The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-29 00:00:00

DUNGARVAN ELECTION.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Com-
mons. Lunce 280 die Aprilis, 1834.
House informed that the committee have determined,
That Ebenezer Jacob, Esq., is not duly elected a bur-
gess to serve in this present Parliament for the said bo-
rough of Dungarvan.
That the last election for the said borough, is a void
election.
That the petition of Robert Longan and others, did not
appear to the said committee to be frivolous or vexatious.
That the opposition to the said petition did not appear
to the said committee to be frivolous or vexatious.
To be entered in the journals.

A new steam communication is about to
be established between Naples and Marseilles. The
passage will, it is expected, be effected in forty-eight
hours,

The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria
drove and walked in the parks yesterday.
The Earl of Mulgrave has returned from Jamaica ;
his Lordship arrived in town on Sunday night, and
had yesterday an interview with Mr. Secretary Stan-
ley at the Colonial-office. The noble earl visited
Earl Grey, and had also an interview with Lord John
Russell.
Colonel Anson, with a deputation from Great Yar-
mouth, had an interview yesterday with Viscount Al-
thorp.
Mr. Burge, the Agent for Jamaica, and Mr. Col-
quhoun, the Agent for St. Vincent, transacted busi-
ness yesterday at the Colonial-office.
M. Tricoupi, the Grecian Minister, transacted busi-
ness yesterday at the office of the Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, and also at the office of the Board
of Trade. _ _

The Lord Chancellor, Lord John Russell, and Sir
Hugh Lindsay, dined with the right hon. Charles
Grant, at his residence in Great George-street, on
Saturday evening, with a party of gentlemen connect-
ed with the hon. East India Company.
Viscount Palmeiston arrived in town yesterday
afternoon, from a visit to their Majesties, at Windsor
Castle.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from di* Governor of the Cape of Good Hope,
and also from the Governors of the Leeward Islands.

POOR RATES.

TO THE HONOURABLE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
We, the undersigned, liable to the payment of poor
rates, earnestly petition your honourable house, that only
owners of property be rated to the maintenance of the
poor, instead of the occupiers, and that the owners be em-
powered to appoint proxies in their absence as in Scotland.
Your petitioners humbly but earnestly pray your hon.
house to take the subject into your earliest consideration.,
Numerously signed by the parishioners of Eastbourn, and
forwarded on the 25th of April to Lord Althorp, who had
previously obligingly promised " due consideration of the
subject :' and the Earl of Chichester kindly undertook to
present a similar petition to the House of Lords; and that the
feeling is not confined to a single parish, appears by the fol-
lowing note from Mr. Hodson, who rents, as rated, a house
at 710/. a year at East Dean ; also a large farm near Brigh-
ton, and has for many year 3, been extensively engaged in
land valuation, not only in Sussex, but the neighbouring
counties I agree in the opinion expressed in writing
by Messrs. Filder and Waters, of Eastbourn, as to the ex-
pediency of landlords being rated, and taking the manage-
ment of the poor rates, instead of occupiers."
( Signed)
April 24, 1834. JAMES HODSON.