The Sun. — 1842-07-25 (London, England)

TRADIE--CONLIVIER.CE. The failure of the seal fishery was alluded to in our columns last week : the same ships, to the number of 12, have only bi ought home 5 whales, while the foreign vessels at dm fishery have not captured any. As regards Peterhead, the Greenlar.d fishery will not be prosecuted after this year. At a meeting held at the Three Crowns, Dowgate-hill, on Friday, it was resolved that a society, to be called " The Lightermen's Protection Society," should be immediately funned, in order to protect that body from the encroachments of others.  Alr. Miller was, on Tuesday, unanimuusly.elected to the chair of Surgery in the University of Edinburgh, in the room of the late Sir Charles sell.  1L5.A.17.7 AYIiD PO /AXIOM, At the Carlisle Assizes on the 21st, Mary Christopherson, her daughter, an intiresting little girl, iiged 14, and tary illacklock, the servant, were arraigned for the crime of arson. The mother and servant pleaded guilty, when the toimcr was sentenced to be transported for life, and the servant, under consideration that she, acted undt r the influence of tier mistress. was committed ior le months. The little girl was acquitted. The case excited great interest in consequence of the former iespectability of the principal offender. At the same Assizes Matthew Russell was convicted of shooting William Irving, with intent to murder him. The prose. tutor and prisoner were well known to each other, and as the former, with about 701. in his possession, was proceeding to his employers to pay the workmen their wages, he was followed by the prisoner into a lonely part of the road, and shot in the back Kith a p,stol loaded with slugs. A struggle took ',lace, when the prosecutor succeeded in obtaining the pistol, but the prisoner escaped, and was afterwards wrested in Scotland. He was scntencvd to be transported for life. Alr. Sergeant Adams was on Friday cl.osen Chairman of the ensuing sessions, at a meeting of the Middlesex Magistrates, by a majority of 16 over his competitor, Mr. Witham. R. B. Thomson, warehouseman in Wood- street, who had been for' some time partner w h Williams, Mottram, and Co., and-had subsequently carried on business in the silk trade at Coventry, appeared before the Court of Bankruptcy on Friday 011 his final examination. The claim of the Union Bank for 1,7001. was contested, but finally admitted, and further examnation of the bankrupt was fixed for the '23d of August next, the bankrupt nut being in a condition to pass, tia prepared with certain cash accounts. Wm. Henry Franks, charged with embezzling money to a considerable amount belonging to the East London Burial Society, of which he was treasurer, was ultimately remanded at Lambeth-street on Friday for another week. Martha Robinson, aged 19, was committed for trial at Union Hall on Friday for the murder of her illegitimate child, and her fattier as an accessory to the fact.  rxra 3 A.I2.TS. The statue of Gretry, the composer, was inaugurated at Liege, his native tow n,on the 19,h inst., with great ceremony.  lAlT)i.at.ll.l4.)t 15.1413 IG. A further discovery of silver coin was made a few days ago in the demesne of Lismaene, county Tipperary, consisting of 21 large pieces of the reign of Philip IV. of Spam, 1662; David VI. of Scotland; Elizabeth, Charles 11., and James 11.