The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-01 00:00:00

JULY.

2. Died at Baden-Baden, the Right Hon. Stephen
Woulle, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland.
3. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort give a grand
fete at Beaufort House, to her Majesty and Prince Albert.
Great fires near Exeter on this and the following
night, by which two lives are lost and forty houses burnt
down. _ _

Her Majesty's ship Blonde, Captain Bourchier, de-
stro) a the batteries and junks of the town of Amoy.
5. The quarterly return of the revenue exhibits an in-
crease on the quarter of 211,6991., and a general increase
on the whole year over that ending July 5, 1839, of 147,4331.

Death of Lord Arden, in the 84th year of his age.
The English expedition, under Admiral Elliott, lands
at Tchusan, after silencing the fire of the forts and junks.

6. Execution of Courvoisier.
Cabrera enters France with 5,000 men, and is arrested.
Riot at Marseilles on the arrival of Marshal Bour-
trent at that place, from Italy.
Capture of the City Ting-hae-heen, capital of the
Island cf Tehusan, by the troops under Sir Gordon Bremer.
7. The Bale Pottle frigate, with the Prince de Joinville
on board, sails from Toulon for St. Helena, in order to
carry home the remains of the Emperor Napoleon.
10. Edward Oxford is found guilty of firing two pistols
at her Majesty, he being at the time insane. The Court
orders his detention in safe custody until her Majesty's
pleasure should be known.
13. The Canada Government Bill is read a third time
in the House of Lords and passed. The Duke of Wel-
Engton enters a protest against the third reading.
15. Treaty between England, Russia, Prussia, and
Austria, for the settlement of the eastern question. Franca
declines to be a party to the treaty.
IS. Murder of Mr. Bibby, a merchant of Liverpool.
20. Lucy, wife of Henry Wetherley, is murdered by.
William Healey, her paramour, who immediately afterwards
commits suicide.
21. The King of Naples decrees the dissolution of the
Sulphur Company.
23. By a decree of the Legislative Assembly of Brazil
Don Pedro 11. is declared to have attained his majority.
24. The Rev. Connop Thirlwall is appointed Bishop os
St. David's, in the room of the late Dr. John Banks Jen.
kinson.
The Regency Bill is road a third time in the House
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29. Mr. Kelly having moved the third reading of the
Punishment of Death Abolition Bill, Lord John Russell
moves that the Bill be read a third time this day six months.
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AUGUST.
1, Captain Heaviside obtains 8,000/. damages in an
action for trim. con. against Dr. Lardner.
The Prince Royal of Hanover signs his adhesion tq
the new Constitution.
6. Louis Napoleon Buonaparte and about sixjy follow-
ers land at Boulogne from the City of Edinburgh steam-,
boat, and, alter an ineffectual attempt to gain over the sol-
diery to support his pretensions as Emperor, is arrested.
whilst endeavouring to escape.
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7. Accident on the. Hun' and Selby railway, in conse-
quence of the careless loading of a luggage train, and
three persons killed.
9. Shipwreck off the Island of Newfoundland of the
ship Florence, of New York, and loss of fifty lives.
10. Mr. Poulatt Thompson is created Baron Syden-
ham, of Sydenham, in the county of Kent, and of Toronto,
in Upper Canada.
11. Prorogation of Parliament by her Majesty in person.
The Coroner's jury on the bodies of the unfortunate .
persons killed on the Hull and Selby Railway returns a
verdict of " Accidental death," with a deodand of 5001.
on the engine and the whole of the carriages the property
of the Leeds and Selby and Hull and Selby Railway Con- •
panics.
19. Prince Louis Bonaparte arrives at Pais, and is
imprisoned in the Conciergeric.
Execution of 27 Carlist acers, forming part of the''
garrison of the fort dcl Collodi) de Alpuento.
14. Agreement between the Prince of Campo Franco
and the French Ambassador, the Duke de Montebello, for ,
the settlement of the sulphur question.
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Sixty Carlist soldiers are shot at Choirs.
Commodore Napier summons the Egyptian autho-
rities to evacuate Syria.