The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-06 00:00:00

BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.

JOHN HOPE LOWRDES, merchant, Liverpool.
JAMES LOCKWOOD, linen and woollen draper, Wake.
field.

BANKRUPTS.
JOSEPH HILL, grocer, Chichester.
JOSEPH ROGERS, scrivener, Bromyard, Herefordshire,
JOSEPH SOUTHERN, victualler, Kidderminster, Wor
cestershire.

DOMINICK POPE, merchant, Fenchurch-street, City.
111 WILLIAM CHANDLEY, carpenter, Manchester-street,
Gray's Inn-road.
JOHN SATTERTHWAITE, wine merchant, Cullum-
street, London.
GEORGE SHERLOCK, ship broker, Liverpool.
RICHARD SAN DERSON, corn-factor, Leeds.
HENRY CAPEL, wine and spirit merchant, .Coopers'-
row, Tower-hill.
ISAAC SEALBY, edge tool manufacturer, Keswick.
WILLIAM HOUNSFIELD, commission merchant, Man-
chester.
ROBERT WATSON, worsted manufacturer, Colne, Lan-
cashire.

PRICE OF SUGAR.-.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the Returns made in the Week ending May 3, 1842, is
41s. lid. per Cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Their Lordships met at the usual hour.
A Message from the House of Commons brought up the
Turnpike Roads (Ireland) Bill, the Exchequer Bills (9,500,0001.)
Bill, the Punishment of Death Bill, the Victoria Park Bill,
the Dublin Police Bill, the Kensington and Knightsbridge
Openings Bill, the Equitable Gas Company Bill, the South-
wark Improvement Bill, the Stanhope and Tyne Railway Bill,
the Greenwich Harbour Bill, and several other private Bills.
NATIONAL EDUCATION.

The Earl of WICKLOW presented a petition from a parish
in the county of Wicklow, in favour of the Church Education
Society.
CATHOLIC GRIEVANCES.

Lord CAMOYS presentedpaTtion; complaining of the
grievances to which Catholics are subjected, in prisons, in mili-
tary service, and in Union-houses, from the following places :
Bungay, in Suffolk, Staffordshire, Durham, Warwick, Lan-
caster, Norfolk, and Chepstow.
EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN IN COLLIERIES.
The Bishop of NORWICH presented five petitions from
several mining districts, complaining of the employment of
children, and esiecially of females in mines. He stated on, the
authority of the Report of the Commissieriers, that the female

children were exposed not only to the most painful toil, to the
most degrading profligacy from infancy to womanhood, and
that operatives in other branches of labour will not marry the
women brought up in the mines.
Lord FITZWILLIAM agreed that it would be impossible
to exaggerate the evils of which the petitioners complained,
considering the danger of interfering with any of their fellow-
subjects, as to the way in which they might choose to employ
their labour. But if the House should think it necessary to
legislate in this case, it was highly important before they did so,
carefully to consider the facts set forth in the Report to which
the Right Rev. Prelate had referred. They should also consi-
der whether there was not equal degradation and depravity in
the employment of females in other departments of labour. He
thought, however, that there were matters complained of in the
petition which it carne within the province of legislation to for-
bid. But he was certain that those practices did not prevail
gnerally in all the mining districts of England. He could even
give his own evidence'that they did not generaly prevail in the
districts from which the petition came.