The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-30 00:00:00

VENEZUELA.

The following information will be deemed important by
our commercial readers. It is copiei from the Venezuela
Gazette of the 24th January last, and is official:—

" kEPUBLTC OF VENEZUELA.

" Office of the Secretary of State, Caraccas, Jan. 21.

" His Excellency the President, with the advice of the
Council, granted on the 24. h of December last, the free
importation into the port of Vela of Indian corn, rice, and
every description of pulse (beans, peas, &c.), during the
year 1841, on account of the scarcity of these articles from
the failure of the last harvest.

" On the 9th current, on the application of the autho-
rities of the capital, and in obedience to the same autho-
rity, there was granted, for the period of eight months
From the time of the application, permission to introduce,
free of duty, the same articles into the port of La Guayra.
" And at the request of the authorities of Porto Cabello,
on the 16th of January, the same privilege was granted to
that port, and for the same length of time,"

LAW OF FELONY.
EXPLANATION.
(Presented by the Lord Chancellor on Monday.)
Bill entitled an Act "to remove Doubts as to the Lia-

bility of Lords and Peers of Parliament to Punishment
in certain Cases of Felony."
Whereas doubts have been entertained whether, not-
withstanding the provisions of an Act passed in the ith
and Bth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George
IV. entitled An Act for further improving the Adminis-
tration of Justice in Criminal Cases in England, so much
of an Act passed in tbe Ist year of the reign of his Ma-
jesty King Edward VI., entitled An Act for the Repeal of
certain Statutes concerning Treasons and Felonies, as
enacts " that in all and every case and cases where any of
the King's Majesty's subjects shall and may, upon his
prayer, have the privilege of clergy as a clerk convict that
may make purgation, in all those cases and every of them,
and also in all and every case and cases of felony wherein
the privilege and benefit of clergy is restrained, excepted,
or taken away by this statute or Act (7.tlful murder and
poisoning of malice prepensed only excepted), the Lord
or Lords of the Parliament, a".rd Peer or Peers of the
realm having place and voice in Parliament, shall by vir-
tue of this present Act, of common grace, upon his or
their request or prayer, alleging that he is a lord or peer
of this realm, and elaiming the benefit of this Act, though
he cannot read., without any burning in the band, loss of
inheritance, or corruption of his blood, be adjudged,
deemed., taken, and used, for tbe first time only, to all in-
tents, constructions, and purposes, as a clerk convict, and
shall be in case of a clerk convict which may make purga-
tion, without any further or other benefit or privilege of
clergy to any such lord or peer from thenceforth, at any
time after, for any cause to be allowed, adjudged, or ad-
mitted, any law, statute, usage, custom, or any other thing
to the contrary notwithstanding," may not, for some pur-
poses, still remain in force. Be it, therefore, enacted by
the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the ad-
vice .nd consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by
the authority of the same,
That so much of the said last-mentioned Act as is here-
inbefore recited shall from henceforth be repealed and ut-
terly void, and no longer of any effect; and that every
lord of Parliament or peer of this realm having place and
voice in Parliament, against whom any indictment for
felony may be found, shall plead to such indictment, and
shall upon conviction be liable to the same punishment as
any other of her Majesty'a subjects are or may be liable
upun conviction for such felony, any law or usage to the
contrary in anywise not sithstanding.

PROGRESS of FAT H ER MATHEW.
Father Mathew arrived at Killarney by the mail coach
on Tuesday. He was loudly cheered on his arrival, and
was at once taken up by Mr. Cronin of the Park— who
was then on the spot in his carriage with his lady—they
all three then went to visit our Bishop. The Rev. Gen-
tleman was cheered all along by groups who were on the
streets. About five or six o'clock the same evening the
temperance band left Killarney for Rosabeigh, in Mr.
Finn's long carriage, to be at the Rev. Mr. Carmody's
P. P., to receive Father Mathew, who was to follow them
on the next morning. He passed through here about ten
o'clock, and arrived only in the afternoon at his desti-
nation. He administered the pledge to thousands on
the following day. On Friday he came to Killorglin
where a still greater number awaited him. The zealous
and exemplary Curate there ( Rev. Owen O'Sul-
livan) took the pledge, and almost every one, rich and
poor, in that extensive district. He returned to Killarney
on Saturday morning about ten o'clock. About twelve
o'clock he ascended a platform erected in the market-
square, in front of the principal Temperance room. Soon
atter twelve o'clock the Rev. Gentleman addressed the as-
sembled thousands on the advantages of temperance,
and related many anecdotes in the course of his address,
that were amusing and edifying. Having concluded, he
directed those near the platform who wished to take
the pledge to kneel down, when, to our surprise and
delight, the first person that presented himself was
the Honourable W. Browne, who knelt down where
he had been standing on the front of the plat-
form, and received the pledge from the Reverend
Gentleman's hands. The Rev. Mr. Mathew imme.
diatay took off his own medal and placed it around the
Hon. Gentleman's neck. It would he impossible for me
to describe the effect of this act on the congregated thou-
sands. They were quiet and still as death white the Hon.
Gentleman knelt and was repeating the words, but the
moment he regained his feet—a cheer---loud and deep as
if by a common impulse, broke (ort'a from the assembled
thousands, that rent the air, and three times was it re•
pelted before silence could be ~nforced. Fathew Mathew
continued to administer the pledge until half-past five or
six o'clock p.m., whe:k about five or six thousand persons
had taken it, whea he retired to the hotel, leaning on the
Hon. William Browne (who remained on the front of
the plati;orm the entire day with his medal suspended from
his neck). Fathew Mathew dined at the Park, where
140 was met by our Venerable Bishop, and seve-
ral of the neighbourhood—be sent in the evening for the
Adjutant-General, Mr. Morley, and presented him with
201. for the purpose of buying musical instruments for the
Temperance-room—he has also, I underwent given five
pounds for the poor. He slept at the Park on Saturday
night, and set off for Milltown on Sunday morning,
where be was to preach at twelve o'clock a charity sermon.
I am told that he administered the pledge, after the ser-
mon, to no fewer than seven or eight thousand. He re-
turned to Killarney on Monday, about three o'clock.
P. M., cud again mounted the platform and gave
the pledge to thousands. Very many respectable
persons, both ladies and gentlemen, took it, although on
the previous day they could not bring themselves to do
so. Indeed we have very few now, rich or poor, who
have not taken it. The Rev. Gentleman went in the
evening to Churcbtown, the seat of Sir Arthur Blenner-
basset, where he was engaged to dine and spend the even-
ing. He returned to Finn's Hotel about ten o'clock on
Monday night. He was up at six o'clock on Tuesday
morning. and from that time until the coach from Tralee
for Cork arrived, half-past eight o'clock, a.m., he was as
busy as ever giving the pledge ; scarcely had he time to
take his breakfast. Many hearty blessings he has taken
with him.—Cork Southern Reporter.

BOLTON AND PRESTON RAILWAY.-It is
expected that this line will be opened as far as (Thorley, in the
month of October next. At present passengers are cc,uverd
from Bolton to Rawlinson-bridge, about twq :,lies this side of
Chorley ; and as there is only one line of rails put down, no
more than a single engine is used. Workmen are, however,
actively employed in laying down the second line of rails, and
in matsing the cuttings and erecting the viaducts necessary to
the completion of the railway to Chorley. The scenery along
highly picturesque. Rivington pike and the long chain
connexion with it lie a short distance from the line ;
oitf
which also passes near to Horwich, Blackrod, and Duxbury
Park. Although some inconvenience is now experienced from
the line not being completed to the town of Chorley, yet the
Weekly number of ssengers is very con'iderable, and contin-
ually increasing.
When
completed it will be a powerful com-
petitor of the North Union line, and will doubtless, at no dis-
tant period, lead to the construction of a junction railway,
affording the benefits of modern travelling to the dense popu-
lation of the north-east division of this county.—Manchester
Tunes.

A lady reading a paragraph in one of the papers
that had been extracted from the Literary Gazette, In-
quired of Lord the meaning of the abbreviation at the
end, " Loud. Lit. (Jaz." "It means," replied the noble
dandy, " that London is always lit with gas 1'
By command of his loyal Highness. Prince
Albert, Mr. Dent, of the Strand ,attalided.at Buckingham Palace
on Tuesday, to exhibit and explain his newly patented chrono-
meter and astronomical clock, also Ili! working modals,