The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-07 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1840.

THE THAMES TUNNEL is Open to the
Public every day (except Sunday) from Nine in the
Morning until dark—Admittance One Shilling each.
Entrance is nn the Surrey side of the river, and near the
Church at Rotherhithe.

The Tunnel is now upwards of 1,100 feet in length, bril-
Liant.ly lighted with gas, and is completed to within 60 feet
rom the Wharf Wall at Wapping.
By Order,
J. CII RLIER, Clerk to the Company.
Company's Office, Walbrook Buildings,
Walbrook, March, 1840.

PURSUANT to a Decree of the HIGH
COURT of CHANCERY, made in a Cause VER-
NON against CROFTON, the Creditors of FRANCES
WARCUP, formerly of Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, and
late of Halkin-street, Grosvenor-place, and Crouch End, in
the County of Middlesex, Spinster, (who died in the month
of March, 1827), are, by their Solicitors, forthwith, to come
in and prove their Debts before Sir GiFFIN WILSON, one of
the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers in Southamp-
ton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London; or, in default thereof,
they will be excluded the benefit of the said Decree.
Dated the 28th day of February, 1840.
STEPHEN GARRARD, 13, Suffolk-street, Pall
Mall Bast, Plaintiffs' Solicitor.

COMMON ROAD STEAM CONVEY-
ANCE COMPANY.
Applications for Shares may be made to the Committee,
addressed, post-paid, to Messrs. Hodgson and Concanen, Soli-
citors, 21, Lincoln's Inn-fields, of whom may be had Prospec-
tuses, together with a Report of the proceedings of the Share-
holders and Friends of the Company, at a meeting which took
lace on the 29th ult.

DEVONPORT and PLYMOUTEI to
EXETER—lnside £1 16s. ; Out, 18s.
The DEFIANCE, by RAILWAY to Basingstoke, thence
by nearest road to Exeter, Plymouth, and Devonport.
Offices—Bull Inn, Aldgate ; Bello Sauvage, Ludgate Hill ;
Nelson's Office, 53, Piccadilly.

ROYAL BANK
Capital, 1,000,000, in
Deposit il.
BIEEC

Benjamin Boyd, Esq.
Thomas !deux, Esq.
George Webster, Esq.
John W. Sutherland, Esq.

OF AUSTRALIA.
20,000 Shares •f SOL each.
per Share.
:TORS.

(Alexander Cockburn, Esq.
William P. Cranford, Esq.
John Connell, Esq.
John Mitchell, Dap

STANDING COIN L.
Peter Laurie., Esq.
SOLICITORS.

Moors. Parkes and Webster, 13, New Boswell Court.
Messrs. Johnston and Farquhar, 82, New Broad-street.
BANKERS.
Union Bank of London,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH' 6.
The Loan CHANCELLOR took his seat on tine Woolsack
at Five o'Cloek.
A message from the Commons brought up Swaine's
Naturalization Bill, the Manchester Railway 13'II'
the
Edinburgh and Leith Ga., and the Edinburgh Market and
Petty Customs Bills, which were severally read a first time.
CHURCH PATRONAGE (SCOTLAND).
The Duke of ARGYLL presented a petition from a
parish in Argyleshirc in support of the General Assembly,
and complaining of the conduct of the Court of Session.
The Noble Duke also presented petitions from Inverary
against the intrusion of Ministers.
The Duke of RICHMOND presented several petitions
to the same effect.

parishes in Berkshire against any alteration in the existing
Corn-laws.

Sir JOHN WALSH presented a petition from Bisby,
in Derbyshire, against the report of the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners, as far as related to the Cathedral of
Litchfield.

Sir R. INGLIS presented a petition from some place
In Northamptonshire, pra3ing for the unconditional release

of the Sheriffs.

Sir EDWARD SUGDEN presented a petition from
the inhabitants of some place in Northamptonshire, praying
for the immediate release of the Sheriff, and that in the

present action Messrs. Hansard be directed to plead the
truth of the libel, and that the public money be not further
paid away on this subject ; and also that an Act be brought
in to indemnify the Sheriffs. Also a petition numerously
signed, from the Merchants, Bankers and Traders of the

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City of London. This petition was signed by the
Foreman of the Grand Jnry of the Central Criminal

Court, and by every member of that Jury—it stated that
the petitioners hoped that the imprisonment which the
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Sheriff had already suffered would be considered by the
House as a sufficient vindication of its privileges; it ex-

pressed the petitioners' strong sympathy for the suffer-
ings of Mr. Sheriff Evans. The petitioners cautiously
abstained from offering any opinion on the question of pri-
vilege, but submitted that the Sheriffs had been placed in

a situation of considerable difficulty, a .d had only acted in
what they considered as the conscientious discharge of the

duties of their office.

Mr. WILLIAM GORDON presented petitions from
various parishes in Aberdeenshire, against the intrusion of
Ministers in the Scottish Church. The Hon. Member

also presented various petitions from elders, farmers, and
other inhabitants of parishes in the same county, on the

same subject, but to a contrary effect.
Mr. CHARLES LUSHINGTON presented apetition
from the Members of the Friends of Freedom Society of
the County of Huntingdon, praying for the abolition of
Ecclesiastical Courts, and the release of John Thorogood.
Sir R. PEEL presented a petition from a Presbytery
(the name of which we could not seize on) against the
principle of Non-intrusion : also a petition from certain
calico-printers of Manchester, praying for an extension of
the Copyright of Designs.
Sir G. SINCLAIR gave notice of his intention, on the
motion for the third reading of the Irish Municipal
Bill, to move that it be read a third time that day
six' months. He wished also to ask the Noble
Lord whether it was his intention to move the third
reading on Monday.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he should move the third
reading either on Thursday or Monday.
Mr. E. TE NNE NT moved for certain returns relative
to Venezuela and British Guiana.—Agreed to.