The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-22 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

Yesterday a Quarterly General Court of Proprietors of
East India Stock was held at the Company's House, in
Leadenhall-street, for the dispatch of general business ;
Sir James Law Lushington in the chair.
The minutes of the last Court were read and con-
firmed.

The CHAIRMAN acquainted the Court that certain
papers relative to the case of the late Raja of Sattara
had been printed, in conformity with a resolution of the
Court of the 7th of February last, and were ready for
delivery to the proprietors on the 14th inst., of which
the usual notice had been given in the newspapers. He
also acquainted the Court that certain accounts and
papers that had been presented to Parliament since the
last general Court, had been laid on the proprietors'
table, together with a list of the superannuations granted
since that period to certain parties in the service of the
Company.
The CHAIRMAN then acquainted the Court that, ou
the 27th of September last, a proprietor bad presented a
' memorial from the members of a Baptist congregation,
praying that the payment of the pilgrim tax, which went
to support the worship of the idol Juggernaut, in India,
might be discontinued. The discussion of that motion
had been postponed to the present Quarterly Court, as
well as another; question of which the same Llononrable
Proprietor had given notice. It was with the most ex-
treme regret he had to inform the Court that he had
received information of the death of that Hon. Pro-
prietor (Mr. Poynder), in a letter from his son, stating
that he had expired on Sunday morning last. He was a
worthy and most excellent man, whose death would be
sincerely regretted by his numerous friends; of course,
both the motions to which he had alluded would fall to
the ground.
Mr. STRASHAN said, he extremely regretted to hear
the announcement that had just been made by the
Chairman, of the death of a worthy and most excellent
friend of his, who had for a very considerable period
taken an active part in the prcceedings of that Court.
Although he had often differed in opinion with his de-
ceased friend both as to some of the questions he had
brought under the notice of the Court, and the manner
in which they had been introduced by him, he had
never remonstrated with him on any of the sub-
jects on which they had unfortunately differed, but
he found additional reason for considering that
worthy man as one of the most pure, disinterested,
benevolent, and single-minded that he had ever met
with. The object which he had so stea'iily pursued
in that Court had never :for one moment been
neglected, although he had frequently supported it
at the risk of his own health, and at considerable
personal sacrifice; and he (Mr. Strachas) hoped that one
of the subjects (idolatry in India) which the late Hon.
Proprietor (Mr. Poynder) had so often and so zealously
and so ably brought under the notice of the Court of
Directors, would not be lost sight of by them, notwith-
standing the decease of his able and excelh ut friend.
Mr. Maaarorr said he readily agreed in all the ob-
servations that had been made by the Hon. Proprietor
(Mr. Strachan) relative to their mutual friend, the late
Mr. Poynder.
Mr. TWINING said he was not at all surprised that the
two Hon. Proprietors who had last addressed the Court
should take the earliest opportunity of expressing their
feelings with reference to the death of their friend. He
(Mr. Twining) had always entertained the highest
respect for that Hon. Proprietor.
Mr. HANKEY also spoke in very high terms of the
late Mr. Poynder.
Here the subject dropped.
Colonel DICKENSON then rose to bring forward the
following motion, of which he had given notice :—" That
copies of all correspondence which had passed between
the Court of Directors and the Board of Controul, re-
garding the booty captured at Hydrabad, be laid before
the Court of Proprietors." The Honourable Proprie-
tor, in bringing the subject under the notice of the
Court, said that the Proprietors and the pub-
lic in general were aware, from what had
appeared in the public prints, that a length-
ened correspondence had taken place between the
late Governor of Sinde and the Court of Directors, in
which the latter were charged with a violation of truth
and justice in their decision of the 10th of February,
1847, in allotting the booty taken at Hydrabad, also with
having evinced a total disregard to the claims which the
army in India had upon them for the important services
they had rendered on that memorable occasion; and,
lastly, that they had been influenced by corrupt ad un-
worthy motives in the course they had thought proper
to adopt. Such was the nature of the serious charges
that had been brought against the Court of Directors,
and emanating, as they did, from an officer of high rank
and reputation, he was sure the Court would unani-
mously agree with him that they ought at once to be
met and refuted, as he was convinced they would be by
the Court of Directors.

The CHAIRMAN interrupted the Hon. Proprietor, and
said he would submit to the Court whether, under all
the circumstances that had lately occurred, it would be
either wise, expedient, or proper to enter into a discus
sion relative to any difference of opinion that might
formerly have existed between the Court of Directors
and Sir Charles Napier.—(" Hear, hear," and " No.")
He certainly would not consent to produce the corre-
spondence that had taken place between the Court and
that Gallant Officer—(Hear, hear)—from a conviction
that the production of that corrtspondeuce could not
lead to any possible good.—(Hear, hear.) He was in
hopes that all old sores had been healed—(Hear, hear)
—and be hoped, therefore, that the Hon. Gentleman
would not proceed any further in the matter.
Col. DICKENSON said he wished, in his own defence, to
be allowed to state the grounds on which he had brought
forward his motion, and he hoped the Court would allow
him to do so.

The Cusrayazi said he really must observe that, if
the Gallant Officer persisted in bringing forward his
motion, it would be one of the most indiscreet things that
had ever been dons in that Court.

Col. DICKINSON begged to assure the Court that, in
moving for the production of the papers ho had called
for, he did not intend to pass the slightest imputation
upon the Court of Directors. It was not the charges
themselves so much, as the manner in which they had
been brought forward, that rendered a refutation of them
necessary. He did not impugn the motives of the Di-
rectors in their appropriation of the Sinde booty, but he
thought that a full statement of all the circumstances
connected with that distribution should be made public,
as a satisfaction to the army in India.
Mr. SULLIVAN was in favour of inquiry, but still
would not second the motion if it was intended to call for
the production of the correspondence between Sir
Charles Napier and the Court of Directors.
The CHAIRMAN said that no correspondence had
taken place between the Court of Directors and the
Board of Control regarding the booty captured at Hy-
drabad, and, therefore, no such correspondence could be
produced. He thought the present was not a proper
time to discuss the question of the Sinde booty.
Mr. WIGRAM (a Director) said the question of the
distribution of the Sinde booty did not rest with the East
India Company. All booty taken by the army belonged
to her Majesty, who, in the present case, had been
graciously pleased to order its distribution in a certain
manner, and to apportion the share to which
the gallant officer alluded to was entitled.
The Lords of the Treasury, under whose advice
that distribution had taken place, had awarded to
Sir Charles Napier one-eight, instead of one•sizteentb,
as originally proposed. The Court had no power to
alter that decision, and he was satisfied that no good,
but, on the contrary, great mischief would ensue from
any further agitation of the question. He trusted the
Gallant Officer (Colonel Dickenson) would see the pro-
priety of preventing a negative being put on his motion,
by withdrawing it altogether.

After some further discussion, the motion was put and
negatived, only one hand being held up in its favour.
Mr. SULLIVAN then rose to move for the production
of certain papers relative to the Government of
Lahore. In doing so he said, he had read the
speeches that were delivered by the Duke of Welling-
ton and others at the grand banquet that took place
at the London Tavern on Saturday last, and as far
as those speeches were concerned, it was satisfactory
to find that the present state of affairs of India did not
afford any just ground for apprehension; that although
there might be a passing cloud over India, it would soon
be under the influence of the highest sunshine. No
doubt if he were in the same happy position as the seve-
ral speakers who had addressed the meeting on that
occasion he would have taken an equally cheerful view
of the present state of affairs in India; but as it did, un-
fortunately, happen that what little money he had was
involved in East India Stock, he might, perhaps, be ex
cused if he did not take exactly the same view of the
matter. On the contrary, he thought that our present
position in India, both financial and political, was never
more critical than at the present moment. After some
further general observations, the Hon. Proprietor said
that, under the Mogul Government, they had a much
larger revenue and a greater surplus than at present,
when they had a difficulty in meeting their ordinary ex-
penses; they had certainly greater territory, but they
had also greater expenditure. Their present difficulties
arose from extending conquests to the Indus, when he
was quite sure the feeling of the influential classes was
against them; and he had only to allude to the last dis-
patch of Lord Gough to prove that our army was now
surrounded by a hostile peasantry.—(Hear, hear.) Our
last accounts mentioned the harmony which now ex-
isted between the Seiklis and Affgbans, and
the Mahomedans and Ilindoos, against those
they considered as the common enemy, which were our-
selves. This would not have been the case had we been
content with our old territory, and strived to turn it to a
better account. For the last seven years we had thrown
all political prudence to the winds, and had gone on in a
course of gradual aggression, till we had raised up ene-
mies even in our own ten itory. The impression here
was that the Seikh warfare arose in consequence of their
invading our territory, but it was on the contrary; their
invasion of our territory was an act of self-defence,
seeing our object was to subjugate them, as we had
done the Ameers of Sinde. The Honourable Proprietor
read several letters, by which he contended that the
Government of India had held out promises of restoring
Mirzapoore, Peshawar, and other places, on being sur-
rendered, but which we still maintained in defiance of
all honour and justice. This view of our past conduct
had thrown the Punjaub into insurrection—(Hear,
hear)—where, in our efforts to get possession of it, we
had collsaged with men at Lahore, who were held Jy
their countrymen in the greatest possible contempt.
The love of aggression was the main evil of cur po-
Icy. In the time of Trajan it was seen danger would
attend the Roman arms if they penetrated beyond the
Euphrates, and the consequence ssas, the troops were
withdrawn in the days of his successor, who experi-
enced a long reign of tranquillity. The same opinion
had now-a-days been given by Munro, Malcolm, Ed-
monstone, and others well versed in our Indian affairs.
It remained now to be seen how we mestat to basal with
the Putjaub ; if we toal, one fil=ein respect to
that province, mortal blow
he was convinced that a
would be given ~to the British power in India • if we

there made a fair stand-up fight for the benefit of India,
the result would no doubt be more favourable to our
supremacy.—(ll€ ar, Lear.) The Hon. Proprietor con-
cluded by moving that et pies of all correspondence be..
tween the political agent and the Government of La-
hore, in the year 1844 and 1845, be laid before the Court.
Col. DICKENSON seconded the motion.
The CIIAIRMAN said, in answer to the various charges
of the Hon. Proprietor, he must make a few observations.
In the first place that gentleman drew a very melancholy
picture of the financial position of the company, which
was not at all warranted. The exportation of bullion,
and its attendant expense, had become unnecessary, as
the company could now get bills for their purposes.
The Hon. Proprietor had, amongst other things, stated
that the Indian Government had brought things to such
a pass, that we had no friends from Cape Comorin to
Delhi. In reply to this, he begged to say that all their
accounts from India agreed in stating, that perfect
tranquillity pervaded the whole of India, except the
province where the war was carried on.—(Hear, bear.)
As related to Lahore, he begged to inform the Honour-
able Proprietor that there was no political agent at La-
hore in 1844 and 1845, and that all the papers, after the
treaty had been concluded, were presented to Perna-
ment.—(Hear, hear.) He hoped that reply would be
enough to satisfy the Court on the subject.—(Hear,
bear.) He put it to the Court whether at a time in
which they were engaged in hostilities with the Seikhs,
it would not be improper and inexpedient to give up any
correspondence that had taken place till that business
was settled.—(Hear, hear.) He had no doubt that the
British army would conquer, and he hoped and believed
that a course that was right and just would be pursued
by the Government in respect to that province.—(Hear.)
The Hon. Chairman concluded by giving a direct nega-
tive to the motion.

Several Hon. Proprietors expressed their approval of
the decision of the Chairman.

The CHAIRMAN put the motion to the vote, for which
oily four hands were exhibited, the large majority being
in thr negative.
In reply to a question,
The CHAIRMAN stated that the dismissal of some native
officers, had been caused in consequence of a riot be-
tween some Ilindoos and Mahomedans.
The Court then adjourned.

THE EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO.
SINGAPORE, FEB. 7.—The junk season is just
opening. About 40 junks have already arrived with
their usual assortment of cargo and Chinese emigrants.
Little of interest has transpired during the month, save
a oven:lent, suggested by the Straits Times, for the
erection of a suitable monument on the esplanade to the
memory of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founder of
the settlement. MKS. Meander is now here; she will
leave for China in a few days, Captain the Hon. H.
Keppel having received orders to be at Hong Kong by
the 24th of March, so as to join the demonstration fleet
at Canton in April. Orders have come down here (as
also sent to the ports of India) to ship seamen for the
China fleet, and even to offer the bounty—from which
may be gathered that something is expected to take
place in China ere long.
LABUAN.—From this settlement—colony it cannot
be called, since no one will resort to it— we have re-
ived communications to the 15th of January. The
place was perhaps somewhat more healthy, for the
officials having removed to the higher ground, away
from the site originally selected for the town, and such as
were sick being absent in the Meander, there was more
apparent healthfulness prevailing. The Madras troops
were comparatively free from sickness; there were seve-
ral cases of fever amongst them, but not of a severe
type. The officers of the troops were more sensible to
the febrile character of the climate. The police of the
island does not appear to be very efficient ; for notwith-
standing there are about two police peons to each
house, and eighty Madras sepoys, nearly every
European's dwelling (all told, they number but
tire) had been robbed of articles of value by Chinese
employes or coolies; and, what is more, they all managed
to escape. Where a few household thefts form the lead-
, ing events, the news of Labuan are soon told. Each
day serves but to convince us of the utter uselessness of
Labuan as a colony, whilst, as a naval depot, its advan-
tages cannot be too highly estimated; but, for the latter
purpose, it is little short of reckless expenditure to throw
away 10,000/. a year in supporting a Government where
there are none to rule over but those in the pay of the
authorities. In addition to the paid officials and their
n-,erlials, Labuan has for its settlers two grog-shopkeepers
from Singapore, who, by selling deleterious spirits, do
more harm than the climate. And yet, to support such
an establishment, Parliament is called upon to vote
10,0001. yearly of the public revenue.
On the arrival of the last overland mail from the
Eastern Archipelago, it was mentioned that the health
of Sir James Brooke was such as to cause the utmost
anxiety to his friends. Sir James quitted Labuan in
her Majesty's ship Meander, ostensibly on a visit to
Sooloo, but in fact to try the benefit of a sea trip. The
Meander left on Dec. 10, followed by the Jolly Bache-
lor cutter, belonging to Sir James. The cutter, in
charge of Lieutenant Oldfield, R.N., was to keep com-
pany with the Meander for two or three days, and then
return with accounts of Sir James Brooke's health and
the mails, Sir James's indisposition not permitting him
to finish his letters before leaving Labuan. Since the
departure of the frigate and cutter nothing had been
seen or heard of them, although nearly forty days had
expired. Various conjectures are formed relative to
the cause of detention—as that the frigate may probably
have proceeded to Celebes, and extended her intended
cruise ; but no certain information could be obtained,
nor had the Meander been seen by any of the native
prows cruising along the coast of Borneo. As the
Meander was provisioned only for forty days, her return
would be immediate, unless something has happened.
The arrival of the next mail from China and the Straits
will set the question at rest.
Since writing the above, other communications are to
hand, which announce the safe arrival of the Meander,
at Singapore, on the 4th February. It would appear
that the health of Sir James Brooke continued so com-
pletely broken, that for three weeks his Excellency's
life was despaired of. Sir James, a e learn, is perfectly
restored, and was to leave Labuan in February, on a
visit to Sarawak. The Meander, during her cruise,
visited Sooloo, but the Sultan expressed himself so sore
at the treatment he received from the Dutch some months
previous that he felt loth to enter into any treaty en-
gagements. The object of the mission thus failed, but
will, we learn, be renewed in the course of the year.
The Meander also visited Maluda Bay, where all
was found to be quiet. The advices received by this
opportunity extended to January 30. The colony was
more favourably reported of in consequence of the Eu-
ropeans having removed to the higher lands. Lieut.
Hoskins, R.N., the Master-Attendant at Labuan, was
shout to relinquish his office owing to sickness and some
misunderstanding with the Lieutenant-Governor, the
latter functionary having, it would appear, managed to
make himself uncordial to all the officials. Public roads
were in course of construction. The coal mine was in
full operation. In addition to 1,000 tons being stocked,
the mine yielded from 200 to 300 monthly.
JAVA.—Beereyea..—The most active preparations
are in progress for invading Bally in March or April
next. Reinforcements were arriving. The frigates
Prins van Oranje and Semarang had arrived at Batavia,
and were to proceed to Bezoeltoe to rendezvous
there until the whole of the force was collected.
Orders were sent to Singapore to purchase all the
salted beef and pork procurable for the use of the ex-
pedition; for these provisions the Dutch were compelled
to pay 27 to 40 dollars per tierce, and much of it had
been a few days previously sold at auction for a few
cents. per barrel. The Dutch are sanguine of success,
nor are the Balinese idle; but the latter will be com-
pelled to yield in consequence of the want
of amunition,
the strict blockade kept by the Dutch having intercepted
supplies. The Balinese express themselves resolved to
to sell their lives and liberty as dear as possible. It is
rumoured that the present Governor-General Rochussen
will be superseded, and a new one was expected to ar-
rive overland. The Government had again consented to
draw bills on Holland to the extent of 1,200000 florins,
but did not conceal its determination to withhold draw-
in future. These fluctuations in the exchange are com-
plained of by the Europeans in Java, as serving to injure
trade. During the months of December and January
overfloodings had been very general in Java, and much
life and property were lost.

COURT OF SEWERS, GUILDIIALL.—A court of the
City Commissioners of Sewers was held on Tuesday.
After the minutes of the last court had been read,
a conversation on the sanitary state of the City, as
compared with the other metropolitan districts took
place, and on the suggestion of Mr. Simon a
note connected with the returns of the Registrar-
Ueneral was directed to be written to that functionary.
The report of the Committee of Health was agreed to.
Tho report of the Committee for General Purposes on
the gas question was brought up and agreed to. The
recommendation of the committee of the appointment of
Mr. Tyrrell to the office of solicitor to the Commis-
sioners of Sewers was not agreed to, after which the
Court adjourned.

COURT OF ALDERSIEN.—On Tuesday the report of
the Emmanuel Hospital Committee was brought up, and
ordered to be printed. The report of the gaol com •
mittee, on the petition of Mrs. Ruthven, the matron
of Newgate, for the retiring pension, 40/. per annum,
produced a discussion of some length, as to whether 521.
a year could be granted without a further notice. Alder-
man Farebrother then gave notice that he should move
for the grant of the last-named sum to her on the next
court day, and he had no doubt the concurrence of the
court would be unanimous.
WILLIS'S ROOMS—JEWS' INFANT SCHOOL BALL.—,
The fourth annual ball in aid of the funds oTufedy
thes Jews
Infant School, Hounsditch, took place on
This e
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lent institution is at present
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these rooms, and passed off with great eclat.
giving instruction to upwards
of 200 children, to whom, through the_ instrumen-
tality of kindred societies, which will quality them
for the more active business of life, opportunities of
gaining a footing intheworldaswseimllhbleage u
afforded.flust as night w
Amongste
brilliant
the numerous and
noticed Mr. and Mrs. F. 11. Goldsmid, Mr. and Mrs.
Alderman Salmons, Mr. Joseph Locke, M.L., Mr. John
Masterman, jun., Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Cohen, Mr.
and Mrs. Miley, Mr. and Mrs. Guedalla, &c. In addi-
tion to the sale of upwards of 300 tickets, donations
were received in the course of the evening amounting to
more than 200/. Dancing, to the enlivening strains of
Jullien's band, was commenced shortly after ten, and
kept up with ut,flagging spirit fur many hours.
DIOCESE OF CANTERBURY.—The Wardens and
Fellows of All Soul's College, Oxford, have presented
the Rev. Folloit Baugh, M.A., Preacher of the Charter-
house, to the rectory of Chelstield, with Farnborough
annexed, near Bromley, Kent, rendered vacant by the
cif the Rev. J. E. Tarleton, D.C.L. Mr. Baugh
was folint,rly vicar of Great liford. The preachership
of the Charter house, which has become vacant by Mr.
Baugh's preferment, is an appointment of considerable
value, and is in the gift of the Bishop of London.

SPANISH AMERArCAN BOND-
BOLDER; '3 .

" The Committee of Spanish A imerican Bondholders
have received the following from Messrs. Manning and
Mackintosh:—

Mexico, Feb. 13.
"' Sir,—Since writing our letter of yesterday,* cir-
cumstances have come to our knowledge which induces
us to believe that an arrangement may be at once effected
for the delivery in London of the equivalent of the
500,000 dollars referred to in the said letter, and we ad-
dress Messrs. John Schneider and Co. on the subject.
" We remain, &c.,

" /4IANNING AND MACKINTOSH.
" ' G. R. Robinson, Esq.' "
The letter to which this communication refers is pre-
sumed to have been dispatched by the Dee, which is
now expected. It is inferred that, the sum of 500,000
dollars being ready for remittance on account of the
bondholders, the Mexican Government have arranged
to retain the specie, by subtsituting drafts for the
amount on Messrs. Baring. Brothers and Co., who, as
will be observed from some details below, have been
placed in funds for the purpose, by remittances from N©w
York, on account of the indemnity due to Mexico from
the United States. We have also received, from the
Committee of Spanish American Bondholders, copies of
the following letters in relation to this subject:—
" 10, New Broad-street-mews, March 21.
" Sir,—We beg to hand you enclosed, for the infor-
mation of the Committee of Spanish American Bond-
holders—

" No. 1. Copy of a letter received by us this morning,
via the United States, from Messrs. Manning and Mack-
intosh, dated Mexico, Feb. 13.

" No. 2. Copy of a letter addressed by us thereon to
Messrs.. Baring Brothers and Co.; and
" No. 3. Copy of their answer thereto.
" The mail now daily expected to arrive will doubt-
less bring us further information on this matter, when
e shall proceed to communicate with Messrs. Baring
Brothers and Co., and will inform the committee the
result thereof.—We remain, &c.,
" JOHN SCHNEIDER AND CO.
" G. R. Robinson, Esq., 'M.P."
(Copy No. 1.)
" (Duplicate via United States, original per steamer.)
" Mexico, Feb. 13.
" Dear Sirs,—lt being very desireable that an ar-
rangement should be made at once for the delivery of the
equivalent of the 500,000 dolls. to be received for ac-
count of the bondholders, as explained to Mr. Robinson
in our letter of this date, and having reason to believe
that Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. may be induced
to assist in accomplishing this object, we beg to hand
you the enclosed letter for those gentlemen, in reference
thereto.

" And remain, dear Sirs, your obedient servants,
MANNINLI AND MACKINTOSH.
" Messrs. John Schneider and Co., London."
(Copy No. 2.)
" 10, New Broad-street-mews, March 21.
" Gentlemen,—Enclosed we beg to hand you a letter
which we have this day received from Messrs. Manning
and Mackintosh, of Mexico, addressed to you, and we
beg the favour of your informing us if you are ready to
make to us the payment therein referred to.
" We remain, Gentlemen, your obedient servants,
" JOHN SCHNEIDER AND CO.
"Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co.,
Bishopagate-street."
(Copy No. 3.)
" Bishopsgate-street, Mara 21.
" Gentlemen,—ln answer to the inquiry contained in
your letter of to day we have the honour to state, that in
conformity with the desire expressed in the letter to us
from Messrs. Manning and Mackintosh, of Mexico,
dated the 13th of February, we are ready to confer with
you on the subject of the delivery to you, as agents of
the Mexican bondholders, of the equivalent of 500,000
dolls., and if, as we hope, the math r can be brought to
a satisfactory conclusion, we shall hold the sum in ques-
tion at your disposal against the delivery to us of the
requisite receipts.
" We annex copy of the letter of Messrs. Manning and
Mackintosh, of the 13th of February, and have the
honour to be,

Gentlemen, your obedient servants,
" BARING BROTHERS AND CO.
"Messrs. John Schneider and Co., New Broad-street."
" (Duplicate; original per steamer.)
" Mexico, Feb. 13.
" Dear Sirs,—Messrs. John Schneider and Co., who
will have the pleasure to hand you this letter, will inform
you that an arrangement has been made here for the
payment to them, as agents of the bondholders, of the
.um of 500,000 dollars, and as it is desirable that mea-
sures should be taken for the delivery in London of the
equivalent in sterling money, we shall be much obliged
by your conferring on the subject with those gentlemen,
and, if possible, forming some plan for obtaining the
object in question; and, in the event of the matter being
brought to a satisfactory conclusion, we have to request
that you will be so good as to obtain from the said gen-
tlemen a receipt in duplicate for the amount delivered
to them.

" We remain, dear Sirs, your obedient servants,
" MANNING and MACKINTOSH.
" Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co., London."

INSTALLATION OF MR. MACAU-
LAY AS LORD RECTOR OF THE UNIVER-
SITY OF GLASGOW.

GLASGOW, WEDNESDAY.—The installation of Mr.
Macaulay took place this day in the common hall of the
college. Mr. Macaulay, in his robes, as Lord Rector,
was supported on either side by the Rev. Principal
M'Farlane and Professor Ramsay.
The customary formalities over, Mr. Macaulay ad-
dressed the assembled students. After returning thanks
for the honour—the unsolicited, and, on his part, unan-
ticipated honour of his election, he preceeded to state
the difficulty he felt in clothing his feelings in language
adequate to the occasion. Even that great master of
eloquence, Edmund Burke, had, on his election, felt it
difficult to arrange and lay his thoughts before them.
And, in truth, there was no spectacle more affecting and
striking than that of a great historical place of education
on the day of a public solemnity; and this day was ren-
dered still more notable by its occurring in the four.
hun-
dreth year of the existence of the University. On the occa-
sion of such a jubilee, it was but natural for their minds
to wander back to the early times of the institution,
and to trace its progress to maturity. The University of
Glasgow was founded at a period which was a turning
point in history—at once an era of great destruction and
of a great creation. The empire of the east was falling,
the Byzantine period was passing away, and a victorious
sultan was devastating the relics of classic times in Con-
stantinople. In a corner of Europe a few German
artisans were cutting and arranging the first printing
types. At this period lived Pope Nicholas V., once an
obscure scholar—a magnificent patron of literature,
science, and arts. He it was who founded the Univer-
sity of Glasgow, and endowed it with the same pri-
vileges as the University of Bologna ; but in his
exertions for the revival of letter, the Pope was
unconsciously the head and harbinger of an approach.
ing revolution. Knowledge, called to be the hand-
maiden of superstition, overthrew superstition in 100
years after Pope Nicholas. For he would trace the
progress of the University by centenary periods. Eu-
rope and Scotland were in the agonies of that great move-
ment—the Reformation. The great scholars of Scotland
were then the great Reformers of Scotland. Need he
mention such names as those of Knox, Buchanan, Mel-
ville, and Maitland. Pass another century, and we are
in the midst of another revolution. To the battle be-
tween Catholicism audProtestanism succeeded the battle
between Prelatism and Puritanism. During the second
century of the University closed in the da,rkest days of
that troublous age. Another hundred years roll away,
and we come to happier times. The civil and religious
liberty of the people had been bought and paid dearly
for. The empire was prosperously tusking progress, and
in no part of it was the advance more extraordinary than
in Clydesdale. Then their University bore a rich har-
vest of great names—men renowned as natural philoso-
phers, moral philosophers, mathematicians, jurists, philo-
logists, and poets. Such men as Simpson, Miller,
Young, Reid, Stewart, Black, James Watt, and he might
add Thomas Campbell. Linked to such names,
the University of Glasgow need fear no comparison
with its prototype, the University of Bologna. Another
century was now about to commence, and, he believed,
under most happy auspices, for he disregarded the
ominous forebodings he sometimes heard uttered. For
years, he had seen nothing but growth, while hearing
of nothing but decay ; and, indeed, the more he examined
the constitution of this country, the more convinced
.he
was that it had nothing of age in it, save in its
t rtlitig-
nity; that it will be handed down to a late posterity,
and that in its shade the great academical insetitstueustiown;
of the laud would prosper and increase. H
11of its country
Glasgow would con
ronsooofools964o9rs,
that during the netxiotohoutnodrdeesdeyrveearswe the University of
and of mankind; anadvothatot,
the people would have
glory of their University—citing,
upon the continuedf. congratulate thetuilnastetaitlhaetii
his assertion, the famous names of
perhaps, to e
The address of the Right Hon. Gentleman was youth who mtigsthjtjnow be listening to him.
fre-
quently interrupted by vociferous applause.

The ease of Hayden v. the Midland Railway Com-
pany was tried on Monday at Derby. The plaintiff
sought to recover damages for an alleged injury to his
spine, occasioned by a collision on the Midland line, at
the time he was a passenger. This was a very curious
case; all the symptoms corresponded with the effects
of an injury done to the spine, but they also corre-
sponded precisely with the effects of loose habits
of life, proceeding from keeping late hours, intem-
perate drinking, and the questions were fairly put
whether or not the company, in this instance, had hurt
his back at all, and if they had hurt it, what amount of
money they ought to pay for what they had done. The
plaintiff made no complaint until some time after the
occurrence of the collision. The jury, having heard the
evidence, found for the defendants.
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A married lady named Watson was committed to
prison on Tuesday by Mr. Justice Williams, at Exeter,
because she refused from conscient:ous scruples to take
an oath. She declared herself to be a member of tho
Church of England.
ANOTHER DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA. —At
Runcorn, on Tuesday, Junes Sothern, aged 23, a driver
on the Duke's Canal, began to evince all the outward
signs of hydrophobia, and, shocking to relate the un-
fortunate victim died on the following morning. It tap-
pears that the poor man was bitten in the hand by a
little dog, at Lynn, about threo weeks ago.—Chester
Courant.

twenty.
In Carnarvon Bay, a turbot, weighing
four pounds, and measuring twenty-eight inches long
and eighteen in breadth, was caught a few days gum

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OP COMMONS, March 21.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
LANDLORD AND TENANT BILL.

Mr. PUSEY said, since the second reading of this
Bill improvements had been suggested to him, and as he
was anxious to engraft them on the Bill, he would now
simply move its pro formd committaL
Colonel SIBTLIORP objected to the Bill being pro-
ceeded with at all. Some of the highest authorities as
land agents were opposed to it, as there was no necessity
for any interference between landlord and tenant. There
was nothing to be gained by this Bill. He opposed it
from no feelings of animosity against the Hon. Member
fcr Berkshire, and in order that the House might
believe that he was sincere in that declara-
tion, he would only mention that at the last
Smithfield dinner he had the honour of proposing the
Hon. Member's health, which he was glad to sav was
drunk amidst loud cheers.—(Laughter.) However,-here-
prated he was decidedly opposed to the principle of the
Bill ; and no matter how it might be corrected or re-
vised, he would use his humble efforts to prevent its
passing into a law.
Mr. H. HERBERT said the principle of this Bill was
so peculiarly applicable to Ireland, that he trusted a
clause would be introduced to extend it to that country.
Any law that was good between landlord and tenant in
England, must be equally good in Ireland, and although
he should refrain front moving the amendment of which
he had given notice on this subject, he trusted it would
not be lost sight of.—(llear, hear.)
Sir G. STRICKLAND was sorry that the Honourable
Member for Oxfordshire had announced himself in favour
of this measure, because he, for one, was quite con-
vinced that while it would confer advantages upon land,
it would prove seriously detrimental to the tenant-farmer.
—(1-leapt) It would have the effect of involving in doubt,
what really were tenant rights, and be productive of end-
less litigation on the subject.—(Hear.) At present those
rights were well anderstood and observed, and he hoped
the Hon. Member for Oxfordshire would reconsider the
decision he had come to.—(Hear, hear.)
The House then went into Committee.

Colonel SIBTEIORP trusted ample time would be
afforded to the country to consider the Bill in its new
form.

Mr. PUSEY said the improvement would not alter
the main provisions-of the Bill, and as the amendments
would be immediately printed, he thought he ought not
to be precluded from recommitting the Bill on this day
week.—(`Hear, hear.)
Colonel SIBTHORP hoped that some other day than
that would be fixed upon.
Mr. PUSEY really did not know how to please the
Hon. and Gallant Gentleman. On a former occasion,
because he introduced the Bill on a Friday, he was
charged with having smuggled it in.—(Laughter.)
Colonel SIBTTIORP denied that he had made such a
charge.

PUSEY said if the Hon. and Gallant Member did
not, others did,—(Hear.)
The clatu..es were then agreed to pro forma, after
which the House resumed, and the amendments were
ordered to be printed, and the Bill recommitted on Wed-
nesday next.

CLERGY RELIEF BILL.
Mr. BOUVERIE moved that this Bill should be re-
"ferred to a Select Committee, and in doing so referred
to a statement which had lately appeared in one of the
morning papers, stating that the object of the proceed-
ings against Mr. Shore, whose case was the immediate
cause of the Bill being introduced, was not to imprison him,
but to depose him, and to divest him of his office as a
clergyman of the Church of England. He observed
that, that statement was not only not the fact, but directly
contrary to it.
Mr. HENLEY said he was glad that the Hon. Mem•
ber had determined to move that the Bill be referred
to a Select Committee, and he hoped, if it went
there, that a provision would be introduced into it, by
which a clergyman might be divested of his office by the
same authority who had invested him with it. The Bill,
as it at present stood, almost enabled a clergyman to
divest himself of his office with as little trouble
as he would take to blow his nose—(Loud laughter)—
and he thought that was far too summary a proceeding
for so serious a business. A military officer was obliged
to resign his office through the hands of the same autho-
rities who had appointed him to it, and that principle
flight veryproperly.be extended to ecclesiastical matters.
. _

After a fe►w observations from Mr. R. PALMER,
Mr. HUME said he did not concur in the observa-
tions of the Hon. Member for Oxfordshire. He could
see no similarity between the rules of war, for the regu-
lation of the army, and the rules for the regulation of the
clergy.—(Hear, hear.) if they put any obstacle in the
way of a man leavidg the Church, who conscientiously
differed from its principles, they forced him to become a
hypocrite.
Mr. GLADSTONE said, in order that he might not
be supposed by the House to concur in the sentiments of
the Honourable Member for Montrose—(Laughter)—
he wished to observe that it would not be well to discuss
the provisions of the Bill at that stage, but the propriety
of sending the Bill to a Committee up stairs.—(Cheers.)
Mr. LACY explained that the course he had pur-
sued was in order to induce discussion, and that he was
satisfied with the course recommended by the Hon.
Member.
Mr. HORSMAN drew attention to the fact that a
clergyman who. had recently been appointed one of the
inspectors of schools was gazetted an " Esquire." If
such a person were elected a Member of that House, the
House would be placed in an awkward position.—(No,
no.) After the passing of the Bill a clergyman might be
elected to sit in that House.

Mr. STAFFORD thanked the Hon. Gentleman (Mr.
Bouverie) for bringing forward his motion, which was
similar to one he had on the paper. All the clergymen
with whocri he had communicate-I perfectly assented to
the justice of the-provisions of the Bill—the only ques-
tion with• birn and them was as to the mode of carrying
it out—(Near)—which they were perfectly satisfied to
leave to the judgment of Parliament.

Sir W. CLAY said he understood the Hon. Member
(Mr. Horsman).to say that the Committee was to be in-
structed to restrict seceding clergymen from sitting in
the House. Now, -he hoped the Committee
would do . nothing of the sort, since it was
essential to the carrying out of the princi-
ples of civil and religious liberty which he advo-
cated, that a person leaving the Church should be placed
in the same position as if he were not ordained.—(Hear,
hear.) He had a petition to present on the subject,
signed by 5,000 persons, which he was anxious to re-
fer to the Committee. When, he shoUld like to knoW,
would be the proper time to make 'a motion of that kind?
The SPEAKER replied, that the usual course to adopt
was not to refer a petition to a Committee until a Com-
mittee was appointed.—(Laughter.)
Mr. S. HERBERT presented a petition from The
clergy of the diocese of Gloucester znd Bristol, in-
cluding all the rural deans who had been able to attend,
praying the'House to remedy the state Of the law with
respect to seceding clergymen.
Sir W. CLAY presented the petition to which ho had
referred, and to the same effect as the last.
Mr. HEADLAM presented a petition from the Dis-
senters of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in favour of the Bill.
LIFE POLICIES OF ASSURANCE BILL.

The second reading of this Bill was postponed for a
week.

THE RECQVERY OF WAGES (IRELAND) BILL.
This Bill passed through Committee with some amend-
ments.

INSOLVENT MEMBERS' BILL.
Mr. CARDWELL presented a petition from the Liver-
pool Society for the Protection of Trade in favour of
this Bill.
The House then went into Committee.
Mr. HENLEY regretted that the Committee had
been taken to-day, as the Select Committee had but
recAstly reported to the House. in consequence of this,
and the belief tlxtt it would not be proceeded with to-
day, many Hon. Members bad absented themselves.
It was a most important measure, and it bad been carried
through the House with a great degree of energy. He
confessed that, with none of her Majesty's Ministers in
the House, he thought that the House was going on at a
pace which was hardly discreet or convenient.
Mr. MOFFATT said, the Committee up stairs had
not made the slightest alteration in the principle or the
clauses of the Bill.
.
Clauses 1,2, and 3, were agreed to without any dis-
cussion.
On ClauSe 4 being read,
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY wished to know, in order that
the Committee should understand the effect of this Bill,
whether it was not the fact that if any Hon. Member
was engaged in a suit at law, or at equity, and was
called on for payment of costs which he could not pay,
the effect of 'this Bill would be that that llon. Member
would cease to be a Member of that House?
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, that in the case
put by the Honodrable Baronet, the Member would have
twenty-one datys• allowed to pay the costs; then, if he
did not pay, on application to the Insolvent Debtors'
Court, he would be declared insolvent; then, on that
fact being certified to the Speaker, the seat of the Member
in question would be vacated.
Mr. ROUNDELL PALMER could see no justice for
a different rule in insolvent and bankruptcy matters.
The law should be, at all events, consistent. He
could not help feeling strongly the propriety of
placing the Members of both branches of the Legis-
lature on the same footing in respect to this matter.—
(Hear.) It the House were to pass a Bill of this nature,
dt§qualifying—and most property so—from legislating in
that House in cases of insolvency, it would be but justice
to prevent other persons similarly situated from legislat-
ing in the other House of Parliament.--(llear.) He
thought it was not too much to hope that the.Govern-
men'. would, institute a similar measure in the other
House.—(Hear.) WILLIAM CLAY thought the House was
proceeding on a principle wholly false in this Bill. It
was perfectly clear, from the Solicitor-General's expla-
nation, that any Honourable Member might be de-
prived of his seat in that House for no moral offence
whatever except not Paying the costs in a suit at law.
, constituency did' not elect a man for his wealth, but
for his talents and his knowledge of their local wants.
If this Bill had been in existence 50 years ago, Charles
Fox, Sheridan, and even Pitt himself, could not have
retained their seats in that House.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL explained that the
Bill merely gave
constituenthcieeys
thoughtanother
nwohr o.
tunity of electing a man, if
had been declared an insolvent. (Hear, hear.)
Mow one word with respect to the Bankruptcy Act. It
appeared to him that the law ought to be more severe
against insolvents than against traders•, and for this
reason, that whereas the person in trade could not get
free from his engagements, the party who was out of
trad4 ftvnirtsty-nine cases out of a hundred, be-
Aagaiingol'verft-itosonseguence of his own misconduct.—
Vr sksa—Y,-Tala only difficulty that had been started,
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