The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-15 00:00:00

PAR.LI.A.IVIMIZTARY.

The Lords discussed the Railway Bill last night in Com-
mittee, and Lord Campbell moved to insert a clause forbidding
the locking of railway carriages against the consent of the pas..
sengers. On this clause their Lordships divided, and it was
lost by 35 to 31. The Bill went through the Committee.
The Bill for the protection of her Majesty's person was
brought up from the Commons, and read a first time. It is to
be passed through all its stages this day.
The Earl of Devon moved the second reading of the Col-
lieries Bill. He proposed to extend the time for withdrawing
the women from the collieries to March 13th, and might, there-
fore, as Lord Radnor observed, allow the Bill to stand over to
next session.

The Marquis of Londonderry was the chief opponent of the
Bill, though Lord Radnor also spoke against, but the Noble
Marquis did not divide the House as he threatened, and the
Bill was read a second time. Their Lordships then adjourned.
In the Commons, Air. T. Doncombe gave notice that he
should substitute an Address to the Crown on Thursday, for
his motion to limit the supplies to three months.
Mr. Hume, with his untiring desire to serve the people,
moved an Address to facilitate their admission to public build-
ings and institutions.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer objected to opening these
institutions on the Sabbath.

Sir Robert Inglis was decidedly opposed to that.
Sir Robert Peel, greatly to our satisfac•ion, rather sneered
at the Hon. Church-extending Baronet for implying that those
who wished to improve the people proposed refinement as a
substitute for religion. The Right Hon. Baronet's liberal
opinions were deservedly complimented by Mr. Flume, who,
finding that he had got in the expression of those opinions nearly
all he wanted, withdrew his motion.
Mr. Ewart brought forward a motion for making Schools
of Design into a Central Normal School, but after a short de-
bate withdrew it.

Lord Mahon withdrew his motion for a Bill to constitute a
tribunal out of the Hou3e of Commons for the trial of Contro-
verted Elections. Sir Robert Peel obtained leave, without op-
position, to bring in a Bill to continue the present law on this
subject for another year.
Sir J. Easthope's motion on Church-rates was postponed, at
the request of Sir Robert Peel, in consequence of the indisposi-
tion of Sir J. Graham. .

.
Mr. Hume's motion for a return of the services of Flrig-
officers of the Navy, was lost, alter some debate, by 99 to 23.
Some other business of little public interest was transacted,
and the House adjourned at Two o'Clock.
—TRADE—COrfMERCE.

The sale of the extensive stock of jewels and plate, belong-
ing to Rundell and Bridge, which commenced on Wednesday,
will continue for nine days.

LAW AND POLICE.
At the Wine Lester Assizes, Johr. 13olton, 22 years of age,
footman to Admiral l3ouverie, was tried for cutting and maim-
ing Louisa Pittis, his fell,.w-servant, aged 50, on the morning
of the 27th of May. The particulars of this unaccountable
attempt at murder appeared at the time. The prisoner was
fuutAl guilty, and sentenced to be transported for 15 years.
At Mar)lebone office on Wednesday, R. Thornton, a trades-
man residing in the Hampstead-road, was charged with taking
liberties in the street with the wife of Mr. Maunder, hatp-
maker, Howland-street, and aftet wards assau;ting the husband.
The prisoner denied the assault, but made no allusion to Mrs.
Maunder, and having called two witnesses, who did not mend
the matter, he was fined 5/. for the two affairs. The money
was immediately paid.
Robert Lindsay Crawford, the claimant of the Crawford
Peerage, was again brought before Mr. Traill on Wednesday, at
Union-hall, charged with returning from transportation. No
new evidence was produced, and the prisoner was remanded.
It certainly appears singular that this person, after hav-
ing announced, in the Sydney Gazette, that he was about to
leave the colony fur England, and remaiming at Edinburgh for
the last three years, prosecuting his claim openly, should be
arrested in London as a returned convict.
.1;1'r.L111`..ii.17."1 AND SCIENTIPIC.
A series of patent machinery fur theatres, by which a si-
multaneous change of 35 different pieces of scenery may be
effected by turning the handle of the apparal us, has just been
invented by Mr. R. Macdonald Stephenson ; the saving of
manual labour alone is calculated at 70 per cent.

COURT—P.A.SHIONAIILE.
The Duchess of Northumberland has issued cards for a fete
champetre, at Sion House, nn Thursday next.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland will give a grand dinner
to-morrow at Stafford lieuse.
The Duke and Duchess of Somerset gave an elegant enter-
tainment on Wednesday to his Royal Highness the Duke of
Sussex and the Duchess of luverness, in Park-lane.
'I he Earl and Countess of Detawarr entertained the Earl
and Countess of Wilton, Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, Lora
Lyndhurst, and a select circle at dinner on Friday, in Upper
Gross enor-street.
The Duke of Devenshire left Devonshire House on Wed-
nesday, on his return to Brighton.
The Marchioness of Anglesea leaves Uxbridge House, in the
course of the present week, for a tour up the Rhine.
Lady Maryborough left town on Wednesday fur Deal Castle,
for the season.
The Earl of Wilton is not expected to depart for Saxony,
on a Special Alission to the Court of Dresden, till the middle
of next month.
Lord and Lady John Russell are expected on Saturday at
Minto Heuse, Roxburghshire, on a visit to the Earl and
Countess of Minto.

POST-OFF ICE ORDERS.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
Among the many irregularities daily complained of in the
management of this department, dim
the following will
in a pro-
minent position. A gentlevnan town received one of these
orders for the payment of a sum of money to him, by the Post-
master at Charing-cross, upon whom it was drawn. The
order bore date July 1, 1842, and wi..4 duly signed by the post
master of the place from whence it. came ; and on its being
presented on the following day for payment, the answer ob-
tained was " advice." '1 hinking this the aka of seine
oversight, which would be rectified in the course of a post or
two, the gentleman waited two or three days before he applied
again, bat when he did so, and received the same answer as
before, he began to suspect all was not right. Ho ever, a, he
had not been accustomed to receivo moneys thro,.gli this me-
dium, he treoneiled hinr,ll to wait two or three days mire ; in
short, he made a third, and ultimately a fourth application,
with no better succes; and tsselve clear nays have now elapsed
since he ieeeived the or b. and still the ni,hey is withheld on
the pica of " no advice."
That the postmaster in the country received the money is
self-evident from his issuing the order, and if he through negli-
gence has omitted to advise the office in t.iwn, he merits severe
reprehension. That gross neglect and inattention are charge-
able somewhere, admits of no doubt whatever ; and, although
from the gentleman's position in society, he is more annoyed
than inconvenienced by it, yet, had the salvation of his corn-
mercial credit depended upon the promptly receiving of this
money, his ruin must have been inevitable. The affair merits
the attention of the Postmaster-General.

COURT CIRCULAR. •
Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson had the
honour of dining with her Majesty, at Claremont, on Wed-
nesday. The band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards
attended at Claremont, during dinner.
In the evening Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, took their
departtre,
Yesterday morning the Queen and Prince Albert, her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and their Serene High-
nesses the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg
Gotha, walked in the gardens and grounds.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken out on a
pony in the forenoen, and his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales was also taken an airing.
The Duchess of Kent left Claremont in a carriage and four,
at a quarter past three o'clock yesterday afternoon, for town.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester left town at
two o'clock yesterday afternoon, for her residence in Bagshot
Park.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at Clarence
House, St. James's, at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, from a
visit to her Majesty.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and
Prince George, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, at-
tended by Lady Augusta Somerset, went to Greenwich yester-
day afternoon.
His Excellency, M. Dedel, the Minister of the Netherknds,
returned to Wilton-crescent last Wednesday from the Hague,
after an absence of three months.
The Russian Minister, and the French Charge d'Affaires,
transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
The Earl of Mountcashel had an intervew with Lord Stan-
ley yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Lord Sandon and Sir R. Inglis had an interview with Sir
Robert Peel yesterday.
Colonel M'Arthur had an interview with the Earl of Ripon

yesterday, at the iiffice of the Board of Trude.
Mr. Wickham, the Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had
an interview with the Chancellor, of the Exchequer, yester-
day, at his official residence, in Downing-street.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday.
The Lords present were the Lord President, Lord Brougham,
the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, and the Judge of the Ad-
miralty Court. Sir Alexander Johnston and Sir E. East, sat
as Privy Councillors.
Mr. Kindersley, Queen's Counsel, openi-d an appeal from
Bengal, " Baboo Deep Narain v. Lal Chutterpeet Singh." At
the conclusion of his address, which occupied until near four
o'clock, the Court rose.