The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-18 00:00:00

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" Who runs may read."

rOLVE.IXGrit.
There is notkirg worthy of remark in the Paris papers cf
Thursday ; they are filled with electoral intelligence, and lead-
ing articles, calculated to awaken the attention of the country
to the forthcoming struggle.

We are informed, by —a —letter from Tunis, June 1, that a few
days previously M. de la Porte, a gentleman connected with
the French Consulate at that place, was attacked whilst riding
on horseback, by two fanatical Moors, who seized his horse by
the bridle, and had raised their swords to strike him, when the
remainder of his party came up, on which the Moors fled and
sought refuge in the Sidi-Monsour, the most sacred asylum of
Tunis. A complaint of this outrage having been made to the
I3ey, he. immediately had the offenders dragged from their
place of refuge, and sentenced them to the gaLeys and basti-
ncdo ; but, upon the intercession of the insulted party, remitted
a portion of the corporal punishment.

. .
A letter from Alexandria, in the Augsburg Gazette, states
that the Egyptian troops have been so long without pay I hat
those who arc married are unable to ob!ain bread fur their
families.

A letter from A thcns of the 30th ult., says—Mr. Broke's
yacht, ;he El rt, is in the Gulph of Lepanto. S:r Edmund
Lyons .is gone on a eruize wiih 11r. Moore in his yacht, arrwrig
the Greek islands. Lady Lyons kft on the 27th instant for
Wurtzburg, in Bavaria, where she v.lll spend the summer with
her daughter, the Baroness. The weather here is cooler than
it usually is at this season, but the extreme heats will no doubt
soon set in.

Ihe Commerce Beige of Tuesday, says--‘ We. have just
been informed that in a Cabiuct Council, at which the King
presided, the punishment of death pronuunced cgainst Vander-
smissen, Vandermecre, Van Laethein, and Va., praet, has been
commuted to that of hard -10 our for life ; winch, however,
includes public exposure on the pillcry.
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It was stated lasttlWt,-Tr-dieii(Tuse of Lords, that as Ire•
land was not called on by the Queen's letter to contribute to
the funds for the relief of the distressed, she would not share in
them. The Lords were engaged from five till three, in what
several Noble. Lords described as a bootless discussion en the
Income tax Bill. the third reading was moved by the Earl
of Ripon, who rested its necessity on the financial difficulties of
the country.

The Marquis of Lansdowae moved resolutions, setting
forth the measures of the late Whig Government as
better calculated to answer the proposed end than the
Income-tax. A long debate ensued, in which Lord Colchester,
Lord .13roughrim. Lord Melbourno, the Duke of Welling:on,
the Earl of Wicklow, she Earl of Clarendon, and Lord Wham-
cliffe,.look part. In the their Lordships divided on the
.I!arquis of Lansdowne's resolution, • which was negatived by
112 to 52. Several Noble Lords still desiring to express their
scntimehts, an zdj-surnment of the debs'e was moved. After
considerable conversation on this poi,a, anti two divisions, the
motion was carried, and their Lordships adjourned.
In the Commons, Mr. nu Maule' cn presenting a petition
from the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, with-
drew the hasty notice he had given the evening before, to bring
the subject under the consideration of the House on July 5.
Tne conduct of the military in retreating before the mob in
Galway was the subject of a question put to Lord Eliot, who
said he had no official information on the matter.

Iu reply to Mr. Ellice, jun., Sir Robert Peel stated that he
considered the Poor-law of Scotland to be defective, and he
thought the 'subject well worthy of consideration.
Air. C. Buller gave notice that he will on Monday bring the
conduct of the Aliniitcr:, in relation to the gold coinage, under
the notice of the House.

•
For the principal pcirtion of the evening the House was occu-
pied with a debate. on the Poor-law. Sir J. Graham moved
the second reading of the Bill Mr. Sharman Crawford moved
that it be read a second time in three months. At twelve
o'clock, after a considerable number of Members had spoken,
though none of any weight, except Sir James Graham, who
made a sensible speech, the House divided, and the second
reading was carried by 260 to 61. The House adjourned till
this day at a Quarter to One o'Clock.
DIONEM—TRADE—CONIMERCE.

At Bolton, a reduction of ten per cent., an:/ in some cases of
more, has been made by the masters, and the operatives, under
the pressure of the times, have been compelled to submit to it.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(Tins DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Their Lordships met to.day to hear writs of error. Lord
Brougham presiding and the Judges being in attendance. The
arguments in the part-heard case of Roe v. Lord Trimlestone
were resumed, and continued up to two o'clock, at which hour
the Lord Chancellor, robed as a Lord Commissioner, entered the
House. _ _