The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-16 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY.

In the House of Lords last evening no discussion took place,
Lord Brougkam having, at the request of some of his Peers,
postponed his motion on the proposed income tax till Thursday.
Lord Campbell presented a petition from some place in Scot-
land, in favour of Non-intrusion, and intimated at the same
time that he had been requested to support the prayer of the
petition ; but his Lordship very properly declined to support
either the prayer !Tr the petitioners in their wild schemes. Se-
veral Bills from the Commons were read a third time.
In the Commons the National Floating Breakwater BM was
read a second time, and ordered to be committed.

The House, after some discussion, divided on the motion of
Mr. Mackinnon, for the second reading of the Marylebone
Parish Bill, which was carried by a majority of 75, the num-
bers for the second reading being 206, and against it 131.
Mr. Ferrand gave notice of a motion for the appointment
of a Select Committee to inquire into the conduct of manufac-
turers and master colliers towards those in their employ; and
Mr. P. Birthwick gave notice, that after Faster he would
call the attention of the House to the state of the metropolitan
roads, for the purpose cf throwing light upon them.
In answer to a question from Mr. Baring, respecting the
machinery by which the income tax was to be enforced, Sir
Robert Peel said he must decline gi‘ing any information or,
the subject till Friday.
Captain Bo'dero announced that it was the intention of the
Government to issue percussion locks for the 6,000 troops
about to be sent out to India.

Dr. Bowring's motion, for an address to the Crown to con-
tinue the quarantine system in foreign countries, was agreed to.
Sir Andrew Leith Bay then brought forward his motion
respecting the Kirk of Scotland, which, after a lengthened dis-
cussion, was withdrawn.

l‘lr. Hutt obtained leave to bri-g in a Pill permitting
flour, or flour and biscuit to be substituted for foreign wheat
secured in warehouses.

Mr. Campbell brought forward his motion respecting the
constitution and principles of the Church of Scotland, and to
inquiry into the causes of the collision between the Supreme
Courts of the Church and the Supreme Civil Courts, which,
after some discussion, was lost on a division by 77, the numbers
being fnr the motion 62, against it 139.
Ferrand brought forwarc a motion for a copy of the
convictions in York ;and Lancaster of persons guilty of paying
their workmen on the Truck • yitem.
Dr. Bowring postponed to Thursday his motion respecting
the Corn-law Conference.

The Earl of Lincoln obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the
sale of York House.

The House then adjourned at a Quarter-past One.
MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.

A meeting of postmasters took place yesterday at the Free-
masons' Tavern, at which the grievances relating to the tax
on carriages, and the heavy post-horse duties were made the
subject of memorial to the Treasury, and a deputation was ap-
pointed to wait on the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
AGRICULTURAL.

At a meeting of the Horticultural Society held yesterday,
there were distributed cuttings of an apple called the Sunbui y
beauty, a fruit very little known, hut much like the golden
pippin, and of excellent flavour. A new kind of apple from
Oswestry wsa also exhibited.

ECCI.k. SIA.STICA.M.

The Evangelical Lutherans in Russia have 574 churches and
301 chapels, and the Emperor has granted a sum out of the
Treasury for building another church at Minsk. The reformed
rcl'gion has thirty-two churches and four chapels. The Jews
have 604 synagogues, and 2,340 chapels, and the 11Iahorne-
tans 5,843 mosques.