The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-22 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Sir A. GRANT and others, from the Commons,
brought up the Sugar Bill, and also the Promissory
Notes (Ireland) Bill, the Administration of Justice
(New South Wales) Bill, the Criminal Justice
(East Indies) Bill, the Watching and Lighting
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derry's Estate Bill.
Mr. Ross brought up the Duke of Gordon's
Estate Bill.
The Appropriation Bill; the Exchequer Bills Bill;
the Welland Canal Bill; Benefices Resignation Bill;
and the Nationd Debt Bill vent through a Com-
mittee. The Irish Banker's Cemposition Bill ; The
Deseeted Children (Ireland) Bill, were read a third
time and passed.

The Marquis of DOWNSIIIRE presented a pe-
tition against the Butter Trade (Ireland) Bill from
the Chamber of Commerce of the town of Newry.
The Butter Trade (Ireland) Bill went through a
Committee.

Mr. Crafer, from the Treasury, presented an ac-
count of money received from the Droits of the Ad-
miralty.
On the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY,
it was ordered that an address should be presented
to his Majesty, praying that there might be laid
before the House a copy of the last report of the

The importation of salmon from Ireland is this
season very great. At almost • every return of the Irish
boats, great numbers of them are landed at the Brootnielaw.
This week between 40 and 50 boxes were imported.
Irish salmon is in consequence to be found in every quarter
of the city, at a cheap rate. It sells at od. and Id. a lb.
If fresh, it is allowed to be equal, if not superior, to the
Clyde salmon ; hut before it can be exposed for sale at such
a distance from the places where it is caught, its quality
must be hurt. It is sold throughout the streets on hurleys.
Glasgow Chronicle.

The herbage of a large part of Skiddaw has
been destroyed by an innumerable host of caterpillars, and
it was much feared that the inclosures adjoining the tnoun-
tain would have been attacked. The rooks, however,
which are now congregated upon the fells, have attacked
them and stopped in a great measure their savages. Tbe
efforts of the rooks, and the rain which has lately fallen in
torrents, have allayed the fears of the inhabitants, and will
put an end to the ravages of these voracious insects.—
Westmoreland Advertiser.

At Crabtree Beck, near Lowswater, a basin or
reservoir, which had been made near a mine, burst. A
servant who saw it coming went and awoke her master and
his wife and child, telling them it would wash the house
away. The man took his child in his arms and rushed to
the door, and his wife followed, but the dreadful flood
separated them, ,and swept away the man and child, and
in its force drove the woman into the house again ; she and
the servant went up stairs and were saved, but the man
and child perished. Their bodies have not been found,
and it is not known whether they are buried in the ruins,
or washed into the lake.

Extract of a letter from Cockermoutli, dated
July 16.—A sad misfortune has happened to our new
bridge ; they had got the wood arch thrown over, and
partly covered with stone work (but the country has been
quite flooded), and last Sunday the new bridge was washed
down. When it fell, the crash was tremendous : the stones
which composed it filled up the bed of the river Cocker,
and the consequence was, the streets were nearly impas.
sable, and the houses near the bridge had from four to fire
feet of water in them.

The rains which fell on Saturday and Sunday
last swelled the rivers and brooks in the region of the
Lakes to an amazing height, and have done much damage
to the inclosures adjoining these mountain streams. At
Mill-beck, in the vale of Keswick, the bridge has been
greatly damaged, and a field of grain destroyed. At Lows-
water, a man and child were swept away by the breaking
of a dam, which supplied the pumps for clearing the mines
of water. At Cockermoutb, the new bridge, which was
nearly completed, was swept away, and tke wood-work
damming up the river, caused the lower part of the town
to be completely overflown, and the destruction of the
bridge will greatly inconvenience the inhabitants.—West-
moreland Advertiser.

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Independent Greece, or at least that which
is larger than the Netherlands, and differs little in extent
from Portugal or Denmark, with its German state J—
. the war, its population amounted to 1,350,000.
Thus the heaths of Hanover or Saxony, are now more
peopled than the territory which formerly comprised Lace-
demonia,Corinth, Argos, Thebes, and Athens. This cal-
culation is the same as that for the wilds of Scotland, only
420 persons for each square league ; whilst Attica alone
contained fifteen times this number twenty centuries ago.
From an attentive study of the ancient histories of Greece,
it is found that the population of the Peloponacsus, at ti,
invasion by the Persians, exceeded 1,130,000 persons, of
which a third were free. There were then 965 persons
to each square league;
whilst in 1817, the Morea having
only 420,000 inhabitants, this number was reduced to 560.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

SUNDAY, JULY `2o.—High water 20 min. past four.--
Wind S.E.—Arrived the Ringwood, Smith, from New-
foundland ; Intrepid, Carr, from Wexford ; Arrow, Jone 9,
from Bristol.

The Brothers, Ferguson, from Liverpool, at Quebec.
Throughout last night and this day wind S.S. W. to S.W.
fresh breeze.—Came into Holyhead the Arrow, Jones, front
Liverpool to Waterford ; and Carlew, Wright, from Liver-
pool to Falmouth.
Signal btation.-Yesterday, at 7 15 p. m. smack, 60,
passed, inward bound.
Telegraph-office, July 20.
Passed Holyhead, inward bound, the Caledonia, at
9 a. m., from St. Domingo.
Wind at Holyhead S.W., blowing fresh.—The St.
George, No. 441, Brett, steamer, from Dublin, East of
Floating. Light.
Sailed, the Liverpool, --, for Boston. .