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

PARLIAMENTARY.

In the Lords last night the Commi Tt7e on 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-
ships' inquiries into the subject, however, will be continued,
though the progress of the Bill is stopped. Lords Brougham
and Campbell warned parties that it would be at their own
peril if they took ads antage 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'ches to the
Young Queen in person, from which it appears that the trick-
ery 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
Lords. We look for a spirited debate.
The Lord Chancellor laid on the table a Bill for extending
the jurisdiction in bankruptcy, which was read a third time.
The pan Societies and the Apprentice Regulation Bills were
read a third time.—Adjourned.
In the Commons Mr. G. Palmer, a Tory, gave notice of his
intention to oppose Sir R. Peel's proposed duty on coals.
In answer to Sir R. Inglis, Sir R. Peel stated that the Easter
recess would be from next Thursday week, the 24th, to the
next Monday week following, April 4.
Sir J. Graham, in reply to a question, said it was the inten-
tion of Government to bring in a Bill to regulate parish con-
stables, but not a Bill to alter the Rural Police Act.

In reply to Mr. C. Buller, the Speaker said that the House
could not receive petitions against a tax after it had come
under the consideration of the House ; at the same time Sir R.
Peel refused to postpone his motion concerning the Income
Tax beyond Friday.
Sir R. Peel explained, in answer to Mr. Shiel, that he
thought it would bc inexpedient to lay on the table 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 fur 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 a
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 ensued, but en a division Mr. Ward's
motion was lost by 230 to 115.
Subsequently the House went into Committee on the Corn
Keeping-out Bill, and got through eight or nine clauses of it.
Adjourned at a Quarter before One o'Clock.

MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE.
Very little interest, says the Leeds Mercury, is at present
felt in the manufacturing dist! icts of the country, on the sub-
ject of factory legislation, which is scarcely ever mentioned
either by the work people or their employers.
_ _LAW AND POLICE.

Jonathan Taylor, aged 60, was—triedonFriday at the York
Assize, before Mr. Baron Rolfe, for the murder of his wife, Ellen
Taylor, by strangling her, on the 26th October last. After
hearing evidence, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and
the prisoner was sentenced to be hanged.
On Sunday morning, George Lucas, warehouseman in the
city, residing at No. 8, Zion Gardens, Aldermanbury, mur-
dered with a razor his three children, and afterwards cut his
own throat. The horrid particulars appear in another part of
The Sun.