The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON TUESDAY EVENTING, MARCH 1842

P.A.R.LIA.'SIOENTATZ.T.

In the Lords last night I.llCOrriThlttTeOn the Presbyterian
Marriages' Bill recommended that all further proceedings on
that Bill should be stayed till after the Judges return from
Circuit, on account of another irregular marriage case having oc-
curred, on which a special verdict had been given, and which
will probably be brought before their Lordships. Their Lord-
ship? inquiries into the subject, however, will be continued,
though the progress of the Bill is stopped. Lords Brougham
awl Campbell warned parties that it would be at their own
peril if they took advantage of the late decision of the Judges.
A short discussion took place about the instructions given by
our Government to our representative at Madrid to support
the French Envoy in his claim to present his despa' elms to the
Young Queen in person, from which it appears that the truck-
ling of the Tories to old despotism has only obtained for them
two or three insults. The country is not insulted, however, by
what is done to Lord Aberdeen.
Lord Brougham gave notice of a series of resolutions on an
Income Tax, which he is to move this night in the House of
L. We look for a spirited debate.
The T.prd Chancellor laid on the table a Bill for extending
the jurisdiction in bankruptcy, which was read a third time.
The Loan Societies and the Apprentice Regulation Bills were
read a third time..—Adjourned.
In the Commons Aft: G, Palmer, a Tory, gave notice of his
intention to oppose Sir R, Pea; proposed duty on coals.
In answer to Sir R. Inglis, Sir ft, Peel stated that the Easter
.•ess would be from next Thursday week, the 24th, to the
rE' Monday week following, April 4.
next .
sham, reply to a question, said it was the inten-
Sir J. tent to bring in a Bill to regulate parish con-
tion of Govern.'lLto alter the Rural Police Act.
stables, but not a ts,._
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Peel refused to postpone his motion concerning the Income
Tax beyond Friday.
Sir It. Peel explained, in answer to Mr. Rhiel, that he
thought it would be inexpedient to lay on the tabit3 the de-
spatch addressed to her .Majesty's Minister at Madrid,
ignorantly directing him to support the claim of the French
Ambassador to insult Espartero.
Mr. Ward moved his resolution against passing a Corn Bill
till the House had inquired into the peculiar burdens on land,
and supported his motion by an able speech full of valuable facts.
He asked for a Committee to verify them.
Colonel Wood opposed the motion, and found out that the
expense of cultivation, which resolves itself altogether into the
expense of labour, the price of which is mainly determined by
the price of corn, is the justification of Corn-laws. This is
most vicious circle, The landlords pass a law to keep up prices,
and then allege their height on a justification of the law.
A considerable debate ensues!, but en a division Mr. Ward's
motion was lost by 230 to 115.
Subsequentlv the House went into Committee on the Corn
Keeping-out Bill, And got through eight or nine clauses of it.
Adjourned at a Quartet' before One o'Clock.
MONEY_Tite. mr—coramEncE.
Of the 113 iron fUrnaces in blast in the district of South
Wales, 61 are on full make, and
51 at the reduction of 25 per
cent. The average weekly
make is about 85 tons, giving an
aggregate of 9,000 tons weekly.
PUBLIC lIVIPSLOVEIVIENTS.
The Bude light is about to be applied to Box tunnel, Bath.

MLECTIONEETLING.
Committees have been chosen to try the merits of the Wey-
mouth and Clitheroe petitions.

NAVAL A 71.71) IVULITARY.
The steam-ship, Memnon, now at Falmouth, will carry out
the next despatches for China.
Preparations are being made throughout the Portsmouth
district for the reception of a large military force. Instruc-
tions have been forwarded to the Barrack-Masters at Chi-
chester, Winchester, Isle of Wight, &c., to get the barracks
ready for large numbers of troops. These are the reinforce-
ments for India, which we announced on Thursday would be
despatched with the least possible delay.

AND POLICE.
At the Nottingham Assizes on Saturday, Samuel Moore,
aliqs John Jones, was tried for the murder of Mary Hallam
on the 30th of Llecember. The prisoner was a shoemaker,
and it appeared from the evidence that he had committed the
horrible deed with a shoemaker's awl, which was found by the
side of the deceased, covered with blood. The Jury, without
hesitation, returned a verdict of guilty, and the Judge, Lord
Abinger, pronounced sentence of death.
An inquest was held yesterday on the body of a male child,
the illegimate offspring of :Farah Head, servant to Mr. Wool,
of the Brixton-road. The particulars of the case appeared in
The Suss yesterday. The Jury. after six hours' deliberation,
reterned.a verdict of wilful murder against Sarah Head and
Thomas Courtney, the footman.
A Bill has just been brought into .Parliament to consoli-
date the,Queen's Bench. the Fleet, and the Marshalsea prisons.
The two latter are to be abolished, and' the Queen's Bench
prison is for the future to be denominated the Queen's Prison.
The rules are to be abolished.
COURT —rasnro E.

The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are not expected
at Northumberland House until Thursday.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort leave Badminton this
morning for Beaufort House.
Viscount Palmerston entertained a select party to dinner on
Sunday at his residence on Carlton-House Terrace.
Lord and Lady Bridport have arrived in town from Cricket-
Lodge, near Chard, Somerset.
iVi Otrlius S.
On this day, the" SidCes M
of 1121 •
Caesar was assas-
sinated in the Senate-house, a. c. 44. He was pierced with
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23 wounds, and died in his 56th year.
Two agents of the Government have been engaged for some
time at Paisley, and other towns in Renfrewshire, in making
investigations respecting the working of the Scottish Poor law,
and the distress of the manufacturing districts.
The house of the late Duke of Meek lenburgh is the only
Sovereign branch in Germany of ineontestible Sclavonian ex-
traction, their ancestors being traceable to Prince Witzan, in
1780, who wasan ally of Charlemagne.

ntrtYgOURS OrTX-EZ DAY.
It is said that the present Marquis of Hertford is not only a
Liberal, but a convert to the Catholic faith.
The present Home Secretary, Sir James Graham, intends to
introduce during the present Session an eleven hours' Factory
Bill into Parliament, similar in its leading enactments to the
Bill introduced in 1840 by Mr. Fox Maule.

SUDDEN D-EA7-cli-OF MR. GEORGE

CLARK, THE SCULPTOR.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.
The death of Mr. Clark, who was eminent in his profession,
took place at Birmingham, in a very sudden manner, on
Saturday morning last. from the Inquest held before Dr.
Birt Uavies, ou the Monday following, James Newhould, the
first witness examined, stated, that about half-past nine on the
morning in question, while in the shop of Mr. Burdett,
who is a surgeon in New Hall-street, the deceased staggered
down the steps of the surgery, and appeared very ill ; he sunk
into an arm-chair; his head reclining on one side and his face
ghastly. Witness called for a surgeon's assistance opposite,
who proceeded to Weed him, but life was extinct.
Mr. Burdett, surgeon, spoke to having seen him on the pre-
ceding Thursday, when he laboured under dyspepsia, and com-
plained of pain in the region of the stomach. lie considered
death to have been occasioned by the rupture of one of the
large blood-vessels of the heart.

The Jury returned a verdict wsigning this as the cause of
death, as also that the deceased "Died by the visitation of God."
Mr. Clark resided in Toss er.street, Birmingham, and was in
his 47th year. He has, we regi et to say, left behind a family
of nine children who are now unprovided for. At the time of his
death he was engaged in casting the leaves that were to form
the foliage of the capital for the Nelson monument, in Trafal.
gar-square, and hod finished the two first. He is best known
by his statue of Major Cartwright in Burton-creseent.