The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-29 00:00:00

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

The action Bunn v. illacready, for the assault by the de-
fendant was heard before the Under Sheriff, when a verdict
was returned for the plaintiff.—Damages, 1501.
[The particulars of the evidence we shall give to-morrow.]

Earl Grey, accompanied by one of his daughters,
was among the pedestrians in Hyde-park on Sunday. Few
men, numbering so many years, exhibit less appearance of
age than this venerable Statesman.
The Earl of Lauderdale seems to have retired en-
tirely from public life, being now in his seventy-seventh year.
He constantly resides at Dunbar-house, East Lothian, and
seldom visits Edinburgh.
Lord Brudenell, it is said, intends to proceed over-
land, to join his regiment in the East Indies, by which means
his Lordship will avoid the monotony of a sea voyage, and visit
a country but seldom explored.
The Hon. Mrs. Norton was in the Zoological
Gardens on Sunday last, with her sister, Mrs. Blackwood, and
a large party of fashionables.
Hyde Park, on Sunday, was thronged with pedes-
trians and gazers ; but the show of handsome equipages, as
on every preceding Sunday this season, fell short of what it
used to be.

THE LORDS.—To those who are opposed to organic
changes in the Peerage, it must be gratifying to learn, that the
main resistance to a Liberal Administration in the Upper
House, is found to be among those Peers who hold their seats
there for life or for years; that the majority of English Peers
(hereditary legislators) against the Bill, was not more than
one.seventh ; and that the majority of those English Peers,
whose patent of creation was of a date prior to October, 1760,
was not more than one-fourteenth.

The accounts of the barley crop are, we regret to
learn from all parts, at present very discouraging. The wheats
look remarkably well, and promise to be an average crop.—
Newcastle Journal.

The earliest hay cut in the eastern district of Stir

lingshire, this season, has been at Dorator, well known —for
its luxuriant crops, when upon Wednesday last, about an acre
belonging to Thomas Aitken, Esq., was cut down, of excel-
lent quality both fur strength and thickness, there being not
less than 300 stones from the acre.—Glasgow Courier.

A trout, of the extraordinary dimensions of 1811,-
inches in length, 9} inches over the shoulders, and weighing
211b5., was caught a few days since in the river Wear, about
about a quarter of a mile above Stanhope.—Newcastle Journal.
AN OLD SECT WITH A NEW NAME.—The
votaries of the gin palaces, in consequence of the intense
warmth of their adoration, are denominated " Fire-worshippers.'.
LAUDER.—We regret to have to announce another
failure of the potatoe crop in this part of the country.
M. Lalande, the celebrated naturalist, died two or
three days ago at Calais.

A subscription is on foot for erecting a monument
to the memory of Marshal Mortier, in his native town of Ca-
teau, near Cambray. The name of the King stands at the
head of the list, and is followed by those of all the Ministers.
The Minister of War has granted to the Committee all the
bronze necessary for casting the statue, and the Minister of the
Interior has advanced the sum necessary for forming the pe-
destal. The execution of the statue is entrusted to M. Bra.
In the Creuse, a few days ago, a foolish girl keep-
ing cattle in a pasture, tied two children to a cow's tail. The
animal, annoyed by the weight, set off at full gallop, and the
cries of the children increasing her speed, they were both so
mutilated that one is dead, and the other in a hopeless state.—
French Paper.

The vaccine matter has recently been discovered in
the udder of a cow, at La Hautaye, near Amiens; it has suc-
ceeded very well with a child who has been innoculated by it.

In New York the two main causes of insanity are
found to be fanaticism and drunkenness ; while in Paris, love,
play, and politics are ascertained to be the most inciting ma.
terials of this fearful disease.

Yesterday the sixth maiden session for the precinct
and liberties of the Tower of London, was holden at the Ses-
sion-house, Well-close-square.

Last year Ireland distilled 11,167,580 gallons of
proof spirits, which was nearly equal to the distillation of Eng-
land and Scotland in the same period. Amount of duty pai
on last year's consumption, 1,327,809 for Ireland.