The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-06 00:00:00

1:111111) EDITION.

SUS OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

WORCESTER RACES—(This Day.)

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

LADIES' PLATE.

Chanoino.
Sir Edward
Foretop ~, .• • ,
Four ran.
FLYING STAKES.

Miss Julia
Z enobia ..

Curlew

Ten ran.
MADRESFIELD STAKES.

Ladylike

Sloth

Seven ran.
COVENTRY STAKES.

Fairwater
Sporting Life...
Icarus

Twelve ran.
WORCESTER CUP.

Crater

Remunerator
Philomel
Five ran.

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2
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

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

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
Brandon's Estate, Milford Haven Railway and Docks
Amendment, and the Waveney Valley Bills were read a
third time and passed.
JEWS ACT AMENDMENT BILL.
Lord LYNDHURST moved the second reading of this
bill. The motion was put and agreed to.
Several petitions having been presented,
The Earl of MA.LMESBURY expressed some surprise
that the bill of his noble and learned lord had been read a
second time, the more so as it stood at the bottom
of the list of orders for that evening. Several noble
lords had come down to the house, wishing to make some
remarks upon it before it was read a second time.
Lord CHELMSFORD said he certainly wished to offer
a few remarks on the bill previous to its receiving a second
reading.
Lord REDESD ALE said had be beendkin the house he
most certainly should have objected to the alteration of the
orders of the day.
The Earl of STANHOPE thought it was highly incon-
venient that any bill should be taken out of the orders as
they stood on the paper.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said the bill appeared
purely of a formal character, and the second reading had
been taken early in order to accommodate the convenience
of the noble lord. The case was not perhaps strictly
regular, but the anxiety they all felt to oblige the noble and
learned lord, whom they all so much respected, and in
which anxiety he fully shared, had induced him to take
the bill out of is order. (Hear, hear.)
The subject then dropped.
ANSTRUTHER UNION HARBOUR BILL.
This bill passed through committee.
[LETT SITTING.]

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(THIS DAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter past twelve
o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Edinburgh Royal College of Surgeons Bill was read
a third time and passed.
PETITIONS.
Several petitions were presented against the religious
profession clause in the Censes Bill, against the Sunday
Trading Bill, against the extension of the Wine Licenses
Bill to Scotland during the present session of Parliament,
&c.
ANNUITY TAX ABOLITION (EDINBURGH)
BILL.
On the order of the day for going into committee on this
bill,
Mr. HADFIELD said that he would not press the
amendment which stood on the paper, the object of which
was to refer the bill to the examiners of petitions for
private bills, who should report to the house in reference to
the bill. Hei retained, however, the-opinions he had pre-
viously expressed in reference to this measure. The bill
was recommitted on the 28th June, and in its altered term
was in the hands of members only a few days. The fact
was, that the bill was an entirely new bill ; and, although
he might have no locus standi to entitle him to move the
amendment, he considered that the bill should not be pro-
ceeded with this session.
Mr. CAIRD presented a petition from the Town Council
of Edinburgh, against the bill in its altered form, and ap •
pealed to the Lord-Advocate not to press the bill.
The LORD-ADVOCATE said that some explanations
had now become necessary in consequence of a misunder-
standing on the part of hon. members. This bill was
changed in its form at the request of the Town Council who
now petitioned against it. He had introduced a bill in con •
fortuity with that of 1857, and which at the time was ap-
proved of by the Town Council, but they subsequently
altered their opinion, and in order to meet their views he
had propose d that there should be a permanent rate im-
posed. He could not consent to withiraw the bill under
the circumstances.

After some discussion,
The LORD-ADVOCATE said, that in order to termi-
nate this discussion for the present, he would withdraw the
motion for the house going into committee on this bill, and
move that it should resolve into committee on the other
Scotch Bill on the paper.
Ultimately however, the house went into committee on
the bill.
Clause 7 was, after some discussion, agreed to.
Mr. DUNLOP moved the omission a clause 9.
The LO RD-ADVOCATE stated that there was nothing
introduced into the bill in regard to security that was
nit indispensable.
Some discussion ensued, and the amendment was nega-
tived without a division.
The other clauses were agreed to.
➢lr. STIRLING moved an additional clause, to transfer
the patronage from the Town Council of Edinburgh to the
Kirk Session, as in the case of Montrose. He based his
clause on a conviction that the Town Council of Edinburgh
would not exercise the patronage in the most judicious
manner.

The LORD ADVOCATE said that there was a
difference between the case of Montrose and Edinburgh,
as the town council of the former were willing to resign
their patronage to the Kirk Session, if the latter were not
so disposed. lie denied there was any ground for imput-
ing mismanagement to the Town Council of Edinburgh,
and he could not assent to the clause.
Sir J. FERGUSON said he agreed to the abstract prin-
ciple of the amendment, but as it would endanger the pass-
ing of the bill he could not vote for it.
Mr. BLACKBURN strongly advocated the principle
of the amendment, and hoped that an oppartunity of
adopting it would not be lost.
After some discussion the committee divided on the mo-
tion that the clause be read a second time—
Ayes ........

Noes
Majority
The clause was accordingly lost.
Mr. BUCHANAN moved the addition of a clause to the
effect, that the Town Council of Edinburgh should have
the power to sell the patronage.
The Lord AdVocate supported the clause, and Mr. Black-
burn opposed it.
The clause was agreed to without a division, and was
added to the bill.
Mr. MILLER moved the addition of thefollowing :
" The right of patronage or of the presentation of a person
to be minister of the church and parish of North Leith,
heretofore belonging to and exercised:by the ' haill inhabi-
tants' thereof, under the Statute 1606, c. 27, or by any of
them, shall, f om and after the passing of this Act, cease
to be in and belong to the said haill inhabitants,' and
the same is hereby transferred to and vested in the male
persons, being of full age, whose names shall appear on the
valuation roll in force for the time, as proprietors or oc-
cupiers of any lands and heritages situate within the said
parish of North Leith, hereinafter termed ' the heritors,'
and within two months after the passing, the heritors and
male communicants shall meet on such day as shall be
named by the kirk session, of which meeting intimation
shall be made from the pulpit of the said church, and also
by advertisement in three or more newspapers published in
Edinburgh not less than eight days previous to such
meeting ; and it shall be the duty of the session clerk
to cause the necessary intimations to be given, and at the
meeting so to be called the said inheritors and male com-
municants who shall be present thereat, shall by a plurality
of voices elect one of their body to be chairman of
the meeting, with a casting as well as a de-
liberative vote, and shall also elect a clerk of
the meeting, and a committee not to exceed 25 persons, a
majority of whom shall be a quorum, and the committee
shall forthwith proceed to frame regulations as to the time
of calling and holding future meetings of the heritors and
communicants, and of voting thereat, and as to any other
matters or procedure necessary in order to carry
into effect the purposes of this enactment ; and
the regulations so made shall forthwith be published by
advertisement in such newspapers as the committee may
direct, and shall, after such publication, be submitted for
the approval of the Sheriff of Midlothian, and when ap.•
proved by him shall be valid and effectual, and the whole
future procedure shall be regulated thereby; and when any
election of a person to be a minister shall have been made
under the said regulations, it shall be sufficient
that the deed of presentation be subscribed by the chairman
of the meeting at which • he election shall be made, and by
any three members authorised by the meeting to subscribe
the same along with him, and such deed of presentation,
when so subscribed, shall be as valid and effectual as if the
same bad been subscribed by all persons entitled to vote in
such election.
The clause was agreed to and added to the bill.
The preamble, with amendments, was agreed to, and
the chairman was ordered to report the bill.
HERRING FISHERIES (SCOTLAND) BILL.

The hous3 went into committee on this
Several clauses were agreed to, and the chairman r,-
ported progress.
The house suspended its sitting shortly before 4 o'clock.
The house resumed at six o'clock, and was
[l.Err sirriNG.]

Tier Majesty, should the weather prove pro-
pitious, will accompany t tie Prince of Wales to Plymouth,
to be prezcut at his eint,ak kat ion for Canada.
The Stratford-on-Avon and Hatton Railway
will,
it is expected, be orened towards the latter end of this
month, or the beginnimi of August.
WEST MIDLAND RAILWAY—The amalgamation
of the Oxford,Worce.iter,and Wolverhampton, the Newport,
Abergavenny, and Hereford Railway Companies, under
the above title, has come into operation.
WORTHY OF IMITATION.—Mr. Rigby Wason, of
Corwar, has given a silver medal to be shot for annually by
the Cohnonell Volunteer Rifles.
THE BRIGIITON ELECTION.—There are at present
three Liberals in the field for the vacant seat. It is pro-
posed to wait for the address of each candidate before it is
finally determined who is most worthy of support.