The Sun. — 1836-02-18 (London, England)

PARLIAMENTARY SUMMAR Y.  The LORDS did not meet yesterday, it being Ash-Wednesday.  Iu the COMMONS, after some business of no public interest, Colonel Thompson gave notice that when the Bill for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales was brought forward, he would move as an amendment, that one half of the composition be a money rent, and one half a corn rent. Among other petitions presented last night, was one from Cork against tithes. Mr. Hume moved for certain returns respecting the state of the registration in Ireland, and the number and qualification of the electors. Respectino. the Carlow Election, Mr. Wallace gave notice that he should this day move for a Commission to proceed to Carlow to ascertain whether the allegations in Mr. \rigors' petition, presented on Monday, were true ; and to report whether the electors for the county of Carlow ought not to have the protection of the ballot. Mr. En art moved the second reading of the Prisoners' Defence by Counsel Bill, which was eventually sent to a Select Committee--an amendment that the Bill be read a second time this day six months, moved by Sir E. Wilmot, being negatived by a majority of 144.  So great is the demand for seats to witness the performance of The Historical Records of Music to-morrow evening, at Drury-lane, that the theatrical orchestra will be added to the pit. SINGULA R NAMES or M.P.'s, 1836.—(From Ackerman's Spanish Magazine, The Instructor.)—A Kirk, a Church, two Speiers (Query, how Speirs is pronounced, if Spears ?), a Bell, Chaplin, and a Clerk. A King, a Power, a Law, a Leader, three Grants, and a Knight. A Fort, a Wall, and a Trench. A Hall, a Tenent, four Stewarts, one Butler, a Porter, and Cookes—a Guest, Tapps, and Knocks. A Longfield, a Freshield, two Miles, East, with Sandon. A Miller, two Hills, North, and South—a Hutt, a Cave, three Woods, a Forrester, two Parkers, and a Sheppard. A Lake, a Loch, Roche, and a Seal. A Hoy, with a Crewe. A Wilde, Hogg, a Young, Fox, two Bruens, a Roebuck, a Pusey, and a Wolfe. A Fowler, Tooke, a Finch, Hawke, Heron, Parott, and a Martin. A Wyse, Marshall, with Manners. A Carter, Dobbin, Hay. A Cartwright, seven Smiths, two Turners, two Coopers, a Collier, two Chapmen. Two Walkers, with two Hopes. A Bodkin, Sharpe, and Blunt, Poyntz. A Plum, tree, with Bowes and Pollen. A Potter and Clay, Pryme, French, Fellowes. Pease and Rice, with threo Prices. A Lemon, with three Peels. A Ward, with Mangles, and a Patten.  Last week Sir Robert Graham, ex-Baron of the Court of Exchequer, who is now in his eighty-seventh year, but hale and hearty, and in full enjoyment of all his faculties, took the oaths in the Court of King's Bench before Lord Denman, required by the Act lately passed, empowering retired Judges to assist in trying prisoners at the Central Court of the Old Bailey.  On Sunday morning a turf-boat, in ballast, from this city, on her way to Beigh Castle, was upset in a squall, and, awful to relate, 13 persons perished in the wreck ! The owner of the boat, and his son and daughter, were among the sufferers.—Limerick Times.  A shocking murder was perpetrated on Tuesday evening week, in the parish of Whaplode Drove. A servant, named Wilcox, was on that evening coming home with his master's team from Wisbech, when he was way-laid and murdered. Next morning his body was found in a ditch. The unfortunate man has left a pregnant wife and eight children to lament his untimely end. According to accounts from Milan, the rise in the price of silks is really extraordinary. Within a few days it has augmented from 25 to 30 per cent., and the finer qualities even 40. Higher rates still are expected, as the manufacturers of Lyons, Zurich, and Germany cannot get silk enough to execute the orders they have received from New York.