The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-01 00:00:00

JUNE.

1. A destructive fire breaks out in the house attached
to Wood's Hotel, Panton.square, by which two persons
are burnt 04 death.

3. S ivary, Duke of Rovigo, dies at Paris, of cancer in
the tongue.
The Duke of Wellington moves for an Address to
the Crown relative to the affairs of Portugal, which is
carried by a majority of 80 against 68.
4. Lord King dies in his 58th year.

6. Col. Davies moves a resolution in the Commons
approving of the course pursued by the Government re-
lative to the affairs of Portugal, which is carried by a
majority of 361 against 98.
8. The Duchess of Berry quits France for Italy.
10. The Dramatic Authors' Bill passed.
11. Five divisions take place in the Commons on the
grant of twenty millions to the West India Planters.
A fire breaks out at Lympstone, Devon, which de-
stroys 58 houses.
About this time a number of persons are executed in
the Sardinian States,accused of a plot to overturn the throne.

13. Mr. C. Grant moves Resolutions relative to the
East India Charter.

19 General Registry Bill rejected in the Commons by
a majority of 52 to 69.
20. The Spanish Cortes assemble at Madrid, and take
the oath of fealty to Maria Isabella, as heir to the throne.
22. A riot takes place at Gravesend, in consequence of
the erection of the Pier.
23. The Viscountess Dudley and Ward dies.

24. Captain Napier lands a body of Pedroite troops on
the coast of Algarves. Lagos, and other places in that
province, shortly after declare for the Queen.
25. Slavery Abolition Resolutions agreed to in the Lords.
29. The Earl of Pomfret dies, in his 63d year.
JULY.

2. Hungerford market is opened.
The Hon. Charles .Law is elected Recorder, in room
of Mr. Knowles, who had resigned on account of the mis-
take relative to Job Cox.

Commissions are appointed for inquiring into the
stAte of the different Corporations throughout the kingdom.
A Biil is introduced into the Lords to alter the dis-
position of the Thellu,on property.
4. Gei.rge Fursey, accused of stabbing a policeman in
the Calthorpe-street affray, is tried at the Old Bailey, and
acquitted.
5. Captain Napier captures the Miguelite fleet off Cape
St. Vincent.

The quarter's revenue is made up, showing a decrease
of 5,2511. on the quarter, and a❑ increase of 569,703/. on
the year.
9. The Local Courts Bill is thrown out in the Lords
by a majority of 73 against 68.
An interesting discussion takes place in the Com-
mons on the affairs of Poland. The previous question
carried by a majority of 177 to 95.
10. Lord Dover dies at his Louse in Whitehall, in the
37th year of his rge.
The Earl of Plymouth dies, aged 44.
16. A motion for the abolition of all sinecure offices is
carried in the Commons by a majority of 88 to '79.
19. The Duke of Sutherland dies at Dunrobin Castle
in the 76th year of his age.
-- The Irish Temporalities Bill is read a second time
in the Lords; after a protracted debate of three nights,
the numbers were 157 to 98. About this time cholera
appears again in London.
22. Tne Jews' Emancipation Bill passed in the Com-
mons by a majority of 189 to 52.
23. Air. Tennyson's motion for the repeal of the Sep-
tennial Act rejected by a majority of 213 to 164.
24. Lisbon declares for Donna Maria, and the troops
under Villa Flor enter the city.
25. Ministers are left in a minority, on a division to the

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15. A motion for the abolition of naval impressment is
lost in the Commons by a majority of 59 to 54.
19. The Separatists' Affirmation Bill passes the Lords.
20. The Abolitio❑ of Slavery Bill passes the Lortl4.
21. The Commons vote one million sterling fur the
payment of arrears of tithes in Ireland.
23. Thellll for the repeal of the Foreign Enlistment
Act (which had been agreed to in the Commons) is post.
poned in the Lords till next Session.
26. The Bank Charter pa.sed in the Lords.
29. The King prorogues Parliament in person. The
Speech (after alluding to our relations with Foreign Pow-
ers) gives a summary detail of the principal Acts of the
Session.

A fire breaks out in Monmouth-street, by which
four persons are burnt to death, and a number severely in-
jured.
30. A great fire breaks out at Constantinople, which
raged for three days, and destroyed 12,000 houses.
Ti.e dome of the Antheum, at Hove, Brighton,
falls in.

31. A violent hurricane commits great ravages on the
east coast of England, and i❑ the Channel.
The Amphitrite, a convict ship, bound for New
South Wales, with 108 convicts on board, and passengers
and crew, amounting in all to 138 persons, is wrecked off
Boulogne, and all on board, with the exception of the
crew, perish.
The Earl of IVemyss Leith smack is driven on shore
near Brancaster, on the coast of Suffolk, and 11 persons
are drowned. The unfortunate individuals were all wo-
men or children.

Eleve❑ persons are killed in a coJ-pit, neir Dudley,
by the explosion of gas.

SEPTEMBER.

1. The King and Queen of the French visit Cherbourg.
Great displ ly on the occasion by the authorities of the
place and the British Yacht Club.
The Ardincaple steam boat is wrecked off the coast
of Northumberland, when the captain and six other per-
sons are drowned.

4. The King confers the honour of knighthood on the
Speaker of the House of Commons.

5. Marshal Bourmont is repulsed in an attack upon
Lisbon.

7. Mrs. Hannah Moore dies at Clifton, in the 88th
year of her age. She bequeaths upwards of 10,0001. to
charitable and religious institutions.
8. The Queen if Poi toga' arrives at Portsmouth from
France.
9. London is declared free of cholera.
11. The Marquis of Wellesley is appointed Lord Lieu-
tenant of Ireland.

About this period the Sovereigns of Russia and
Austria, and the Crown Prince of Prussia, bold a confer-
ence at Munch,ngratz.

14. Sir John Stevenson, the musical composer, di s at
the seat of the M itchioness of Headfort, county of Meath,
in his 74th year.
21. An explosion takes place in a coal mine near Nor.
^kington, by which 13 persons are killed.

22. Donna Maria arrives at Lisbon, and is received
with great enthusiasm.
About this time, after another fruitless attack on the
lines at Li,bon, Marshal Bourinout and the chief of the
French officers quit Miguel's army.
25. The Corporation of Leicester refuse to submit to
the authority of the Corporation Commissioners. The
example is followed by the Corporations of Norwich,
Maidstone, the Merchant Tailors' Coaipany, and several
other Corporations.
27. The Rajah Ramniohun Roy dies at Stapleton Park,
Bristol.

29. Ferdinand VII., King of Spain, dies at Madrid,
in the 19th year of his age. Some days afterwards in-
surrections in favour of Don Carlos take place in several of
the northern provinces.
In the course of this month numerous meetings are
held in the metropolis foe the purpose of obtaining the
abolition of the assessed taxes.
OCTOBER.

2. The City of Waterford steamer is wrecked off Fi•
gueira, and all the plate and luggage of the Queen Donna
Maria lost.

4. Richard Heber, Esq., formerly Member for the
University of Oxford, died at his house at Pimlico.
About this time a meeting of delegates from the
Trades' Unions is held at Manchester. Nearly 500 at-
tended, and their expenses amounted to about 2,500!.
The formation of Trade Unions very general, and strikes
among the workmen frequent.
10. After a long investigation into the causes of the
loss of the Earl of IVemyss smack, Mr. Reeve is com-
mitted on a charge of felony. He is subsequently admitted
to bail by the Court of King's Bench.
Miguel raises the siege of Lisbon, and retires to
Santarem.
11. The quarter's revenue is published, showing a
decrease:of 253,2761. on the quarter, and 380,420/. on
tl sr year.
14. Statistics of the victims of the French Revolution,
drawn up by Chateaubriand, are published in this journal,
from which it appears that the number of persons guillo-
tined amounted to 18,613, and the victims altogether to
1,000,585, independent of those massacred at Faris, Ver-
sailles, and other towns of France.
15. The chain pier at Brighton is much damaged by a
storm. _ _ _

19. Captain Ross arrives in Londo❑, after four years'
absence in the Northern Seas, in quest of a North-west
passage.
21. Mr. Savory is tried at the Old Bailey on a charge
of selling silver plate with forged stamps, and acquitted.
22. Accounts are received of the massacre of nearly 300
Dutch soldiers at Padang, by the natives, in March, and
of great damage done to the shipping at Calcutta, in May,
by a violent tempest.
24. The Queen of Spain is proclaimed.
26. In consequence of the refusal of many of the house-
holders of Marylebone to pay the assessed taxes, the She-
riffs of Middlesex are directed to make a levy of goods for
that purpose.
27. The Madrid Royalist Volunteers are disarmed, and
several lives are lost in consequence.
About this time there are numerous combinations
among the workmen in France to procure a rise of wages.