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INDIA BONDS.

As soon as the Ohairtwn had taken his sat.
General Tiloarrrox rose fo ask what was the intention of the
Court of Directors with res_pect to the interest of India bonds?
The CHAIRMAN (W. IVIZTRIII, CHI.) remarked, that the Court
was mat for a 'pectic purpose, that of resuming the adjourned
debate respecting the College at Ilaileybury, and he coul4 not
allow any other question to interfere with that discussion.
General THORTON rose again, but was callei to mitt.
11.1ILEVIIITRY COLLEGE._

The smmed debate was then resumed by CUSHMAN,
who said he would take that opportunity of stating the reasons why
he should negative the motion. It was remarkable, that in all that
had been said in the course of the debate, nobody had expressed a
doubt of the generally beneficial effects that had resulted from the
institution of the College. All the speakers had agreed, that an
education of a particular nature was necessary for their civil ser-
vants in India. The only question seemed to be, whether that
education should be collegiate or seholastic. Ile had originally no,
prepossession in favour of the College, but his experience of its
benefits had induced him to regard it as an institution of great
value and importance. Ile believed that no test of qualification,
either such as had been suggested by the Honourable Mover, or
might be framed by any other gentleman, could be safely admitted
as an adequate substitute for the compulsory elauke which it was
the object of the motion to repeal. It was obvious, that nn public,
examination could do more than show the mental acquirements of
the candidate; it could give no knowledge of his moral character.
According to the present syrem, the future prospects of the stu-
dent were made to depend on his obedience to the statutes of the
College. By adopting the proposition of the Honourable Mover,
this whole.amie control would be abolished ; and he (the Chair-
man), could not contemplate such an alterrion without great ap-
prehensions as to its results on the government of the people of India,
whom it was the paramount duty of the '‘.lourt to guard and pro-
tect. So far from considering the College at incapable of improve-
ment except by means of an application to Parliament, he had no
doubt that every remedy would he applied to the defects that might
exist, by the executive body, if the subject' were left to their dis-
cretion. If it were sent to Parliament for consideration, the Court
could not routine the artentjon of Parliament to the compulsory
clause in particular, still leas to the alternative proposed by the
Honourable :.lover. He therefore advised the Court to leave the
question in the hands of the Court of Directing, who would enter
upon its consideration with a disposition to make all the im-
provements in the constitution of the College which cirenm-
stances might render necessary. He certainly thought the College
susceptible of amendment (hear, bear); but it was not requisite that
the motion should be carried, because the l'ourt of Directors had
all the power to make such alterations as in their judgment they
might approve. In conclusion, the worthy Chairman again reemn-
mended the Court to leave the consideration of the state of the
College to the Court of Directors, under the metro! of the India
Board, and advice of the Visitor (the Bishop of London). Tice
Honourable Mower had admitted in his opening speech that the
General Court was not exactly the place in which the state of the
College could he satisfactorily canvassed.
The Hon. W. F. ELF!' XSTO): I: said he respected the College,
and would vote for the motion, because he beLevell it was ealcu-
latad to raise it. (Hear, hear.) In his opinion it possessed cap--
bilities for every purpose which it was desirable for the Company
to aceoniplish. One very objectionable part of the regulatiohs of
the College, was that of leaving the students, from two o'clock in
the afternoon until the next morning, their own masters. If others
had forgotten what young men were at sever..een or eighteen years
of age, he had rot (a laugh), and he well remembered that, at that
period of his life, he would, if left to himself, have neglected his
studies to have sought for more agreeable amusement. (A laugh.)
Ile was among the first promoters, not of the College, but of a
seminary of education. The evil of the present institution was,
that the students were led, by their parents and by the professors,
to look upon themselves as a superior class of men. Tiny were
told they were a college of young statesmen. (A laugh.) Ile was
convinced they learned more vie* at the College than knowledge, as
their conduct afterwards in India testified. The argument in favour,
of the College, that retired general officers might educate their
sons, was groundless, an the expense was too great for any butt
persons of fortune. Ile wished to see the charges reduced, and the
evils of the l'ollege generally reformed.
Ale. Hauler. supported the motion, because, while he expected
much benefit, he apprehended little chance of evil. He thought it
would be better lithe College were converted Lao a achool. lie did

not regret theirrotracted discussion that had taken Oncesr, 4,4
rejoiced that the subjel had ant been left to the executive. Som..,
alteration was necessary is to the professors, who were the only Mt
of wirvants under the Company, front the tiovernsrAletteral down-
wards, independent of the authority of that Court. They were re-
sponsible only to the t .dlege Council, composed of themalven, and
to the Right Reverend Visitor.

11.inwei wan of opinion, that the Court of Directors had
done wisely to divest themselves of the power of expulsion ; but he
was doubtful whether It was property conferred on the College
(;aur.eil, who, as the ollendeni were Jasys students, and the par.
ties offended always the Professors, united the discordant lune:ions
of se:users. jurors. and judge-. The statute of selection was, in
his opinion, a disgraer to the siantte-hook of the l'olLge. He
would not say with the llonotimble Director (Mr. Hebb). that it
was a disgrace to those who had placed it there • beeztuee lie be-
lieved they had acted with the purest motives sad intentions.
The maxim of English law, that it was better ninety-nine
men should escape than one innocipt man seller, was revers:id ; a:.d
it was held by that statute better that the innocent should soft:T,
than di.? guilty have any ehs:rce el escape. An Honours:rlc coil
Learned Proprietor (Me. H. (leant ) had p..reered to the brillurit ca_
rove in India of many of the students aMr had Obillireti at
flaileybury ' • but MPS it not clear that those gentlemen w nuld have
std the C
sante talents, without having been at the ohere at'
posse
? Ile was no: prepared to vete for the abolitron or the
College, which he was afield would be the effect of fi„ti ;
nor was he disposed to go before Tartan ',t. where sari.
Irevailed respecting monopolies. (" 'Liar. hear," and a Litigh.)
f the statute of selection were repealed, and the power or
zion vested in other hands, he would prefer to leave the hoiLge
untonehod ; hut rather than suffer it to remain nuitnrrove.h-he
I scold support the motion a, the leiser evil.
The Hon. K 1 NN Mal) observed, that titz grievances oCwl clt
' the Hon. PeJprietor complair.ed formed part or. the Act o: l'arlfz-
ment.

The Cumargwx stated that they were part of the Co!1 ,ze s:s-
tutex.

Macau ix? considered that the opinion of the Ci,ni.elan
on the resumption of the debate watt so decisive, that he 4,1 nut
expect to have heard any attempt to confute it. The lion. Dine-
tor (31e. Hebb), if he entertained such an opinion of the t S.die;e
statutes, was competent to have moved an amendment his pr-:par
place in the Court of Directors. There was no necessity for kezpwig
the College tor three days at the bar of public opinion. lie (3.1 r.
Macauley) would negative the motion, bevattse it was founded OT
no regular official ineorniation. The Court- knew no:lung wron{
in the College, except what they had heard casually fall twin ;he
speakers in the debate. The tendency e!.. the naiti rn w ent not to
amend but to annihilate the Ile cmife,sed lie had
Iheard heavy charges ngainst it. bet nu proofs Wen athlurcd to gut-
stand:de them. lie litkiwted to the motion also, becaose no N
tote was proposed which it was to nixosi ever,'
speaker difrertd from hi. pr..,lxessor as to the rceedv. The great
defect in his 1.31 r. 3locaidey's) orioion was. that the Proles..as had
not powei. enough. 1 hey ot.z;ht to the heads of our ptff,a
lie schocis in their authority. The best course would be to tele'
the whole subject to the ('oar: of Directors.

Mr. li'ggiithc ex-loinvd. Ile objected that the power of the
Profeswws was unipialdied. It 1/r. Eninel ex;:cllcd a boy from
the Charter !louse. the (inset-nor.. if they saw reason, alight reb:ore
him. The Carat at catithritlee had the same power. lie
to see a similar right of apiseai to the loam tt Directors.
Ur. Tipsy t also
31r. PATYISIIis' r...libitted there had teen grmt irr7golari!ica and
disorders at .;•e N Viten tl:c iriestion we. the
hurt of Directors, whether all persons who might he ttund egad:..
lied should not be admitted to tic, nppoirontent,he had argued. the:
the door ought to he opened to merit whivever it could he Mucci.%
Ile was row, howeeer. inclines: to modify the opinion he then held.
It was a fact with-I:este:l tl at mane eniiiient i dividaads hat gone
• toed) from the C and :hat the civil aervice was innprov;d ia
its character. It was also known that ih f pill: of the probation at
Ilaileybury, twine very indifferent subjects hat found their way to
India. (A laugh.) The merciful kindres.s of the ::ituactl. I •
supposed, had allowed them just to step within the verge of Taal:-
tication. That some should tall into this situation teas tie odes
nary course of human ream?. Were all the Prop/if:lon
India Stock conjurers? (A latoth.) lie could hardly inn in •
.
anything num' in-once:dent that a community ratsistmg of all ye '•
clever feiloett (A Ltngh.l A common el /I eat ion woe J, he was
afraid, be found incapable of preparing the writcts for the
charge of their imptrtant duties. S.llne degree of seff-motrol w..s
necessary far that purpose. lie had there:4r siJaie doubt wheth
it would be advisahl. to allow candidates to present themselves for
examination who had lieea educatc.l elsewhere. It the question
were taken bet irf the Douse of l'ottinians, he could not even gores
•to what lengths the Douse might ir,o. At pi_sent it was well
known that appoir totems to the civil service in India tinted with
the Proprietors through the Court of Directors, end he did no: be-
here the people of Ind:a would be !betetited by any atanne in
that course. In a.htcritt to the present mode, the troprietotw ere
not Maintaining their pirate advanta-es in much as a lucerne-en:
duty from which they ,aught not to rec'ede. One mistake he ishi:d
to correct. The voinig men e.hoated r.t ilaileybury were not
appointed writers, *hut students for the College at Fort Acillieat
They had there to I,m through a certain course of discipline. tend
then they became ivritecs. When they left Ilaileybury they inta
only the probability of an appointment. it I,ad been argue& that
Rte discipline of the CoPege was insufficient. Last year. in omit-
dpence of a notice giver, by the lion. Moyer, and cider. wartldwith-
rawn, the question was sedulously examined by the Court of Ds.
rectors. Great difficolty was experienced in dealing with the Prc
fevsors, because•their vies were strictly Milrnals. One unforte.
nate eircumatance connected with this unlucky College, was its in.
ululated situation. It was placed in the midst of a common- in
which the students had no means of in-ocent amusement. Every
proposal for extending the occupatioo of the professors was Met by
•an allegation that it was an:i-Colleg:ate. (A laugh.) It was ora-
tifying to learn that the College waft nerer in a better state, and lie
thisuld therefore oppose the motion which tended to Its dewtruction,
not by storm, but by sum. If they went before Parliament I'
would be • said the Etst 'lndia Company did not know how to
manage their own affairs ; and, perhaps. a Committee of rile
would be appointed for that purposf. (flaw, bear.)) He pledgedhimself, himself, that if the tittestion were left to the Court of Directors, they
would put their shoulders to the wheel, and r.setify, as lir MI pos
sible, all the evils in the College. He could not twee with those
woo supposed the Company had no power over the invisioiore. Ile
was satisfied they hod the sante power as over all other servants.
The Court of Directors had the power of inskina any matinee for
the government of the Colleov as:di the apprebaeuoo of the Board of
Control. Ire hardly hoped he could induCe the 4011. Mover to
withdraw the motion, but he implored the °Mu Proprietors to let
well alone.

Colonel Ilai Lim: said his present opinions were at variance
with the motion, though he had formerly thought othirwise. When,
in India he had considered that a system of tuition and probation
would be attended with a better effect, if conducted under the im-
mediate supe(intentience of the Government under whom the
i students were afterwards to be employed. suh.equent obaervei ct
and reflection had altered his opinion. lie Dow comidered that a
considerable portion of the cline spent in tuition and probation
could be employed with more advantage in England, under the
superintendence of the eat-entire body here. He was disposed to
negative the motion on two greunds; first, with resixict to the
original purpose of the College ; and secondly. in consequence of
his observation of its practical results. The Han. 3loYer hid de.
scribed the College as intended for a boon, and so it Wile. but net
for a boon to the students or their parents, but to the people of India,
and a safeguard tor their prosperity and happiness. An appoint-
ment to the civil service in India was a benefit on the party ap-
pointed, tar surpassing any thing that could be obtained in Europe.
l''ormerly the patronage of the Comiany been indiscriminately. ins
in many Instances unworthily bestowed, tuu now it was restrirree.
to those who deserved it. 'the College alsoopereted an a test o'
the moral qualifications of the party. He was decidedly °primed
to the sufficiency of a viks twee examination. The test now cn-
forts-1 was not only a passport of mental hut moral Testifies. If
it was a penalty on any, it was only on the idle, the immoral. au,l
the incapable. Were such fit to be seat out to gove-n India ? lie
sympathised with'the disappointments of parents, irking from the
follies of youth; but lie could not, on their annum, forget the ink-
pines' of the vast empire confided to their (internment. The evils
in the College were, he believed. common to all slander illatitll,
lions. The remedies, as far as they were npplicable, were within
the power of the Evecutive. They had all heard ynirly of the int -
provement of the College, which, lie would not deny, might he
partly owing to the discussions in the General Court. He was de.
mous to see it corrected es far as passible, but he was apprithea-
bive that they would do evil by going to Parliament. With respect
to two instances of what an Honourable end Lamed Proprietor
(Mr." °silvan) had charactirised as barbatous expulsions, he
(Col. Italie) knew that both those gentlemen had nitee declared
dust their own expulsions were not only necessary but just.
Mr. GAIIAGAN explained. The Hon. Director, he said, must
be mistaken as to one of those gentlemen, who to this day consi-
dered himself to have been extremely ill used.
General Teton NTO N supported the motion. The neglii,i, of
the Court of Directors, woo might have corrected the evils el
College, was a reason why the Court of Proprietors should apply
to Parliament.

The DHPUTY CH ti AMA% (Wm. Astral, Esq.) adverted to the
disagreement of the supporters of the motion among themselves, es
to the substitute to be enacted in lieu of the compulsory clause.
The power to enact and repeal all statutes for the governments. the
College was in the 'num of Directors; it was, thaefare, onus--
emery to go to Parliament. The effect of the motion would bet
undermine the institution ; for the Onus° of Commons would in-
quire generally into the state of the college. Talent was abundan:,
but conduct was ir, this case of as much importance as acquire-
ments. How could the students elsewhere obtain a knowledge of
the rudiments of the oriental languages? The adoption of tto:
ptest would multiply the diseppsinenents of-patents sea-
Forlorsell it were t strict inquiry, not one in ten would pass. elf ic
degenerated into a matter of form it would be useless, tic thnuglit
the subject bail better be lett to the Court of Directors. who had
every disposition to correct the defects of the college. He trusted,
therefore, that the motion would be rejected.
Sir EOIIOE Hoer xsow was apprelseneive that the Proprietors
would go away under the impression that none of the proteamet
employed more than four hours a wee* In their duties at the Col-
lege. The Hon. llnme.et read funs the records a starrniest
the time spent by each professor, by which it app.mred that sow.-
were employed four, some Lisa and otl-cra nine and tan haws .•
week. He believed that the students Woold not be benefited br
extending the lectures to the evening, as they naiad be then akle xi
study but little in their rooms. He had bad a son of kin own at tit,
College, and he owned he had missed many an ansiAtis hour lest
he should fall into any serape. He though: expubouros should
applied only to acts of moral turpitude. He would, howev,T,
thcr increase than ef isk the posses of the professors :
ought to have more arbitrary power. for he mast confess. that lot
was one who little regarded the rights at boys. In farmer brea.l
of discipline or idleness, the power of rum-Moine oaght en be st,„
plied, aael repeated as ;Am es e-cthisrary. tiscanadeths vi.se sh.x

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idle, they would be the cease of their own degradation. No gat-
tlernan could boil in more detestation than himself the odious
tatuui d selection : he had done all he could to prevent it from
being paved. If a mischievnas principle could be instilled into
the mind of a liberal youth, it was that of giving up the riecom-
plices of his juvenile delinquencies or imprudence. Th- late dis-
turbance, which had produced the rapid:inn of so many tandems.
might have beets prevented by rustication. Notwithstanding all
that had been said respecting that anis. he did rot believe dine
was one student who would not have held up hi. band to prevent
an insult or disrespect to the profe.sors personally t it ought not,
therefore, to have produced the dreadful consequences it b.ul, by
expelling and ruining so many young men. Ile was alixioua to
see the I °liege improved by degrees, and he had no doubt it nii4lit
be rendered a most useful institution finally.
The Honourable D. Kis "taint) replied at corisidcrable length.
In conclusion, be stated, that it was intended to take the incisor of
the Court by Lallot.
The Cu Al MAN fiAMI the balls for Wednesday, the 71st of
March. _ _____

ADVERTISEMENTS.
Mr. S. thicox said, it had been the etionm to advertise the
Courts in the public papers the day before they wire held. lie was
.o that thit had not been the cote on the pr.-tent nrration.
The CHAIRMAN wontred the Honourable l'aitrietor that the
antom had not been devia.cd 11301.
The Court them adjounted.

MEETING AT LLOYD'S, RESPECTING Ti!!:

CLASSIFIC.I77UN- OF N HIPPING.

- We were unable, from the mistaken conduct of one of the Alas-
tem of Lloyd's, to obtain admission to the Meeting at lioyd'•, un
%Vedecsday last. respecting the classification of shipping, for the
potpies.. of retooling to these of our ri aders who are connected
with the meicantile and 'shipping interests what took plare on
that occasion. ‘l'e are now enabled to furnish an abstract of the
proceedings of the meeting in questioa.
The (: it must A:1 Ut. Shaw, Esq.) stated that the meeting was
conssned by the Comminee, in ernospenee of a reeptisitior, very
aumerously signed, fur the murmur of bmninating aid appointing
sight of their body to be Aleinixes of a Committee, firmly ap-
pointed by the Merchants and Ship-inane, who had named eight
hum each of their tespeetive interests, and who had eolieited the
subscribers of Lloyd's to ameur in the proposed object, by nomi-
nating eight of their We to assist them set obtaining the 'idlest
information, and in cAnsidering whether any. anti what alterations,
could be betteticially Adopts(' in the present system of classing the
merchant shipping, and to report to a subsequent general 'meeting
the result of their inquiries. The subscribers were tidied on to do
so. in pursuance of a resolution passed st the lienerni Meeting,
11.1.1 at Lloyd's, On the itkli ult. •• Thnt the subscribers of this
houet• do accede to the invitation of the General Meeting of Aler-
chasm', Ship-owner, and I billerwritera, held at the City of Jena.
don Tavern, on the lof January last, by nominating and ap-
pointing eight :•:d
of their body to be members of the Committee, the.,
appointed, for the purposes sat forth in the resolutione." The
Lhatrman then opened the Vanities*, by offering Beene remark*
on the observations made by Mr. !Leckie at the last meeting, re-
specting the tioninsdietions ceinbited in the cor.shiet of the extating
merbittee of 11Joyd's, as compared with that of the Committee
with whom Alt. It. had held a torrespoodent'e, alien he was Chair-
/min of the tilup-owners' Society, on the important *object they
' were then met In consider. Tile Chairman endenvoured to show
that Mr. Buckle was um justified iir the inference he hid drawer.
Mt. MARSHALL snit', that in again offering to the no-
tice of the suleeribsrs, he slid so with snitch reluctance; he re-
restud that n hail been found necessary again to call then, together
on this subject, noel that he had not acted 0:1 the suggestion thrown
out at the last meetieg, which hail been so neatly unanimous on
the question then sulanitud to them, by noinhottheg and appoint-
fog eight rf their members at once to the Committee. tie had,
however, on that ocinsten, del-lined to do an. from a feeling that h..
might be viewed as taking a MU, 4C toenewitat dictatorial, amp at
the suggestion of Inhere, twenty-tsar gentlemen bad been named,
from whnon eight aces' to be eucant by ballot; hut the individuals
to named (many of chilli, were too present to acquiesce in their no-
sninatioo) had ; some became they an•thi not ;feasibly
give their time to the tiny which would be acquired of them if
elected, and tethers because they were uowilling to submit thsir
names to a ballot, feeling thatot was a mode of proceeding stmt.-
what invidious, on a gorgion in which they had only an individual
interest, in common nth all the members of that 110111 C, and when
them airier:. were to be gratuitously given ; but many of than at
the lame time felt that the pnoemsed bigotry was essconally feces.
any, sod had since eityrusomi themselves wilting to move on the
ehrrnmitke. Air. ilsrslicil theta proceeded to submit the mantes et'
eighttgeitlethes sit' great reapeetability„ who had, he said, autho-
res' hi n host de that they wool.! were if appointed.
TheUwalaw.tx said, he though• that, in the first instance,
Mr. Marshall *hosed submit a eithstartive mutton, '• that this
niceties do now procosi W tooninatc and appoint eight of *Nei;
Linty to be sissinhers of' the Cotnutittee appointed to prosecute the
11eCt1311,7 itimairy."
Mr. MAt An ALL Wild this appeared to him to be unnecessary,
be:ausz: aid subscribers had at their tact meeting, with only two!
tliewattems, a-. rrsolV.li, and the Ertsent meeting was held ea.
pearly to carry that resolution into efluct ; however, he would, with-
not hesitation again *abode the modem so decidedly carried at the
temsoseonr.
The motion was again declared, by the Chairman, to be carried
in the affirmative by a large majority.
Mr. Mansttabb then proceeded to submit the names of the
eight gentlemen to beappointed inconformity) with the reindutions
wind' had now, lot the s.cond time, acteired the sanction of the
• Debsoribers.

A pion then vox to arraign the proceedings, and argue against
the questlim proposed. 1k was caul to outer, on the groom' that
the mbecnbers ind now twice rcNolviti taanmint their ging* on the
Commute( ; and the Chairman was app.wied to. wit( :.;er 4t was
now lien in any person to argue &punt the general principle tii
that House, arpottlitoj tight persons to repotscut it in the Com-
annum.

The Cumw tw h :Id, that the speaker pestessed a right to
proceed.
Mr. W. Janson urged the meeting to have nothing to do with
the *object He rei,reseuic.l it :isaltugeth.r a ithip-owners•-vieation,
gut up by thou and imentied solely for their advantage. Ile con-
tended, that the present system Ice 1 wcrkid very well loe Lloyd's,
and that was all the' had to coatdder—that a the merchant, and
ship-owners r. re dessitisfied with the present registry books, they
night take what >teps they chose—tk.t they only came to tale fur
the concurrence of Lloyes.—th.it they might clip into their
',mkt's, hut that the underwriters should keep aloof from them,
and conic this proceedings to what concerto:4l themselves only.
Alr. JON STII.IXI.IiAPIIAN inretbly represented to the under-
Orders how hiiperguit it was to their own intcresh that they should
concur in the proposed inquiry, as he felt confident it would lead
to great impmvonent in the prise-t system, by preerriting.hum the
etloption ot IMITC sound prim inlet of clasmitlcation, the baildirig of
'minor .hit.., and I.y imparting a molive to shipowners to keep
their vesseh we], rep: meth toe underwriters would be his nerpiently
called upon to pus me sea damage to cargoes, :n4l would be much
Viet iwcurr against the of rerointer, !motes of ships and valuable
bass, Ina, h trot wag:m-1.431'ml or Coumicrif.g, which hail is ninny
balances arisen Irons I:irle.ebilipetyncy attic crania to perform the
strum+ they were employed in. Ile LW he stroke as on under-
writer, in which eh:miner they knew he wits esumsivel—sogaged,
and ho was sore their interests tit particular would he greatly bene-
fited by a cordial esirurreece on their pan in the murrain: inquiry,
which he %wind the riveting to hear in mind rictlged Lloyd's to
no peculiar pia,: all Mat was poop er.ed toauthenzt the rumusinee
to do, was to obtain the fulle"t intonnation on the :object, and to
=lthe re,l, of their inquiries, and it. the elation of *napes--
.14 intelligent committee for such a purpose he mostterdially
tuncurred for the 1:111,,I.M he had misted.

Mr. itictianas./v Bunnatiatix, Mr. lict.ccsrr. arid
wend other gar ativorsousl the prupriety ci she aulaaribera
colataring in sir Im ow.esi
Mr. Malisis.tti. replied, and pinta, nut some of die principsl
clijorsiarts to the pry.. eat await, a revision of which, Moab!. was
loudly and justly cull for. and by r.hirls the humans of the on.
sititurritere wouid be prommati in a much !siesta Jenne than taws:
of the merchant's or ship...owners. Ile had trot anal kitward a the
advocate of this or I:Articular imams,: he hail taken up the
r.ubtat originally, it .11 pursucd it thus Ibr, from a car/talon
tbui the siiiglity suerr.intlle natrinc,of the greatest nutrition: nation
in the wrirki was at prm r.t under a 'system of aninagement wbieh
epaulet' seriously toils irynry ; and his object was not M ask any
favour or undue euisidtration Ins the Alp-owners, to which body
he himaelt hoppenal to helnn:!, but by eadearocting to point nut, as
well as h's humble ahtlitscs (put forward, he hoped, aid t any
pretensions or cons.mucnce or sell-sufficiancy) would enable him,
the practical evil of the present mistaken system; he tar tlet! that Luc
might be 11,011t1111101,i11 I s 14.1:11111111( 111: COllCUrn:ne• of Lloyd's in
a proceeding wine!' bol simtly for its object, without anyeorsidcra-
urn ad mits of the it emir., sis CfifleeTnell in the question iv-yrt•ti
other of the ahem m Ll..er the anerehant shipping of this country
on such n footing its eittse it 111. •.1 k justly unriralkd in the
usaagagton of the teit Id. and lieu ',Wile( for the stirurity and wel-
fare of all the great so ts connected w alb it.
Aft:T II loog and soutetchat aunts disciasion, the meeting agnin
on tile quellieo (nierid by 3lr. Janson), •• that this meet-
ing do wow wejsmo:L"
. . . . . . .

7.1 n thet annmincint that the meeting had reject...ll the
Ir posjlion. Jlr. Jatnion Men deonanded s !MUM.
Alf. MAP...HALL being, he said, desiimatei
fully and belay to a..wain the real tetling of the aulv.cribeaa at
inert, Oil a ntinoitio which he thought more important to their in-
t • s, and by whi, h emir welfare would be promotal, in a greater
degree, than by any qu...noa which had engaged astir ant, ti,
a body, at eny time.
The vulva of IA .yd's requiring that six days previous notice
should he given, the ballot aas the.' fur IVednemlar next, the lir ft
mow: nt one, and e 1.... at four o cloak, to deckle
Ifl, whetia r !Joint's shall or %hall not send eight
sent them in the Committee." If this should be
affirmative, then the right gcntignicti who were
'Cll.!e, arc to be the per.oas dclegaled (mit
Lot ste.rals t 00 it remain. Mr the subset:ben.
re.peonble, intelligriff, and great pttblie extablidt.
e by their totes, on IV/tint...day next, whether
erode to th.• respectful invitation of the ume►chants
. who have rept..turd th, it concurrente aril twist-
whether the present system of tint/dug the mer.
earthly of Larrovcruent, anal to 'erect the result
a .1,1 delibenotlns to a aulinegisent general meting
tcresttd in tins important .re.tion.

keel sum of 7,1901. has been raised anion' the
ieruls in this country towards relieving tte
19e tniffering Greek poralatien.

SHIPPING INrELLIGEIVCE.

CUSTOM-110MB. NMI ex 4.
No ships reported.
KIII PS EXTEIZ.I? iIfWAST).4,.MASCH

Vi.eounters Donna, Arnold (truitendrick, broker), from limn-
burgh.
Resource, J. Clausen (}. Holm, from Memel.
N'anskusun, J. Jantbeen I I t 1, fr oto :Marburg!).
3lAnt st. 4. _ _ .

ENTERED (D,TWARDII.—The Wnrit. fix St. John's; 31i-la--
(ha. awl !Wary, for Holmium; 31•1;ilivrty, for Quebec; Expo-
;amt. fix Itunkirk; and Concur& fitr Elsiocur.
CLEAR • I)tymmens.—'l'lle London, for Newfoondlafill ;
Kelso, fur flanaburgh; flow, and 31anguse Dahlia Trieste.

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the firs MIIOIII6OI
penman to 'Tim*
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named at the rive
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to this most Cr'
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name, in decide
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t' , t, ' wade in intetiring
CAM& marine is I
t I or theie uniuiries
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