The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-23 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

Yesterday a meeting took place at the East India House,
pursuant to the terms of the Charter, for the• purpose of
declaring a dividend on the capital stock of the Company,
for the half-year ceding at Midsummer; R. CAMPBELL,
•
Esq. in the Chair.

Accounts were laid before the Court relative to super-
annuations granted by the Company.
On the motion of the CHAIR3IAN, a dividend for the
current half-year of 5i per cent. was agreed to.
The Committee of By-laws was then re-appointed.
THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S CHARTER.
The CHAIRMAN said it was necessary to apprize the,
Court that the Directors had received from the Speaker of
the House of Commons the copy of a resolution passed by
the Hon. House relative to the Charter, in which notice
was given to th• East India Company, that the sum of
' 1,207,559/. Iss. and all arrears of annuity, being the
remainder of the stock, debt, &c. due by the public to
the East India Company, would be paid off on the 22d of ,
April, 1534.
General THORNTON said that on last Court day a mo-
tion had been agreed to, that a list, of all pensions, &c.
granted by the Company since the last renewal of the
Charter should be printed. He wished to know how
long it would be before the document was produced.
The CHAIRMAN said the document was in a state of
fGrwardness, and would soon be 'presented.

THE FAMINE IN IRELAND.
Colonel AlaicwELL- wished • to ask a questioa of some
importance at the present moment. He wished to know
if the Company had subscribed any thing toward the re-
ief of the distressed Irish ?

TheCirmumAii—The Company has not yet subscribed.
Colonel MAXWELL should make a motion that the Com—
pany should subscribe.

The CHAIRMAN intimated that the subject of aiding
the distressed Irish bad been under the consideration of
the Court, and would be further attended to.

Col. MAXWELL expressed himself satisfied.
The Court then adjourned.

QUARANTINE.—The letters and papers de-
vered by the Hamburg steam. boat, which arrived the
day before yesterday, presented an extraordinary appear-
ance. The letters in particular were much disfigured,
owing to the efficient measures adopted by the quarantine
officers to prevent the introduction of the cholera tnoibns
into this country. The letters, iu some instances, were so
much disfigured as to render nearly illegible their contents.
The papers and letters were wet when delivered, having
been thrust into boiling vinegar, or other acids, and
emitted an unusually strong odour. The quarantine laws
are now acted upon with the utmost rigour.
When the cholera visited China it was re-
marked that it selected such as lived in filth and intem-
perance;and that on the contrary, persons of und runted
mind, with habits of cleanliness and moderation, were for
the most
COURT
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:.DUBLIN, JUNE
KING v. LAVELLE......Mr. JOHNSON, K.C.,
applied to the Court on behalf of the Rev. Giro. THOMP.
SON, for liberty to file a criminal information against Mr.
PATRICK LAVELLE, the proprietor of the Freeman's Jour-
nal. He applied on the affidavit of the Rev. prosecutor,
who stated that he read in the Freeman's Journal, of the
30th May, an article purporting to be " an account of a
horrible massacre at Castlepollard," in which the name cif
another Clergyman (the Rev. Mr. ROBINSON) was intro-
duced. He also read in the Freeman's Journal of the 2d
June an article purporting to be signed by " THOMAS
PETIT," in which the following words were attributed to
him:—" That it was high time to begin ; that the fellows
deserved to be shot, and that if he were there himself he
would have done the same." The affidavit then went oil
to state that an application was made at the Freeman
office to have the author of the letter, if there were such a
person as THOMAS PETIT, given up to him. The request
was not complied with. The presecutor declared that he
was the person described in the letter, as being " the son
of Major THoursorr, and one of Mr. RoßlNsozes Curates."
that he never made use of the language attributed to him ;
but, on the contrary, expressed the greatest regret and
Borrow for the occurrence of such a dreadful transaction.
I%e prosecutor's affidavit concluded by positively
declaring
The necessary affidavit of proprietorship was read..—Ap-
plication granted.