The Sun. — 1836-07-06 (London, England)

GRAND JURIES (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion of Lord MORPETH, the House resolved itself into a Committee on the Grand Juries (Ireland) Bill. Mr. W. SMITH O'BRIEN proposed that a system of fiscal representation should be adopted with reference to parishes and baronies, for the purpose of checking the evil. The Hon. Gentleman moved an amendment to that effect, which we understood was negatived. The clauses of the Bill to clause 6 were agreed to. On clause 7 a proviso was moved, we believe by Mr. FRENCH, to the effect of increasing the number of ratepayers who were entitled to vote at sessions. After some discussion the Committee divided—  For the proviso Against it Majority —26 On clause 7 (enacting that each surgeon of a dispensary, under this Act, should reside within five miles of the dispensary) being put, Mr. WALKER proposed that the clause should not have a retropective effect. After some discussion, the Committee divided— For the amendment. Against it. Majority —33 The clause was then agreed to. The House then resumed, and the Chairman reported progress. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at one o'clock.  ... 45  The Author of " Peter Simple" is said to be engaged upon a new work of fiction, the subject of which is admirably calculated for his humourous and witty pen. The productions of this author now would form a library of most entertaining writing ; they consist of " Japhet in Search of a Father," " The King's Own," " The Pacha of Many Tales," " Jacob Faithful," and the inimitable " Peter Simple."  Among the railroads projected by the Company, the chief office of which is at Rome, is one from Naples to Otranto, a distance of 180 miles, which will be divided into three stages, and will have branches to towns of lesser importance. It is said that one is also to be carried from Naples to Reggio. A very great number of the shares of the Company have been taken by the English.  An artist residing near Compiegne, having lived in a state of adultery with a woman, who was the mother of several legitimate children, determined with his guilty associate to commit a double suicide, and took the following extraordinary means :—They shut themselves up in a small outhouse, in which they had collected a pile, of faggots, and having covered their bodies with essence of turpentine, lay down on the heap and then set fire to it. The flames were soon seen, but not till too late; for both the bodies were found half consumed. It is said that two pistols were found, one on each side of these victims.—French Paper.  The Posthumous Memoirs of Sir William Wraxall, just published, involve more of what may be called the Private History of England for the last fifty years than can be found in any other work extant. One of the prominent features in that eventful period was the trial of Warren Hastings, the Governor-General of India, the secret motives of which are fully disclosed by our modern Clarendon, who draws into full light the manoeuvres of Pitt, Burke, Sheridan, Windham, &c., on that memorable occasion. The real history of this great impeachment has never before been given to the public.