The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-28 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

(Concluded from Tile Sun of yesterday.)

IDOLATRY IN INDIA.
PoYNDER rose to bring forward the motion of which
he had given notice, relative to the compelling the Com-
pany's military servants to attend end take part in the idolas.
trous worship of the natives of In(lin. The Hon poprictor
then read portions of a despatch sent out to India by the
Directors on this sl.hject, dated Feb. 25, 1833, in which it
was expressly stated that henceforward the Company's ser-
vants should not interfere or take part in any of the customs
or religious observances of the natives of India, or take or
collect any moneys as fines or offerings, or derive any emoln-
znent from permission given to the natives to perform those
ceremonies. It was strange that after the directions given
in 1833, relative to the abolition of the pilgrim-tax, that
ihry had not been productive of any result, but on the
contrary had been treated as a mere dead letter, and with
absolute contempt. After mailing extracts from several
other documents, the Hon. Propietor said the time would
shortly arrive when the pilgrim-tax must be abolished. He
then moved the resolution inserted in yesterday's Sun.
Mr. HANKEY seconded the motion.
Mr. MARRIOTT said a few words in favour of it.

A PROPRIETOn suggested the propriety of withdrawing
the motion. So important a question ought not to be de-
cided in so thin a- Court.
After a rery long discussion,
Mr. POYNDER replied ; but before the question was put,
Mr. WEE:I3°N proposed an amendment, simply calling
upon the Directors to pledge themselves to carry into effect
their own resolutions of 1833 with all prudent and prat;,
livable expedition.
Mr. Wecdon's amendment was then put, and the Court
divided. Sir C. Forbes and Mr. Crawford were appointed
tellers.
The numbers were—

For the amendment
Against it
Majority :against the amendment —l5
The original nb,tion was then put and negatived. The
Court then adjourned.

BRUSSELS AND GERMAN PAPERS

BRUSSELS, SEPT. 24.—Yesterday, a little before three
o'clock, an individual named Jamotte, was arrested on the
race-course, just as he was taking from his pocket a pistol,
which it was thought he intended to fire at General Hurel,
when he was passing, surrounded by his staff. We abstain
from adopting any of the various reports that were circu-
lated till a legal investigation shall have been made. The
races were very brilliant—their Majesties were present.—
Courrier Beige.
BRUSSELS, SEPT. 25.—The Independent has the follow-
ing article :

—Half an hour before the arrival of the King at the plains
of Monplaisir, Colonel Rodenbach was conversing near his
Majesty's gallery with the chief of the general staff of the
army, when he perceived pretty near him a man in a blouse,
whom he recognised as the person named Jamotte, who
has already been several times before the police of Brussels
for acts of extravagance, and was more recently arrested at
Laeken for expressions which indicated unsoundness of
mind. This man, making a motion which seemed to de-
note that he was armed, Colonel Rodenbach rushed upon
him and seized him by the collar and the arm.
Several police officers immediately came up. Jamotte
was searched, and a loaded pistol being found upon him, he
was delivered to the gendarmes, and conveyed to a place of
safety.

By order of the Attorney-General he has been removed
to the Wards for lunatics in the Hospital of St. John, to
be examined by the physicians of that establishment. He
is destitute of all means of subsistence, and has long been
in a state of vagrancy.
His Majesty has given a private audience to Mr. Coop-
mans, Charge d'Affaires of his Majesty the King of Denmark..
BRUSSELLS, SEPT. 26.—The Moniteur publishet, the
programme of the ceremony of opening the iron railroad
from Termonde to Ghent ; the fetes begin t') morrow, the
27th, and continue till the 2d of Octob':r.
PESTI!, SEPT. 15.—We receiv,.7, daily from Servia more
and more lamentable accounts of the spreading of the
plague in that country. It has already approached the
Hungarian frontier's, and we are under serious apprehen-
sions on that account. The sanitary cordon on the Aus-
trian frontier is considerably strengthened, and it is re-
ported that several battalions of the trocps in the camp
11.n.° are ordered to the frontier, to reinforce the cordon.
We hope that the navigation of the steam-boats will not be
stopped.

Linz, SEPT. 18.—His Imperial Highness the Archduke
Palatine arrived here on the 16th from Ems. On the arri-
val of the llfaria Anna steam-beat, Baron Puthor, Di-
rector of the Steam Navigation Company, had the honour
to wait on his Imperial Highness who regretted that he
could not defer his departure to Vienna so as to make the
voyage on board the steam-boat, which is to leave to•mor-
row, His Imperial Highness looks well, and his com-
plexion has recovered its colour, and the Archduchess The-
resa, who seems to have vigour to recover from her long
sufferings since she set out on this journey, has on her
countenance few traces remaining of her illness.
CARLSRUIIE, SEPT. 20.—The famous pedestrian, Men-
sen Ernst (a Norwegian, and formerly a seaman), who has
been known for many years as the most indefatigable and
rapid walker, and especially celebrated for his tours from
Paris to Moscow, from Munich to Greece, and from Con-
stantinople to India and back, has arrived here from his
last expedition with all his pedestrian faculties unimpaired,
of which he will give us a specimen to-morrow, Mensen
Ernst intends for his next grand tour an excursion through
Africa front its north c,,ast to the Cape of Good Hope.
nEi GI AN UNDS—HausscLA, SEPT. 125.
Actual Debt, per Cent.
RothschiM's Loan, 5 per Cent. tm.y,
Loan or thirty tilsllione ..........
Lean of City, 18.^,2 4 per Cent 99%
Society 01 Commerce, 4-,per Cent 1:39.4
Bank 01 Belgium, 5 per Cent lll4
Pritssels Papers, Sept. 26.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIavNA, Seer. IS.
Five per rents. Nl.talliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank. titsar , l3Si
--.lllg,nrine Zeitung, Sept 12:i
Milt II FLINIIs-

i sISTURRA .01, Sem. 23.
Y 11
neslls.
-„-r,,::-„-r,,:: th-',. 2,„e, per '..iit l3', 21
:43
;.,lure:,
Ditto, ditto 3 per cent.
1"44 1014
~ort :elie, 4 per eCTI, ...
oitto, ditto, 134 per cent 75!.4 76
Comoiercial Company, 4.. per c..nt l3 . 16214
Ditto (1,:12 and 1813) 5 per cent.
Loan Met, 1. !er cent.
Ditto 14.57, 6 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month l2 0754
Two month.;
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The ;Vallachian Courier announces that the Sultan
has conferred on Moldavian vessels the permission of navi-
gating the Black Sea under the .Moldavian flag.
On Friday night his Excellency' General Count Se-
bastiani, the French Ambassador, arrived at Dover by the
.Rollal Geor,,e steam-vessel from Boulogne ; his Excellency
rcnujncd for the night at the Ship Hotel, and the follouing
morning set off for Lolldon under a salute from the guns
at the heights. It has generally been the understood
cuitom, if not the 1.4 w of nations, that the person and pro-
perty of Amhass:ldors are held sacred ; the Douaniers, who
have a pretty good nous in matters of contraband articles.
fancied that his Excellency's baggage was not purely offi-
cial, for on searching the two carriages of his Excellency,
who is ;tot a smuggler, nearly 1,000 pairs of kid shoes and
a (ill Amity of blond lace fell into the hands of the Philis-
tines !—Kenlish Gazelle.
The Queen Dowager intends to leave Bushy Park
for the marine villa engaged for her Majesty at Hastings
on the 10th of October. The Queen and the Duchess of
Kent, and the Royal suite, intend to quit Windsor Castk. for Brighton on the 4th of October, and remain there until
the ith or Sth of November, when her Majesty will return to
London for the purpose of being present at the grand festi-
val -it Guildhall or. Lord Mayor's day.
The shzreliolders of the Zarskoye-Selo rail-road,
near St. Petersburgh, held their first meeting on the 28th
ult. From the Report it appeared that the works were
proceeding with the greatest activity, and that the line to
Zarkoye-Selo and Pawlowsk would be open the early part
of September. The capital of 3,500,000 rubles had been
nearly exhausted, and it was rcAlved by a very large ma-
jority, to authorise the ,iirectors to contract a loan of
1,300,000 rubles to 'complete the work.
Lieutenant- i.ieneral Baron Von Hugel, Governor
ofw StuttF:at, and brother to the Wurtemberg Minister of
War; died at Stuttgart on the 15th inst.
!NE cifoLERA IN SictLY.—From the 7th of
June to the 6th of Aukust the number of deaths amounted
to 23,546. Till the Ist of July an account was kept of' the
Ilurnhltr of eases ; but after that the disorder raged with
'ugh tuty that it was scarcely possible to register even the
litaths. At the first appearance of the pestilence Paler-
mo contained 200,000 inhabitants, including strangers.
Abottt 40,000 fled, so that if the deaths are considered
rah respect to" the 160,000 souls that remained it ap-
pears that In two months more than the seventh part
or the whole population died, Of the higher classes and
church dignitaries 120 fell victims ; among these were
Marchese Ariale, President of the Supreme Court of Ap-
peal, and the celebrated Abbate Scina. Of the parochial
clergymen of Palermo only one has survived, and of the
nuns of the convent of Martorana not one remains alive.
In the environs of Palermo—at Termini, S:,•racusa, Flo-
rida, and A vola—great excesses have been committed, par-
ticularly at Syrncusa. The latter town will be visited with
just punishment ; it will cease to be the principal city of
the province, the tribunals, and the civil and military au-
thorities being removed to Noto ; the very name of the
province is to be changed, and to be henceforth V al:e di
Note. The cholera of 1837 will certainly remain for' ever
memorable in the annals of Sicily.—Suabian Mercury.