The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-02 00:00:00

PRICE OF 'SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the
week ending July 30, 1844, is 335. 1 lid. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Their Lordships met at Five o'clock.
Lord CAMPBELL moved for a message to be sent to
the House of Commons for a conference between the two
Houses upon the Commons' amendments to the Common
Law Process (Ireland) Bill—The motion was agreed to.
SLAUGHTERING OF HOftSES BILL.

Lord BEAUMONT moved the second reading of the
Slaughtering of Horses Bill, which he said was an
amendment of the 16th George 111., commonly called
the " Knackers', Act."
The Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed on Monday.
The Bishop of LONDON presented petitions from
Sir Harcourt Lees and others against the repeal of the
penal laws affecting Roman Catholics.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a great number of
petitions from individuals upon various subjects, the
purport of the majority of which were not distinctly
caught in the gallery. One was a petition from Thomas
Easthope, Esq., of Lancaster, praying the House to
pass a law for the purpose
.of preventing Roman
Catholic priests from abusing the confidence
of dying persons, by extorting legacies for the church.
The Noble and Learned Lord presented also a petition
from Lord Dundonald, stating that he possessed a secret
of a destructive power, surpassing any of the imple-
ments of war at present known, and requesting to be ad-
mitted to competition with other inventors. He (Lord
Brougham) had been for many years his legal adviser in
all matters relating to his patents, and he (Lord Brougham)
would say that Lord Dundonald was the only projector he
had ever known who did not exaggerate the powers of
his own construction

The Metropolis Buildings Bill was read a third time
and passed.
BARBARY STATES—TUNIS.

Lord BEAUMONT put a question to the Noble Lord
the Secretary for Foreign Affitirs, respecting the execu-
tion of a British subject at Tunis by the Moslem autho-
rities.

Lord ABERDEEN said
,that in the case referred to
by the Noble Lord the Maltese had committed a
double murder. He had murdered a Tunisian and a
Maltese. For the murder of the Maltese the crimi-
nal was tried by the tribunals instituted according
to agreement with the Turkish 'States. But for the
other murder he was tried by the Tunisian tribunals.
The consuls applied to the Dey to 'delay execution until
the opinion of the English Government could be obtained.
when the matter was laid before him (Lord Aberdeen),
he did not see any reason for interfering. He was con-
vinced that the execution ought to take place. If it had
been left to him to say whether the criminal
should be capitally punished or not, it would
have been his painful duty to say that he should be
punished. This view of the case was not taken by the
other powers of Europe. The Swedish and Sardinian con-
suls had been withdrawn. ut it appeared to him that this
only showed that the English consul had more influence
and more prudence than all the other consuls of Christian
Europe put together.
CONFERENCE WITH THE COMMONS.

The business of the House was for some time inter-
rupted by the departure of the Earl of Glengall, Lord
Duncannon, and other Peers, to a conference with the
House of Commons on the subject of the Common Law
Process (Ireland) Bill.