The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1842.

Conflagration at Dunstable, twenty-one houses are
destroyed.
Death of Sir David Wilkie, at Gibraltar, in his
56th year.
2. The King of Hanover opens the General Assembly
of the Estates of the Kingdom.
3. The second reading of the Jews' Declaration Bill is
carried in the House of Lords, on a division, by 48 to 47,
the Archbishop of Canterbury having moved the second
reading that day six months,
4. The Turks are defeated by the insurgents in Can-
dia, in the mountains of Spakia.
Conclusion of the adjourned debate on Sir Robert
Peel's motion of wont of confidence in Ministers. The
motion is carried by a majority of 1.
7. Lord John Russell announces the intention of Mi-
nisters to dissolve Parliament, and call a new one at the
earliest possible'period.
Thomas Lloyd leaps from the tower of Chelsea
new church.
Disturbances at Barcelona, occasioned by the sale
of contraband goods, which are seized by a body of be-
tween 2,000 and 3,000 weavers, and burnt.
8. Total destruction of Astley's Amphitheatre by fire.
9. Re-formation of the Portuguese Ministry, J. A.
d'Agnier being President of the Council.
13. Lord John Russell announces his intention of
offering himself as a candidate to represent the city of
London.
The Committee on the guardianship of the Queen
of Spain report that no person out of the country should
fill that important post ; and, consequently, that the
Queen-Mother could not act as such.
14. In the House of Lords the Punishment of Death
Bill goes through Committee, when the clause abolishing
the punishment of death in cases of rape is carried, on a
division of 42 to 38, the Marquis of Westmeath having
ineffectually deprecated the extension of the clause to
Ireland.
15. Mr. Scholefield brings before the House of Com-
mons a motion on the subject of the distressed condition
of the industrions classes, when the House is counted out.
Lord Sydenharn opens the first Parliament of the
United Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada.
Destruction, by an earthquake, of Villa di% Praia,
in the Island of Terceira.
16. Prince Albert's visit to the University of Oxford.
Death of Earl Fortescue, aged 88.
Closing of the Diet of Sweden.
18. Another division takes place in the House of
Lords on the clause in the punishment of Death Bill
abolishing the punishment of death in cases of violation.
The clause is carried by a majority of 64 to 60.
Riots at Hyde and Stockport, in consequence of
an indiscriminate attack by some Irish labourers upon
every English person they met. The house in which
the Irish resided are partially destroyed by the mob.
19. The Court of Queen's Bench makes absolute the
rule for a writ of prohibition directed to the Archbshop
of York and his Commissary, prohibiting them from car-
rying into effect the sentence of deprivation from his office,
passed by them oh the Dean for contumacy and alleged
simony.
21. The Royal assent given by Commission to 148
public and private Bills, being. the largest number ever
included within one Commission in the memory of the
oldest person connected with Parliamentary proceedings.
Launch, at Woolwich, of the Trafalgar, of 120
guns (this being the anniversary of the battle of Trafal-
gar), in the presence of the Queen, Prince Albert, and
an immense assemblage.
Lord Plunket resigns the seals as Lord Chancellor
of Ireland. He is succeeded by Lord Campbell.
Extensive conflagration at an oil-merchant's at
Southwark, by which four warehouses are burnt down,
and 26 houses damaged.
23. Death of M. Gamier Pages, the celebrated French
Deputy ; 20,000 citizens form part of the funeral pro-
cession.

Proclamation by the Queen for dissolving the pre-
sent Parliament and cal ling another.
Arrival of the King and Queen of the Belgians at
Woolwich, on a.visit to her Majesty.
25. The guardianship of the Queen of Spain is de-
clared vacant by the Chamber of Deputies, by a majority
of 129 to 1.
Prorogation, by Commission, of the French Cham-
bers of Peers and Deputies.
28. The borough elections commence this day through-
out England, and are attended with the usual disorders.
Popular tumults, leading to the loss of life, take place at
Walsall, Canterbury, Ashton, Liverpool, Blackburn,
Carlisle, &c.
29. The polling for the City of London commences
and terminates in the return of M asterman, Lyall, Al.
derman Wood, and Lord John Russell,
Death of the Queen of Hanover.
30. Opening of the Great Western Railroad, from the
terminus at Paddington throughout the whole line to
Bristol and Bridgewater.

JULY.
1. Death of Sir Thomas Edlyn Tomlins, author of a
law dictionary, &e.
3. The office of Guardian to the Queen of Spain de-
clared vacant by the Cortes, by a majority of 47 to 23.
4. The King of Hanover dissolves the States.
5. An abstract of the net produce of the revenue
shows a decrease of 524,640 L on the year,.and 3,6611. on
the quarter.
150 persons are drowned at Rotherham, by the
upsetting of a boat on b2ing launched into the water.
7. Execution of Rudolph Kuhnupfel, the murderer of
the Bishop of Ermeland, at Fraucnberg, by breaking on
the wheel.
8. Carmona lays siege to the town of Carthagena.
Formation of a new Greek Ministry at Athens, of
'which M. Mavrocordato is Premier, on which occasion
M. Mavrocordato announces his course of policy.
9. Renewal of the disturbances at Toulouse.
10. M. Arguelles is chosen by the Chambers guardian
of the Queen of Spain and of the Infanta.
13. A treaty is signed between the Ottonian Porte and
the Emperors of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, and the
Queen of England and King of France, by which the
passage of the straits of the Bosphorus and the Darda-
nelles is closed to all foreign ships of war as long as the
Ottoman Porte enjoys peace.
14. Debate in the Court of East Indian Proprietors
on 'the Raja of Sattara's case.
16. Death of Lord Feversham, aged 76.
18. Coronation of the Emperor of Brazils.
19. Queen Maria Christina de Bourbon addresses a
protest to the Spanish nation against :a decree of the
Cortes, depriving her of the guardianship of her
daughters, Queen Isabella 11., and the Infanta Maria
Louisa.

The Spanish Government agrees to sell to Great
Britain the islands of Fernando Po and Amaobona, for
the sum of 60,000/.
20. The Court of East Indian Proprietors negatives
the motion for a Committee to inquire into the case of
the Rajah of Sattara.
21. Death of Lord Dufferin, aged 46, from taking an
over dose of morphine.
Tahir Pacha defeats the remaining body of the
Greek insurgents in Candia.
24. Prince Albert lays the foundation stone of the new
Infant Orphan Asylum, on the Wanstead estate.
Lord Campbell, after three weeks' sojourn in Ire-
land as Lord Chancellor, takes his departure for England,
Medhurst, a prisoner confined fur the manslaughter
of a schoolfellow, is released, on the ground of ill-health.
26. Her Majesty and Prince Albert visit the Duke of
Bedford at Woburn Abbey.
28. Espartero issues a decree complaining of the vio-
lation of the rights of national sovereignty by the Pope
of Rome.

The Duke do Bordeaux is thrown from his horse,
near Kirchberg, and fractures his left thigh.
Conflagration of the Hebrew quarter at Smyrna,
when 3,000 houses and eight synagogues are destroyed,
leaving destitute the greater part of the Jewish popu-
lation.
29. Her Majesty and Prince Albert visit the Earl and
Countess Cowper at Pansanger, Herts.
30. Several smart shocks of an earthquake are felt at
Aberfeldy, Comrie, Auchterarder, Crieff; and other parts
of the counties of Stirling and Perth.
AUGUST.

2. Espartero issues a proclamation in reply to the pro-
test of Queen Christina, against her deprivation of the
guardianship of her daughters, asserting that the nation
only is qualified to choose a guardian for the royal infants.
3. A supplemental treaty between her Majesty and the
free states of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburgh.
5. Arrival of her Majesty's ship Cal ope at Calcutta
with 2,500,000 dollars, being part of the money paid by
the Chinese for the ransom of Canton,
Dinner at Portsmouth to Sir Robert Stopford, on
his arrival in England,
6. Nine persons killed by an explosion of gas at
Thornley Colliery, Sunderland.
7. Conviction of Madame Laffarge for the robbery of
otie diamonds.
Great fire in 'Upper Thames-street, occasioning
'ihne match
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cutters, the
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Clubs, in
the Thames, is won by the latter, who arrive at Putney-
bridge one minute and 20 seconds in advance of their
opponents. •
Execution of John Burlinson, Henry Nuttall, and
Charles Gill, for the murder of Joseph Cocker, of
Knaresborough.
9. Destruction of the steam-boat Erie by fire, off
Silver Creek, on her way from Buffalo, United States, to
Chicago, and 170 persons perished.
Sir Henry Pottinger, the new Plenipotentiary,
arrives at Canton, and supersedes Captain Elliot.
At a meeting of the Repeal Association of Ireland,
Mr. O'Connell's-motion, that his errandson, Master John
James O'Connell, four days old, be admitted a member,
is received with acclamations.
11. Her Majesty creates seven new peerages.
12. Riots take place at Bordeaux, Villeneuve, d'Ayen,
and other towns in France, on the occasion of the attempt
to enforce the new census.
Sir Henry Pottlnger issues his first proclamation.
13. Articles of agreement relative to the Sound toll
concluded between trie British and Danish Commissioners,
at Elsineur.
14. Sir J. M. Brunel, accompanied by about 50 ladies
and gentlemen, makes the first passrge under the Thames,
through the whole length of the tunnel, from Wapping
to Rotherhithe.
15. The- greater portion of the Regent's-park is thrown
open to the public. '
16. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
over-rules the judgment of Sir Herbert Jenner, and
establishes the validity of the will of Mr. Wood, of Glou-
cester, giving the whole of his immense wealth to his
four executors, subject to the payment of the loan to the
Corporation of Gloucester.
Inauguration of the statue of Napoleon on the
column at Boulogne.
Message of the President of the United States,
returning, with his objections, the Bill to incorporate the
fiscal bank of the United States.
—Allen Bogle obtains one farthing damages in an
action against the Times newspaper, for alleged libel.
17. First meeting at Manchester of 650 dissenting

Ministers of all denominations on the subject of the
Corn-laws.
19. First day of the assembling of the new Parlia-
ment ; Mr. Shaw Lefevre is unanimously re- elected
Speaker of the House of Commons.
22. Resignation of the Greek Minister Mavrocordato.
He is succeeded by Kriezio.
23. Dinner to M. Guizot at Liseux.
Prince Albert distributes the prizes to the pupils
of the Government Sehoel of Design at Somerset House.
24. Her Majesty's Speech on the opening of the new
Parliament is read to the Houses by the Lords Commis-
sioners. An amendment on the Address, in answer to
the Speech (expressing want of confidence in her Majes-
ty's Ministers) is moved in both Houses, and carried in
the Lords by 168 to 96. In the Commons. the debate is
adjourned.
Death of Mr. Theodore Hook.
Destructive thunder storm at Liverpool.
Close of the session of the Spanish Chambers.
Revolutionary movement in Mexico under General
Santa Anna.
- Baronetage conferred on Mr. Larpent, Mr. Clay,
M.P. fur the Tower Hamlets, and Mr. Easthope, M.P. for
Leicester.
26. Release of Feargus O'Connor from York Castle,
on his owu recognizance of 3001, to keep the peace for
three years.
28. 'The debate in the House of Commons on the Ad-
dress in answer to' her Majesty's
.Speech, having lasted
four nights, is concluded at three o'clock this morning,
when, on a division, the numbers were—For the original
address, 269; for the amendment 360, being a majority of
91 against Ministers.
Meeting at the Thatched House Tavern, Sir Ro-
bert Peel presides in the Chair, at which subscriptions
are commenced for the purpose of erecting a monument
to the late Sir David Wilkie.
30. Lord Melbourne, in the House of Lords, and Lord
John Russell, in the House of Commons, announced the
resignation of her Majesty's Ministers. Sir Robert Peel
is sent for by her Majesty relative to the formation of a
new Administration.

NOVE MBE R.
I. Mr. O'Connell elected Lord Mayor of Dublin.
The city of Valencia appoints a junta of vigilance,
and decrees the demolition of the citadel.
2. The Queen Dowager, who had - been suffering fur
some time under an illness which had occasioned serious
apprehension?, recovers.
Debut of Miss A. Kemble at Covent Garden
Theatre.

General Quiroga y Flies shot at Madrid.
3. Grand entertainment by the Directors of the East
India Company to her Majesty's Ministers, and others,
in celebration of the appointment of Lord Ellenborough
as Governor-General of India.
Examination at the Mansion House of Rapallo,
charged with having been concerned in an extensive
forgery of Exchequer bills.
Don Pedro .Beltran, formerly Governor of Morella,
is shot by order of the revolutionary junta of Valencia
4. Mr. Edward Beaumont Smith, a clerk in the Ex-
chequer Bill-office, is examined at Bow•street, and finally
committed to Newgate for trial, charged with forging
and uttering Exchequer bills to a considerable amount ;
and Ernest Rapallo is examined at the Mansion House
on a similar charge and remanded.
The Rev. M. Zavala, a Guerilla Chief, is shot at
Bilboa.
5. Death of M. Gaudin, Duc de Gaeta, formerly Mi-
nister of Finance of France.
The bar of Ireland present an address to Chief
Justice Bushe, on his retirement from the Bench.
6. Destruction, by fire, of Messrs. Cockley, Barrow, and
M'Kinley's cotton factory, in Jersey-street, Manchester.
8. Espartero issues a proclamation expressing his dis-
approbation of the occurrences at Barcelona, and. of the
conduct of the Junta and the National Guards.
9. Birth of the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace.
The intelligence is hailed with great rejoicings through-
out the kingdom.
Alderman Pirie assumes the Mayoralty of London.
Lieutenants Borio and Gobernado, implicated in
the Christino plot, are shot at Madrid.
11. Col. Don Demaso Fulgosio is executed at Madrid.
12. Riot at the Union poor-house, at Bradford,
Wilts, occasioned by the paupers being discontented with
their diet.
13. General Vandersmissen, chief of' the late conspi-
racy at Brussels, condemned to death, the sentence being
afterwards commuted by the King to hard labour for
life and the pillory.
Attack on and massacre of the Christians by the
Druses in Syria.
14. Fatal fire in Blackfriars-road. Two firemen are
killed by the falling of the walls.
Death of the Marquis of Lothian, aged 47.
Marris, a private in the 60th Rifles, in a fit of
jealousy, murders his officer, Lieutenant O'Grady, and a
woman named Terrett, with whom he hid cohabited, and
afterwards stabs himself.
Death of the Earl of Elgin, in his 76th year.
15. A maniac, named Charles Mann, endeavours to
obtain an entrance into Buckingham Palace, and is
handed over to the police.
Execution of Blakesley for the murder of Mr.
Bunion.

General Van Haien enters Barcelona, displaces the
National Guard, and places the city and province under
martial law, the junta having made their escape.
Conflagration at St. John's, New Brunswick, by
which the greater part of the city is destroyed and a large
quantity of shipping. The value of the property lost is
estimated at 100,0001.
16. An attempt made to set fire to the Horse Guards,
and the barracks atCharing-cross, by throwing balls,
containing combustible materials, into those buildings.
17. Final examination of Ernest Rapallo, and com-
mittal to Newgate for trial for the forgery of Exche-
quer bills.
Inauguration of the column erected by the Emperor
of Russia commemorative of the retreat of the French
from Smolensko.
18. Prorogation of the Cortes by the Queen of Portugal.
Bernard Cavanagh, having been detected in pur-
chasing some food at a chandler's shop to allay his
hunger, is sentenced by the Mayor of Reading to three
months' imprisonment and hard labour.
Mrs. Blakesley, widow of the murderer Blakesley,
expired at the King's Head, Eastcheap, of the wounds in-
flicted by her husband.
20. Fire in Woolwich Dockyard, which is confined
to the building in which it originated.
Execution of Patrick Woods at Armagh, for the
murder of Mr. Powel.
22. Her Majesty appoints a Commission, at the head
of which is Prince Albert, to inquire into the best mode
ofpromoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom.
Explosion in a coal pit at Barnsley, by which 15
persons are killed.
23. Destruction by fire of the Barrowfield cotton-
mills, near Glasgow.
Espartcro makes his triumphant entry into Madrid.
24. The first communication between the north and
south shores of the Thames, by means of the Tunnel,
effected this day.
M. Ledru-Rollin, a French Deputy, tried at Angers
for publishing a seditious speech to his constituents, and
sentenced to four months' imprisonment and a fine 'of
3,000 f. The publisher is sentenced to three months' im-
prisonment, and to pay a fine of 2,000 f.
25: Presentation of the freedom of the City of London
to Major-General Sir C. F. Smith, Commander of the
Forces in Syria.
Death of Sir Francit Chantrey, R.A., the eminent
sculptor, aged 59.
Lord Denman suddenly terminates the business of
the term at 11 o'clock this morning, in consequence of
the non-attendance of counsel.
26. Death of H. Lascelles. Earl of Harewood, aged 73.
DECEMBER.

1. Death of Dr. Birkbeck, the founder of Mechanics'
Institutes.

The colossal statue of Washington is placed upon
the pedestal erected for it in the rotunda of the Capitol at
Washington.
3. Death of the Duke del Infantado.
4. Edward Beaumont Smith pleads guilty to the
charge of forging Exchequer bills, and is sentenced to
transportation for life.
Letters patent, under the Great Seal, create the
infant prince Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.
6. The Royal Guards of the Queen of Spain are
disbanded and suppressed.
8. Sophia Darbon obtains 1,6001. damages in an action
against Richard Rosser, an attorney, between 70 and 80
years of age, for breach of promise of marriage.
9. Great meeting at Derby, styled " The Midland
Counties Conference," on the subject of commercial
distress.
13. By Royal ordonnance, dated in September last,
and published to-day, the French army is reduced from
433,000 men to 344,000 men, thereby effecting a saving
to the country of 30,000,000 francs.
A Royal decree, in the Madrid Gazette, pardons all
persons arrested or banished, and not yet tried, on ac-
count of being concerned in the events of October last.
15. Death of the Earl of Westmoreland, in his 82d year.
Death of Mr. Sergeant Arabin, one of the Judges
of the Central Criminal Court, in his 65th year.
16. Robt. Woods, Isaac Jacques, and Thos. Molyneux,
are found guilty, by the Coroner's inquest, of the murder
of Mr. Grayson, at St. Helen's.
17. In a speech delivered by Mr. Christopher, M.P.
for Lincoln, to his constituents, the Hon. Member an-
nounces the willingness of the landed interest to agree to
a relaxation of the restrictions on the importation of
foreign corn.
18. M. de Salvandy, Ambassador from France to the
Court of Madrid, having insisted upon presenting his
credentials to the Queen in person, unaccompanied by
the Regent, who required their presentation to himself,
addresses a note to the Prime Minister, threatening, in
case of further delay, to demands his passp►rts.
20. A treaty between Great Britain, France, Prussia,
Austria, and Russia, for the more effectual suppression of
the slave trade, is signed at the Foreign-office.
Execution of Ward for the murder of an infant 20
months old.