The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-03 00:00:00

FEBRUARY.

1. The debate on the Fortification Bill in the Chamber
of Deputies closed by a majority of 237 against 162 in
favour of the project of law.
2. The Earl of Cardigan surrenders himself into the
custody of the Usher of the Black rod, in consequence of
an indictment being preferred against him for murder,
and is subsequently admitted to bail.
Mr. Labourchere brings forward a motion for
equalising the duties on East and West India rum.
Lord Stanley obtains leave to bring in a Bill to
amend the law relative to the Registration of Voters in
Ireland.
Destructive fire in Moorfields.
3. The American House of Representatives resolves
that the Governor of Maine be authorised to take im-
mediate measures to remove the troops of the Queen of
Great Britain from the disputed territory.
Death of Lord Iletile , in his 52d year.
Presentation of the City Addresses to the Queen,
Prince Albeit, and the Duchess of Kent, on the birth of
the Princess Royal.
'4. Third stoppage of the Bank of the United States.
The Houses ,of Lords and Commons agree to a
vote of thanks to Sir Robert Stopfordi and the officers
and men under his command, for their services on the
coast of Syria.

Second reading of the Copyright Bill lost on a
division by 39 to 45.
6. The Grand Jury of Lockport, Now York, find a
true bill against Alexander M'Leod for murder and
arson, in the destruction of the Caroline.
Mr. Justice Littledale takes leaVe of the bar.
7. Destruction of Camberwell Old Church by fire.
8. The Poor-law Commission Continuance Bill is read
a second time in the 'Buse of Commons, there appe.;ring
on a division, for the second reading, 201 ; against it, 54.
—Marriage of the Princess Theolinda of Leuchtenberg
with Count William of Wirtemberg.
9. Mr. Fitzroy Kelly obtains leave to bring in a Bill for
the ab.iiition of the punishment of death in certain cases.
10. Christening of the Princess Royal of England by
the name of Victoria Adelaide Maria Louisa. _ _

Lord Syd:nhamassumes the Government of Canada.
The 2d regimerit of light cavalry of the Bengal
army is disbanded by order of the Governor-General for
cowardice in not supporting their 14.1uropean officers
when charging the enemy.
12. The motion that an annuity of. 2,0001. per annum
be granted to Lord Keane and his • two surviving heirs
passed the House by a majority of 152.
Death of Sir Astley Cooper.
- Dinner to Lord John Russell by the Directors of
the -New Zealand Company.
i 4. The British 'lndianian Heroine, frOm China to
London, lost near Cape Spartel, and out of sixty persons
on board, thirty-four, principally 'meal's, perished.
The Earl of Cardigan is tried before the House of
Peers, and acquitted on a point of law.
19. On the motion of, Lord John Russell, the Regis-
tration of 'Voters (England) Bill is read a second time in
the House of Commons.
-- Conti ,gratiou of Wynyard House, near Stockton,
th • seat of the Marquis and Marchioness ol
Londonderry.
_ _

Death of hear-Admiral Lord G. Stuart, aged GO.
Execution at Lisbon of Diego Alves and Celleiro
(the former having committed twenty•seven murders)
the crime for wHch they suffered being the murder of a
family of five, persons.
20. Banquet at the Mansion House to her Majesty's
Mini6wrs.

Destruction of the Governor Fenner, American
packet-ship, with the loss of 116 passengers, and 16 of
tier crew (two only being saved), having run foul of the
Nottingham steamer, oillolyhead.
21. Death of the Earl of Rosso, in 'his !Rib year.
23. After a debate of four nights, ther Hoose of Com-
mons divides on the question of the second reading of
the Irish Registration majority for Ministers, .5.
The English forces take possession of the forts of
the Bogue, arid of the factories at Canton ; Keshen hav-
ing been degraded, and sent to Pekin in irons. The island
olefins:in is evacuated and restored to the Chinese.
27. Grand entertainment to his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, at the Trinity House, on the occasion of his being
enrolled ono of the elder brethren,. in the place of the
late Marquis Camden.
The Secret Service Money MIAs carried in the
Member of Deputies, in favour of Minister?, by
235 to 1-15.

Two houses fell down in Fleet. street.
MARCH.

1. Mr. M. O'Ferrall brings forward the Navy Esti-
mates, and move 3 to increase. the number of sailors from
87,163, the number last year, to 43,000.
The Pope signs an allocution accusing the Spanish
Government and the Spanish people of being the perse-
cutors of the Church.
2. Mr. Colquhoun obtains leave to bring in a bill to
alter and amend the acts of the Irish Parliament relating
to the College of Maynooth.
Suicide of Lieut. Ellis, of tho 60th Royal Rifles.
3. The Design Copyright Bill read a second thee in the
House of Commons.
Captain Douglas, Lord Cardigan's second in his
duel with Captain Tuckctt, on Wimbledon Common, is
tried at the Ohl Bailey, on a charge of feloniously shoot-
ing at Captain 'Puckett, and acquitted on the same grounds
as the Noble Lord.
4. General Harrison is installed President of tl:e
United States.
- Mr. T. Duncomb.:., M.P., presented by the actors
of the Hay market Theatre with a silver cup and cover,
in testimony of his Parliamentary exertions in removing
the restrictions on theatrical performances during Lent.
5. The Bishop of London brings under the notice of
the (louse of Lords the, immoralities of masquerades.
Mr. Macaulay brings forward the army estimates,
end moves • a grant of a land force not exceeding 92000
Settlement of the treaty of commerce between Por-
tugal and .the United States.
The Plenipatentiark‘s of the Four Powers, parties
to the treitty4July, sign a protocol reciting the semis-
sion of Mehemet Ali, and authorising the return of the
Consuls of the respective Powers simultaneously to A?ex-
&odes.

8. The third reading of -Lord Keane's Annuity Bill iv
Parriedin the House of Commons by a maj n•i;y of 128
to 40,
The British Queen steam ship leaves Bt ekivall on
her first voyage to America.
10. Overland mail from India, with resignation of Ad-
miral Elliot, on the plea of ill health.
The second reading of the Jews' Declaration Bill is
carried, in the House of Compons, by 137 to 24. On
this occasion Lord John Russell expresses his readiness
.to admit Jews to seats in Parliament.
1. The President steam-vessel leaves New York on
her voyage to England, and on the next day encountered
a storm between .Nantucket Shoals and George's Bank,
in which it is supposed she:foundered with all on board.
Amongst the passengers were a son of the Duke of Rich-
mond and the celebrated comedian. Tyrone Power.
Sir Moses Alontefiore is presented by the Britiih
Jews with an address of congratulation on the successful
termination of his labours' on behalf of the persecuted
Jews in Syria.
Chekib Effendi has restored to him, under condi-
tions, the Governorship of Egypt. with hereditary descent.
12. The County Courts Bill is read a second time in
the House of Commons, after an ineffectual opposition
by Sir David Pollock and Sir Edward Sugden. Mr. La-
bouchere lays on the table resolutions for relaxing the
Customs Duties in the West Indies and North American
colonies.

—Mr. Fox, the British Ambassador to the United States
announces to the American Government the approval, on
the part of the British Government of the destruction of the
Caroline, and demands the immediate release of Alex-
ander M•Leod.

14. The Consuls of the Five Powers in Candia issue a
joint proclamation, condemning the proceedings of the
insurgents. •
15. The House of Commons guarantees a loan of
210,000/. to the colony of South Australia.
The boy Jones again effects an entrance into Buck-
ingham Palace.
The Vice-Chancellor, heads of houses, and proctors
of Oxford University, meet and agree to a resolution
condemning the " Tracts for the Times."
16. The motion on the Sound duties negatived in the
House without a division.

Execution of James Taylor, at Salisbury, for the
murder of his wife.

Eleven persons killed by explosion of fire-damp in
a coal-mine near Hamilton. .

18. Mr. Easthope moves a resolution to the effect that
the imprisonment of Wm. Baines in Leicester gaol for
non-payment of Church-rates, is a violation of the prin-
ciples of religious freedom—lost by 45 to 40.
19. Opening of the session of the Cortes of Spain.
Harriet Longley murders her infant when in a state
of want by throwing it into the New River.
20. Captain Elliot announces to the people of Canton
the suspension of hostilities' and the opening of the trade.
22. M'Leod is arraigned before the Court of Oyer and
Terminer at Lockport. Application is made to remove
the case by certiorari to the Supreme Court, and granted.
23 The Dean of York arraigned before the Arch-
bishop's Commissary, in the Ecclesiastical Court at York
on a charge of simony.
Loss .of the Mary Stuart, off Proa Saire Bay.
Lieut. Smith, R.N., and five of the coast-guard drowned
in attempting to reach the wreck.
24. The revolutionary attempts at Marseilles, 21 per-
sons with arms and cartridges are arrested.
26:Sir John Harvey retires from the Government of
New Brunswick.

29. In Committee on the Poor-law Continuance Bill,
a motion that it be an instruction to the Committee to
introduce a clause to repeal the Poor-law Amendment
Act, is negatived by 155 to 9.
Death of Vice-Admiral Sir Thos. Dundas, L.C.B.
.Reschid Pacha, Minister for Foreign Affairs, is dis-
missed by the Sultan, and is succeeded by Rifant Bey.
31. The third reading of the Jews' Declaration Bill is
carried in the House of Commons by a majority of 108
to 31. APRIL

1. The Paris Fortifications Bill is carried in the
Chamber of Deputies by a majority of 147 to 85.
2. The Dean of York found guilty of simony, and
deposed.
Execution of Josiah Misters at Shrewsbury for the
attempt to murder Mr. Mackreth.
3. Execution of Matthew Foples at Stafford, for the
murder of Martha Keeling, at Newcastle-under-Lyme.
4. Death of General Harrison, President of the United
States of America, having filled that office only one
month. Succeeded by the Vice-President, Mr. Tyler.
5. The official statement of the year's and quarter's
revenue exhibits, upon the whole year, a decrease of
309,2801., and upon the quarter, compared with the.quar-
ter ending April 5, 1840, a-decrease of 70,5141.
7. Don Miguel, ex-King of Portugal, washes the feet
of 13 pilgrims in the church of Trinity, at Rome.
Accident on the Birminghani and Gloucester Rail-
way. William Creuze, the engineer, killed, and two or
three other persons severely injured.
8. Two .Roman Catholic Priests from Lisbon and one
from Naples publicly abjure the faith of the Church of
Rome in. Whitehall Chapel, in the presence of the Bishop
of London and a numerous congregation.
'll. By command of the Earl of Cardigaa
,private
Rogers, of the 11th Ilussars, is tied up and flogged, pur-
suant to the sentence of a Court-martial, in the riding-
school at Hounslow, after the celebration of Divine Ser-
vice in the same place, it being Easter Sunday.
Insurrection of the Greeks in Thessaly.
14. Eight- oared cutter match on the Thames between
gentlemen of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge,
which was won by the latter. .
Appointment of a new Ministry in Belgium.
15. Final retirement of Mdlle. Mars from the
French stage.
16. Death of Reynolds, the dramatist, in his 77th year.
17. The Chinese break the convention with Captain
Elliot, and commence the destruction of all teas, &c., for
foreign vessels.
19. Wreck of the William Brown by striking on the
ice. Sixteen of the passengers who had been received
into the long boat; are thrown overboard by the crew.
Sir Charles Napier entertained by the Mayor and
Corporation of Liverpool, on the occasion of his arrival in
England.
21. A grand entertainment is given to Commodore
Napier. at the Town Hall at Manchester.
A general order is issued from the Horse Guards,
reprimanding the Earl of Cardigan for having ordered a
soldier to be flogged on the Lord's day.
23. Ir. the House of Commons the Administration of
Justice (No. 1) Bill goes through Committee; after a dis-
cussion, and the appointment of two new additional
Judges, is agieed to.
24. Execution of Bartholomew Murray at Chester, for
the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Cook, at Over Peover.
2Q. In Committee on the Parliamentary Voters (Ire.
land) Bill, Lord Howick's amendment, requiring the
tenant who claimed the right to vote to be rated to the
poor:rate 51. above his rent, is opposed by Ministers, and
a
carried against them by majority of 291 to 270.
27. A'publie meeting, called by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, takes place stWillis's Rooms, for the purpose
of originating trfutat for' the endowment of additional
bishoprics- in the colonies.
Suicide of Lord James Beresford on board the Ti-
gris, on her passage from Colombo to England.
29. Dr. Henry Pepys,. Bishop of Sodor and Man, is
promoted to the see, of Worcester.
30. Lord John Russell announces the intention of Mi-
nisters to consider the laws relating to the trade in corn.
Tip- Chancellor of the Exchuer brings forward theßud-
get proposing :a reduction of duties on corn, sugar, and
Umber.
MAY.

7. Suicide of General Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin.
3:The Earl of Waldegrave and Captain Duff are
sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and to pay a fine
tolhe Queen, the' former of 200/., and the latter of 201.,
for an assault on a policeman at KingstOn.
Defeat of the Arabs under Abd-el-Ka.der, by the
French troops under General Bugeattd.
6. The ease of M'Leod removed by • habeas corpus
before the Supreme Court at Now York. •
•S. Espartero elected sole Regent of Spain.
9. The brig Mary Scot is run down off Point Lynas.
by the ship Brooklyn, and six of the crew drowned.
• 10. Debut of Mdlle. Itachtv 1 at her Majesty's Theatre.
12. Mr. Dyer, a Magistrate of Middlesex, is struck out
of the Commission 'ot the Peace by the Lord Chan-
cellor, in consequence of having held communications
with a prisoner in the House of -Correction, relative to
his release. - • •
15. Sir IL Pottinger appointed• her Majesty's Plenipo-
tentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade in China, in
the room of Captain Elliot.
—'The Porte establishes a blockade of Candid.
• 17. Falling of a part of the ellfrat-Ctiwbec, by which
seven houses are destroyed and upwards of 30 persons

18. Her Majesty's brig Espoir and a Portuguese vessel
of war despatched by Lord iloward delValden from Lis-
bon, in search 'of the missing steamer, the President.
Conclusion of the debate on the sugar duties, when
Lord Sandon's amendment is carried by a majority of
317 to 281; majority against Ministers, 36.
19. Public.mecting in Covent-garden in favour of the
ministerial measures. Meetings in favour of or against
the ministerial measure; take place about this time all •
over the country. • • •
—The Turkish army commences hostilities against
the insurgents in Candle.
22. Formation of a new Spanish Administration, of
which M. Gonzales is President: ..
23. The British Forces, under Sir 11. Gough, attack
and carry the outward defences of Canton:
24. Sir Robert Peel .gives notice of a motion of want
of Confidence in the Ministers. ,
25. Mr. Easthope obtains . leave . to bring in a bill to
abolish Church-rates and to make • other provisions for
the maintenance of churches and. chapels throughout
the kingdom. •
27. Sir Llngh Gough about to storm and take posses-
sion of Canton, when an officer arrives from Capt, .Elliot
announcing that he was again treating with the Chinese,
who bad consented to pa six. millions of/dollars as- a
ranson for the city. The'British forces are accordingly
drawn off.

Sir Robert Peel brings forward his motion of want
of confidence in Ministers. The debate adjourned.
Assination of Mr. Robert Butler Bryan, of Wexford.
The General Assembly of the church of Scotland
pronounced sentence of deposition against the seven
ministers of Strithbogie, and declares the seven churches
of the deposed to be vacant.
78 Resig,nation of the Portuguese Ministry. The Duke
de Palthella undertakes the formation of a new Ministry.
29. A decree of the Court of Session is served on the
Moderator of the General Assembly, interdicting the ex-
ecution of the sentence of deposition against the sus-
pended ministers of Strathbogie.
31. Ex .!.1..t.1ti011 of Darmes for the attempt to assassi-
nate Louis Philippe.
The 27th Congress of the United States meets at
Washington.
JUNE.
1. A firman sent. by the Sublime Porte to Mehemet
Ali,' grants him the hereditary Government of Egypt.