The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-10 00:00:00

PIS.RLIAIMCEN'rAiLY.

The Lords yesterday held two conferences with the
Commons, waited for some time to receive Bills from
them, passed several measures a stage, including a Bill
to repeal an Act just passed, touching the slave trade
carried on by Portugal, and then adjourned.
The Commons, at their noonday sitting, agreed to the
Report on the Bankrupt Bill after some discussion, and
ordered the Bill to be read a third time to-day,
Sir James Graham gave up the County Courts Bill
for this session.

A petition was presented against the return of Mr.
Walter.

At the evening sitting Mr. T. Duncombe presented a
petition against the spy system (Ireland).
In reply to Mr. Hume, Sir R. Peel said he hoped the
House would be prorogued on Friday, and he is to move
to-day that it adjourn over to-morrow.
In reply to Mr. M. Philips, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer said he had received no official notice that
our Government would be called on to pay the interest
of the. loan for Greece, which it had guaranteed, the
Greek Government being unable to pay.
In reply to Mr. C. Buller, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer said he should not submit any measure to Parlia-
ment this. session, relative to the forged Exchequer bills.
In reply to Mr. Hume, Sir James Graham gave an ex-
planation of his conduct in pardoning a Mr. Johnstone,
who had been sentenced to three months' imprisonment
for an indecent assault on his servant. If the reader
wishes to see a gross case of a Judge making a state-
ment to the Secretary of State, in the absence
of counsel, solicitor, witnesses, and a prosecutrix,
totally at variance with his charge to a jury, and with
the sentence he inflicted, and of a Secretary of State
acting on such a partial statement without examining a
single other person, commuting a sentence, and so stig-
.matising a young woman, he must read Sir J. Graham's
explanation. A more flagrant case has not for a long
time fallen under ournnotice, or one which more strongly
convinces us that the prerogative of mercy should not
be left to the discretionary use of any Secretary of State.
Sir R. Peel, in a Committee, moved an address to the
Crown to erect public monuments to Lord Exmouth,
Lord De Samnarez and Sir Sidney Smith, and brought
the services of those gallant officers before the House in
an appropriate, eloquent, and as Sir G. Cockburn said,
beautiful speech.
Mr. Hawes, after a few remarks, left the matter in Sir
R. Peel's hands.

Sir R. Inglis objected to pledging the House to place
the monuments in SL Pees ; he wished to have a place
set apart for them.
Sir George Cockburn, Mr. Hume, Mr. Wyse, Sir P.
Burdett, Mr. Brotherton, and others, spoke oh the subject.
The address was, of course, agreed to, nem con.
The Coventry Boundary Bill was passed after a di-
vision.

The Limitation of Actions (Ireland) Bill was reported.
The House rose a little before Teh. -
MONEY—TRADE—COMMESCE.
Nearly 200 shipwrights employed in the ship. building
yards on the Tyne, left their work last 'week, in conse-
quence of an attempt made to r educe their wages. No
disturbance had arisen from the strike up to Saturday.
A meeting of the Metropolitan Anti-Corn-Law Asso-
ciation was held on Monday at the offices, West Strand,
when thanks were moved to the Earl of Radnor tir his
advocacy of the cause of free trade, and his introduction
and support in the House of Lords, last Thursday, of a
Bill for the total repeal of the Corn-laws.
A Staffordshire nailer, at the present rate of work, is
obliged to make a thousand nails, two inches long, for
one shilling and sixpence-; and a thousand is accounted
a good day's work for the generality of workmen.
A body of the working classes, in number about 4,000,
assembled on Monday evening in the space adjoining the
pin-manufactory, St. George's Market, Southwark, and
a memorial adopted, praying her Majesty to dismiss her
present Administration, anct to appoint a Ministry who
will make the People's Charter a Cabinet measure.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
The Commissioners appointed under the Southwark
Improvements Act held their first meeting on Monday at
the Literary Institution, Borough-road. The contem-
plated improvements are confined to the district of the
Mint, a locality which, from the reign of Edward VI.,
down to the present period, has been the favoured resort
of burglars, highwaymen, thieves, &c., including Jack
Sheppard and Jonathan Wild. About 200 ot these
houses are now to be razed, and the new street will tra-
verse Harrow-street, Red Cross-street, Duke-street, and
King-street, and when completed will form a direct com-
munication between the Great Dover-road and South-
wark-bridge.
ELECTIONEERING.
The Belfast election is not expected to take place till
Monday the 15th. On the Liberal side, Mr. Ross, of
Rosstrevor, has addressed the electors, and it is said that
Mr. Shafto Adair will also come forward. Mr. Emerson
Tennent, and Lord Hamilton Chichester, have issued
their addresses on the Tory side.
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NAVAL AND MILITANCY.
From a list of the slave-vessels and number of slaves
captured by her Majesty's vessels of war on the west
coast of Africa, and taken to St. Helena for adjudication,
it appears that 32 vessels within the lust two years have
been seized, having on board at the time of their capture
no less than 5,139 slaves.
Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Guillamore has been chosen
Aide-de .Camp to her Majesty in room of Colonel Dennie,
killed at Affghanistan.
LAW AND POLICE.
At the North Wales Circuit, just terminated, sentence
Herlihy Were found guilty,
of death has been pronounced on two women for murder,
Elizabeth Barrett, aged 23, on her illegitimate child,
eight months old ; and Hannah Roberts, only 19 years
of age, for poisoning her husbanckwho was aged 74.,
The trial of the vitriol throwers took place on Friday
at the Cork assizes, when DanielsLonerganssloha Drew,
Daniel Sullivan, and Timothy
and sentenced to be transported for life.
were fully
The Middlesex Sessions, which
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58 prisoners, 40 of 3vhom are cliarged with felony. e
The final examination of ilichard. Handley, Sarah
Ann Hunt, and Richard Gifford, charged
With being
concerned, either as principals or receivers, in
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propertyPcalendar t o the
a
number of robberies,
amount, took place on Monday at Marlborough-street.
taken against the prisoners, upon all of which they stood
Twelve complete cases out of twenty-one
committed.
At the recent North Tipperary Assizes, .Tames Shea
was sentenced to be hung on the 20th instant for murder,
and death was also recorded against Patrick Tracey and
Thomas Dunn for abduction. Five other criminals were
also ordered to be transported for life, and three for
fifteen years.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.
St. Croix or St. Cross, which is situated about a mile
from Winchester, on the road to Southampton, is one of
the few ancient hospitals or almonries now remaining in
this kingdom. By the will of the donor, every traveller
who knocks at the door of this hostel, on his way to or
from Winchester, is entitled to receive from the porter
a pound of wheaten bread and a cup of strong beer.
TBEATRICAL.
A new melodrame, entitled the Busleranger's Booty, or
The Old IVorld and the New, was brought out on Monday
night at the' Victoria Theatre.
Several amateurs of fashion, assisted by Mrs. Nesbitt,
and her sister, Miss Mordamit, got up the comedy of
The I?iral.l, and the fierce of TOO Late ibi* Dinner, on
Saturday, nt the Dover Theatre.
Two new pieces were produced at the English Opera
house on Monday night. One was entitled the Broken
Home, and the other was a musical burletta„ on the
story of Blue Beard. Both pieces were favourably
received.
COURT—TA-SUI°NABLE.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort returned to Beau-
fort. House ye sterday from Brighton. '
The Duchess of Ilichmond and the Ladies Lennox
left Portland-place yesterday for Gordon Castle.
The Duke and Duchess of Montrose leave town in the
course of the week for Buchanan Castle, Perthshire.
The Earl of Cardigan has left Portman-square for York.
A grand-dinner was given on Saturday at the Claren-
don llotel, by several Members of the House of Com-
mons,- to Lord. Mahon and Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, to
celebrate the passing of the Copyright Bill.:. .
Lord Stuart de Rothe:v.!, left London on .Sunday for
Antwerp.
Lord and Lady Southampton have invited a select
circle to Whittlebury Lodge, Northamptonshire.