The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-01 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

TATTERSALL'S.
(THIS EVENING.)
BRIGHTON STAKES.
sto 2 agst Adine (taken).
2to 1 agst Pantomime (taken).
3td 1 agst Jouvence.

ST. LEGER.
sto 4on West Australian (taken).
DERBY.
25 to 1 agst Boiardo (taken).
25 to 1 agst King ''Tom (taken).
30 to 1 agst Alembic (taken).
30 to 1 agst First Lord (taken).

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(THIS EVENING.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
4 at five o'clock.

The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from
a public meeting in Sussex in favour of the repeal of
the malt and hop duties ; also, a petition from a place in
Scotland in favour of the Public Houses (Scotland) Bill.
CONVERSION OF SOUTH SEA STOCK.
Lord ST. LEONARDS complained that the proposi-
tion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer with re-
spect to the Conversion of South Sea Stock, did
not give those facilities to suitors in the Court
of Chancery which they bad a right to expect.
It was said that this measure was brought forward as a
fulfilment of a pledge that had been given to himself, but
it was no such thing, for instead of the measure being a
benefit to the suitors of the Court of Chancery or the
Court of Bankruptcy, he believed it would lead to end-
less litigation, and make the office of solicitor to either
court of more value by many thousands a year than it
had hitherto been.

The Earl of ABERDEEN promised to communicate
with his right hon. friend. the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer on this subject, and if possible the noble and
learned lord's objections should be removed. (Hear,
hear.) He had, however, maintained, and should
continue to maintain the position that their lordships
had no right to after a money bill. It had never been
done since the time of the revolution, and their lord-
ships should pause before they consented to break
through the practice.
The LORD CHANCELLOR explained the course
which had been taken by himself and the other authori-
ties of the Court of Chancery with regard to,the stock
in question. As the matter now stood the parties in-
terested in the stock would, at the proper time,
be entitled to the full amount of their money,
or the option of converting the present stock into a new
three-and-a-quarter per cent. stock.
After a few words from Lord ST. LEONARDS, the
subject dropped.

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.
Lord BROUGHAM claimed the indulgence of their
lordships while he corrected a mistake which the re-
porters had fallen into. In what he said upon the elec-
tion bill he was said to have expressed a hope that the
Government would next, session be ready with a large
measure of reform ; but the fact was he said no such
thing. What he did say was this, that while he ad-
mitted the necessity for some Parliamentary reform,
he expressed a hope that the measure which the
Government intended to bring forward would be ajudi-
ciously framed and well-considered scheme for removing
the evils of the present system, and not large or exten-
sive in its scope.
CASE OF THE BARON DE BODE.

Lord LYNDHURST moved a resolution to the effect
that the claim of the Baron de Bode upon the English
Government, in respect of property confiscated by the
French revolutionary authorities, had been clearly estab-
lished, and recommended itself to the earnest considera-
tion of her Majesty's Government.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at 10 minutes after 12
o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The Lords' amendments to the following bills were
considered and agreed to :—Birkenhead Dock Company ;
Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Railway (Here-
ford, &c.) ; Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Rail-
way (Taff Vale).
The reports upon the following bills were considered
and agreed to, and the bills were ordered to be read a
third time :—Pauncefort Duncombe's Estate ; Ser-
gison's Estate ; South Sea Company's Arrangement and
Trusts.

The following bills were read a second, and ordered
to be committed :—Pidgley's Estate ; Rushbrooke's
Divorce ; Smith's Charity Estate.

CLITHEROE.

Mr. HAMILTON brought up the report of the com-
mittee on the Clitheroe election, unseating Mr. John
Thomas Walshman Aspinall for that borough, but
recommending no suspension of the writ nor any special
inquiry, but suggesting the passing of some act for de-
fining the law with respect to the service of notices on
electors, when a candidate was disqualified to stand for
the representation of any place.
On the motion of the hon. member, the evidence taken
before the committee was ordered to be printed.