The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-22 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE.-(THIS DAY.)

A Quitrterly General Court of the Proprietors of India
Stock was held this morning at the India House, for the
purpose of declaring a dividend for the current ball-year.
The meeting was made special, to consider a moth n to the
effect that as the receiving of money by the East India
Government of pilgrims visiting the temples of .Ik:eget.-
naut, &a. tended to increase the belief in idolatry in India,
that such practice should be abandoned.
At ten minutes past twelve o'clock, the Chairman of
the Company, W. ASTELI, Esq., entered the Court-room,
followed by a majority of the Ditectors. Mr. Asrrx.r.
ha►ing taken the Chair, the minutes of the last Court
were read and confirmed.
The Secretary read a list of papers laid before Parlia-
ment since the last general Court.
In answer to a question put by General Titoirivrow,
The CHAIRMAN stated that the Registrar of Madras
sill had passed into a law.
General THORNTON said that he was sorry the Bill had
passed'at all.

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The SECRETARY thenIDOLATRY read a motion, notieo of which
bad been given at the last meeting by Mr. Poynter ; it
svu to the effect that this Court do take into serious consi-
deration the evils arising from the collection of tribute at
the Temple of Joggernaut and others, for the purpose of
paying for the-repairs of the said temples, allowances to
priests, &c. ; and that the Government be recommended
to abolish the practice of levying contributions for such
and similar purposes.
Mr. Povierea, in supporting his motion, said that he
ald not see how he could bring forward such a motion
more moderately and less offensively than he bad done.—
It was, he observed, in the form of a recommendation.
He did not wish to attack •c mrcively the temple worship
of India, nor the worshippers; it WAS against the
iniquitous system that had so lone been tolerated, of levy-
ing tins on the worshippers, that his motion was di-
rected ; he thertibre toped that he would not be accused
of entering upon a Quixotic undertaking. He believed
that British influence and support to idolatry was most
injurious, and it was derogatory to the dignity of the
country to be a participator in them. He did net wish
to have these idolatrous exhibitions suppressed at once,
but he and all others would be most happy eventually to
see them abolished. The receiving of money ostensibly
with a view to prevent scenes of bloodshed, by the Indian
Government, was a sanction to the practice, and the Hon.
Proprietor then read extracts from various works to show
the nature of these exhibitions. They detailed practices
the most horrid and shameful, young females dancing at
many of the festivals without clothing. There were
orders for sacrifices, and men and females were killed in
the most horrid manner—the priests themselves joining in
the most disgusting songs—the girls led a life of prostitu-
tion. In fact, the author described the exhibitions thus
...that they were so bad, that it was impossible to clothe
a hat escription of them in words fit for publication, and
the feared more than any thing else that the protec-
tion given to those scenes would, more than any thing
else, endanger the British power in India. The Hon.
Proprietor WAS left reading extracts, giving dreadful de-
scriptions of the scenes exhibited at the temples in India.

General Husxissow, Captain HusicissoN,
and the Rev. Mr. GouLaouaN, left town this morn-
ing to attend the funeral of their late brother at Liverpool,
on Pride), next, Invitation were sent to the Right HOB.
CJIA RLES GRANT and Mr. ROBERT GRANT, but the
former Right Hon. Gentleman is at Inverness and the
latter at Norwich.
" LWe .v have just seen a proof of the portrait of
ady RIBBLIRDALE (from Mrs. CARPENTER'S tasteful
- Painting) which will, we learn, appear in the October
Number of La Belle Aasemblee. As a work of art, no
/4" then Has admirable and graceful resemblance, this
engraving possesses much excellence. Nothing can cur-
Illial-the'delleary with which the features of the coon-
telance We been worked up. The hair, too, has a fine
silky hne, true to life,
MOCK, ATTORNEY.--ALEXANDER ALLSOP
was convicted at the Middlesex Sessions, yesterday, of
Pm4ing hisnaelf off as a certificated attorney to one
WILLIaIt Sc„aat.,rer, and thereby procuring from him
the sum of 101.--Fie was sentenced to be imprisoned for
six months.
A DIRTY WITNESS.
--A German gentle-
man in the course of a strict cross•examination on a trial
during the last Oxford Circuit, was asked to state the
exact age of the defendant. " Dirty" (thirty) was the
reply. " And pray, Sir, are you his senior, and how
assay years?" id Why, Sir, I can dirty-two."
PLEASANT.—To be caught in a heavy
°hotter of rain in a boat between Chelsea Hospital and the
Rid Rouse, Battersea. No cloak—no umbrella— no
nothing !
A correspondent complains of the inefficiency
of the new police from Blackheath to Streatham ; •having
Only seen one on duty, on Monday night, in a distance of
seven miles.
We have a file of the Bengal Chronicle this
morning, Which states that Major Ftxstttra, commanding
the 38th Regiment of Native Infantry, died at Barrackpore.
A SHORT-HORNED BULL.—Yesterday, says
to the Brabant Courier, " yesterday will add a bright page
hilterY." The reader has seen Jox Mitt.aa's dialogue
betwee%

a German Jew and a Dutch one :
German—. Doesh it rain thomorragh ?"r
Dutch—.
Ish it vash."Morning Pape .
ARTIFICIAL EYES.--A Dr. ScuDDER, O.
Courtland-street, New York, has announced to the one-
eyed public) of America, that lie has invented artificial
aYeei which will " roll, wink, and turn, at the pleasure
of the wearer, quite as well as the natural ones."
' ' A play at • Stamford theatre announced for
Monday, " by de.ire of the gentlemen who compose the
Committee for conducting the late election of Lord
THOMAS GROH. extraordina and Colonel Cuartax," produced an
eh ry scene. The notion had been entertained
at •it was possible to pack the whole audience at a public
theatre; and that one-twentieth part of- the population
could ktrettent every one of tee other nineteen parts from
• Obtaining adtnission to the house ! Upon this opinion it
Was attempted to act ; and one of the Aldermen of the
borough (Mr. THOMAS Altus) actually gave into the
custody of constables who were in attendance, the first
individual (a young man natned Bucx), who, not being a
Partizan of the political interest to which the worth Alder-
nun belongs, had been unable to obtain a ticket, but who
had paid his money at the door, and had passed in'o the
theatre, where he was quietly aeated, when he was seized
and raffirod out. This circumstance occasioned a riot
amongst an immense crow p who were waiting
at the entrance, and great agitation was produced within
,the theatre. The mob at length tore away the large fold-
"I dooll at the principal entrance (leading to the boxes
"Itt the pit). and carrying them down to the town bridge,
threw them into the river Welland. The gallery door of
the theatre Was also thrown open, and many persons 'lb-
:Wile.' adMittance to that part of the house without mak-
* .'ng an payment. The manager (Mr. MANLY), from
the stage, stated his inability to preserve order, and even
hinted at danger to the ladies in the house,.—some
of whom, on his • suggestion, cot over the boxes, and
took °ell% on the 'Lige for safety I This proved to be
4 very "I"esin'Y Itlarin 3 no personal violence was offered
by the intruders; though, from conflicting party cries,
great pima the;plofay and farce passed in dumb show, and
the entertainment the night was sadly disturbed. At
the close, the Win who were in the house were safely e''
coned fro and the popular excitement passed off in
loud condemnation the bad judgment and overweening
and intit
nation Which had of
suggested the poinibility of an exclusive
heee-sppropriation of a place of licensed public:
tinutemeat-
-11 11 t-t-An application to the Court of King's Bench,
, timed will I
PWI te made on the soh'ect Of the extraordinary
"more and confinement which led to
the irritation and
tumult of .the night.--floston Gazette.
. rIVE AND TIIREE-PENCE.--PAIIKE and
tonne sit next each other at table, and, in the midst of
(411° of his best stories, a gentleman whispered his friend,
" fixoecix is a devilish clever fellow, isn't he?"—" Yes."
"-- Pity he should ever want money. I lent him five.
Ztstul..threepence yesterday.".—" So did 1," replied the
ehter••-?“ You ?"---Yes " They mentioned it to a third;
Bad been a donor to the same amount :—a fourth—a
IL:littb.--'•a sixth ; they all acknowledged having lent him
fiye-and-threepenee." The smothered laughter which
Ise emeuleted She table, now exploded in a simultaneou,
114°14 ; and Norco' was by no d' neerted, for
hi vv,.. .
ear,
.Means isco
,_. ot!pered in my the mtnute after, " flow do
:0- thlnk I mean to pay 'son 411 ?"......tt I can't eq."—
, j'reseat them.with o boo-ticket a piece at my benefit I"
aeroard's 2?etrovectione of the Stage.