The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-20 00:00:00

CHURCH RATES.

Mr. R. CLIVE presented a petition from Poole against the
abolition of Church-rates.

Sir G. SINCLAIR presented a similar petition.
Mr. T. DUNCONI BE presented a petition from Colonel
Bradley, stating that he heard of the arrival of Col. Arthur
in this country, and praying for a Committee to enquire into
the allegations of his petition, presented on the 17th of
February.
WOOLLEN TRADE.
Lord NI R PET El presented several petitions from persons
connected with the woollen trade, complaining of the burdens
affecting that branch of commerce by the duties on foreign
wool and olive oil ; and also on the exportation of manufac-
tured woollens. _ _

Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from Salford,
praying for a repeal of the Corn Laws.
Mr. E. J. S ANL EY presented two petitions, praying for
a repeal of the duty on raw Cotton.
Capt POLHILL presented a petition from certain medical
practitioners, praying to be relieved from attendance upon the
poor In workhowes.
The House then adjourned.

EXTRAORDINARY CREATION.—Mr. Crosse has
tent to the ll.istol Institution' an account of his more recent
experiments, which produced the extraordinary results of ap-
thrently mtintsluChtting ineeCts. One of the experiments is
thus described by Mr. Crosse I took a saturated solution
of silicate of potash, and filled a small glass jar with it, into
which I plunged a stout iron wire, connected with the positive
pole of a battery Of tefOnty pairs of cylinders filled with water
alone, and itilmerscd In the game a small coil of silver wire,
edilneted with the negative pule Of the same battery. After
some weeks' silex stirrotinded the iron wire ;
and after a longer period, the milt" Milisldilte tilled up.the coil
of silver wire at the other pole, but in much less qUantity, In
the coursT, of time, one of these insects appeared in the silei
at the negative pale and there are at the present time not
less than three *ell-funned lireciaely similar insects at the, ne-
gative, Anti toreive tit iiid positiie pole—An all fifteen. Each
of them is deeply imbedded in the gelatitiotis silex, the bristles
alone projecting, and the average of then, afti kit half to three
quarters of an inch below the surface of the fiaid.?!
On the 9th ult., Thomas Anderson, Jun., of Riv-
ingtoni aged Add ttierity,llit years, who was labouring under
dh abdreatidn of Inteileß frdnt the dem of a brain fever, left
home, and was not heard of or sear arteteraftls until Wed-
nesdty the Ist inst., when he was discovered in a dying state
in a hay-loft of Mr. Parr, farmer, of Rivington. He was
conveyed home, and on the Saturday following a surgeon
etas called In. The unfortunate man was reduced to a mere
sli.eleton, and his skin Wag marked with spots of a purple
hue. lie died on the Bth init. since his being found, the
man has stated that he slept two days and a night amongst
the gorse bushes on the common. It is supposed that the
only sustenance he had taken was obtained by chewing the
hay around him, for we understand it has all the appearance
of being gnawed by rats where he had been lying.—Man-
cheater Guardian.

LIBEL LAW.—The beauties of the law as applied
to that undefined and undefinable term " libel," have just been
illustrated again in the case of an action brought against a
country contemporary. The plaintiff, it appeared by the evi-
dence, had not been consulted at all upon the matter, but some
attorneys in the borough of Poole had very kindly undertaken
the management of 'the affair, and in their anxiety over his
character, they first brought their action against the writer of
the paragraph, and obtained, at the hands of the Jury, ten
pounds damages; and after taking proceedings against the
proprietor of the paper in which the paragraph first appeared,
they determined (no doubt wisely) to countermand the trial,
and proceed, for the present, only against the ShPrborne
Journal. The cause was heard before Baron Gurney, at Dor-
chester, on Saturday, when the Jury trebled the damages that
had been previously given for the same libel against its author.
EXCLUSIVE DEALING.—" I do voluntarily pro-
mise that I will not receive the addresses of a man who will
not sign the abstinence pledge." " I do voluntarily promise
that I will not pay my addresses to any female who will not sign
the abstinence pledge." The first pledge was signed by 25
females, and the other was signed by 10 males, at the waiters'
tea party, held at the Temperance Hotel, ea Monday evening,
Jan, 9.—Preston Temperance Advocate.