The Sun.
London, England, 1819-07-05 00:00:00

LONDON JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
[Morning Chronicle.]

According to accounts from Naples, of the 14th
ult. the eruption of Etta had assumed a less
alartning character, but the two villages of 2;41-
faratto and Milo were still menaced by the lava,
which bad extended over a space 14 mile, in
length, and between two and three in breadth.
The city of Catania had been saved by the south
winds from the effects of a shower of cinders, and
which continued failing for several days.

(Morning Post)

Both Houses of Parliament sat on Saturday.
The business yet remaining is greater than has
been known for near a quarter of a century ; anti
unless a great part of it be postponed to next year,
it is utterly impossible that the present Sethion can
terminate (as some of tlee Papers have ventured to
state) with the present week ; and we much doubt
whether even the following week can bring
the whole of the business to a conclusion. The
difficulty which this great incumbrance of im•
portant subjects naturally occasions, will, we
trust, lead to some better regulations for the con-
s•ocation of Parliament in future. According to the
present state of things, several Public Bills must
either be entirely deferred, with perhaps great
inconvenience to public interests, or all tire provi-
sions of a complicated Act must be passed in mass,
and with a total neglect of that precision and
clearness so necessary to a general law. The
immense volumes of our laws are already of
great practical evil to the country ; but Bills like
these now about to be passed upon the spur of the
moment, must necessarily be repealed and amend-
ed by several others to be passed irs the ensiling
Session—a necessity which of course adds to the
bulk and number of our Statute-books, and ren-
ders the daily administration of the law propor-
tionably obscure, uncertain, and expensive.

By the Act recently passed for the Consolida-
tion of the Ditties of Customs, the exemption in
favour of Wood from British North America, and
the other Colonies, is only continued until the
20th of March, 1820 ; which we regret for the
reasons we have so frequently urged on the :ob-
ject ; and we are equally sorry to notice that the
bounties, remission from ditties, and other in•
dulgencies, given to the traders from Newfound-
land, have not been extended to the traders from
British North America, who bring here the
same articles as those from Newfoundland, being
engaged in the saute fisheries with them.—(lbid.)

laforni us that the King of Denmark had assented
to the conditions. The King of Sweden and his
son were to give up a part of the revenue allotted
to them by the Storthing, in order to hasten the
liquidation of the debt. The Hague Cotr-ant of
the 30th ult. contains advices from Madrid of the
13th and' 15th,
evithielrs.tate that theUrriter
counts of the banditti were not exaggerated. One
robber of the name of Melchor is said to have had
a baud of 300 men under his command, and to
have laid whole districts under contribution. One
of the Brussels Papers gives a letter from Iron,
which, like others that have preceded it, bears
strong marks of Netherlandish manufacture, and
contains not a syllable of news. The King of
the Netherlands has remitted that part of the sen-
tence of Buchoz (one of the conspirators in the
plot to carry off the Emperor of Russia), which
condemned him to be exposed in public and to be
branded.

THEATRICAL REGISTER.
Performed an Saturday Night.
THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.—Othello : Othello, Mr.
Yoimg; Desdernona, Mrs. Faucit. After which. Bon Ton.
THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, DRURY-LANE COMPANY.--
A Bold Stroke for a Husband: Don Cxsar, Mr. Mundell;
Olivia, Mrs. Glover. After which, Honest Thieves.
oEATRF. ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HoUSE.—My Own Rival :
Principal Characters by Mr. Wrench and Miss Kelly. After
which, The Jovial Crew, To which was :schist!, Fire and
Water.