The Sun.
London, England, 1830-02-27 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY).

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.
INJ UNCTION. -TR USSf AN AND OTHERS V. SAUNDERS

AND OTHERS.

The plaintiffs in this case were highly respectable gen-
tlemen, carrying on the business of merchants in Mincing-
lane. The defendants, who had become bankrupts, had
also originally carried on the business of merchants,
trading to the Mauritius. Some time since the defendants
being in want of money, applied to the plaintiffs, With
whom they were in constant communication, to lend them
the sum of 10,000/., offering as security the consignment
of the cargoes of several ships laden with sugar, that were
shortly expected to arrive in the port of London. The
plaintiffs lent the sum required, and since that period tke
defendants had become bankrupts. One of the ships in
question, called the Lord Melville, had just arrived in the
West India Docks, and the object of the present motion,
which was made ex-parte, was for an injunction to re-
strain Mr. George Smith, the treasurer of the West India
Dock Company, from parting with the cargo of that ship.
Mr. Purrs, with whom was Mr. RICHARDS, in ap-
plying for the injunction, stated the grounds of the appli-
cation to be, that the assignment in question was to be
taken as an equitable assignment of the cargoes of all the
ships for the security of the debt, and therefore that the
plaintiffs were entitled to avail themselves of their security
in preference to the other creditors.—lnjunction granted.
IN THE MATTER OF WARDLE—DISOBEDIENCE OF TILE

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, Fee. i'6,—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Margare►, Hall,
from Demerara; the Thomas King, Williams, from ditto; and
the Elphinstone, Richardson, from India. The outward bound
remain.

PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 26.—Wind S.W. to W.S.W.—Arrived his
Majesty's ship Dartmouth, from Gibraltar.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 25.—Arrived the William and Mary, Tope,
from Lisbon.

The Cumberland, Pew, from Whitehaven to Jamaica, and the
Scipio, Thornton, of Whitehaven, ran foul of each other on
Tuesday night off t'ouglas, the latter lost her foremast, bowsprit,
&c., and both vessels afterwards ran on shore at Braestones, near
Whitehaven.

The James, Quayle, from Strangford to Glasgow, was on shore
at Ballyferries, with three feet water in her hold on Tuesday,
but expected to be got off.
The Stag, Ellis, from Seville, has arrived off Dover.
The Lord Suffield, from Corfu, has arrived at Cork.
The London, from New Orleans, has arrived off Liverpool.
The Mogul, from Savannah, and the William, Muloy, from
Naples, have arrived off Holyhead.
The Mercury, Cochran, from Cadiz, and the Lark, from Lis-
bon, have arrived at Poole.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE came to town
yesterday morning from their residence in Bushy Park...—. -
The Duchess of GLOUCESTER and the Princess Sortcla.
visited their Royal Highnesses at their residence in the
King's Palace, St. James's. The Royal party partook 'of •
a dejeune. Their Royal Highnesses returned to Bushy in
the afternoon.

The Princess AUGUSTA is expected to arrive in town
in a few days from Worthing.
The Duchess of GLOUCESTER visited the Duchess of
KENT and the Princess So-rxia yesterday, at their resi-
dence in the King's Palace at Kensington.
The Duke of CLARENCE is sitting for his bust to Mr.
CHANTREY.

Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS, the Governor of New Bruns.
wick, had an interview on Thursday with the Duke of
WELLINGTON at the Treasury.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Admiralty
from Admiral Sir P. MALCOLM in the Mediterranean.
They were brought by a messenger who arrived from An-
cona, with flvsp aches from Mr. DAWKINS, our resident in
Greece, for the Earl of ABERDEEN.

EAST INDIA COMMITTEE.

At the sitting of this Committee on Tuesday last, Charles
Marjoribanks, Esq. was the only witness called daring the
day. The Committee were occupied a considerable time
in herring explanations on some doubtful points in the evi-
deuce given by this gentleman on the preceding Thursday.
Mr. 51arjoribanks then stated that the Company contracted
yearly with the Hong merchants for their teas, to the extent '
of about two-thirdst of the investment. The prises varied
acc,rtling to the quality of the teas, which were not valued
until seen by the Company's inspectors in China, who re-
ported the qualities to the &elect committee. That the
price of congo ten contracted for was from 25 to 28 tales
per peen!, a weight equal to 1331 b. and 1-3 d. In 1825
the Company reduced the price, _by which they paved '
20,0001. per annum. About two-thirds of the congo tea
which forms the bulk of each year's investment is con•
tracted for. The remaining third is called winter congo,
which is annually porch/m(1 to the extent of 90,000 or
100,000 chests. _

The contracts for tea are divided into 21 shares, which
arc apportioned between the seven Hong merchants in
various parcels, differing in amount, according to their
seniority.
The Company are always anxious to forward the inte-
rests of the British trade, and readily grant licences for the • ;
country ships to take cargoes of tea to the various ports in
Asia, to New South Wales, &c. Sincapore is not fre-
quented by ships freighted with tea.
The officers of the ships have free liberty to import .
British manufactures into China ; indeed, every facility is .
rendrred by the Company to encourage the British trade.
The ships, on their arrival in China, are put under the
charge of a Hong merchant, who becomes security for
them to the Government of that country.
The Americans and others do not find it difficult to ,
procure security, although a preference is given to the
Company's ships. The merchants who become security
for the Company's ships are not, on that account, entitled
to the trade with those ships With regard to the Ame-
ricans, who deal with outside merchants as well as with
the Hong, the latter arty require the ship to purchase of
them, as a compensation for their risk in securing it.
The ships concerned in the contraband trade are net
secured. •

The trade in opium is confined to the islands at the .
mouth of the river, amongst which the contraband traders
lie. Chinese men of-war boats cruise about, and occa-
sionally seize upon the natives employed in conveying the
drug on shore, whose heads are chopped off.
These war vessels report to the authorities at Canton,
that the ocean has been swept clear of the smuggling
ships. The corrupt Government of China, and the great
neglect of its laws, produce numerous edicts and proclama-
mations from the Emperor, which are perfectly ineffectual,
causing absurd reports to be made, which are considered
sufficient, and the illegal traffic continues.
The opium seized is condemned to be burnt. Large
fires are lighted on the hills; a great blaze is made, but
it is very doubtful whether the opium is consumed in that
manner. _ . .

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The opium is put into hags for the purpose of being
conveyed on slime, the original package remaining on
board.
',Thump, the Hong merchant, who became bankruPts
was confided in a small room, and allowed only a little
rice. lie found great consolation in a pipe of opium,
which drug is smoked even in the Imperial Palace itself.
The duties on most articles of imports into China are .
very high, and appear to be levied with the view of pro-
tecting
the manufactures of that country. Camlets, of
which article large importations annually take place, pay
duty as high on the average as 18 dollars per piece, and, •
with other charges upon them, are raised nearly 50 per
cent. on the cost price. The cause of this high duty on
camlets is stated to be owing to their near resemblance to
silks. A good many are smuggled into the country, which
the I.xity of the officers of the Government readily adrailn
of tieing accomplished.
In the event of a consul being appointed at Canton by .
the English Government, no benefit would arise, as the
East India Company's supercargoes there would even then
he considered the principal representatives of the British
nation. The Chinese do not attach any degree of honour
to Ambassadors, considering them merely as tribute bearers
from an inferior power to his Celestial Majesty.
Formerly there were eleven llong merchants, four of
whom are bankrupts. Of the remaining seven, five are
substantial men.

The Company make up any deficiency of their funds in
China by bills drawn on the Bengal Government.
Dr. Morrison is not the editor of the Canton Resister.
The accounts of trade, &c. in that paper are as correct as
moat newspaper information, being derived from the same
sources, and theref ,re sometimes incorrect.
The Company's exports from China are confined solely
to tea. Nankeens and silks were formerly exported by
them. For the benefit of the officers of the Company's
ships, these articles have been discontinued in the invest-
ment, the Company wishing by every means to encourage
their servants.

Mr. Iklarjoribanks, in the course of his evidence, gave
an opinion at some length on the currency of the Chinese,
by which it appears that the tael is merely a nominal
coin ; and that the Chinese prefer dollars to uncoined sil-
ver in payment of goods, considering the dollar to be of
a more equal standard to their own coin than the other.

The East India Committee met again on Thursday,'
when two witnesses were examined (Mr. William Brown
and Mr. Richard Milne), both, we believe, gentlemen
connected with the town of Liverpool, and engaged in the
American trade carried on between this country and China,
and China and the United States.
They entered into a minute detail of the manner in which
the American trade was conducted, and stated that, not-
withstanding the difficulties which attended the various
transactions with the Chinese, and the many article"
which presented themselves, this trade was pursued with
little or no interruption, and with considerable advantage.
Woollens, for example, which arc exported from this
country into China by the Americans, realized a fair profit.
They had lately turned their attention to cotton yarns►
as an article suited to the Chinese market, and with evetj
prospect of success.
The Americans considered themselves, and indeed were,
upon an equal footing with other nations in China. The
English East India Company did not exercise any undo"
influence or controul there.

Obstacles occurred to the traders with China, owing to
the peculiar customs of that people.
In cases of damage occurring to the tea-chests, by which
the artiele became unsaleable, the merchants of Chins
would, in most eases, exchange the chests for others when
returned.

The Canadas, no doubt, to a certain extent, were sup-
plied with tea, by the United States previously to the East
India Company sending it there.
The Americans considered their tea to be equal to the
English, in point of quality. From American habits,
green tea preponderated in that country.

Their Graces thefrDomutkheeiarnpdrivDatue eLeisiesrsofanNd oh:
TILUMBKRI,AND have detrrmined to enforce a stricter se:
tention to the etiquette on the part of the Nobility ste"
all nho aGentry, l'lyisee:tcel7l(tiliinegmselves from the levee and drawing"
room. Two remarkable eases have already occurred.
Colonel G--, a distinguished military functionary, went
to the levee, but his lady did not attend the drawing-
room. The lady of a certain Church dignitary appeared
at the latter, while, at the levee, her husband was invi-
sible. Cards of invitation have been forwarded to the
Colonel and the dignitary's lady only ; and the names of
their respective consorts have been omitted. In any last'
mentioned that none of the Protestant Prelates attended at
the levee; none, therefore, of their Lordships werein-
vited to the first gold service dinner, which took place
last week, while Dr. MtrAKAY and Dr. KILL', the titu-
lar Archbishops of Dublin and Tuam, were present. The
two latter were present at the levee.