The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-03 00:00:00

N°.l, .] LONDON, THURSDAY E MAY 3, 1849. IY.
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DIAZZA HOTEL, COVENT - GARDEN.
This well-knowrAnd old established house, having added
numerous Bed and Sitting Roo - is previous means of accom-
modation, Families visiting Lo ml desirous from the limited
period of their sojourn to avoid t rouble of seeking private lodg-
ings, will find every comfort and most Moderate Charges at this
Hotel. Being contiguous to the Royal Italian Opera House, it p 0.4-
Fesses the advantage of a Covered Approach thereto, an accommo-
dation to Ladies particularly unnecessary to comment upon.
Private Dinner an I Supper Rooms for Parties visiting the Theatre
(no charge mado for Apartments or Lights). A ma,;nificent nr.d
well-ventilated Coffee room and Smoking-room will be kand
amongst its numerous advantage

HELL GWYNNE TAVERN and CHOP-
HOUSE, Bull Inn-court, Strand, for Luncheons, Dinners,
and Suppers, Three Doors East of the Adelphi Theatre, and opposite
Adam street.
Messrs. ARCHER and BOLT most respectfully invite their
friends and the public to patronise the Nell Gwynne Coffee-room,
which has been fitted up in the style of the period in which she lived.
Visitors to the Theatres, Citizens, and Gentlemen connected with
Somerset House, and the Banking Houses in the vicinity, will find
the Table d'Hote, which takes place at half-past Five precisely, the
most comfortable and reasonable in the metropolis.—Fish and
Joints, 2s. per head. Hot Joints until Eight, and Suppers mitt One
o'clock. Private Dining-rooms. excellent Beds, superior Wines and
Spirits, tine Ales, and Barclay and Perkins's Stout.
N.B. An Entrance also from Maiden lane.

THE MECIIIAN DRESSING-CASE, the most
portable ever inyented, being only the size of a pocket book.
containing one pair of Mechi's ivory-handled peculiar steel razors, his
magic strop, comb, and badger-hair shaving-brush, price only 255. ;
the same with hair-brush and soap-dish, 355. To military men, and
as a steam-boat or travelling companion, this invention is an invalu-
able acquisition. An immense variety of other dressing• cases, both
for ladies and gentlemen, either in fancy woods or leather, at all
prices, to suit either the economical or luxurious. An extensive
stock of writing-desks, writing.cases, work boxes, and bagatelle-
tables, razor-strops, table cutlery, superb papier macho articles, &c.
Manufactory, 4, Leadenhall-street, Four Doors from Cornhill.

4PENCER'S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE.
The thousands of individuals who for upwards of twenty
years hare used this celebrated liquid, pronounce it to he the only
article extant which effectually changes, in a few minutes, red or
grey hair, whiskers, moustaches, &c., to a dark brown or black,
without trouble (by simply combing it through the hair), and pro-
duces by one application a pleasing and permanent change ; and it
can be incontestibly proved, that while many dyes tend to destroy,
the hair by their pernicious properties and dangerous process of ap-
plication, that this article promotes the growth of hair, nourishing
the roots till the latest period of life. Price 3s. 6d., 65., and 10s.
per bottle.
To be had of the Proprietors, 29, Nottingham-place, Fieldgate-
street, Whiteehapel-read, London ; also of Mr. Johnstone, 68, Corn-
hill ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Prout, 229, Strand ; Sanger, 150, Oxford-
street; Barclay, Farringdon-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond-
street; Hooper, 43, King William-street, London,bridge ; Hannay,
63, Oxford-street ; Finnigin, Milsom-street, Bath ; Elmore, Bull-
street, Birmingham ; Roberts, 23, Church-street, Liverpool ; and of
most Perfumers and Medicine Vendors in town and country.
Sent to any part of the kingdom by receiving a remittance, post-
paid. _ _ _ . . . _

Please to ask for " Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye."
Observe. the Proprietor's address is on the wrapper.

A A G E.
One half the world are desolately single, and the other
ssapposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a
sense of right detenerse the former, and miscalculated hopes em-
sitter the latter. The solitary ono may shield himself under the plea
of caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un-
7omprosing hurry ; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity,
end broken health, arc the great hindrances to domestic happiness
ind social content. The dowry should not be the only marriage set-
'lement. Honour and justice demand that health should form as item
in the compact; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes or
,eglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if
these surmises concern you, procure Dr. CULVERWELL'S little
ItEMOIRS "On Single and Married Life," pub. in 2 vols., Is.
each (by post, in stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively
refined, er prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered
oy misinterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining
them. They are not intended certainly for mere idle curiosity, but
for the closet perusal of those more deeply interested, to whom
they are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth on
the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or
together, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other
ittle publications claim your attention (same price Is. each,
by post Is. 6d.) celled • " What to Eat, Drink, and
Avoid," and " How to be Ilappy." They are not merely
pamphlets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the
mi re ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's
l'e, who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob-
servanso of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he
would be done unto—to live after nature's laws—and to keep always
on the "sunny side of the way." The above works may be had of
Sherwood, 23, Faternester-rew ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet•street • Mann,
39, Cornhill ; Nelson, 457, Went Strand ; or direct (by post or other-
wise) from the author (who may be conferred with personally,
morningx and evenings), IC, Argyll-plaeo Regent-street; and all
Bookseller..

Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel.
ON PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA-
CITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.
New Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., or
by post, direct from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. In postage stamps,
THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex-
cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury,
with remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating, certain dis-
qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and
L. PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Ox-
ford-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by Strange,
21, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street;
Starie, 23, Titchborne-street, Ilaymuket ; and Gordon, 146, Leaden-
hall-street.
PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive
organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings.
PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessiveindul-
genee, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental
and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative ncapacity.
Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings.
PAuT 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in
the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for
their treatment. This section is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured
Engravings.
PART IV. contains a Prescription for the Prevention of Disease
by a simple applicatiq,n, by which the danger of infection is ob-
viated. This important part of the Work should not escape the
PART T. is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its
duties. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and
die whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into.
TrucCoanian BALM OF STRIACIIX is exclusively employed in treat-
ing nervous and sexual debility, impotence, fisc., 115. and 331. per
bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic
remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary symp-
toms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I le. and 335. per bottle.
Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and 1 ls. per box, a
certain remedy for gonorrhoea, gleet, stricture, and chronic inflamma-
tion of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter, 11. A minute
retail of the case is required : age, habits, and position in society.
51. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Establishment only, by
which the fee,ll., is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are in atter,
anee daily at 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, London, from Ele-
ven till Two. and Five to Eight ; on Sundays from Eleven to One.

lls 9d to 12s 4d per cwt ; butter, Sid ; beef, 3d to 6d per lb ;
mutton, 31.1 to 7d; flour, first, per cwt, 18s Od ; second, 17s Od;
third, 15s Od ; inferior third, 13s Od ; fourth, 10s Od ; bran,
Os Od to 6s 8d; Indian meal, white, per cwt, Os Od to 9s 6d;
yellow, 9s Od to 9s 6d; potatoes, 2s 9d to 5s Od per cwt; hay,
Is 2d to is 11d per cwt ; American flour, 30s per barrel; tallow,
4s Od to 5s 4d per stone ; flax, 4s Od to 6a 6d ; straw, Sd to ls ;
hides, 2s 6d to 6s Od each ; pork, 37s 6d to 44s 6d per cwt ;
turnips, 8d to Is per ditto; carrots, Os to is per ditto; beans,
5s 9d to 6s 61; grey peas, 6s 6d to 7s 6d.

PRICES OF SHARES

IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM-

PANIES' STOCK.
From the Official List.

PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FAIDAY EVEIsTIXG.

LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 1.

JOINT-STOCX. RANKS.

Dividend Amount
game of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
---- ---
£ s. d. 4 s. d.
A.astralasla -.••• • • •• - 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
BritshNorth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
Ceylon ••••..•• •• • • • • 71. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Commercial of London 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
Colonial.. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
Gloucestershire •••• • • 151 per cent. - - -
lonian ••••••.. - • • • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -
Ditto
- - 13 0 0 -
London Joint-Stock .•• 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 16
Vrovincial of Ireland• • 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto, New.• •••• • .• 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
National of Ireland .. SI. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 -
Nat. I'rovncial of Eng. 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 -
Ditto, New. •••• • • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 -
South Australia •• •• - 51, per cent. - 22 10 0 -
Union of Australia. • - 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
Ditto .• ...... -- -6/, per cent. - 210 0 -
Union of London. •... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
Union of Madrid ..... - 40 0 0 40 0 0 -
•
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
1 Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of raid. Price
Annum. Share.
____- ---- -
X s. d. X s. d.
Albion ........• •• • • 31. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 75
Alliance Brit. and For. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 18%
Ditto Marine.- •• •• 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 -
Atlas
British Commercial •. 7s.per share 50 0 0 50 0 5%
Clericl,Med.& Gen. Life spr cit.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19
County .............. 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Crown
14s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
Eagle ......
Eng.& Scot. Law •• •• 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 212 6 -
European Life ••• • •• 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. -
FarailyEndowmnt Soc. 4/. & bs. 100 0 0 4 0 0 -
Freemasons' .•• •• .• • • 61. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 -
Globe - - I
Guardian ...... -.. .. 51. 100 0 0 36 10 0 -
Imperial Fire ••••• • • • 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 220
Imperial Life ........ 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Indemnity Marine •• • • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 -
Law Fire ............ - 100 0 0 210 0 2%
Law Life........ •• .. 17.165. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 41 lOs.
London Fire .. •• - -10 s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15
London Ship •.•• •• •• 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15
- 100 0 0 15 0 0 8%
lied. Invlid&Gen.Life 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
gational Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 -
gational Life• -
Palladium Lite 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2/ Os.
Pelican - .......... - - - - -
Pheenix •••••• • •• . • • - - 141
Pi otcctor Life.... •• •• 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 -
Provident Life ll. ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 26
Rock Life ss. 5 0 0 010 0 5%
]loyal Exchange 5l. per cent. Stock. - 184
S,lll Fire ........... - - 1 203
Ditto Life IL 6s. - - 44
Universal Life ION pr cnt. 100 0 0 9 0 0 -
Victoria Life 5/. per cut. - 4 0 0 4%
BRIDGES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
- -
X. s. d. 4. s. d.
Charing-cross - - 25 0 0 -
Southwrk,NwSula.Av. - 632 12 8 - 134
Ditto Nw of 736 p.c. 355. per cent. 50 0 0 - 4
Waterloo - 100 0 0 -a%
Ditto Old Ann. of 8/. 11. ss. 4d. - 60 0 0 27
Ditto Nov ditto of 71. 11. 2s. 2d. - 40 0 0 24
Vauxhall .... .• • Av. 11. 17s. 70 10 3 - 24
DOCILS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-- - -
X s. d. £ s. d.
Commercial •••• • • ... 41. per cent. Stock. - 75
East and West India... 61. pr cent. Stock. - 132
East Country - -
London 5/. pr cent. Stock. - 11134
Ditto 80nd5.... - - 41. per cent. - - _
St. Katharine ........ 4 per cent. Stock. - 83
Ditto Bonds ........ 4%1. pr cent. - - -
Southampton •• •• -•• 21. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -

WATER-VT ORES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of raid. Prick
Annum. Share.
—
£ a. d. £ s. d.
East London. ..... •• • • 81. 100 0 0 173
Grand Junction •• .• -2/. 108. 41 13 4 SO
Kent•• •• •••••• •• - - 31. 108. 100 0 0
Lambeth •• •• •• -••- bl. per cnt. 100 0 0 97
New Rivr Lndn Brdge 2i. 108. bb
Vauxhall -•• •• •—•- 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 100
West Middlesex . . . 61.05. pr cnt. 120

OAS—LIGHT AND CORE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
--- -
X. a. d. X. a. d.
British ••••••• • • • • • • • 1/. 40 0 0 18 0 0 14
Ditto Provincial. •• • 11. Bs. 20 0 0 19 0 0 18
Bristol ••••••• • • • • • • • 101. per cent. 20 0 0
Brighton .. ••..•• • • .. 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 16
City of London .. •• • • 101. 100 0 0 100 0 0 250
Continental Consolidat. 925. pr share 50 0 0 39 5 0 25
Equitable .... ••..• • • • 455. pr share, 50 0 0 50 0 0 32
Imperial . • .... ••• • • • 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 606
Independent ....... •• 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 62%
London • • .... ••.• • • • • 50 0 0 50 0 0 12N,
50 0 0 50 0 25
Phoenix . .... • ....... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 46 0 0 24
Ratclifl .• •••..• • • • • • 51. 100 0 0 90 0 0 75
United General .• •• . . 4% /. pr cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 12
Westmiaster Chartered 3/. 50 0 0 49
Ditto, New ...... , 12s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 9%

CANALS. 9
• 1 .
. Dividend g
Names of r; ,Dividendl Price.
Names of ci, r
per
Companies. A ' per ''''' Companies. , \ Annuls,. Price. i
cc Annum. En I
' .........-- ••••••• '
...........* , 1
X 1 X \
Ashtn& Oldh 97 ' 71. - Macclesfield . 100 2/. 10s. - (
Barnsley •• • • 160 121. 180 Neath ••• • • • 100 181. 340
Brknk&Abrg 150 51. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 100 201. 186
Birmingham 35 41. 81 Peak Forest. 78 31. 18s. - (
Coventry.... 100, 251. 210 Regent's.. • • 33 1/. ss. 18% 1
Derby ••• • • 1001 61. 63 Rochdale.... 85 41. 54 ,
Ellsmre&Chs 133 565. 40 Somrset Coal 150 7/.los. 130 ,
Erewash •• • 100, 321. - Do.LkFdSt 12 61. p. c. -
GrandJunctn 100 5/. 80 Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 310
Grand Surrey 100, 21. 30 Shrewsbury.. 125 15/. -
Grand Union 1001 1/. 10s. 24 Stourbridge.. 145 201. 285
Grantham • • 150 - - Severn and?
Kenut & Avn 39 7s. 6d. 5% Wyeßall. j 26 21. Os• -
Leeds& Livrp 1001 301. 320 Warwick & 1 4L 50
Leicester .... 1401 61. 63% Birming.3 100
Leicstr &Nth 83 4/. 45 Warwick& 1 -
100 31. 41
Loughborogh 142, 701. 650 Napton..
Monmouthsh 100 81. - Worcstr &) 78 21. 41
Mntgemrysh 100' - - Birming.
MeltnMwbry 100 - - Wilts & Brks - 11. 10
LIST 01' SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
________„.,-.-• -.-. .........- -.- ....10
X B. d. X I. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 193
Caledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11 %
Clydesdale Bank •• •• • • 04 per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12%
Commercial Bank •• • • 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 152
Eastern Bank -••• • • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 C 91. 7s
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 6/. per cent. 50 0 5 0 0 5%
Exehangeßnk of Scot.. 41. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 30
Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 -
National Bank .....
North of Scotland ..... 41. per cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 31.175.
North British Bank • • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 -
Royal Bank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 11614
Union Bank of Scotland 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 80%
Western Bank ••••• • • • 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 73%
Aberdeen Fire and Life Thil.pr cent. )2 10 0 20 e 214
B. Accord. Life aud Fire - 20 0 0 011 0 -
British Guarantee Ins. 4/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 lOs Od
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21
' Church of England Ins. - 50 0 0 20 0 2
' City of Glasgow Life.. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. Its
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 17%
East of Scotland Life.. - 10 0 0 015 0 95.0 d.
i Eng. & Scot, Law Life 61. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
(weir. Co. of Scetlnd•'• 51. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Life Assoc. of Scotland 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 1 1/. 6$
r Mercantile Life .. •• • - 10 0 0 010 0 3s. Od.
National Fire and Life 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 205.6 d
1 North British Insur. • • 5)41.pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 I 22M
North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 1175.6 d.
-
s
Scottish Life and Guar. 20 0 0 011 0 -
Scot. M as. and G en. Life - 1 0 0 015 0 -
s Scottish Union Insrnce. 6UI. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. 25
; Standard Life
s United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 0 ,145.6 d
1, IIIIISCEEMANZOITS.
Dividend Amount
• Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
; --
[1:
C aDn Australianiatdtoa ,
~i."AI.
f.g; I.h7rl.et ;:r
:1 -....
X. s. d. X. s. d.
- 100 0 0 30 0 0 17%
„ Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 4e. 10 0 0 10 0 0
r. Uppr Canada Bonds 51.61. perlle-r cent.
cent. lOO -2
0
322
1010
00 -31
- 88
; City Navigation .... - - - 90
I. Comp. Cppr Mars Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 70 0 0
n,. Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& bs, 21 100 0 0 100 0 0 TO
Equitable Reversionry 5/. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 100
3, Gen•SteamNavigation 11. Bs. 15 0 0 14 0 0 21}4
L ; London Institution ... - - 78 15 0 -
Russell Institution.... - - 26 5 0 3
5d Peninsir & Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 68
er Reversicnary Int. Soc. 4341. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 90
Royal Mail Steam •• • • 61 18..4. p. co 100 0 0 160 0 0 -
~,'. South Australian ..... 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 16
'" Van DieMan'S Land., - lOO 0 0 23 0 0 4
i ;

ROYAL CHINESE JUNK.—On Saturday last their
Serene Highnesses the Princesses Amelia and Eliza of
Hohenlohe Shillingsfurst, her Serene Highness the
Countess Erbach Schomberg, and his Serene Highness
the Prince of Hesse Philippsthal, attended by the Hon.
Miss Mitchell and Captain Bedford, visited the Royal
Chinese Junk " Keying." These august relatives of
I),)wag,:r arrived at the entrance to the vessel
in the East India Doe.ks,Waeliwall, in two royal car
ri9ges and four, with outriders, and expressed themselves
tmhuecehxdheilbiigthiotne.d withe thee:enxdtarreimn noveltyellei
g hand
the i nt eres t
honourof
of being preeented to tbeir Iligbuesses.

THE RAJA OF SA.TTARA.
There has been a ballot at the India House—a ballot
not about a personal question, not about an election to a
vacancy in the direction, not even about a piece of job-
bery—a ballot, too, not demanded by the proprietors of
India stock in defence of their 10 per cent.; not called
for by that earnest and sincere friend of India, Sir
Charles Forbes ; not insisted on by that :naughty,
pertinacious fellow, Mr. George Thompson; but a ballot
on a question of principle, on a subject of surpassing
interest to every Hindoo prince and native ally in India
—a ballot required by Sir Archibald Galloway, chairman
of the court, and by certain of the court of directors, to
protect themselves from a numerical defeat; to inter-
pose the ignorance of the absent proprietors against
the knowledge of those present at Wednesday and Fri-
day's debates; to save the Government of India from the
censure and condemnation which then threatened it.
And this appeal from knowledge to ignorance has suc-
ceeded to the wish of those who had recourse to it.
The determination of Mr. Holt Mackenzie, Mr. Sulli-

liven, and the able participators in their opinions, to ar-
rest, if possible, the determination of the Indian Go-
vernment to overthrow a great rule of Hindoo succession,
and a great principle of Hindoo religion, for the pur-
pose of absorbing territory and gaining revenue, has
raised a question in which every man of property in
India, whether of the Hindoo or Mahomedan faith, is
deeply concerned. The subject has, however, come
so suddenly on the public that the press was quite
unprepared to report the debates at the India House.
The discussion was tkought to be only an obstinate
repetition of the old Sattara question, on which we are
bored to death. And the consequence is, that though
the debate on one side was conducted with ability un-
rivalled in the arena of the Court of Proprietors, and by
men of the highest authority on all Indian matters;
though it exhibited a deep schism in the Court of Di-
rectors, and left the majority of that Court in a nume-
rical minority in the more popular assembly, neither we
nor any of our contemporaries have given the faintest
notion of what was occurring in Leadenhall-street on
Wednesday and Friday last. The debate will, however,
be published separately; and thus a record of the trans-
action will be preserved for the instruction of our pos-
terity, even if the lesson should be lost on ourselves.
The subject of the debate, and the object of the
ballot, arise out of the Sattara case, about which so
much has been written and spoken, but of which so little
is known or understood. They do not, however, in the
least involve the merits or demerits of the late Raja
Pertaub Singh, the justice or injustice of his deposition,
the character or want of character of his successor Appa
Sahib, or the policy or impolicy of our former treatment
of these last descendants of Sevajee. They flow, indeed,
from those transactions, but they relate to a point even
more important than any before raised. And it is quite
possible for a man who viewed favourably the conduct of
the Indian Government in deposing Pertaub Singh, to
regard with indignation and disgust the policy it is
now pursuing, in seizing on the Sattara state.
Both Pertaub Singh, the deposed Raja of Sattara, and
Appa Sahib, the substituted Raja, are now deceased.
One brother died in exile at Benares, where his family
languish in poverty; the other in his palace in the capi-
tal of his dominions. Both departed childless; but both
followed the custom of their race and the dictates of
their religion—for each adopted an heir to light his
funeral pile, and to succeed to his inheritance. Was it
then a contest between these rival heirs on which the
Court of Proprietors was called to give an opinion by
ballot? Nothing of the sort. The Government of India
has equally disregarded the rights of either, and has
consigned both to obscurity by proclaiming itself heir to
the Sattara dynasty. And the question for decision was
tr e
da
ot y,
uwf whichai
uf
re.
its power and the policy of doing this.
ByeentshteituHted Hon.
theAl Sattaraountstua state,
rt
the Peishwa and surrender of Pertaub Singh to the
British troops during the battle of Ashtee, that state
was made over to Pertaub Singh, his heirs and succes-
sors from generation to generation. The words of the
treaty did not confine the succession to his lineal heirs:
they left the succession upon the rules of Hindoo law;
(hey reserved to the British Government no right or
authority to override or set them aside. Now one of the
most sacred of those rules is the power of adoption in
the absence of lineal heirs. It is a power as well recog-
nised amongst Hindoos, be they princes or ryots, as
the right of the eldest son in England to succeed to
the fee simple of his intestate father. It is a power
dictated by Hindoo religion as well as authorised by
Ilindoo law; for unless a deceased Hindoo leave an heir
lineal or adopted, to fire his funeral pile, his religion as-
signs to him additional punishment and purification in
another world. So indispensable, indeed, is its exercise
in a religious point of view, that, though the British Re-
sident at Sattara had always objected to Appa Sahib
adopting an heir, the religious scruples of that Prince
compelled him on his death-bed to disregard those ob-
jections, and to send for a child distantly connected with
his family, and from poverty he presented the infant to
his courtiers as his heir; and by the lad his funeral obse-
quies were performed. Up to the period of that Prince's
decease, this power of adoption by Hindoo Rajas had
been undisputed by the British Government; and their
adopted heirs succeeded to the muanud as quietly and
ordered as their lineal or collateral descendants.
It is now, for the first time since we acquired an em-
pire in India, disregarded and set aside. In spite of Lord
Cornwallis' law, which binds us to the consequences of
Hindoo rules and of the Hindoo faith, Lord Dalhousie
has advocated the disinheritance of both the adopted
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for the present in vain.
It was in vain Sir Archibald Galloway argued
;n his written oration that there was justification
for the violation in the treaty itself, that he de
scended to assert that the British Government was not
bound by the Mahratta version of that treaty ; that he
quibbled like an Old Bailey lawyer on the words " from
generation to generation," as if that form of expression
required lineal succession. Not all the special pleading
in Westminster-ball can rail away the words " heirs and
successors" in the treaty; can get rid of the right of
Hindoo adoption in the absence of lineal heirs; can
conceal the intentions of the Indian Government to
absorb and annex native state after native state as
excuse affords an opportunity. All the weight of Indian
practice and all the pressure of Indian authority were
opposed to his idle reasoning. The old servants of the
Indian Government rushed to town from their rural re-
tirements to protest against this violation of native
rights; and Mr. Holt Mackenzie, in a speech of irre-
sistible power, demolished all the flimsy pretences on
which it has been abused.
The British author of the treaty, Mr. Elphinstone, and
its British ratifier, Captain Duff Grant, are still alive,
to be appealed to as to its meaning. Yet, though the
Court of Directors has been entreated to procure their
.pinion as to its meaning, they hare not dared to ask it.
For ten years have all these distressing questions rela-
' tive to the Sattara state been pending; counsel and ad-
vice have the Court of Directors and the Board of Con-
sass trol sought from all quarters except from those most
competent to advise and direct them. Reference sin
heueifif
made to every one but Mr. Elphinstone and Cap
Grant D
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spirit and intentions that have moved the Indian Govern-
ment. learn the motive
Grant ; and in this omission we have some -to the
-4T4 It is from this last step that we may
of the first. The extinction of Setters as a state is but
75 the complement of the deposition of Pertaub Singh. It
534 is, however, a measure which may rouse the remaining
native Princes to a sense of the dangerons tenure by
IN which they preserve the remnants of their power, and
Is• which may teach the people of India the unscrupulous
faithlessness of the British Government, when their ex-
istence impedes its designs. Lord Dalhousie has re-
I% corded in esformal minute the anxiety of the Indian Go-
vernment to absorb their sovereignties and to annex
Od their territories as time and opportunity may serve. And
the extinction of Sattara as a state will show them the
means by which this end is to be gained. The majority
11
1% for the Directors on the ballot, gained by a muster of
.od. subservient voters and unscrupulous finesse, cannot
finally settle so important a question. The Directors
have not yet heard the last of it.—Daily News.

A BALLOT AT THE INDIA HOUSE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS.
Sir,—A ballot was taken this day at the India House,
You may not be incurious to know how this kind of
thing is managed in Leadenhall-street, and what it there
means.
.6d One side of an inner room is partitioned off by a bar,
behind which are three tables; the centre one is occupied
by two directors, having each a balloting urn before
m, him, the table on each aide by two or three clerks, who
write down the balloter's name, and by one clerk who
administers the usual declaration to him previous to his
balloting.
A proprietor coming to vote naturally goes up to the
• directors' table, upon which are, or ought to be depo-
, sited the ballot papers, having printed upon them the
words " for the motion" or " against the motion." We
were to-day standing close to the table in question when
a proprietor approached. Before he had time to utter a
)x word he was thus apostrophised by the clerk, the worthy
who administers the declaration, " Are you come, Sir,
to support the Court?" (meaning, of course, the Court of
Directors.) This was said not only authoritatively,
but pointedly and offensively, in the very hearing of one
of the directors, virho is placed there ostensibly to see
that the balloting is fairly and impartially conducted; it
indicated, as plainly as words so delivered could, that, if
the proprietors did not come "to support the Court,"
his presence there was an intrusion. So much so for the
spirit of this ballot. To understand why certain direc-
tors, headed by Mr. Charles Mills, called for it, your
readers should know that, at an ordinary Court, each
proprietor of East India stock has only one vote when
the Court proceeds to a division upon any resolution be-
fore it; but at a ballot he is one gentleman or lady rolled
into two, three, or four, as the case may be, and pos-
sesses as many votes as his or her stock enables him or
her to hold. This is what the directors call " taking the
sense of the proprietors," and this is the outrage upon
common decency which, under the guise of a public

charter to rule India, they have perpetrated on the pre-
sent occasion.
May 1, 1849.

A LOOKER OX.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF TUESDAY.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
J. Hale, jun., Woodnewton, Northamptonshire, baker,
May 25, at eleven—J. Patterson, Tonbridge, Kent, tea
dealer, May 24, at eleven—W. Armstrong, Norwich,
draper, May 22, at eleven—A. Fielder, Alton, Hamp-
shire, brewer and maltster, May 22, at twelve—R. H.
Pugh, Aldermanbury, City, warehouseman, May 22, at
two—H. C. Broom, Laurence Pountney- hill, grocer, May
24, at eleven—J. Stubbing, Northumberland-place,
Commercial-road east, draper, May 24, at half-past two
—J. E. Saunders, jun., Upper Thames-street, fish factor,
May 24, at half-past eleven—G. Ridley, Gould-square,
wine and spirit merchant, May 24, at one—Louise Roe-
lants, Argyle-street, Regent-street, milliner and dress-
maker, May 24, at twelve—A. Morecraft, Marlborough,
Wiltshire, draper, May 23, at half-past eleven—M. R.
C. Wightman, Pancras-lane, City, linen factor, May
.23,
at half-past eleven.
In the Country.
W. Parkinson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchant, May
24, at half-past one, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Ty ne
—W, Smith, jun., Stockton, Durham, manufacturer of
earthenware, May 25, at one, at the Court, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne—C. J. Spence, Stockton upon-Tees, timber
merchant, May 24, at one, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne—W. Richardson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, glass ma-
nufacturer, May 25, at twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne—W. Plumley, Bristol, poulterer, May 22,
at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—J. J. Ferens and
R. Ferens, Durham, drapers, May 25, at eleven, at the
Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—R. English, Sunderland,
wine and spirit merchant, May 25, at half-past twelve,
at the Ccurt, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. Birch, Kingston-
upon-Hull, tailor, May 23, at half-past ten, at the Town-
hall, Kingston-upon-Hull—H. Moseley and J. B. Mur-
phy, Derby, carvers, June 8, at
.eleven, at the Court,
Birmingham.

PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
D. Sharp, Southampton, attorney, Is. lid., Monday,
May 7, and the subsequent Monday, between the hours
of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Cannan, Birchin.

lane.
J. Hunt, Horseferry-road, Westminster, builder, 2s.
3d., Wednesday, May 2, and three following Wednes-
days, between the hours of ten and two, at the office of
Mr. Turquand, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street,
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES,
At the Court Basinghall-street.
B. Tippler, Great Tower-street, colonial broker, May
23, at twelve—H. E. Bennett, Southwark, carrier and
commission agent, May 24, at twelve—J. Smith,Regent-
street, jeweller, May 23, at eleven.
In the Country.
11. Grant, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, clock and watch
maker and jeweller, May 24, at eleven, at the Court,
Bristol—W. Garret, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, bookseller,
May 25, at half past ten, at the Court, Newcastle 'upon.
Tyne—J. Cadman, Pontypool, Monmouthshire, wine and
spirit retailer, and corn dealer, May 24, at eleven, at the
Court, Bristol.

Court of Review, May 22.
W. Minton, Liverpool, linen draper—B. Clark, Kings-
ton-upon-Thames, Surrey, export ale and porter mer-
chant—T. Grimbly, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick-
shire, commercial clerk and traveller—J. Krauss, Man-
chester, agent—C. Kay, Wakefield, Yorkshire, manufac-
turer—S. Bennett, High-street, Islington, draper and
laceman—L. Greening, Stroud, Gloucestershire, saddler
and harness maker—J. Arnold, Oxford-street, linen
draper—J. B. Brown, Liverpool, broker and commission
agent—R. Owen, Manchester, tailor and commission
agent—R. Owen, Manchester, tailor and draper—A. D.
Young, Gracechurch-street and Islington, commission
agent—J. T. Jay, A cle, Norfolk, surgeon and apothecary.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
W. Duffield and J. R. Peniston, Leeds, cloth finishers
—J. Graham and T. Jefferson, Carlisle, merchants and
drapers—J. Liddell, 11. Liddell, and T. Liddell,
Huddersfield, boot and shoemakers (eo far as
regards T. Liddell)—S. Lozel and W. Jackson,
Maldon, Essex, linen drapers—T. WindlQy and G.
N. Walsh, Nottingham, silk throwers—J. Rawstron
and E. Cunliffe, Rossendale-forest, Lancashire, cotton
spinners—W. Lund and J. L. Copeland, Liverpool, soap
makers—E. S. Owen, F. Austin, and G. Austin, King's
Arms-yard, Moorgate-street—j. Frost and I. Frost, St.
John's-square, Clerkenwell—T. Millership and W.
Barnett, Oldbury, Worcestershire, brickmakers—J.
Marryat, C. Marryat, and C. W. Short, London (so
far as regards J. Marryat)—T. Whitham and J. Har-
wood, Sheffield, whitesmiths—G. Statham and T. Smith,
Macclesfield, cotton- yarn. doublers—A. Sloan and J.
ilaining, Manchester, drapers—R. Jackson and J.
Walker, Manchester, tea and coffee dealers—J. F. Froes,
T. G. Smith, and G. A. Douglas, Liverpool, wine and
spirit merchants (so far as regards G. A. Douglas) —H.
S. Gibbs and G. Hyem, George-lane, Eastcheap, ship-
brokers—J. Lees and F. Bailey, Oldham, cotton-spiu-
ners—G. Porter and E. Butler, Chelmsford, wine and
brandy-merchants—E. Waine, J. Waine, G. Horlaston,
W. Horlaston, and S. Johnson, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staf-
ford.hire, miners and coalowners (so far as regards G.
Horlaston, W. Horlaston, and S. Johnson)—J. Orbell,
Jun., and 11. P. Parmenter, Great Henney, Essex, mil-
lers and merchants—J. Skinner, D. Borsley, W. Haynes,
and E. S. Eyre, Coleman-street, City, builders (so far as
regards D. Borsley)—B. Dickison and T. D. Dickman,
Little Tower-street, City, wine merchants—G. Gimson,
T. Yates, and J. Ainsworth, Staleybridge, Cheshire,
engineers and millwrights (so far as regards T. Yates).
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
John Bowling, Weeton, Yorkshire, shoemaker.
John Smith, West Orchard, Warwickshire.
Edmund Russell, Berkeswell, Warwickshire, tailor.
Joseph Stephen Weatherilt, Coventry, schoolmaster.
Robert Morrell, Dawley, Shropshire, pudler.
John Cooper, Barrow-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire,
farmer.
Thomas Griffiths Blocksidge, Madeley, Shropshire,
plumber.
Henry Walker, Dawley, Shropshire, confectioner.
David Avison, Birstal, Yorkshire, coal leader.

Elizabeth Hunter, Cheltenham.
Robert M'Ulellan Walker, Claughton- cum-Grange,
Cheshire, collector.
William Butt, Walford, Herefordshire.
John Nicholas, Neath, Glamorganshire, blacksmith.
Thomas Davies, Aberavon, Glamorganshire, joiner.
Robert Marsden Rigby, Walton-on-the-Hill, Lancashire,
baker.

SCOTC EI SEQUESTRATIONS.
P. Walker, Glasgow, merchant and compassion agent,
,0 meet May 9 and 30, at one, within the Black Bull
Hotel, Glasgow.
J. Blair, Airdrie, grocer and spirit dealer, to meet
May 7 and 28, at one, within Drummond 's Royal Hotel,
Airdrie.
J. Wlicand, Glasgow, merchant and share dealer,
May 8 and 29, at one, within the Buck's Head Hotel,
Glasgow.

ARCTIC EXPEDITION.
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turn has just been printed of copies or extracts of any
proceedings or correspondence of the Admiralty, rela-
tive to the Arctic expedition. The present paper con-
tains " The opinions of the most experienced officers
connected with the Arctic expeditions on the necessity
of sending a ship to the entrance of Lancaster Sound
with supplies for Sir James Ross's expedition, and their
joint opinion as to certain measures proposed to be
adopted." This document, which is of an extremely in-
teresting character, gives at length the separate opinions
and suggestions of Captains Sir W. E. Parry, Sir G.
Black, Beechy, Sir E. Belcher, and Colonel Sabine on
the subject, but they are of too great length for insertion
in our columns; the subject, however, of all of them is
introduced in the paper which we subjoin.
JOINT OPINION OF OFFICERS, &c., INTER-
ESTED IN THE WELFARE OF THE ARCTIC

EXPEDITIONS.
JAN. 17, 1849.—At a meeting of the undermentioned
officers, &c., interested in the welfare of the Arctic ex-
peditions—namely, Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort,
the Rev. Dr. Scoresby, Colonel Sabine, R.A. Captain
Sir William Henry Parry, R.N., Captain Frederick W.
Beechey, R.N., Captain Sir George Back, R.N., Captain
Sir E. Belcher, R.N., it was given as their unanimous
opinion-
1. That, considering the fact that Sir James Ross's
expedition did not reach the entrance to Lancaster Sound
till the 28th Aug., 1848, little or nothing could have been
effected by the ships under his command in that season,
beyond a partial examination of the two shores of Lan-
caster Sound and Barrow's Straits.
2. That, therefore, that expedition will, virtually, have
to commence the search ;for Sir John Franklin's ships
this year.
3. That, with reference to the position of Sir James
Ross's ships during the present winter, there are three
possible cases—
a. The Investigator fn a harbour near Cape Benne)

and the Enterprise having pushed on to, or near to, Me

wile Island. -
b. The Investigator as above, and the Enterprise hav-
ing proceeded
in a part of the way to Melville Island.
c. Both ships having been obliged to winter near to-
gether, consequence of the few days remaining for
that season's navigation in 1848, subsequently to the 28th
August.
4. That in either of these three cases the two ships
are sure to be separated this season, as even in the last
case (c) Sir James Itoss will push to the westward as
soon as possible in the ensuing summer.
5. That under any of these circumstances it is highly
unsafe, and therefore inexpedient, for the Investigatleave Sir
James Ross alone in the Enterprise, in the performance
of a hazardous service.
6. That, therefore, fresh instructions should be sent
out this summer to Captain Bird to J
pe above effect, lest
1848
he should feel himself bound by
Sir am,
andes Ross's in-
structions to him of the 12th July, i the
b y
state of his resources, to return to England
n the In-
vestigator in the ensuing autumn.
7. That Captain Bird should be directed to remain
out another winter, in order t? carry more exten-
sively the objects. of the expedition.
8. Vat, for this purpose, supplies of provisions, ship's