The Sun. — 1842-01-03 (London, England)

SEPTEMBER.  1. Celebration at Madrid of the revolution by which Espartero was appointed Regent. Opening of the Aix-la-Chapelle and Cologne Railway. 2. Total destruction, by an earthquake, of Cartago, on the Isthmus of Darien, with the loss of 40 or 50 lives. 3. Appointment of the leading Members of. the New Ministry. 6. First meeting of the Houses of Parliament pursuant to adjournment after the change of Ministry. 8. Mr. Roebuck, in the House of Commons, complains of a paragraph in a newspaper, characterising him as one of the "one-shilling-gallery gentry ;" and moves that it is a breach of privilege, but no Hon. Member is found to second the motion, which consequently falls to the ground. 9. Vauxhall Gardens put up to auction. 10. Death of the Earl of Malmeabury. 11. The Exeter stage coach, whilst crossing the Bristol and Exeter Railroad, is encountered by the railway engine and overturned, six persons being more or less injured. Resignation of all the Ministers of the United States, with the exception of Mr. Webster, in consequence of the President's veto of the Bank Bill. The Chatham Islands are purchased of the New Zealand Colonization Company for the sum of 10,0001. 12. The masons engaged in the erection of the new Houses of Parliament strike work, on account of the alleged harsh treatment experienced from Allen, the foreman of the contractors, Messrs. Grissell and Peto. 13. The Duke d'Orleans, whilst marching with his brothers, the Dukes of Nemours, Montpensier, and Aumale, at the head of the Duke d'Aumale's regiment on its return to Paris from Algiers, is shot at by an assassin named Papart, alias Quenisset, but escapes unhurt. Quenisset seized and other persons implicated in the conspiracy. 15. Earl de Grey assumes the Government of Ireland.  16. Death of Thomas Dibdin, the dramatic author.  Sir Thos. Fremantle obtains leave to bring in a Bill to lease the Royal Kitchen Gardens at Kensington Palace, for the purposes of building. 17. Debate in the House of Commons on the subject of Sir Robert Peel's refusal immediately to bring forward the measures he intends to propose. Mr. Pielden moves that no supply be granted until the House has inquired into the distresses of the labouring population. The motion is negatived by 149 to 41. The mob at Monkwearmouth demolish the windows and furniture of Edward Liddle's house, who had presented a gun from his window and frightened them, during the passing of Lord Howick's election procession. 18.Guadalaxara, in Mexico, declares in favour of a Republic. 19. Arrest of Grogan, an American, by a party of British soldiers, on the American territory. Death of Lord Sydenham. General Oribe defeats the insurgent Juan Lavelle, in Tucuman.  20. Mr, S. Crawford opposes the motion for the House going into a Committee of Supply unless a pledge is given that the distresses of the people shall be taken into consideration. The motion fur a Committee is carried by 136 to 22,  Colonel Sibthorp denounces giving 17,000/. of the public money to Dr. Bow ring, fur information which he had procured from the British Consuls abroad. 21. Opening of the London and Brighton Railway the whole extent of the line. _  --- Murder of Mr. Burdon, of the King's Head, Eastcheap, by Blakeslee, his biother-in-law. 23. Bernard Cavanagh, the pretended faster, exhibits himself at the Hanover-square Rooms. Presentation of the freedom of the City to Admiral Sir R. Stopford and Commodore Sir C. Napier. 24. Accident at the Penddarran iron works, Glamorganshire, by the bursting of 'the boiler of a steam-engine; eight persons are killed instantaneously, and 18 others scalded and wounded.  On the motion for going into Committee of Supply a discussion arises in the House of Commons on the distressed state of the manufacturing districts. Death of M. Laporte. 26. Shipwreck of the barque Amanda, off Metis, on her passage from Liverpool to Quebec, with the loss of 29 passengers and 12 of the crew. 27. Kinmel Hall, the seat of Lord Dinorben, near St. Asaph, destroyed by fire. Tho mansion cost 90,0001. when built in 1783.  Sir Charles Bagot appointed Captain-General and Governor of the North American colonies. 28. Further discussion in the House of Commons on the Poor-law Continuance Bill.