The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-16 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN,;

The French papers are still full of the elections. On Wed-
nesday morning 422 ruminations were known in Paris; 249
are styled Conservatives, and 173 are classed in the Opposition
by the ministerial papers; but the Opposition do not admit this
classification as absolute, nor, indeed, will it be possible to have
a correct opinion of the strength of the majority until a trial
comes on before the Chamber. There remain 42 more eh ctious
to be known.

We have advices from Madrid of the 6th instant.
A warm debate took place in the Chamber of Deputies, in
which Senor Silva insisted upon knowing from the Ministers if
the Government had done nothing to neutralise the efforts of a
late treaty between Great Britain and Portugal, which
he represented as detrimental to Spanish commerce ; and
if it was true that England had made to the Spanish
Government similar proposals to which Portugal had
assented. El Conde de Almodovar replied, that no official in-
formation of the treaty in question had been given to the Go-
vernment, but that when it should be officially known, the Go-
vernment would then make such representations as the interests
of the country called for. Senor Gonzales declared that Eng-
land had made no proposals for a treaty of commerce, and that
he (S. Gonzales) had been most desirous for the presentation
of the law on cottons.

A letter from Gibraltar, June 2?, says :—" An officer of the
American Commodore having solicited an audicnee of the Em-
peror of Morocco, fnr the purpose of representing to him the
complaints of two agents of the United States, was refused al-
though, it must be admitted, in terms of extreme politeness. The
representative of England had an audience on the same day,
the motive of which is not known. The American officer im-
mediately embarked on board a Spanish vessel, to report the
result of his mission to Commodore Morgan.
A Constantinople letter of the 22d ult., in the Augsburgls
Gazette, states that the Sultan gave an audience to Choshrew
Pacha on the 20th. This circumstance had led to a general
rumour that Chosrew had again been taken into favour.

'PMETARY.
The Queen's Pi oteA
ctiRLI Aon Bill wenNt
through all its remaining
stages last night in the House of Lords, was sent down to the
House of Commons with amendments suggested by Lord
Campbell, and was returned to the House of Lords with the
amendments agreed to. In the sew observations which were
made on the Bill, both Lord Brougham and the Duke of
Wellington expressed their deep regret at the death of the
Duke of Orleans.
There was some conversation about education in Ireland,
which elicited a difference of opinion between the Rev. Pre-
lates as to what a Protestant clergyman ouOit to do touching
reading extract:, from the Bible. The Archbishop of Armagh
contended that the Protestants could not touch the books used
in the national schools without being defiled, and the Bishop of
Norwich contended that they contained the whole faith of the
Church of England.
The New South Wales Bill wa3 read a second time.
The Mines and Collieries Bill was committed pro finina. At
Eight o'Clock their Lordships adjourned.
In the Commens, at'Mr. Labouchere's suggestion, the Vice-
President of the Board of Trade moved, in a Committee of the
whole House, certain resolutions relative to the duty on cement
stone when exported, which resolutions will become a Bill to
alter the tariff. It is discreditable to the Ministers that they
have ruined classes and trade without even knowing it. The ce-
ment makers have succeeded in making Mr. Gladstone undo his
own work.

Mr. C. Wood asked whether it was the law that light coin
might be defaced, but the Chancellor of the Exchequer could
not answer.

The House was engaged the whole evening voting supplies,
and it got through twiny items. There was some wrangling
about the vote for education. Sir R. Inglis attacked Lord
Wharncliffe, and Sir James Graham defended him, and defended
the system of education against an attack of the over-righteous
Baronet. He sneered also at Sir Hobert as a better defender
of the Church than the Bishops. There was some boggling,
too, about the grant for ilaynooth, which occupied the house
till a late hour. It. sat till Three o'Clock.

TVIOII'EY—T344I.O2—CO.r.vIIVIERCE,.
The fiftieth anniversaty of the Tower Hamlets Dispensary
took place on Thursday at the West India Dock Tavern, Black-
wall. From the Report it appeared that this charity had ad-
mitted since its establishment 53,576 patients, of whom
40,90.3 had been cured. The annual number of persons relieved
is 1,500.

The shipwrights in the Tyne have struck during the List few
dais, in consequence of the shipbuilders having determined to
give 21s. instead us 245. per week; further stagnation in trade
has of course ensued.

I....tters from iturslem, in the Potteries, state that not less
than 6,000 workmen have turned out, owing to reductions of
wages. 'the collieries, iron-works, and potteries have been
visited by them, :Ind those men who had accepted the reduced
scale of wages, subjected to per!oi.al violence. Yeomanry and
military are now parading the districts.

sZCC.i.ESZASITICAL.
The Pro• Church-rate party were defeated at Bradford last
Saturday.
The Hight Rev. Dr. Charles Dickenson, Bishop of Meath,
formerly domestic chaplain to the Archbishop Whateley, died
at his see house, ArdGraccan, on Tuesday. His elevation to
his bishopric took place in 1840.

AND MILITARY.
Thursday experiments were made in the Woolwich Marshes
on one of Porter's anchors of 60i cwt., the largest ever made on
that principle. On being placed in the testing frame, it stood
the immense strain of 59i tons, with a deflection of only one
inch and seven-eighths, proving it to be sufficient for a war
frigate of 90 guns.
Aews of four vessels having been lost has arrived within
these few days. 3he brig Whitehaven, lost off Fayal, but the
mastic and crew saved ; 250 tons of coal went (town, but in-
sured. The ship Canadian, 100 tons of slate, lust near Bow.
castle, crew saved, uninsured. The Mary and Ann, wrecked
near Alburg, loss 13,000/., the crew saved. The Louis Phi-
lippe, a French steamer, wrecked at Havre, valued at several
thousands.

ZILVT ANI3 POLICE.

James Robertson, indicted for the wilful murder of James
Liddle, at Monkwcarmouth, by striking him on the head with
a hammer, was fuund guilty of manslaughter, at the Durham
assizes on Wednesday, and sentenced to transportation for life.
Mr. Coppock, solicitor, of St. James's, having on Thursday en-
tered the Maryle bone- office, and apprised the sitting Magistrate
of an intended duel between Mr. Turner, of West Paddington,
and Mr. %V. C. Brooks, of Manchester, the Magistrate issued a
warrant for the apprehension of Mr. Turner, who was held in
bail to keep the peace, himself in 5001. and two sureties in
2501. each.

Wilhail Webb, a labourer in the employment of Messrs.
Noble and Mee, farmers, at Peckham Rye, was brought up at
Union-hall on Thursday, charged with attempting to rob and
murder James White, who now lies doubtful of recovery at St.
Thomas's Hospital. It appeared that it was the custom of
Webb to sleep in a barn on the premises, and on the night in
question a man entered through an aperture leading from an
adjoining barn, who laid himself down beside him on the hay,
afterwards struck him a violent blow, with a sharp weapon, on
the back part of the head, covering him with blood, as he was
disco%ered, and rendering him insensible. The fact of the
prisoner being at that spot at the time was proved, and a bill-
hook belonging to him identified. He was remanded on the
evidence adduced, and it is hoped in a few days the wounded
man will be able to come forward as a witness.
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Nx AttICS.
A monument is about to be raised in the cemetery of Pere
la Chaise, Paris, over the remains of Admiral Sir Sidney
Smith, subscriptions being in progress for the purpose.
iaTracaltle sc3CENTI.rxc.
On opening a quarry, or pit, in the parish of Hartington,
Derbyshire, a finely variegated shell, crystal, and strata marble
has been discovered, containing a quantity of fossil substances.
In consequence of the death of the Duke of Orleans, the per-
formances announced at the St. James's Theatre fur last even-
ing did not take place.
COtTiLT--.FASHION) ALE.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter have returned to
town from a brief visit to Brighton.
The Marquis and Alarchioness of Queensberry have taken
Sudley Lodge, Bognor, where they have already arrived.
The Earl and Countess Grey had a dinner party on Wed-
nesday.
The Countess of Leicester, accompanied by her son, the Earl,
left London on Thursday for Antwerp.
M. Dedel, the Minister of the Netherlands, returned to Wil-
ton-crescent last Wednesday from the Hague.
The Duchess of Buccleuch has issued invitations for a select
circle, at. the Duke's villa at Richmond, on Monday next.
The Coun•e,s Brownlow held her last assembly for the sea-
son on Thursday night in Belgrave-square.
Countess Danneskial Samsoe, daughter of the Marquis of
Aylesbury, arrived on Tuesday last from Denmark.
Croxteth Hall, the seat of the Earl and Countess of Sefton,
is full of company durin,, the Liverpool meeting.
.MaCELLILATEOUS.
Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart., died at Kemp-town, 'Brighton,
on Wednesday. His eldest son by his first marriage, Mr.
Henry S. Wilmot, bora in 1801, succeeds him. He married
secondly, in 1817, Mrs. Craufurd, widow of Major• General
A. Craufurd.

INCENDIARY FIRES.
APPREHENSION AND CONVICTION OF THE
INCENDIARIES.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.
For the last two months considerable excitement has existed
among the inhabitants, particularly the agriculturists of the
quiet market town of Havant, situated on the south-eastern
extremity of Hampshire, in Dmsequence of several incendiary
fires having taken place, and letters of an inflamatory and
threatening description having been found in the streets, the
authors of which had escaped detection until Monday last, when
another fire was attempted, which led to a scrutinizing and
severe inquiry, and the suspected incendiaries, Charles Parrott
and William Sparkes ( Mr. Charles Longcroft's servant) having
undergone examination on Wednesday, and corroborative, evi-
dence having come forward, they were fully committed. Par-
rott was taken at four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, and con-
fined in the cage, but at the time of his apprehension no sus; i-
cion was entertained against Sparkes. the Magistrate, Sir
John A. Ommanney, however, having heard that the two were '
intimate, sent for the latter to interrogate him as to his know-
ledge of Parrott's movements on the nights of the several fires.
What answers he made to the questions put to him does not
appear, but it is certain that no suspicion attached to him until
Parrott was sent for from " durance vile " after the examina-
tions had been takeh. It was four o'clock on Wednesday
afternoon before the inquiry had been completed, and before
Parrott was confronted with Isis accusers. lie had, theretere,
twenty. four hours of solitary reflection, and the result shows
that he entertained a correct anticipation of what was going
forward, for he had no sooner entered the presence of the
Magistrate than he at once denounced Sparkes as the perpe-
trator of the fire at Stevens's barn. "Ah !" said Sparkes, "if
I had Leen taken up first, I would not have told upon you." Re-
crimination followed, and the result is both were committed
upon each other's evidence, or rather their own confessions.
The investigation has called forth some of the most ex-
traordinary and unaccountable traits of the human cha-
racter.. It appears, on the strictest and most severe interroga-
tion, that neither of these wretches had any motive whatever for
perpetrating these diabolical acts. They were asked, over and
over again, why they committed the fires ; and their reply was
invariably "we had no motive." And me very extraordinary
feature in the case is, that Sparkes has been a confidential ser-
vttnto
and AI
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that Lon he
g e ro ft
has,
the
beendeputed,
clerk,
owing
to the fi
forthe last
e o tenn
years,.
deuce reposed in him by his master, to watch his premises for
the last five or six weeks !

TheYita-WcOnfeWe'crthat, on the night of Stevens's fire,
being the second out of three which have taken place within
six weeks, they took some lucifer matches to the barn, and en-
deavoured by their means to set fire to the thatch ; that they
could not do so, whereupon they went to Sparkes's lodgings,
which are about two hundred yards distant, and procured a
candle and lanthorn ; that they returned to the barn, stuck the
lighted candle in the roof, left the lauthorn behind them, and
ran away.
Sir I.lln A. OmmannPv IVO been most ind'sfeig4bie in hie
iii thnnk2 of_tim

nt. isrgt, :or his lin
ceasing exertions to bring the offenders to justice. Neither of
the prisoners exceed 23 years of age•