The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-25 00:00:00

EPSOM RACES.

(THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.)

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)

The Denbies Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added, for
three year olds and upwards. Heats, the last mile
and a quarter of the new Derby course.
The first was a dead heat
Racing.)eatbetwen Mignon and Pi-
mento; the second heat was won by Pimento.
OAKS BETTING.
5 to 2 agst Wiasma.
5 to 1 agst Cymba
5 to 1 agst Do-it-again
7 to 1 agst Attraction
14 to 1 agst lodine
14 to 1 agst Queen of the May
14 to 1 agst Tisiphone
15 to 1 agst Aspssia
15 to 1 agst Astrtea
15 to 1 Prairie Bird
17 to 1 agst Miss Lydia filly

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

GROUP I.—WATERFORD AND KILKENNY RAILWAY
AcTAMENDMENT.—PreambIe proved and clauses
agreed to.
DRUMPELLER. Preamble passed and clauses
agreed to.
ABERDEEN.—The object of this Bill was to raise ad-
ditional capital. Preamble passed and clauses agreed to.
ARBROATH AND FORFAR.—This was a similar Bill.
Preamble passed and clauses agreed to.
EAST ANGLIAN.—This Bill was to extend the time
the Ely and Huntingdon line. Preamble
GROUP IL—SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER.—The
palnedtinclgauses agreed to.
fCPorer:conadmittee passed; the above company's Bill for improv-
ing their Humber Ferries, but deferred the clauses.
GROUP Ia—NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE.—The object
of this Bill is to, deviate the line at Wellington. Case
opened and evidence taken.
unour IV.—This group, which embraces the im-
portant question of the gauges, and the Birmingham and
Oxford dispute, met and adjourned again till Monday.
GROUP V.—NEWPORT AND PONTYPOOL.--Cl5O fur-
ther heard.

GROUP VI.—GREAT WESTERN.--Engineering evi-
dence taken in favour of the above company's Bill fur
making a line from Slough to Windsor.
GROUP IX.—LONDONDERRY AND COLERAINE.-
Clauses passed, and Bill ordered to be reported.
NEWRY AND ENNIBKILLEIsT.—PTOR3Oter'S CRBO closed,
and opposition of the Marquis of Downshire heard.
GROUP X.—DUNDEE AND PERM—The case of
the above compaey's Bill, to form a junction through
Dundee with the Arbroath line, was closed, but the
Committee postponed its decision.
GROUP XIV.—PAISLEY, BA.RRUEAD, AND HIIRLET.
—Case opened, and evidence heard in its favour.

ELECTIGN COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)

LEICESTER.

The evidence and arguments upon the application of
the petitioners for leave to amend the recognizances,
were resumed, and ultimately the Committee acceded
to the application.
The recognizances having been accordingly amended,
Mr. B. ANDREWS proceeded to open the case of the
petitioners, who sought to void the election, ou the
ground that it was carried by gross bribery and corrup-
tion. The bribery consisted of sums paid to various
voters for the services which were due from a former
election; while previous voters who had no claims of that
nature were presented with sums varying from 10s.
to 285., or received a gift of some necessary article
of dress. The parties who committed the bribery
would be proved beyond all doubt to have been
the agents of the two sitting Members, and when the
Committee had heard the evidence, he was sure they
would have, no difficulty in granting the prayer of the
petitioners.

After the examination of one or two witnesses, the
Committee adjourned till to-morrow.

CHELTENHAM.

An objection was taken: by Mr. WHEATLEY on be-
half of the sitting Member, Sir William Jones, to the ap-
pearance of the petitioner, on the ground that the recog-
nizances wero invalid, the petitioners being bound for
the penalty of 1,0001. only jointly instead of jointly and
severally. The objection gave rise to a lengthened ar-
gument, and at its close the Committee adjourned their
decision till to-morrow.

DUBLIN.
The General Committee of Elections met this after-
noon and appointed the following Members to try the
merits of the petitions presented against Mr. Reynolds's
return for the city of liublin:—The Marquis of Granby,
Mr. M. Baines,: Mr. Sotheron, Mr. J. Bright, and
Lord Robert Grosvenor (Chairman).

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS _EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the
Woolsack at Five o'clock.
The Earl of ERNE presented a petition from the
Protestant inhabitants of Balieborough against the
National system of education in Ireland; also from
the guardians of Lenniskea against the mode of
assessment to the poor-rate in Ireland.
Lord REOESDALE presented several petitions
against Jewish emancipation.
The Earl of FORTESCUE presented several
petitions in favour of Jewish emancipation.
The Earl of RADNOR and Earl GREY presented
several petitions with a similar prayer.
Lord STANLEY presented several petitions from
the clergy of various dioceses against Jewish eman-
cipation.
The Earl of GALLOWAY presented a petition
from the General Assembly of the Church of Scot-
land against the Jewish Emancipation Bill. He cor-
dially concurred in the prayer of the petition, and he
believed that the Bill was uncalled for.
The Earl of ROSEBERRY presented a petition
in favour of the Bill fur altering the Law of Entail in
Scotland.

tol
him, a c caonan t
he o
ordered
SPAlN.asked
Lord STANLEYwhether it was the in-
tention of her Majesty's Ministers to submit to Par-
liament
af .rdereel to leave that Court ?
the circumstances under
which our Minister at Madrid had had his passports
furnished
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE
were in course of preparation, and i
said those papers
ul u
t was the anxious
desire of the Foreign Secretary to lay them before
Parliament to-morrow if possible, or at all events at
the next sitting of the House.
Lord BROUGHAM wished to drag attention to
a late pretended speech of M. Lamartine, which
stated that the principle of the French Govern-
ment was to assist and help any people 4
to attainf what
they called their rights, and that an army 30,000
men was assembled, to be increased to 60,000 en
to assist the rebels of Italy against Austria. mHaj
his Noble Friend received any account of the speech?
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE had no know-
ledge of the speech alluded to, except what he had
derived from the public papers. A dispatch had been
received from our Ambassador in France
this morning
in which no mention was made of the speech alluded to.
JEWISH DISABILITIES REMOVAL BILL.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE then rose to
move the second reading of the Jewish Disabilities
Removal Bill. It was contrary to the spirit of our
constitution to admit
fo the principle of exclusion, an
td
therefore it was r t who sought
exclude their fellow-subjects from the benefits
of the constitution to prove the necessity for
that exclusion. From the time of Magna Charta to
the days of Queen Elizabeth, there had been no ex-
clusion of any person from the benefits of the consti-
tution. In the time of Elizabeth an act was passed ex.
cludidg Popish recusants, and in the time of James 1.,
immediately after the Gunpowder Plot,
would when it
bind
was
considered that no ordinary oaths
Catholics, an Act was passed against Popish recu-
sants, in which it was enacted that the person the oath
should declare his allegiance to the Sovereign
upon the true faith of a Christian this was aimed,
not at bad religionists, but at bad subjects; and those
were the words, and those were the only words which
excluded the Jews from Parliament.
(LEFT SPEAXING.)
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HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.
Mr. MILNER took the oaths and his seat for the city
of York, in the room of Mr. Redhead Yorke, de-
ceased.
THIRD READINGS.
Bridge
efollowing Bills were read a third time and
passed :
DLryounlinlk
dedoaDn,ißrercitghFteornr,ya.nd South Coast Railway (London
and New Cross Stations, &c.)
Queenaferry Passage.
SECOND READINGS.
Dundalk, Direct
following Bills were read a second time
Castle Blaney, and Carrickmacross Roads.
_Nantwich and Wheelock Turnpike Road.
South Yorkshire Doncaster and Goole Railway
Amendment (Extension to Penistone and Altera-
tion of Dodwortla Branch).
Mr. H. DRUM MON D presented a petition against
the Scotch Lunatics' Bill, and moved that it be re-
ferred to the Committee ; also a petition from the
Presbytery of Perth against the Diplomatic Relations
with Rome Bill.

Mr. DUNCAN' presented several petitions from
Dundee and other places in Scotland against the
present poor-law.
Lord ASHLEY presented petitions from the Anti-
Slavery Society and others at Bath, against the use of
slave-grown sugar in this country.
Sir J. WALMSLEY presented a petition from
Leicester, signed by 2,800 Odd Fellows, praying that
free and heritable estates might be held by the societies
of Odd Fellows.

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.
Colonel THOMPSON presented a petition signed
by 7,315 persons, from Bradford, complaining of the
increased expenditure of the country in a time of
unusual distress, but protesting against the slightest
leaning to disorder and violence; and in favour of
universal suffrage, vote by ballot, equal electoral
districts, and no property qualification and payment
of Members of Parliament, shorter Parliaments, and
a direct system of taxation. The petitioners stated
that although Bradford was exceedingly full of Char-
tists, they disclaimed any connexion with them. The
Hun. Member presented a similar petition front the
Chartist Union in the metropolis.
Mr. SMITH presented a petition from Dunferm-
line in favour of Parliamentary Reform.
HEALTH OF TOWNS.

Dr. BOWRING presented a petition from Bir-
mingham in favour of some sanitary measure to im-
prove the condition of the poorer classes, and in
favour of the abolition of the window-tax.

Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition praying the
House to pass a measure to enable the members of
the Free Church of Scotland to obtain sites for
churches.