The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-23 00:00:00

vernor was inflexible ; and, although the Raja had
offered to surrender his person into the hands of the
Governor—although his whole army consisted of but
1,507 irregular horse and foot—a body of British troops
was marched in the dead of night to Sattara, his palace
was surrounded, his chamber invaded by the political Re-
sident and another officer, headed by the Raja's
own brother, Appa Sahib, now his successor ; he was
dragged from his bed, thrust almost naked into a palan-
quin, his cousin Balla Sahib, the Commander of his
Forces, thrust into it with him (an indignity so extreme
and revolting, that Balla Sahib jumped out, and walked
seven miles barefoot by the side of the palanquin), and he
and his family hurried off to Benares, under such cir-
curnstemces of unnecessary cruelty, that Balla Sahib died
on the road ; a halt being first denied to his wife,
when she was seized with child-labour, and after-
wards to Balla Sahib himself, when in the pangs of
death. Upon all these acts—upon the accusations pre-
ferred against the Raja in the manner above related—
' upon his condemnation, unheard, on evideece obtained
by such means and of such a character—upon the
raising to his throne of a brother, whose title to that
throne was earned by accusing him of the crimes of
which that brother acknowledged himself to be guilty—
and
upon the confiscation of the Raja's private property,
in violation of a solemn pledge—a majority of the Court
of Directors of the East India Company have bestowed
their warm commendation ;' and a majority of the
Court of Proprietors, chiefly composed of the same Di-
rectors, have. twice refused to interfere with their
Executive.' Wherefore, in the name of outraged hu-
manity—of justice trampled upon—of faith violated—of
British honour tarnished in the eyes of the civilised
world—and for the safety of the British empire in India,
endangered by such conduct—
" Your Petitioners pray that your Honourable House
will interfere ; that you will cause an impartial inquiry
to be made into the case of the Raja of Sattara ; that
if wrong has been clone to him, your Honourable House
will restore him to the throne, which it is declared he so
worthily filled ; and that in justice to the natives of India, as
well as for the honour of the national character, you will
take steps to prevent in future the perpetration of such
acts as these.
" And you petitioners will carer pray.
(Signed) " CHARLES FORBES, Bart.
" Chairman of the British India Society.
"London, Sept. 16, 1841."
Sir G. CLERK gave notice that on Friday next, on
going into Committee of Supply, he should move cer-
tain resolutions to make good the supplies granted to
her Majesty in the last Session of Parliament.
Captain BOLDERO gave notice that in Committee of
Supply on Friday next, he would move the Supidemen-
tary Ordnance Estimates_
Mr. S. CRAWFORD gave notice, that it be an
instruction to the Committee on the Poor-law Commis-
sion Bill to insert clauses to the following effect
" That it shall not be lawful for the Commissioners
from the date of the passing of this Bill to declare the
formation of any new Unions in districts which are not
already placed under the Act of the 4th and sth of
IV Whim IV., c. 76.
'• That it shall not be lawful for the Commissioners to
disallow, by any general or other order, any payments
which shall be made by the authority of the Board of
Guardians for the relief of any poor person or their ferni-
I lies out of the workhouse, notwithstanding any power
given to the Commissioners by the said recited Act to the
contrary."
The SPEAKER informed the House that it had been
reported to him that the sureties for prosecuting the
petitions against the returns for Carlow (county) aril
Carlow (city), Downpatrick, and Waterford, wee unex-
ceptionable ; and that the sureties in the case of the peti-
tion against the return for Carnarvon had not been per-
fected.
Sir W

FOLLETT presented a petition from two
ollicer3 of the Court of Exchequer, praying that corn-
t•ns%tion might be w.varled them for the loss which
the A.dmiiii3tration of Justice Bill would cause.

On the motion that the Order of the Day be read,
Sir R. INGLIS said he would take that opportunity
of correcting a mistake which had been fallen into else-
where. On the other evening he presented a petition
from Mr. Adam Murray. of Parliament-street, in which
he complained of the defective state of the aw, under
which an official assignee, named Abbot, had become
bankrupt, to the great detriment of the petitioner. In
another pla,_!e it was made to appear that Mr. Murray
was a bankrupt. That was not the case ; so far from it,
lie was a gentleman in very excellent professional em-
ployment.

on the motion that. the House go into Committee on
the "loyal Gardens Bill.

Mr. 'PROTHEROi, said, although he had had
an opportunity of seeing the plans at the Woods
and Forests Office, his objection to the build-
ing of villas on the site of the Gardens remained
in full force. The backs of those villas would
abut on the best part of the Royal Gardens and tlw
Palace; and even if the latter were in the dilapidated state
which some represented, still at some future time it
might be found desirable to build another in place of the
present one, and those buildings would very much dete-
riorate the situation. He admitted that the new roads
would be a public convenience, but not so much so as to
counterbalance his objections to the villas.
Sir R. INGLIS cordially concurred in some of the
objections of his Honourable Friend. He did nut
think the House had any right to abridge the
privileges which any successor of her present
Majesty ought to enjoy in Kensington Palace or grounds.
It appeared to him that the amount which would be
saved was so small that, unless it was the particular desire
of her Majesty, they ()tight not make the sacrifice that
was proposed.
The Bill then went through Committee, and was or-
dered to be read a third time on Friday next.