The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-15 00:00:00

DANEBURY NURSERY.

Mr. J. B. Starky's Viridis (Salter) 1
Mr. B. Starky's Land Tax (Page) 2
Mr. Saxon's Lady Craven (Sharp) 3

Narino, Golden Leaf, Blinkhoolie, Charles IL,
Prodigal, Harpenden, Phantom Sail, Captain, Rose
N era, and Romney also ran.
Betting-6 to 4on Land Tax, sto 1 agst Blink-
hoolie, 10 to 1 agst Prodigal, 100 to S bar three.
Won by two lengths.

SWEEPSTAKES.

Lambton filly
Usher
Mongrel
Seven ran. Won by a head
WALLOP PLATE.

Cranford
Nailor
Siberia
Won by a length. Seven ran
TROY STAKES.

Hermit
Lady Hester
Julius
HASTINGS PLATE

Masson
Kingsley
Pantaloon
Six ran. Won by three-quarters of a length
WESTMORELAND PLATE.

Lord Ronald
Effervescence
Nukuheva

Five ran. Won by half a length.

CITY BETTING--THIS DAY.
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
sto 1 agst Windham (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst The Primate (taken freely)
10 to 1 agst Red Earl (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst Honesty (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst Miss Ilaworth (taken and off)
10 to 1 agst Zenobia (offered)
14 to 1 agst Caithness (offered)
66 to 1 agst Our Jim (taken)
GOODWOOD STAKES.
10 to lon the field (offered)

IMPERIAL FARLIAUENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—THIS EVENING.
The Loup CuAxcELLou took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

• PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills wer3 read a second tune
Staffordshire Railway, Thorpe :yid Great Claxton Railway
and Pin., and Caleckiniau Railway (Greenock end Grourock
Extension).
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Clare College, Cambridge (Blythe 's Benefaction), British
Gas Company (Staffordshire Potteries), Llynvi Valley and
()galore Railway Companies, North Walsani and Dilhani
Canal, Launceston and South Devzotnon.Riairnlwraroyv,,eGnilasgs'o'tunt
South Western Railway (Ayrshire.ur Borough,lines), Leedsd
Metropolitan District Railway, Presteign,
Chin and
Devonßishop Castle'sEail way, Railway,B ristKol ueanrsbion
Wharf Depot, and Rochdale Water.

gYDMON TON MARRIAGES BILL.
Lord KINGSDOWN introduced a bill to legalise these
marriages, which was now read a first time.
TROYTE'S ESTATE BILL.
The standing order of the house, N 0.113, was considered
and dispensed with, and this bill put through it stages.
[LEFT SITTING.]

HOUSE OF CONiliONS—Tnis EVENING.
The SPEAKER, took the chair at four o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS. --
The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Cork and Youghal Railway, Gaslight and Coke Com-
pany, Gaslight and Coke and City of Lou-
dou Gaslight and Coke Companies, Llantrissant

and Taff Vale Junction Railway, London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway (Chatham Dockyard Branch), Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover Railway (New Lines, &c.)
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway (Various Powers),
North • •British Railway (Glasgow Branches), North
British Railway (New Works, &c.), Pembroke and Tenby
Railway Bill, and Berwickshire Railway Bill.
TEST ABOLITION BILL.
Mr. COLERIDGE said, as a division was proposed to
be taken on the third reading of the bill, he should fix that
stage of the bill for the 3d of July. •
JUDGE LONGFIELD.
Mr. WHITESIDE asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland
whether Judge Longfield bad notified his intention of re-
signing his judicial situation in the Landed Estates Court
and whether any and what changes in the constitution oQ
the Court were contemplated consequent upon such
signatiou.?
Mr. C. FORTESCUE said there had been a corrispon-
deuce between the learned judge and the Govern'aelat, in
which Judge L'..nr,field led them to believe that ,ie Auto('
not long retain his pres-mt crnimnit position. de had not
at present formally resigned his seat on the Lench.
iIANK FAILURES.

Mr. HODGKINSON asked the FW.s,..ient of the Board
of Trade whether, in order to mitigabt the inc.:, venienca
arising from the recent failurL s of banking and
discount companies, her Majesty's Government would
bring in a bill to enable the official liquidators
of such companies, when in course of liquidation under
the Joint Stuck Companies Act, to issue to depositors and,
other creditors certificates of indebtedness, to render such
certificates, and the debts thereby certified, transferable by
endorsement ?
Mr. M. GIBSON said the question was in effectwhether
the Government intended to create a new class of securities
at present unknown to the law. Ile did not think that
any special circumstances had been made out -for special
legislation in favour of banking and finance companies
referred to. Re vas not prepared to bring in any such

BANT.
111 r. GRANT asked thD IS COU
e Chancellor of Exchequer
whether, if the Bank of England were to reduced their
rate of discount below 10 per cent. per annum, the power
granted to them by the Government letter of issuing
larger amount of notes than was iixed upon law would
cease ? -

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said no new
power was granted by the letter. It was merely an en-
gagement on the part of the Government in a certain case
to make application to Parliament. With respect to that
prrt of the question as to whether the contract would re-
main in force, supposing the rate was under 10 per cent.,
he had to say that the latter only applied to matters while
the bank continued to charge 10 per cent. for advances.
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have suffered, especially during this session, for want of a
sufficient number of seats.yd The reason why he put the
question was due to the crowding that had been witnessed
during the last few evenings,roNvvilaiph showed the inade-
quacy of the accommodation
sittings
members in the
Ings in that house.
present limited condition of provided
The house consisted of 658 members, and the sitting acco-
ris as only 300,
tons
modation was put down by some
although he must say he had heard
more correctly, stated at 400. It appeared toas he thought
lous that a body of gentlemen amounting to thiemnridicmbeue-
he had stated should be so inadequately provided for, if
at present a gentleman wished to ensure a seat in that
house on any evening when important business was to be
transacted, he had to come down to the house at about
3 o'clock in the afternoon, and then perchance he might
succeed in his desire. (Hear, hear.) He was sure the
pushing and squeezing that took place on a recent occa-
sion was most disgraceful, as it arose solely on account of
the limited capacity of the house. If the Chinese had
constructed a house just sufficient to accommodate 400
while the actual number requiring sittings was 658, they
would be unwise personages. Yet that was the case in
the Commons House of Parliament of England, where
everything was supposed to be complete and perfect.
He thought the space behind the speaker's
chair offered a ready means of increasing tho
accommodation, and he hoped the right hon. gentleman
would give his best attention to the matter. To put him-
self in order he would conclude with the motion that the
house do now adjourn.
Mr. CRAWFORD protested against the hon. baronet
introducing a matter likely to lead to a debate, and the con-
sequent inconvenience of no less than 22 members who
had matters standing for consideration that evening. Ho
thought it was a needless interruption of business.
Mr. W. COWPER said he should not follow the hon.
baronet into any of the matters he had stated. He had
received no notice that the question would be raised, and
therefore he should confine himself simply to answering
his question. For 18 years there had been no cause of
complaint with respect to the accommadation offered by the
house. The subject had been fully considered when the
house was erected, and therefore ho saw ;no cause to take
the step recommended by the hon. baronet.

Vise;tint CRANBOU'RNE said the unseemly scuffle
which had been witnessed on one or two occasions
of late was a disgrace to Parliament, and he
contended that the convenience of all was the
great object to be obtained. in that house all were
equal, the good speaker and the bad speaker, in fact they
were all on an equality in that house as if they were all
Chancellors of the Exchequer.. (Hear, hear, and laughter.)
He thought the house of Commons was the only legislative
chamber in the world where the total number returned
to participate in the debates were not accommodated with
a seat. He could name places where the members not only
had seats, but separate desks before them, yet the Parlia-
ment of England, numbering 658, assembled in a chamber
in which there was sitting accommodation for only three.
or four hundred. (Hear, bear.)
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said thd
hon. gentleman opposite had a motion on the paper to call
the attention of the_house to the mode in which agricul-
tural statistics relating to cropping were collected in lug-
land. He would answer that by anticipation. He was quite
aware that certain matters in connection with these re-
turns had to be ascertained, as the information could best
be obtained from that source. He might, however, inform
the hon. gentleman that the persons to whom schedules
A and B were confided were not sworn to secrecy as were
those to whom schedule D was entrusted.
ORNING SITTINGS.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
fsohr-tetbgleavtheantotmtoeornoifnhgiesiftotteinogtsiosohotuoldmcoovuemitheenceeit
period of the session had now arrived at which it was de-
-1 sitting
there-
fore etrhe
the
house on Tuesday morning next at 12 o'clock. The business
he would mention later in the evening.
THE LATE JOSEPH HUME.
Mr. EWART moved that an humble address be
presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be
graciously pleased to cause to be placed within the pre-
cincts of this house, a bust, offered by his widow, of t'3°
late Joseph Hume, Esq. ; who for nearly 40 years ably,
laboriousiy, and disinterestedly served his country in the
house of Commons.

[LEFT SPEAKING.]

LONDON GAZE i:TE.—This Evening.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has appointed
the Viscount Hamilton to be a Lord of the Bedchamber to
his Royal Highness, in the room of the Earl of Mount
Edgcurnbc, resigned.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. Julius
Menke as Consul at Hongkong for his Royal Highness the
Graad Duke of -Oldenburg.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has appointed
the Eail of Mount Edgcumbe to be an extra Lord of the
Bedchamber to his Royal Highness.
WAR OFFICE, JUNE 15.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Captain George Reid Lam-
iere, froze the Supernumerary List, to be Captain, vice
E. Bridge, deceased ; Second Captain John Edward
Conies, on the Supernumerary List, to be Captain ;
Second Captain Alexander De Conroy Scott to be Cap-
fain, vice A. B. Fyers, seconded ; Lieutenant Robert
Barton, to be Second Captain, vice Scott.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening.

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