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London, England, 1856-02-04 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven, o'Clock.

TATTERSALL'S.—(This Evening.)

LIVE EtPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
7 to 1 agst Sir Peter Laurie (taken)
15 to 1 agst Black Swan (taken)
18 to 1 agst Emigrant (taken)
18 to 1 agst Victor Emmanuel
20 to 1 agst Minerva (taken)
TWO THOUSAND.
100 to 8 agst Enchanter (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
15 to 1 agst Yellow Jack (taken)
20 to 1 agst Yorkshire Gray (taken)
25 to 1 agst Epaminondas (taken freely)•
25 to 1 agst Mishap (taken)
'33 to 1 agst Courtenay (taken)
40 to 1 agst Scythian (taken)
50 to 1 aget Sugar Plum (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Warlock (taken)
1000 to 15 aget Cockatoo (taken)
DERBY.
• 700 to 7 aget Artillery (taken)
20 to 1 agst Coroner (taken)
95 to 1 agst Vandermulin (taken)

Offers to talie 10 to 1 about Fly-by• Night.

IMPERIAL PARLIAM ENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(This Evening.)

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
Lord SHAFTESBURY presented petitions from
Coleshill and Maxstoke, against opening the Crystal
Palace on the Lord's-day ; and also one from the latter
place against the abolition of Church Rates.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the
Corporation of Sheffield in favour of the extension of
county courts, and for the reduction of fees paid in tine
said courts. The noble lord said the subject was one of
the greatest impoitance, and he gave notice of his inten-
tion to introduce a bill which would give the power of
appeal in insolvent as well as other cases.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, said a bill was in pre-
paration relative to the subject the noble lord had just
mentioned.

Earl GREY gave notice of his.
.intention to ask the
Minister of War, on au early day, whether he was in a
position t) reconcile the di,erepancy which appeared in
the despatch of Colonel Rose, dated March 25, 1853,
and that of Lord Stratford, in reference to the operations
in the East ?

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE moved for copies
of the papers and correspondence relating to the great
clock and bells fo'r the new Palace at Westminster.
The noble lord proceeded to state the proceedings that
had taken place on the subject, and to condemn the
whole transaction.

The Earl of GRANVILLE had no objection to the
production of the papers, but defended the course pur-
sued by the Chief Commissioner of \Voods and Forests.
He said he believed that before the end of the year the
bells would be chiming.
FALL OF KARS.

The Earl of ELLENTOROUGH asked when the
papers relative to the fall of-Kars would be laid upon
the table of the house?
Earl GRANVILLE said, in the absence of his noble
friend the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, he was unable
to state the exact time when they would be laid on the
table, but that no unnecessary delay would be allowed to
take place.

The Earl of DERBY expressed a hope that the papers
referred to would be placed before them in a regular and
cous?.eutive shape, and that they would not be mixed up
with those of the I;euerat operations of the war.
_ _

Lord WODEHTOUSE said that the Government
would take care to have the papers produced in the most
regular and convenient form.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Evening.)
at ' ' ' -
o'clock. -

NEW MEMBER.
Mr. M'EvoY took the oaths and his Boat for Meath.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The standing orders were declared to have been com-
plied with in the following bills :—Broadstairs Harbour
and Pier ; Isle of Wight Steam Bridge ; London and
North-Western Railway ; Eastern Counties Railway
(Mortgage Debt) ; Ulster Railway North Shields and
Teignmouth Dock; Severn Valley Railway; Glastonbury
Railway ; Cheltenham Gas ; Sleaford and Tattershall
Turnpike Trust ;, West Rani Gas and Coke Company ;
and everal other bills.

Mr. L. DAVIS brought in a bill to make a railway
from Carmarthen to Cardigan.
The following bills were read a first time :—Cork and
Youghal, Dcping Fen Drainage, Eastern Union Rail-
way, Heyworth Gas, Nottingham Gas, Lowestoft Rail-
way, Monmouth Road'; Oxford, Worcester' and Wolver-
hampton Railway ; Yarmouth Railway, Dundee Har-
bour, Scottish Central Rahway, Coventry Gas, Dorset
Central Railway ; Thames, Haven, and Dock Railway ;
Conway Roads, Gloucester Gas, London Dock, Mid-
land Great-Western of Ireland, Luton and Dunstable
Railway, Luton District Roads, Lambeth Water, Nor-
wich Uniin.Lile Assurance, Leicester Roads, Cannock
Mineral Railway, Lincoln Water, Southport Water,
Lancaster .53:615, Salisbury Railway, Celebrooke Roads,
Halifax Roads, Knaresborough and Patley Bridge, Aber-
deen Scottish and Midland ,f unction.
Mr. WILSON PATTEN nominated the following
gentlemen as the Select Committee on Standing Orders :
—Col. W. Patten, Mr. Henley, Mr. S. Estcourt, Mr.
T. Greene, Kr. Deedes, Sir R. Ferguson, Mr. E. Deni-
son, Mr. Wri,;htson, Mr. Brarnston, Mr. Thornely, and
Mr. E. Lockhart. Agreed to.
The same Rox. MEMI3I4IC also nominated the follow-
ing gentlemen aNs the Committee of Selection ;—Mr. S.
Estcourt, Mr. Deedes, Mr. T. Greene, Sir R. Ferguson,
Mr. Bonham-Carter, and the Chairman of the Select
Committee on StrAndin.,c, Orders.—Agreed to.
CHURCH RATES.
Col. GILPIN asked the Home Secretary whether it
was the intention of the Government to bring in a bill
in the present. session for the settlement of the church-
rates question.
Sir G. GREY said the greatest attention bad been
given to the subject, but he could give no distinct as-
surance or pledge on the subject.
NEW PUBLIC ROAD.

Mr. HUTCHINS asked the Secretary of State fcr
the Home Department whether it was the intention of
the Government to nominate a select committee to con-
sider the best mode of establishing a public road be-
tween Pimlico awl Pall-mall.
Sir G. GREY said it was the intention to appoint a
select committee on the subject.
TICKETS OF LEAVE.

Mr. WISE asked the Secretary of State for the Home
Department whether the ticket-of-leave systeua wa3 to
be continued ?

Sir G. GREY Bald it wag not tho intention of Go-
vernment to make any alteration in the act at present.

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.

Mr. JAS. MACGREGOR asked the Vice-President of
the Board of Trade when the report of the officers of that
board upon the circumstances attending the accident
which occurred on the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate
Railway in September last, would be laid on the table.
Mr. LOWE said it should be laid on the table to-
morrow.

ASSAULTS UPON WOMEN:.
Mr. DILLWYN asked the Secretary of S tate for the
Home Department whether theattention of G-overntnent
had been di/ ected. to the insufficiency of the is w as it now
stands to repress violent assaults upon he is
and chil-
dren ; and. whether it was their intention to *propose any
measure to Parliament to amend the law rela Ling to such

offences ;I
Sir G. GREY said the insufficiency of the law bad not
been prwied ; and it was not the intentiot t of Govern
ment to make any alteration in the present law.
COUNTY COURTS.

A.TING asked the Secretaryof Ktate for the
home .Department whether it was the into') tion of her
31„jewt:y's Government to introduce in tho present ses-
sion a uy measure founded upon the. report i )f the cora-
ntissio on county courts?

Sir k T. GREY said a bill wag in proparatia n.
PARTNERSHIP AMENDMENT E ;ILL.

In a swer to an Hoir.
Mr. LONE said if hon. members objected to proceed
with t be two bills which stood on the papa r for next
Wednesday—namely, the Partnership Amend (merit and
the Jo hit-stock Amendment Bills—he should t postpone
the no 3sideration of them till another day.
P., MI: LATE CLERK OF THE HO USE.
Loy Al PALMERSTON gave notice that to -morrow he
ghoul( I. propose a vote of thanks to Mr. Lee, the
late C I erk of the House.
LOCAL DUES ON SHIPPINI.3.
Th,i house resolved itself into a comm)ii tee on this
quest zcin.
LOWE explained this question, wh i eh was both
laws
impoil.",:ant and complex. When the raw ig
were ,vepealed it was necessary they should look into the
cons Rion of the shipowners of the country, , so that that
inter 'est might not be prejudiced by 0-/ laws,
atiou
that might have grown up in the course o.f that time
which they enjoyed protection. 7go greater or
beota vial reform had been effected L than that
rola ,ng to merchant shipping. All 'Ole laws con.