The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-05 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

WORCESTER RACES.

THIS DAY.

(By Electric Telegraph. )
SELLING STAKES.

Theorene
Priam the Third

Nine ran.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(THIS EVENING.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wool-
sack at 5 o'clock.

The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH called the attention
of the Government to a statement which had lately ap-
peared in the public papers of the death of Sheik Ali
Hossian, who had been one of the chief witnesses against
AU Morad. This person on his deathbed, it was said,
had confessed that all the evidence he had given against
Ali Morad was false, and had been given for the pur-
pose of revenge. He wished that the Government
should inquire into the truth of that statement, and if
it should turn 'out to be true to take into their consi-
deration how far it affected the value of all the testimony
given against Ali Morad.
Earl GRANVILLE said the Government had no of-
ficial knowledge of the circumstances.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH then laid on the
table a bill to comprise one of the clauses of the India
Bill now in the other house, empowering the East India
Company to increase the number of their European
forces from 12,200 to 20,000 men. His object for
introducing this in the form of a separate bill, was that
it might pass into law six or eight weeks sooner than it
otherwise would if it came up from the other house only
as one of the clauses of the India Bill.
The bill was then read a first time.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Brad-
ford, praying for amendment of the bankruptcy laws.
CORK AND BANDON RAILWAY BILL.

The Earl of BANDON moved the second reading of
this bill.

Lord REDESDALE opposed the motion.
Lord STANLEY of Alderley supported the second
reading.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE and the Earl of WICK-
LOW also supported the second reading.
Their lordships then divided, when there appeared—
For the second reading 29
Against it

Majority l7
The bill was then read a second time, and ordered to
be committed.

JUVENILE MENDICANCY BILL.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved that their lord-
ships do go into committee on this bill, and was
[LEFT SPEAKING 1

HOUSE OF COMMONS—{THIS DAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
—The Llanelly Railway and Dock (No. 2), South Devon
and Tavistock Railway, and South Staffordshire Rail-
way.

The reports upon the following bills were considered'
and agreed to :—The Cotham's Estate, Moore's (Brown's
Trustees) Estate, and Chard Railway.

PETITIONS,

Mr. MIALL presented petitions from Rochdale, Old-
ham, and other places, in favour of the limitation of
factory labour to ten hours.

Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from a
medical society in Lancashire, in favour of medical
reform.

Mr. BROCKLEHURST presented a petition against
the Registration of Assurances Bill from a bank at
Macclesfield, and gave notice that he would move that
it be referred to the select committee. He also pre-
sented a petition from that town, praying that intoxicat-
ing liquors should not be sold on the Sabbath.

Si: J. WALMSLEY presented a petition from
Loughborough praying that Parliamentary representa-
tion be given to that town.
Several petitions were presented against the Registra-
tion of Assurances Ral.

Sir J. WALMSLEY presented two petitions from
Lancashire in favour of the People's charter.

NEW WRIT.

On the motion of Mr. HAYTER a new writ was
issued for North Derbyshire, in the room of Mr. Wm.
Evans, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.

MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL.

The house then went into committee upon this bill.
Clauses up to 28 inclusive were agreed to after several
desultory discussions.

On clause 29, which provides that British vessels may
be navigated wholly by foreigners,
Captain SCOBELL moved the omission of the clause.
This, he said, was a national question, and struck
at the root of our maritime power. The right honour-
able gentleman the President of the Board of Trade
might tell them that this clause was the summit of
free trade, but he denied that this had anything
to do with the question of free trade at at all. The
repeal of the Navigation Laws was said to be the summit
of free trade, but when that was passed the Government
did not propose the repeal of these manning clauses.
If this clause passed, and it it were declared allowable
for the master, mates, and men of a British vessel to be
foreigners, he should propose another clause that every
morning the crew of every vessel should sing " Rule Bri-
tannia,' and that the captain should accompany them
on the French horn, and the mate on the German flute.
He knew that there were numbers of our seamen in the
different ports who had resolved that if this law passed
they would take their services to the navy of the United
States. He was convinced that the operation of this
clause would be most injurious to the interest of the
shipowners themselves, and he appealed to them
not to support it. The circumstances of Europe
just now were not favourable for any step which
tended to destroy or undermine our reserve of
seamen. The Government was preparing on all
sides against the dangers which they apprehended,
but if that danger were real, they were by this
clause undermining the best security of the nation.
It was downright madness, and as a lunacy bill was pas-
sing through the house, he hoped a word would be pro-
vided for the President of the Board of Irade, for if he
really were sincere, and believed he was doing right,
he deserved to be sent there. At the pre-
sent moment, there were numbers of English seamen
in the mercantile marine who had obtained American
protections, so that if we issued impressment warrants
they could not be taken. The whole weight of authority
was against this iclause, and he could go on quot-
ing all day from the opinions of most eminent men
professional and otherwise, against the principle. He
believed if this clause were passed it would inflct a vital
stab to the present general and universal custom.
Mr. LA_BOUCHERE opposed the clause.
Mr. CARDWELL supported the clause, but four
o'clock arriving the chairman left the chair and the
house adjourned until six o'clock.

The house resumed at six o'clock.
PETITIONS.

Mr. CAYLEY presented a petition from Pickering
against the Savings' Bank Bill ; also several petitions
from Yorkshire in favour of the limitation of hours of
labour in factories.

Mr. W. J. FOX presented several petitions against
the Education Bill.

Mr. PHILLIMORE presented a petition from two
native Indian merchants, complaining of certain griev-
ances connected with the East India Company, and
praying for redress. The hon. member gave notice that
he would call the attention of the house to the petition
on the motion for going into committee of supply.
Mr. COBBETT presented 58 petitions from different
parts of the country in favour of a ten hours' factory
bill, and of several restrictions in the employment of
motive power.
Mr. NEWDEGATE presented a considerable num-
ber of petitions to the same effect.
(LEFT BITTING.)

TnE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 2.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. James M.
Tarleton as Consul at Melbourne for the United States of
America.

ADMIRALTY, JUNE 30.

Corps of Royal Marines— Gentleman Cadet Charles
James Dundas Napier to be Second Lieutenant.
'Gentleman Cadet Wingrove Laugharne Tilunouth to be
Second Lieutenant.