The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-02 00:00:00

PIiRMIAMCE*TII.ILY.

The House of Lords merely transacted some business yftter•
day. Lord Campbell said that he had discovered that the Law
of Evidence was the same in England and in Scotland, and he,
therefore should bring in no Bill on the subject.
Lord - John Russell's Bribery Bill was in the Commons
objected to by the Solicitor-General, and at his suggestion
the Noble Lord agreed to refer it to a Select Committee.
Mr. Wallace moved his resolutions on the state of the country,
and requesting her Majesty not to prorogue Parliament till
measures of relief had been adopted, ard that important subject
nearly filled up the evening. Mr. Walker, Dr. Bowring, Mr.
A glionby, Sir J. Graham, kr. Ward, Mr. D'lsraeli, Mr.
Hume, Mr. Attwood, Lord J. Russell, Sir R. Peel, and Mr.
Milner Gibson took part in the debate, which, on the mo-
tion of Mr. Williams, was, without opposition from Sir R.
Peel, adjourned.
Lord Ashley afterwards proposed to read the Collieries Bill
a third time, which was opposed, but eventually agreed to,
on the:understanding that Mr. Ainsworth is to move an additional
clause on Monday.
The House adjourned at Half-past One o'Clock.
PUBLIC OPINION.

.Tho Morning Chronicle makes the following apt reference
to the white-waistcoated school of legislators :—" Mr. Cobden
did the public a great and permanent service some three or four
,weeks ago, when he described the nature of " white-waistcoat"
legislation. From five to six o'clock the future white-waist-
coats' crowd the House to listen to the personalities with which
business commences, to chatter, and make their pairs, and en-
cumber the bar of the House of Commons. When the ques-
tion of the night is fairly launched, and debate really begins,
theseiggntlemen quit the House and go off to dinner • and or•
der reigns till ten QC half-past ten. About that time the white-
waistcoats' begin to drop in, the hum begins, and waxes more
and more furious, until speakers are fairly coughed down, and
the sense of the House is ascertained by a division. Here the
white .waistcoats' are of great efficiency, and by their aid Sir
Robert Peel imposes taxes, and refuses relief and inquiry.
Thus we are ruled by these ' white-waistcoats,' who avoid the
debate and seek the division ; and who, after preventing any
one from informing them, practically show how easy it is to le-
gislate without information.'
The Post thus expresses itself on the subject of Political
Economists :—" Among men of theory of the higher order,
free-trade principles are in no less disfavour than they are
among men practically familiar with the causes that influence
a nation's prosperity. As a body, the sect termed ' Political
Economists' is to be regarded simply as the mouth. piece of
the idle consumers of society. Of all pretenders to ' philoso-
phy,' these men are, assuredly, the most shallow whom the
world has yet been called on to follow. Their whole system is
narrow, false, and self-contradictory. No two of these men
are agreed as to first principles, or as to their application.
The) agree in nothing but in hatred of those laws which yield
protection to industry. The Political Economists' are,
therefore; by consequence, the ready tools of money capitalists,
and of idle consumers—of all the classes, in short, that thrive
by cheapness."
The Advertiser says—" Whatever may be the decision of the
House, however, the temper of the times will brook no dela).
The distress of the industrial classes is so wide and deep, and
the signs of the hourly increase of that distress so appalling,
that unless some prompt and radical measures be taken to in-
fuse a new spirit into the national circumstances, where the
danger shall end, or whither it is tending, were only too awful
to bring within the limits of reflection. In tine, such is the
suffering of all the lower branches of the productive masses,
that ere the ensuing Christmas, either legislative measures
must be employed to work out their redemption, or it is certain
the results of a natural justice will."
The following is from the Times :—"We all know where
a beggar on horseback' is apt to ride ; and no sooner had
Mr. Roebuck got fairly on the back of kis Committee, than he
seems to have started with unusual velocity in that direction,
nor has he shown any inclination to stop till awed by the rising
cry, not of admiration or satisfaction, which his headlong ma-
nreuvres have aroused. The last few days have probably
made him aware of that feeling within and without the walls
of St. Stephen's, which has been excited by his most reckless
attempts to invade the constitutional rights of Englishmen—
attempts which he seems to have made with as little ceremony
as he would have put off his own dinner-hour—to have re-
peated, persevered in, nay, re-produced in an exaggerated
form, and begged the House to sanction even against its own
Members, all with an unconscious coolness which does honour
to his self-possession, though little to his discretion."
MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.

The total income of Denmark in the year 1837, was
1,584,1331., and the expenditure, 1,561,9201.
According to the resolution of the Shareholders and Go-
vernors, the Commercial Steam Navigation Company dissolved
itself yesterday, at its meeting at the London Tavern. To re-
lieve the Company of its liabilities, the whole of the property is
to he disposed of. It appears that the sum of 112,0001. has been
offered for their vessels, which left the sum of 28,0001. to be
raised.

At Bilston, the state of the population is most distressing ;
in that parish alone there are 3,000 persons in complete des-
titution.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

A dangerous shoal, of from one to two-and-a•haif miles
long, and not having more than 16 feet water on some parts of
it, has just been discovered in ht. 1 deg. 7 min., near Polo Tay a
and the Seven Islands, on the passage from Batavia to Sin-
gapore.
A new British war-steamer, of 700 tons, for lake service, is
now building at Kingston. Her name is to be the '° Chippewa,"
and she is to carry two long 82's and four 32-pounders.
PINE ARTS.

A portrait of Michael Angelo, supposed to have been painted
by himself, has just been discovered at Florence. It is a half-
length portrait, and represents the celebrated artist at a very
advanced age.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.

The Earl of Itosse has been chosen President of the British
Association for the ensuing year. The period of the next
meeting is fixed for August, 1843. Grants amounting to
3,33 E/. were made for various scientific purposes.
The annual distribution of prizes took place yesterday at the
University College, London ; Lord John Russell in the Chair.
It appeared from the Report that the number of the junior
schools was equal with last year; and whilst during the last
four years the students in arts alternated between 147 and 149,
this year they had increased to 155. From the time of the
foundation of the College no less than 4,000 students had re-
ceived their education, in which upwards of 100,000/. had
been expended.
After four months unremitted labour, the first tube in the
Artesian well at Grenelle has been extracted, having been got
down to the depth of nearly 336 yards, when it bad become
collapsed by the pressure of tt e water.
LAW Ali]) POLICE.
A General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for Southwark,
held at the Town-hall yesterday, and at which formerly as
many as sixty criminal charges have been tried at a time, broke
up yesterday, there not being a prisoner to arraign.
At Bow-street yesterday three young lads, Charles Flatt,
William Gordon, and John Lee, were charged with burgle-
riously breaking open and entering the dwelling.house of Mr.
Ebenezer Benhem, Great Coram-street, Russell-square, and
stealing a quantity of plate, his rroperty. They were fully
committed for trial.
THEATZLICAL.
Francisque, sen., the Paris actor, who from his great talent
and originality had made himself so popular with the frequenters
of the theatres of the Boulevards, died on Tuesday night, at
the premature age of 40 years.
Rossini's Stabat Mater is at length to be produced at the
Italian Opera House, with all the splendour and circumstance
which the powers of Lablache, Rubins, Ronconi, Persiani, and
Frczzolini, can give this magnificent composition.
COURT-i-AsintoN.anLE.
His Excellency Edward Everett, the American Minister,
leaves town th s day to attend the installation at Cambridge.
We understand that Friday next is the day fixed for the mar-
riage of Lady Mildred Cecil to Alexander Hopc.
Buxton was never known to be fuller of fashionable company
than it is at the present season.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch gave another magnifi-
cent entertainment yesterday at Montague House. The party
broke up soon after seven o'clock.
A brilliant ball was given last night at Sefton House for the
first time this season.

:MISCELLANEOUS.
William Whitelaw, a farmer at Clincart, Glasgow, who died
last Monday, subsisted for 30 years of Ins life without partaking
of any other nutriment than milk, and grew up a strong,
athletic farmer.
Of the present British Consuls, the Vice-Consul at Toulon
is a Frenchman ; at Nice, where in the winter there are above
300 families, both the Cor.sul and Vice-Consul are foreigners.
In the Levant this functionary is sometimes a Greek, and fre-
quently a Jew.
A lady, named Miss Williams, has been for some time era-