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No. 17,238.] LONDON, THURSDAY, E E N

ALURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of
Chancery, made in a cause " Her Majesty's Attorney-
General v. Wilshere," the NEXT of KEN of the Right Rev. MAT-
THEW HENRY THORNHILL LUSCOMBE, late of Rue de
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EAST INDIA HOUSE.
Yesterday a quarterly general Court of the East
India Company was held at the East India House,
Leadenhall-street. Mr. H. St. George Tucker,
chairman of the Board of Directors, presided.
The minutes of the last Court having been read,

SUGAR DUTIES.
Mr. ARBUTHNOT adverted to the circumstance of
an alteration in the sugar duties having been effected
• about two years ago, depreciating the protection en-
joyed by India sugar as against slave-labour sugar.
Since then it had been generally reported that the
slave trade had materially increased, and that the
growth of slave-labour sugar was increasing; and,
unless some steps were taken to retrace our policy, it
was feared that the planters of India would be driven
out of the field. He understood that a letter on the
subject to the Government had been sent to that
Court, and he wished to know whether that letter
had been received, and whether it was the intention
of the Court of Directors to take any steps in conse-
quence ?
The CHAIRMAN had the pleasure of informing the
Hon. Proprietor that the letter he alluded to had b*
'received, And had been submitted to the Government
through the proper official channel, with the expres-
sion of a hope that the Government would give it
that attention which its importance appeared to de-
serve.—(Hear.)

JUGGERNAUT.
Mr. POYNDER had given notice of the following
motion for to. day :
" That the late correspondence between the Hon.
Court of Directors and the Bengal Government rela-
tive to any pledge having been originally given for
the continued support of the temple of Juggernaut on
the conquest of the district of Cuttack in the pro-
vince of Orissa, already laid on the table of this
court, be printed for the use of such proprietors as
may previously signify in writing their desire to pos-
sess it."
But in rising to address the Court, we understood the
Hon. Proprietor to express a wish to have substituted
for that motion another, to the following effect:—
"That, adverting to the dispatch to the Bengal
Government, transmitted fourteen years ago, by the
Court of Directors, and dated the 20th of February,
1833, declaring their determined withdrawal thence-
forth from all connexion with, and abetment of, the
idolatrous rites and ceremonies of India; and further,
adverting to the correspondence of the Court with its
Bengal Government, ordered to be laid on the table
of this Court, demonstrating that no pledge, direct or
indirect, was ever given for the support of that temple
of Juggernaut; and also adverting to the continued
anual money payment of 35,000 rupees still made by the
local Government for the support of the temple, its
priests, and prostitutes, under the supposed obliga-
don of some fiscal commutation, in consequence of
which payment it was proved at the September Court
that the abominations of this temple, and destruc-
tion of human life, still continue precisely as if the
said dispatch had never been issued—this Court is of
opinion that the local Government is manifestly ex-
ceeding its commission, and that the time is fully ar-
rived when it becomes the imperious duty of this
Court, to Christianity and the country, to interpose
and to declare that all such support of heathenism
shall have an immediate end."
The CHAIRMAN observed that if the Hon. Pro-
prietor wished to have the papers mentioned in his
original motion printed, there was no objectiOn to
that, but that the motion since read was one of a very
different character.
The original motion having been read and seconded,
was about to be carried, when
Mr. POYNDER said he wished to make a few obser-
vations. His object was, that the Court of Proprie-
tors should now take the matter up. Juggernaut, he
said, still continued what it had ever been, and though
victims were not now thrown under the wheel, still,
from the multitudes collected together, from the effect
of seasons, and other circumstances, there ensued a
vast sacrifice of human life at these superstitious rites,
while the idolatry and sin of attending them remained
the same. The question was, whether or not there
existed any pledge which bound the India Government
to keep up this heathenism for all time ? In the cor-
respondence would be found conflicting opinions
on this point, but some of the answers in reference to
this matter, and they appeared to him to be the wisest
and most conclusive, were to the effect that no such
pledge existed. lie observed that among the proprie-
tary body of the East India Company there,were 80 cler-
gymen having 107 votes, and necessarilygreatinfluence.
He thought it hard that those gentlemen, who only
made their appearance in that Court twice a year for
the purpose of receiving their dividends, and the
effect of whose votes was chiefly felt in the election.
of directors, should be found absent from the Court
when some of the most awful and important questions
were under discussion. He had sent to them notice
of the present motion, but he had only got one an-
swer, stating that the writer concurred in the motion
teethrough
rou lost
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a that
the t
the he
prevailing
would vote for it, if he could give his vote by
proxy. As that could not be done, he (Mr. Poynder)
hadane trh he consequentlybelievedn,
timee benefit of
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influence not
his
be far d
vote.
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ever, lF.v
vis
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Christian religion, there would be accomplished an
entire and complete relinquishment and abandonment
by the East India Company of this foul, unnatural,
and detestable source of at least half the crimes in
Bengal.

Mr. WEEDING observed, that since the last Court
information had reached this country in respect to
the practice of Suttee, which he believed would be
satisfactory to the Lion. Proprietor. The information
he referred to was to the effect that that practice,
which consisted in the sacrifice of women at the
funerals of their husbands, was abolished in the
kingdom of Lahore by the -orders of the Government
of that country. That was a great step, and it
must be satisfactory to the Hon. Proprietor to find
that the local Government of India was alive to the
improvement of the social condition of the people.
This was the safest way of accomplishing the object
which the Hon. Proprietor had at heart.
The original motion was then put and agreed to ;
and with respect to the second motion, it was agreed
that that should stand as a notice for next Court,
The CHAIRMAN observing that the sum of 35,000
rupees referred to in the motion was above the
amount paid; that it was not given as a boon or
discretionary grant, but as a payment liable to be
contested as a right in courts of justice.
Mr. LEWIS thought that other papers should be
produced, to throw light on the subject.
The Cumamart replied, that no further papers had
been since received.

Mr. SULLIVAN said that when the question came
to be discussed the Chairman would find him a
enuncstrenuou iats opponent of the doctrine he had justed.

THE RAJA OF SATTARA.
Mr. LEWIS said he had given notice of a motion
with respect to the case of the late Raja of Sattara ;
but, as through some inadvertence it had not been
advertised, he would renew the notice for next Court.
as
Mr. SULLIVAN said, that he had come prepared
he to
motion, and
support the llon. Proprietor's;
dt of
a( dfu
grl :de eds Pi3-r'
strength
thought this an urgent case, admitting no delay, he
would now propose a motion on the subject himself.
but his case was
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been be
tdheet hrreosnuel
It was true that the Raja was dead, b
im
e
hneotredderaeds,seadn.d tlhieeiitieqluieivtyedenaaicitetd ainst him must
he a c
harges against
and that
of evidence which he was not, permitt on r a theeed to see. The
Honourable Proprietor concluded by making a motion
to the effect :—" That the contents of the papers re-
cently laid before the Court respecting the innocence
of the Raja of Sattara, together with the information
previously possessed by the Court, rendered it expe-
dient and necessary, for the furtherance of the ends
of justice, and the future good government of India,
that the inquiry which had been prayed for by the
late Raja should be granted, with the view of re-
lieving his character, if innocent, and vindicating the
honour of the British Government from that suspicion
and obloquy which the proceedings against the late
Raja excited."
Mr. GEORGH TuomrsoN, in seconding the motion,
said he would bring the subject forward at every
Court, until justice was done to the character of the
late Raja, who had fallen a victim to the persecution
of his enemies, and the obduracy of the Court of
Directors ; in fact, he was a murdered man. The
agent at Benares, more than two_ years ago, reported
to the Bombay Government that he was fast sinking
from the effect of the climate of Bemires, which
was very different from the part of India in
which he was born. He had repeatedly memo-
rialised the Government for permission to remove
from Benares to some other part of India, the climate
of which was more congenial to his constitution ; but
no attention was paid to his request, although the
agent had himself stated that, if not permitted to
remove from Benares, he would ultimately fall a
victim to the climate. The Governmenti?f India had
long been aware that he was slowly sinking under the
effects of the climate. He had not died from any
disease, but was slowly murdered. It was his dying
wish that a full investigation should take place into
all the charges that had been brought against him.
He (Mr. Thompson) wished to know :what was
intended to be done with his territory ? He believed
the original intention was for the Government to take
possession of it. His family, however, lived to