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London, England, 1853-06-28 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

NEWCASTLE RACES.

THIS DAY.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

NORTH DERBY.

Honeydew
Audubon
Lord Fauconberg

Three ran.

QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.)

(Continued from our First Edition.)

TIIE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. MASTERS.

Their lordships adjourned shortly after half-past five
o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS--(THIS DAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.
_ _

Mr. MOWBRAY took the oaths and his seat for Dur-
ham in the room of Lord A. Vane unseated on petition.
The Lords' amendments to the Staines, Woking, and
Wokenham Railway Bill were considered and agreed to.
The Leith Junction' Cutbill's Divorce, South Wales
Railway, Upton St. Leonard's, Londonderry, Ennis-
killen, and Sligo, West London, and Crystal Palace
Bills were read a third time and passed.
The British Electric Telegraph, Chorley Improvement,
Halifax Waterworks Improvement, and Ribble Naviga-
tion Bills were read a third time.
Mr. OLIVEIRA presented four petitions against the
Government Education Bill.
Mr. HINDLEY presented a petition from Walsall,
praying for a system of ocean penny postage.
Mr. MACAULAY presented three petitions from
Edinburgh in favour of the University Tests Bill.
Mr. COWAN presented a petition from the solicitors
of Roxburgh, against the Solicitors• Certificate Duty.
Mr. A. PELLATT presented three petitions against
the Government Education Bill.
Mr. DANBY SEYMOUR presented a petition from
Poole, praying for ocean penny postage.
NATIONAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND.

Mr. WALPOLE asked the Chief Secretary for.
Ire-
land the following questions :—Whether the Commis-
sioners of National Education in Ireland have rejected
or expunged from the list of books to be used in the
National Schools, " The Evidences of Christianity," by
the Archbishop of Dublin ? Whether they have deter-
mined, that, if any child's parent should object to the
use of any single book, it is a sufficient reason for ex-
cluding such book, not from that child only, but from
the whole school ?
Sir J. YOUNG answered the first question in the
affirmative.

SCOTCH UNIVERSITY TEST (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The LORD ADVOCATE, in moving the postpone-
ment of his bill until after the next order of
the day, stated that he intended to propose that
the declaration in future to be required from
professors should be to the effect that they never
would, in the discharge of the duties of the office,
endeavour, either directly or indirectly, to teach or in-
culcate doctrines opposed to the divine authority
of the Holy Scriptures, or the Westminster Confession
of Faith, as ratified by law in the year 1690, and would
never exercise the said office to subvert the Church
of Scotland by law established. (Hear. hear.)
SHERIFFS' COURTS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The house then went into committee on this bill com-
mencing at clause 28.

Mr. —CRAUFURD moved a proviso, extending the
small debt jurisdiction of the courts to 251. instead of to
121. as now proposed.

The LORD ADVOCATE objected to the amend-
ment on the ground that if carried it would be fatal to
all law reform in Scotland.
After a few words from Mr. eI.—ARTERIES,
Mr. HUME supported the amendment. He com-
plained of the narrow views which the Lord-Advocate
took of Scotch law reform. Whatever credit the learned
lord might have as a lawyer, he would get no credit
among the people of Scotland as a law reformer.
Mr. WALPOLE having attended the committee
during the whole of the sitting, was prepared to support
the bill. He should therefore support the amendment.
Mr. S. WORTLEY was favourable to the extension
of summary jurisdiction in the iSheriffs' Courts, but he
thought the constitutional course was to take the bill as
it had been sent down from the Select Committee to
pass it in that shape and see how it would work. As
the committee had repudiated this particular proposition
he should oppose the amendment.
Mr. JN. M'GREGOR supported the bill as it stood.
Mr. COWAN thought the bill as it stood would be a
mighty boon to the people of Scotland, and he should,
therefore, support it.
Mr. A. HASTIE supported the amendment. He
bore testimony to the great attention which had been
paid by the right hon. gentleman the member for Mid-
burst (Mr. Walpole) to this bill while on the select com-
mittee, and he thought the warm thanks of every Scotch
member was due to that right hon. gentleman. (Hear.)
Col. BLAIR defended the opinion of the Select
Committee, and should, therefore, oppose the amend-
ment.

After a few words from Mr. C. Bruce, Mr. Dunlop,
the Lord-Advocate, and Mr. Hume, the committee
divided, when the numbers were—

For the amendment,
Against

14
Majority
68
The proviso was consequently lost, and the clause was
agreed to.

Clauses 29 to 40 were agreed to.
On clause 41,
Mr. HUME moved an amendment to the effect that
no retiring allowance should be given to sheriffs' depute.
After a short discussion the committee divided, when
the numbers were—

For the amendment
Against

............... la
Majority ............................... 65
The amendment was consequently lost, and the clause
was agreed to.
The remaining clauses were then disposed of, and the
house resumed.
The Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod then appeared

The jury found the prisoner guilty, and
Lord Campbell sentenced him to be imprisoned in the
House of Correction for two years.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. WARREN.
This was another prosecution for perjury arising out
of the same committee, the alleged perjury consisting in
the statement that, in the presence of Sir Alex. Cock-
burn, his agents had promised to use their influence to
get the defendant a license for his beer-shop. This was
denied by Sir Alex. Cockburn, and the other gentlemen
present on the occasion ; but as some conversation took
place which was calculated to induce the defendant to
believe that such a promise had been made, the jury,
under the direction of Lord Campbell, found a verdict
of not guilty.

IMPERIAL PARLIAME NT.

HOUSE OF LORDS--(THIS EVENING.)
ROYAL ASSENT.
The Royal assent was given by commission to the fol-
lowing bills :—lncome Tax Bill ; Bail in Error Bill ;
Hackney Carriages Bill ; Drummond's (Duke de Mel-
fort's) Restitution Bill.
Several private bills also received the Royal assent.
The Lords' Commissioners were—the Lord Chancellor,
the Earl of Granville, and Lord Stanley of Alderley.)
Their lordships assembled at 5 o'clock.
Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from Mr.
Birch, of Dublin, complaining of a rule of the Court of
Queen's Bench in Ireland respecting the delivery of an
abstract of the record to the Chief Justice, owing to
which an action he had brought for libel had miscarried,
and praying that some measure might be passed for the
purpose of remedying this grievance. The noble and
learned lord admitted that the case of the peti•
tioner was one of hardship, but said he thought
the inconvenience arising from the rule of the court could
be remedied without legislation.
Lord ST. LEONARDS bore testimony to the learn-
ing and high character of Chief Justice Lefroy.
After some depreciatory remarks from the Earl of
DONOUGIIMORE respecting Mr. Birch, and some ob-
servations in reply from Lord CAMPBELL, the subject
dropped.
The Earl of HARROWBY presented sever al peti-
tions against the opening of the Crystal Palace on
Sundays.
JUVENILE MENDICANCY (No. 2) BILL.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved the second
reading of this bill pro formd, in order that it should be
referred to a committee.
Lord MONTEAGLE protested against the principle
of the bill, which would, he said, enable parents who
wished to get rid of their children to easily effect their
object, for they would have nothing to do but to send
them into the streets to beg and then they could be
taken before a magistrate, who had power to send them
to some reformatory institution.
Lord CAMPBELL thought that, if the bill passed,
it would do more credit to the noble earl than any of
his measures. (Hear.) He was perfectly shocked to
see so many little children begging in the streets and
sweeping dangerous crossings ; and he believed
their mode of life was calculated to make them
become thieves and robbers. (Hear, hear.) He would
even suggest that if the noble earl inserted a clause pre-
venting children under a certain age appearing in the
streets at all he would confer a great benefit upon the
community. (A laugh.)
After some further discussion, the bill was read a
second time.
CHURCH BUILDING ACTS AMENDMENT
BILL.
This bill was read a second time, on the understanding
that the discussion upon it should be taken in com-
mittee.

at the table to summon the House of Common§ to hear
the Royal assent given by commission to certain bills,
for which see Lords' report.
On the return of the Speaker the house adjourned at
quarter past 4 until 6 o'clock.
The house resulted at six o'clock, and was
(LEFT SITTING.)

THE LONDON GAZETTE.
(THIS EVENING.)

(BUCKINGHAM-PALACE, JUNE 24.
This day had audience of the Queen :
His Highness the Prince Lucien Bonaparte, Cousin of
the Emperor of the French. His Highness was accompa-
nied by his Excellency the Count Walewski, Ambassador
front His Imperial Majesty :
To which audience His Highness was introduced by the
Earl of Clarendon, K.G., Her Majesty's Principal Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs.

WHITEHALL, JUNE 28.
The Queen haS been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, nominating and appointing
Edward Smirke, Esq., Vice-Warden of the Stannarios, in
the room of John Lucius Dampier, Esq., deceased.
DOWNING. STREET, JUNE 25.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Joseph Hensley,
Esq., to be her Majesty's Attorney-General, and John
Longworth, Esq., to be -her Majesty's Solicitor-General,
for Prince Edward Island, and George Birnie, Esq., to be
Registrar and Keeper of Plans for that Island.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint John Scott
Bustle, Esq., to be Escribano of the Court of Intendant of
the Island of Trinidad.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Walter
Maynard, Esq., to be a Member of the Council of the island
of Nevis, during the temporary absence of the President
and Senior Member thereof.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Augustus
Douboulay, Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Coun-
cil of the island of Saint Lucia.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint William
Wade West, Esq., to be a Me_nber of the Council of Go-
vernment of the island of Mauritius.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Paul Ivy
Sterling, Esq., to be a Member of the Executive Council,
and Charles Batten Hillier, Esq., to be a Member of the
Legislative Council, of the island of Hong Kong.
Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint James
Robert Longden, Esq., to be a Member of the Executive
Council of the Falkland Islands.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 27.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. J. Lynch
as Consul at Dublin; of Mr. Wm. H. D'Wolff as Consul
at Dundee, and of. Mr. Dennis Mullins as Consul at Cork,
for the United States of America.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Chas.
Stoess as Consul at Liverpool for his Royal Highness the
Prince and Regent of Baden.

WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 18.
Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to command
that her Majesty's 33d Regiment of Foot shall henceforth
bear the name of " The 33d (or the Duke of Wellington's)
Regiment," which hone arable distinction will bo inscribed
on the colours of the regiment.
THE PRINCE OF WALES'S COUNCIL CHAMBER,
SOMERSET-HOUSE, JUNE 24, 1853.
William John Alexander, Esq., one of her Majesty's
counsel, learned in the law, has been appointed Attorney-
General of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in the
room of Edward Smirke, Esq., resigned.
CROWN-OFFICE, JUNE 27, 1853.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PAR-
LIAMENT.
County of Edinburgh.—Wm. Henry Walter Montagu
Douglas Scott, Esq., commonly called Earl of Dalkeith,
in the room of Sir John Hope, Bart., deceased.
City of Peterborough.—George Hammond Walley, Esq.,
the last election for the said city having been declared
void.

JUNE 28.
I City of Durham—John Robert Mowbray, of No. 19,
Cambridge-square, Hyde-park, in the county of Middlesex,
Esq., in the room of Lord Adolphus Frederick Charles
William Vane, whose election for the said city has been
delared void.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD-LIEUTENANTS.
County of Surrey—Major Hillebrant Aferideth Parratt
to be Deputy Lieutenant, June 9; Edward Bray, Esq.,
to be Deputy-Lieutenant, June 14.
Warwickshi re Militia-2d Regiment--Ensigns Beaumont,
Payn, and Leake to be Lieutenants, June 3.
BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
William Underwood, grocer, High-street, Southwark.
BANKRUPTS.
Thomas Chivers, publican, Pavement, Moorfields, to
surrender, July 8, at half-past eleven, and August 12, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official-
assignee, Aldermanbury ; Martineau and Reid, Raymond-
buildings, Gray's-inn.
William Pegler, job master, James-place, Gloucester-
terrace, Paddington, July '7, at half-past two, and August
8, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, offi-
cial assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street ; Turner,
King's-row, i'iralworth.
George Harrison, coal merchant, Maidstone, Kent,
July 11, at two, and August 8, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane ;
Nicholls and Doyle, Verulam-buildings ; Morgan, Maid-
stone.
John Bloomfield, horse dealer, Saxted, Suffolk, July 9,
at twelve, and August 27, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
White and Borritt, Whitehall-place ; Taylor, Norwich.