The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-02 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY.

The House of LordsnereTy transacted some business ye: ter-
day. Lord Campbell said that he had discovered that the Law
of Evidence was the same in England and in Scotland, and he
therefore sh,uld bring in no Bill on the subject.
Lord John Russell's Bribery Bill was in the Commons
objected to by the Solicitor-General, and at his suggestion
the Noble Lord agreed to refer it to a Select Committee.

Mr. Wallace moved his resolutions on the state of the country,
and requesting her Majesty not to prorogue Parliament till
measures of relief had been adopted, aid that important subject
nearly filled up the evening. Mr. Walker, Dr. Bowring, Mr.
Aglionby, Sir J. Graham, Mr. Ward, Mr. D'lsraeli, Mr.
Hume, Mr. Attwood, Lord J. Russell, Sir R. Peel, and Mr.
Miloer Gibson took part in the debate, which, on the mo-
tion of Mr. Williams, was, without opposition from Sir R.
Peel, adjourned.
L•rd Ashley afterwards proposed to read the Collieries Bill
a third time, which was opposed, but was eventually read a
third time, on the understanding that Mr. Ainsworth is to move
an additional clause on Monday.
'I he House adjourned at Half-past One o'Clock. -
MOD) IC— I'ZILDII-0 OZVIDIE icCE.

Three hundred of the operatives of Messrs. Sharp, Roberts,
and Co., the engineers of Manchester, were discharged on
Saturday last. One or two cotton-mills, it is stated, are on the
eve of stopping their works.
The sixth annual meeting of the South Australian Company
was held at New Broad-street on Thursday. From an inventory
taken abroad it was found that the Company's property in
South Australia amounted to 333,6801., and that the surplus
of .a-sets beyond liabilities was reckoned at 57,0001. The total
revenue for the year ending 1841 was 17,289!. 10s. 3d., and
the balance of the profit. and loss account was 9,1211. 15s. 4d.
'I he colony was stated to be in an improving state, and the
erops very abundant.
P unxac IMPROVEMENTS.
The intention of the Corporation of the City of London to
re-construct the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas,
and Exchequer, will be carried into immediate effect, and the
present Courts in Guiuhall-yard will be pulled down on the
termination of the present sittings on the 6th of July. The
orporation has voted 11,0001. for their erection, and they are
to be ready for Michaelmas term.
NAVAL. AND MILITARY.
Two.ships of the line, one to be called the Prince of Wales,
of 110 guns, and the other of 90 guns, to be named the Prin-
cess Rot al, have been ordered to be built at Portsmouth by the
Admiralty Board.
Mr. Henry V. Craven, a promising young officer, who was
mate of the signals on board of her Majesty's ship Revenge, at
the storming of Beyrout, Siden, and Acre, fell overboard on
his passage to China, and has been drowned.
I.AVI AND PO LICE.
The Tipperary Special Commission was opened at Clonmel
on Tuesday. Lord Chief Justice Pennefather, in his address,
stated that " it was shocking to humanity to be informed tl at
there was hardly a crime of violence that was not perptrated
almost with impunity in the county."
bnioll
letislsedthainn
4C6hadneefeenrydanagtsa,i nms ta
ny the
of rine familyyminors.
theirlei taire
Eight attorneys are at present working at it : it will remain
perhaps in Court 20 years, and the costs amount to 5,000/.
Frederick Isambiel, who a few days since obtained a sum-
mons against Miss Thyrza Sumner, a young lady residing at
Oat'and's farm, Surrey, for having torn his coat at Dubourg's
Hotel, Haymarket, and so beset him with matrimonial ad-
vances as to render it necessary for him to seek the protection
of the law, displayed the love-letters stated to be received by
him, at Marlborough-street, on Thursday; but the Magistrate
dismissed the case, leaving the plaintiff to his remedy, if he had
any, in some other Court.
At Queen-square on '1 hursday, Robert Cleverly was charged
with indelicateiy addressing Miss Eliza Davis anu her sister on
the previous evening while taking their walk on Millbank, and ;
fined the highest penalty, Si., which was paid.
1t ;liiam Scott, a linendrapet's shopman, whose debts were
upwards of 3001. contracted in six years, was opposed on Thurs-
day at the Insolvent Debtors' Court in his discharge by a Mrs.
Kerby, and he was remanded for four mt.uths from the vesting •
order.