The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-31 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYDS.)

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
NEW LIGHT-HOUSE AT BAHIA.
The following description of a new Lighthouse erected
at the entrance of the harbour of Bahia has been teceived
at Lloyd's, from the British Consulate at Bahia, addressed
to William Dobson, Esq. :
" A brilliant revolving light, showing two white sides
and one red, the latter to he seen once in every four mi-
nutes, situated on the same site as the former one, viz.,
Fort Santa Antonio da Barra, but much higher, being
about one hundred and forty feet above the level of the
sea, and is visible at about twenty-five to thirty miles."
The above Lighthouse was lighted on the 2d Decem-
ber, 1839.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITII. —H.III. S. Edinburgh and
11. M. S. Belleisle, Sept. 23, lat. 49 N., lon. 5 W. ;
John, of Guernsey, Sept. 28, lat. 43, lon. 11 ; Gauge, of
Bordeaux, bound to Calcutta, Nov. 3, lat. 32 S., lon.
15 W. ; Ruby, Marseilles to Mauritius, Sept. 6, lat. 34 S.,
ion. 8 W., by the Vernon, Denny, arrived at the Cape of
Good Hope. Ellen, Jenkinson, Trieste to Liverpool, 14th
instant, lat. 36, by the Mischief, arrived at Genoa. Ex-
mouth, Warren, London to Calcutta, Nov. 15, lat. 31 S.,
lon. 26 W.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

H OUSE OF COMJIONS JAN. 30.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at four o'clock, when a
number of private Bills were read a first time.
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Mr. BAYNES presented a petition from some place in
Oxford against the payment of Church-rates.
An HoN. MEMBER presented a petition from some place
in England against any further grant to Maynooth College.
He also presented a petition praying that Housa, in the
event of the Queen's marriage, to require certain securities
for preserving unimpaired the Protestant religion as by law
established.
Mr. ROACH presented a petition from a parish in
Cork, praying for the extension of election franchise and
the reform of Municipal Corporations in that country.
Mr. P LUMPTRE presented several petitions from va-
rious parishes in Kent, praying for Church extension.
Mr. REDINGTON presented a petition in favour of
Church Extension, and for the Reform of Corporations.
Mr. BAYLIS presented a petition praying for inquiry
into the doctrines of the Socialists.
Sir J. YARDE BULLER presented various petitions
from Devonshire, praying for Church Extension, and for
the discontinuance of any further grant to the College of
Maynooth.
Mr. H. GRATTAN presented a petition from Leith,
praying for the extension of the elective franchise.
Lord C. MANNERS presented a petition from Lei-
cester, praying the House to take into its consideration
the insufficiency of religious instruction, and the necessity
of Church Extension.
Mr. STEPHEN FRENCH presented a petition from
the Medical Profession of Tipperary, praying for Medical
Reform.
Mr. O'CONNELL presented 17 petitions from places
in Queen's County, Donegal, County Down, Galway,
and Westmeath, praying fur Corporate Reform, and the
Extension of the Suffrage in Ireland.
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN presented a petition from some
place in the county of Limerick, praying for an extension
of the Suffrage, expressing the satisfaction of the petitioners
at the good conduct of the Irish in England during the
late disturbances—(A laugh from the Opposition benches)
—and expressing a hope that there would be no return to
a system of arbitrary Government.
Mr. EMERSON TENNENT moved that the Order of
the Day for the second reading of the Designs Copyright
Bill, which stood for to-morrow, be postponed.—Ordered.
Lord GEORGE LENNOX gave notice that, on
Thursday, the 13th of February, he would move that
there should be given to the House the names of the
Members of the Naval arid Military Commission, and the
number of days they had sat.
Lord STANLEY gave notice that, on the 13th of Fe-
bruary, he would bring in a Bill to amend the laws re-
lating to the Registration of Voters in Ireland.
Mr.
Gth of February he would bring in a Bill for the purpose
of regulating the rules regarding stage-carriages in Ireland.
Mr. DA R.BY and Sir E. SUG DE N postponed their
motions respecting the Messrs. Hansard and the Sheriffs.