, William
Gore,
W.
Marquis of Mundy William
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Michell,ilonntegso'mi te'r3yi Williamsir
G.
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31ullings J. Randolph Yorke, Eliot T.
TELLERS.
Gretna% G. Baring, T.
Newdegate, C. Smith, It. V

THE BATTLE or CHomlim.—The firing of the great
guns at Chobham has this week been actually heard at
Aylesbury. The distance to Chobham is nearly forty
miles by road, but the direction is round about. A
straight line drawn between Aylesbury and Chobham
cannot be much more than 25 or 30 miles, and exploding
artillery can very easily be heard at that distance.—
finks Advertiser.