The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-14 00:00:00

FINE ARTS.

We have just seen two portraits of the King and Queen,
which have been lately published by Sams. In point of
fidelity of resemblance both possess equal claims to our
most favourable notice ; but as respects execution the
portrait of his Majesty is the best engraving. The expres-
sion about the mouth is very characteristic, and the thick,
silvery, well-defined eye-brow stands distinctly out, instead
of lying dull and heavy on a flat surface. The ermine robe
has all the rich, soft, glossy texture of reality, so much so,
that one almost feels a desire to pass one's hand over it in
order to smooth down one or two places, which look as if
they had been roughened in the hurry of putting it on. In
the portrait/ of her Majesty, the chief thing to be admired
is the hair, which hangs about the forehead in clusters of
ringlets, remarkable for the utter absence of any thing like
formality or wiry stiffness. Both portraits deserve to
become popular.

Fifty-five commissioned officers of the navy have
died since the Ist of January last.
The scorching sun for some days past is ripening
tho wheat very rapidly; we expect to hearjof the harvest com-
mencing in a few days.
GIN AND WATER COMMITTEES.-.--TWO Com-
mittees of the House of Commons are, at present, sitting ;
one, on drunkenness, and one on the supply of water. A cor-
respondent suggests, that by the union of both these com-.
mittees, and the mixing up of the subjects of the inquiries, a
double benefit might be effected,—drunkenness would be
diminished by the dilution of gin, and the water improved by
the infusion of spirit.

IMPERIAL PA R L

THIS DAY, Mos!-:.AY JULY 14

HO USE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at a quarter past twelve
o'clock.

UPWELL TITHES BILL.
Upon the motion of Mr. CHILDERS that the report
upon this Bill be received,
Mr. R. WA SON moved that it be read this day six months.
The house then divided, when there appeared--
For the bringing up of the report
Against it
21
Majority
—l6
The Bill was then read a first time.
Lord G. GRENVILLE broug►ht up the report of the
Committee on the Great Western Railway Bill.
The Bermondsey Waterside Improvement Bill was read a
third time.

Lord G. BENTINCK presented a petition from King's
Lynn against the Beer Bill.
The ATTOR NE Y- GE NE RAL presented a petition from
the Incorporated Society of Solicitors in Edinburgh, praying
that no farther steps should be taken this session with the
Bankruptcy Bill. The Hon. and Learned Member could not
concur in the prayer of the petition.
Sir W. RAE supported the prayer of the petition. This
Bill made immense alterations in the law of Scotland, and
sufficient time ought to be allowed to discuss it.
The LORD ADVOCATE said he felt it to be his duty
to press the Bill. It was of the greatest importance to the
people of Scotland, and the sooner it was passed the better.
The petition was then referred to the Committee on the Bill.
Mr. HE ATHC OTE presented sixty petitions from the
county of Lincoln, in support of the Church.
Sir R. INGLIS presented thirty-five petitions to the same
effect from several places in Kent, Northamptonshire, Somer-
setshire, and Oxfordshire, and from the Episcopal Chapel of
South Lambeth. The petitions, lie could state, were very
numerously signed.
After a few words from Mr. ROEBUCK, Mr. FINCH, and Co-
lonel EVANS, the petitions were laid on the table.
Lord R. MANNERS presented a petition from Ashby-de-
la-Zouch,: and other places in Leicestershire, in support of the
Church.

Mr. FINCH presented one from Pickworth to the same effect.
Sir J. OS`VAI.D presented a petition fram Glasgow,
against the Church Rate Bill, and one in favour of the Scotch
Bankruptcy Bill.
Mr. H. HUGHES presented a petition from the Clerk of
the Court of Requests, Southwark, against the abolition of im-
prisonment for debt.
Mr. JOLIFFE presented a petition from Southampton in
support of the Church. ,
Mr. N. SHANE presented a petition from the landowners
of Suffolk, complaining of agricultural distress.
Lord H E NNIKER supported the petition.
_ _ _

Sir F. LOPER presented a petitinn from Devon in support
of the Church.

Sir F. O'CONNOR presented a petition from Mr. W.
Tripp, of York-street, Westminster, complaining of the in-
juries he has sustained in consequence of the pulling
,down of
some adjoining houses, and of oppression on the part of the
tithe and tax collectors.

Colonel EVANS supported the petition.
Mr. F. O'CONNOR also presented a petition from Kilrush
in the county of Clare, for the introduction of Poor Laws
into Ireland.

Sir WILLIAM RAE presented a petition from the Society
of Solicitors of the Supreme Court of Scotland, against the
Bill for creating an Accountant General. The Hon. Member
said there were already four principal clerks at 1,0001. a-year
each, and fifty-eight other clerks, costing in the whole
28,000/. a-year.
The LORD ADVOCATE defended the principle of the
proposed Bill.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said Scotland was very
much indebted to the Lord Advocate for the introduction of
this Bill, which would have the E ffect of removing all the
evils to which the Hon. Member had alluded.

Mr. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the Dissen-
ters of Claremont Chapel, Pentonville, and one from the
united parishes of St. Andrew, Holborn, and St. George the
Martyr, against the Church Rate Bill.
Colonel VERNER presented a petition from a district in
Armagh, for the support of the Established Church in Ire-
land, and one from a parish in Armagh, against the system of
National Education.

Lord RADNOR presented two petitions from parishes in the
counties of Surrey and Worcester, in support of the Church.
Mr. A. OSWALD presented a petition from Southcoates,
for the separation of Church and State, and one from the
hand-loom weavers of New Mills, Renfrewshire, complaining
of distress.

Mr. PLUMPTREE presented a petition from Freshport,
in Kilkenny, respecting Capt. Atcheson's case.
Lord 0 S SUL STON presented petitions from parishes in
Northumberland, in support of the Church.
Mr. PHILLIPS presented a petition from Sheepshill, Lei-
cestershire, to the same effect.

Sir E. HAYES presented one to the same effect frcm a
parish in Ireland.
Mr. MOYSTON presented a similar petition from a parish
in the diocese of St. Asaph.
Mr. PELHAM presented several like petitions from Lin-
colnshire.

There being no other business, the SPEAKER left the chair
at two o'clock.

FRENCH COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS.

( From the Moniteur of Friday.)
The Moniteur of to-day contains several ordonnances of the
highest importance, emanating from the Minister of Com-
merce, which we hasten to acquaint you with. We copy them
literally, with an explanation of the principles upon which they
are founded.

The first ordonnance fixes the delivery of raw sugars, other
than white, and candied sugar, dried and transparent, what-
ever its colour may be, in weights of 75 kilogrammes—lump
and powdered white sugar, 78 kilogrammes—Muscovado, or
Brazil sugar, at the former regulations of 75 kilogrammes.
The second ordonnance authorises the importation of raw
silks, unbleached foulards, rum, arrack, ratafia, &c., on the
same principle that French cashmeres are sent out of Europe ;
and it takes off as respects them the restrictions which were
imposed by the ordonnance of the Bth of February, 1826, upon
the productions of Asia, Africa, and America.
The third ordonnance reduces to 20 per cent. the duty upon
linens. It contains many arrangements of the highest interest
relative to navigation, by military or merchant steam vessels.
The ordonnance regulates in a very useful manner the markets
of several frontier towns, and authorises the holding of markets
at Toulon and Agde. In a word, this late arrangement of the
Mini3ter of Commerce opens a new era to commerce, industry,
and agriculture, and is a happy presage of the progressive ap-
plication of those principles by which it has been dictated.

Ships employed as troop-ships are in future to he
under the orders of the respective Superintendants of the
Dock-yards, and not under the Commander-in-chief.

Sir Wilfred Lawson, Bart., of Brayton-hall, Cum-
berland (brother-in-law of Sir James Graham), is said to
have been so strongly impressed by the arguments of Mr.
Pollard, who is lecturing in behalf of Temperance Societies in
that county, that he has had the whole of his brandy, rum, gin,
and whisky taken from his cellars to the back of the hall, and
destroyed by fire in his own presence.

Died, on Friday morning last, July 11, at Ham
House, the Right Hon. Lady Laura Tollemache, only sur-
viving daughter of the Countess of Dysart and the late John
Manners, Esq., eldest son of Lord William Manners, most
deservedly lamented by all who knew her, and endeared to her
family by a most amiable disposition.

FRUIT CROP IN MORAYSIIIRE.-The fruit crop
is very deficient this year in the lower parts of Morayshire,
but quite the reverse in the upper districts, and near Forres.
We have seen an apple taken from a small tree containing
upwards of 300 on it, although not above ten years old. The
apple measured seven inches round the one way, and six
inches the other, and grew at Delnashaugh, parish of Inve-
raven.—Elgin Courier.

The departmental journals continue to give further
details of the ravages committed by the late storms. Amongst
the most remarkable of these visitations is the following, which
took place at Rahon, near Dole :—" A heavy thunder-storm,
accompanied by torrents of rain, had forced a number of
labourers to take shelter under a shed, in which also were three
carts laden with hay, one having three horses, and the other
two, and a couple of oxen, when the lightning struck the shed,
killed the two horses and their driver, and set fire to the mane
of the third horse ; it likewise killed two of the oxen, knocked
down two of the labourers, one of whom was killed, and set fire
to the shed and adjoining barns."—Galignani.

EARTHQUAKE AT RIPON, YORKSHIRE.--On
Saturday morning last, the inhabitants of Ripon were alarmed
by a tremendous explosion which shook the whole neighbour-
hood. On ascertdming the cause it was found to have been
occasioned by a convulsion of nature in a field about a mile
from the town. The earth had shook to such a degree as to
leave a fissure nearly twenty yards in width, and, on plumbing
the depth it was found to be twenty-four yards. It still re-
mains in the same state.—York Chronicle.

MURDER.—In the parish of Murragh, on Sunday
evening last, in consequence of one child being hurt by ano-
ther in play, the friends of the former, not thinking that the
offending child had been sufficiently chastised by its family,
met two of the brothers and attacked them ; one ran for
assistance, but on coming back found his brother with his head
fractured—he died in a few hours !—Cork Herald.

AN ORCHARD IN POTS.—Take some large pots,
eights or twelves of the London potteries, some strong yellow
loam, mixed with one-third of good rotten dung in lumps ;
well drain the pots with large pieces of tiles or broken pots,
and in this compost plant selected small dwarfs of Hawthorn-
den, compendu plat, Kerry Pippin, golden Harvey. Cole's
golden drop, Keswick codlin, and scarlet nonparenonpareilapples ;
Passe Colmar, sickle, beurre de Capiaumont, Marie Louise,
and Easter beurre pears ; also two or three dwarf prolific
nuts. Let the pots stand in the centre of a confined garden,
and by all means keep on their surface, all summer, lumps of
rotten manure. Thus treated, it is astonishing how they will
flourish; and if well supplied with water (if manured water the
better), they will bear plentifully. In very severe winters a
little straw should be put over the pots, to prevent the roots
being injured by extreme frost. This may certainly be called
a cockney orchard, but if it is not profitable, it is very pretty.
—Gardener's Mugazine.

SITIPPF.Nf; FNTELLIGENCL.-Ci HIS DA •)

.1-17,7 the Narcisr,
Castillano, from the MtAlizerranean. Arrived from Londo
the David Scott, Owen, for Sydney • Rapid, Phillips, Or
Malta; St. Christopher, Court, for Barbadoes; Good Intent,
Wareman, for Cadiz ; St. John, Train, for Trieste ; Susan-
nah, Ridley, for Rio Janeiro ; and Queen of the Isles, Trail',
for Leghorn.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 12.--Wind S. to W. S.W. July 13.--•
Wind W. S. W.—Arrived from London the Malabar, Tucker'
for Bombay ; and Morley, Douglas, for Ceylon, with foretop-
mast badly sprung. Sailed the Marquis of Hastings, Claris'
son, for Bombay.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrived his Majesty's
ship Malabar, from Malta ; and Relief, Cumming, from MO.
miehi.

FALMOUTH, JULY 11.—Wind S. S.W. to S., fresh.--)tr.
rived the African steam-packet, from Lisbox—sailed the 6tbr
and Oporto the 7th instant ; and Snowdrop, Nichols, fret'
Marsala.

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DOVER, JULY 13.—Arrived off port the Egham, Turne
from Cadiz.
COWES, JULY 13.—Arrived the Curtis, Curtis, from 10
tanzas ; and Harriet, Collins, from New Orleans.
TORBAY, JULY 12.--Arrived off port the Hiram, Smerdone'
from Naples ; and Harmony, Bedford, from Cadiz.
BRIGHTON, JULY 13.—Arrived off port the RoxburghCa-414
Fulcher, from Calcutta.
JERSEY, JULY 11.—Arrived the Pallas, Le Visconte,
Cadiz ; and the Dean, Newfoundland, and Dolphin, Le
surier, from Copenhagen.
GUERNSEY, JULY 11.---Arrived the Mars, Martin, frein
Rio Janeiro ; and the Calypso, M'Crath, from Valencia.
BRISTOL, JULY 13.—Arrived the Amity, Andrews, freo
Prince Edward's Island ; and the Satisfaction, Foster: ,Ire
, re
Miramichi. •
LIVFRPOOL, JULY 12.—Arrived the Norval, Watsc,n, frall
Batavia ; Tiffin, Dryden, from Grenada ; La Geotg.gia,
Paul, Woodberry, Fairy Queen, Snipe, and Ridge , ,ull4
from New Orleans ; Gremerow, Aikin ; Mersey, &so;
than, Prindall ; and Deveron, Edington, from Mobile 1305
zaar, Clarke, from Charleston; Eliza, Grant, Tibbils,
Medora, Pike, from Savannah; Rising Sun, Taylor ; Quee
Scott ; and John Bull, Neilson, from Quebec; Bratil,,
Bartlett ; Picton, Briton ; Wenship, Meto Taylor-; New;;;
Richardson ; and Nestor, Simpson. from Miramicbi ; ~
wood, Smith ; Thomas, Walker ; and Cartere tta,
mings, from Newfoundland ; Hero, Alexander ; and George,
Bentinck, from Trieste; Prince, Metterich, from ditto; Cats,
Faro ; Hetis, Sing ; Beja, Isabella ; and Isabella, Belebit,
from Narva.
GREENOCK, JULY 11.—Arrived the Selina, Mayes,
_1
Trinidad; Annandale, Taylor, from Newfoundland ;
Wilson, from Bay Chaleur ; and the Catharine, Tuscan,
Riga.
WATERFORD, JULY 11.—Arrived the Town of Ross, AV.
from the Mauritius ; Molly, Moore, from Henly Pugrgl°
and the Bolivar, Bellard, from Quebec. 1,00
Coact, JULY 11.—Arrived the Eliza Scotland, Scott,
St. Domingo ; Pallas, Hall, from St. John's, New 13112.1,
wick ' • Barbara, Ice, from Quebec • ' Prowler, M,Corroctbe
from Smyrna; Amity, Nichols, from Civita Vecchia; 014
Hope, London—Off port the Ocean, Liddle, from Quetree- 0
BELFAST, JULY 11.—Arrived the Gypsey, Moore, 5,
Jamaica ; Penningham, Green, from Berbice ; E carte,
Beckwith, from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick ;
Dobson, from Pugwash ; and the Betsey's, DimnLfrotn nit
ABERDEEN, JULY 11.—Arrived the Hercules, Walker,
Quebec ; and the Sir W. Wallace, Anderson, from MiriO
SCARBOROUGH, JULY 13.—Arrived off port the Eur°'
Wood, from Scaw.
SHIELDS, JULY 12.—Arrived the Fortitude, Stewart,
fro°
St. Petersburg.
DOWNS, JULY 13.—Arrived the Elizabeth, from Laug,--f,
HULL, JULY 12.—Arrived the Roderick, Pearl, B„°1,1;th
Edward Bonds, Hoop, Anne, Wright, Williams, Oil it',
Alexander, Saint, and Richar Brandt, Ditless, from
Petersburgh; Paragon, Wilkinson, from Narva. A.OO
RIVER, JULY 14.—Arrived the Alfred, Murray;
Youghal ; Thomas, Heard, from Coleraine ; Mary
Press, from Sligo ; Genii, Pace, from Waterford; Autugsi,
Lambert, from Kilrush ; George and Eleanor, Helene,
way ; Jordison, Jordison, from St. Petersburgh; Cantol
Morgan, from Quebec; Ward, Ennis, from St. Andrea
New Brunswick; Tiber, Candler, and Union, Clench, 10;
frog
Figueira. Countess of Errol, Maitland, from Leglin
Buoyant, Ellis, Queen, Cox, and Daphne, Sprague, u"0
Figueira.

Arrived off the Start the Dido, Weight, from Bahia ;
mulus, from Villa Nova; and his Majesty's ship Malabar,
Malta.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 13, 1834.

Sailed this morning for Chatham, to be paid off, the Aswr
84 guns, Capt. Richards.
The Malabar, 74 guns, Capt. Marsham, is arrived etrics
mouth from Malta, and will be paid off there. It is •saic.,,/,
brings intelligence that the cholera has broken out in, the g-;
rison at Gibraltar, and that 13 men had died in three „u totto
but we doubt this. We think the Briton yacht, Mr. utof
left that garrison on the 23d ult., which is since the Maw
left, and she brought up no such accounts.
doe
The convict ship Norfolk, with male convicts for Si-ue
went out of harbour this morning, and proceeded to sea•Lj,
ing had the rudder effectually repaired by the Doek-7bo
Gross neglect must have existed somewhere in allowiegAdi
ship to proceed to sea in Government employ with her
in a state that could not be called seaworthy. for
Sailed this morning the Marquis Hastings, free traders l,
the Cape of Good Hope and Bombay. Mr. Field and rids
of the Custom-house, have taken passage in her to the "
to which port he is appointed Collector of Customs. 0
The Morley, for Ceylon, with a detachment of the 'V
Regiment, under the command of Major Taylor, is still 11
at St. Helen's.