The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-03 00:00:00

BRIGHTON RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TECEGBAPIi.)
TRIAL STAKES.
Snowdon Dunhill

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
Sir J. WALMSLEY presented a petition from Lon-
don praying for an alteration of th• law of debtor and
erediter.

SUPPLY.
The committee of supply api einted for to-day was
Postponed until to-morrow.
TAX UPON HORSES AND DOGS.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave
notice that to-morrow he proposed to make certain alte-
rations in the Assessed Taxes Bill with regard to race
horses—horses used for the purpose of husbandry by
parties who were not professional farmers —and to re-
store the tax upon dogs kept by paupers. The pro-
prietor of a race horse would be taxed according to the
largest number of horses that he kept—the number to
be fixed by himself—while with regard to horses which
were used promiscuously by parties who carried on
farming operations, without being professional farmers,
the tax would be commuted for a guinea a year. These
new resolutions would be printed with all the votes.
LAW OF BRIBERY AND TREATING AT
ELECTIONS.
On the question that the order of the day be read,
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said the hon. member for Mid-
!lurst some time ago gave notice of his intention to bring
in a bill to alter and amend the law relating to bribery
and treating at elections. Now, as there was no time
to dispose of such an important and necessary measure
this session, he yet hoped the right hon. gentleman
would lay his bill upon the table before the prorogation,
in order that it might be considered during the recess.
Mr. WALPOLE said the measure which he proposed
to bring in would embrace the three points of bribery,
treating, and intimidation at elections ; and it was in-
tended to make the law respecting those offences more
stringent and explicit. He should have no objection to
kY the bill on the table, and on Thursday or Friday he
would ask for leave to bring it in with a view to its
h hang considered during the recess by both sides of the
ouse.

The house then passed to the orders of the day.
EPISCOPAL AND CAPITULAR ESTATE BILL. '
Oil the motion for the second reading of this bill,
Mr. WIGRAIII pointed out a variety of legal and
technical objections to the bill. He acknowledged that
a necessity existed for legislation on this subject ; but at 8
this period of the session it was perfectly hopeless to
think
of
perfecting an important measure of this nature.
4 commission was now sitting on the subject of colle-
giate and cathedral churches ; and although he did not
object to the principle of the bill, he thought, for the I,
reason he had stated, that it would be better to post-
Pone it until a future session. He should therefore
111" e, as an time this day three m nth that the bill be read a second
s.
INGLIS seconded the amendment, and
e_zplaind that the simple object of the bill was to trans-
t:erStihr eRPr 11,
oPerty of the oldest landowners in the country
to the management of three lay commissioners sitting
In London. All the capitular bodies in the country
that iewed the bill as a measure of injustice, and considering
a commission was now sitting upon this very sub-
teet, and also considering the late period of the session,
e thought it would be better to reject the measure for
the present.
Mr. S. HERBERT believed that the existing system
Wasexcessively faulty, and exposed the dignitaries of the
Church to unjust imputations. He quite agreed, there-
ore, that the subject was one which Parliament ought
to
take up, but he did not think this bill dealt with it in
a.proper manner. He decidedly disapproved of its prin-
elPie, but as it was quite impossible that the Legislature
co°flttlild deal with this question, until it was in possession
e report of the commission now sitting on the sub-
t, he he thought it would be inexpedient to proceed fur-
he with this bill, even supposing that its machinery
Was good. (Hear, hear.)
After a few words from Mr. VERNON,
_ The Marquis of BLANDFORD said, at the present
ftloment he did not purpose to proceed further than ask
re house to affirm the principle of the bill, by passing
eceleSecoild reading, and thus declare its opinion that
management
eiastical property ought to be placed under the
4,anagement of laymen. The salaries of the clergy
ezeuld be made fixed instead of fluctuating, as was the
under the existing system ; and all that he now
called The, 13 the house to do was to affirm this principle.
should
that a commission was now sitting on the subject
cresiaalgnaotteabebayllao:voendinti: ss:oannd in the way of the second
nt.g of this bill, because the subject had already been
lo
uef
t I i'
then and the recommendations
eila!:ucoi
°f delaying
embodied m this bill. Where,
delaying further the settlement of
from the worildl caheree.xi
this
'cibil.seca,:storaiptohl:. ? , r
of temporal estYn't sting system was humiliating to
while this bill would remove them
them from these attendant upon the management
ehsturnitil
Whole, he would
iantfltaheenscaems
;e
and,tie protect
on the
,_ s . , e thought the house would be quite justified in
va sing the second reading.

(LEFT SITTING.)

THE QUARTERLIES.

24e Law Review. No. XXXVI. Scarcely
.11 article. in the present number of the Law
b....bicte but has some interest about it of
4--,;tiliar attraction. Altogether,in.deed, the con-
worthy of a
con-
tents of the current instalment
quarterlyis journal of
teriodical professing to be
aklitiBll and Foreign Jurisprudence.aethree Prominent
l
ehaengst the contributions,,
p Pters of the Treatise .on the Contract of
hattliershi " Further consideration. is given to
)at:.ProPosePel. "Reform of theEcclesiasticalCourts."
"Private Acts of
p,..Blcles this, there is a paper
07,aoient," and another onon" Scotland and Her
4t.'evalices " and another on the " Organisation of
..ue . 3
1337 ..;irvil Service," and another on the treatment,
We le State, of "Vagrant and Criminal Children."
ar-t(lere gratified to observe also, in addition to an
the le 011 " Codification," and a fifth chapter of
141 bkistory of Jurisp ru. ence"— each particu-
-1,-; 3' deserving examination—the proposed Re-
At,rvrt ef the th_ ue Special Committee on " Lawßeporting. '
at meineot e„out.set of this
.lucid and comprehensive. docu-
th' iorcible allusion ismade to the practice adopted
of A e Present period throughout the United States
resjeerlca, where the office of State Reporter is
hltrted
by general law—a practice condemnatory
Ilegli
the strongest manner of our really lamentable.
is gellee in this particular. Regretful mention
thl'lle'cle also of the time when, in our own countdry,_
ciF%9hr°wii appointed official eporters of legal e.
141,1-'8 by letters patent—a custom which, it is
47, eutable to reflect, has long since fallen into
th'netde. It is enough to remember the fact that
oner,,ll,B;w of Property, real and personal, among
brYe :3:8
Oisrganfiosred. the most part " governed
via, t're4dents," to recognise at once the ad-
pre bility of having some authorised and
system of Law Reporting
gisgiT+ated by the wise supervision of the Le-
like.,jireespecially when it is borne in mind,
judi''L.se, as here intimated, that the authority of a
in ,;,,_ela4 decision of the Courts at Westminster-hall,
L '''''etiee at least, equals that of an act of Par-
alnent.
%jinni A truth wholly incontrovertible. It was
of filiY in consequence fof his recognising the force
of what 8 eireunista,nce that Jeremy Bentham spoke
lild,„riL be called " Judge-made laws" when he al -
fretti%.nu° judicial precedents. It must be obvious
ec)ni.74. these considerations, therefore, that thee
in ever whose report is here under notice,,, "if it
Is v ery.
respect justified in declaring that, if
laUrine duty of the State to make the lawo of the
Nvirt,'
,versally known, there can bedn reason
from the
Itenj tile Publication of the law declare
that of sh°llld be less formal and less complet than
the ~,.." the law declared by the Legislature."
officially
anClatifest necessity of a regular and
tewaDilsed system of law reporting. As the ofirsct step
e
Rla,dit,c/s, the adoption of some such
8413.Wet:teail the. appearance of this reeopmtloymrsti
Pointed , ting from the special
nu, -. to:jot el le
tahpe-
-44 rin r. T inqUire into., it by the energetic and
6 i-I aw Amendment Association.

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tsitiTh,e Law Magazine. No. C.—Foremost both in
ou and in interest among the contributions to
is e 441 v Magazine, for the quarter just commenced,_,,
Justiceauelrate biographical paper on " Lord
.Un'eal-
Canapbell." The biography of a biogr _
1...er ! It will be found eminently instructive, and
1-'e all forensic aspirants signally encouraging—
g, as it does, the rise of unaided ability
th "1 the desk of a law-reporter to the bench of
Onatie venerable Judges at Westminster. The trans-
on by genius and labour of a stuff gown
1,4 a robe of ermine and scarlet. An admix-
us's Paper is given later on in the periodical before
hila!, the progress already made in Law Reform,
1, ' ‘ue prospects of its yet further development.
irt_rinfeasional readers will also find matter for peru-
and reflection in the paper given at the close of
he number, on the second report of the Common
w Cormnissionrs.

- • ,vnsa7i's Quarterly Review. No. lIL—It is
'lloouraging to all who are in any way interested in
tePrhats of this description, to observe in BrownsOfl's
Quarter
Review, published originally in America
and reproduced in London by special arrangement
w.itla the editor-proprietor—a steady and prooTes-
",e improvement, Altogethr, the number °here
Buolnitted to our consideration is the best of the
now series yet issued--containing several articles
of Particular interest, and one peculiarly attractive
both in subject and in. treatment. The contribu-
tion iii question is of a biographical kind, relating
to the ancient " Fathers of the Desert—memor-
able ascetics and recluses, like Jerome, and Basil,
alla Gregory Nazianzen. Valuable materials for
ineditation nlay be found, moreover, in the paper
referring to Philoaophical Studies on Ohristianity.