The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-14 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

RAJAH OF SATTARA.
proprietors of East India Stock resumed their
IP:oeting yesterday upon the case of the Rajah of
Sattara.

Sir R. Jenkins took the Chair at 12 o'clock.

Captain ConaN commenced the discussion by reading a
correspondence that had taken place between himself and
the Bombay Government, relative to the affairs of Sattara,
and the treatment which the Rajah had received. The
Honourable and Gallant proprietor then stated that, as va-
rious calumniations had been circulated respecting him,
which he at first treated with contempt he had thought it
proper to write a letter, and to send communications to
the Under Secretary of State, explanatory of his conduct
and the course he had adopted, but the only answer sent to
him was that the pdpsr had been received. Being anxious
to vindicate his character, he waited on the President of the
Board of Control, Sir J. Hobhouse, but instead of being re-
ceived with that courtesy which was usually observed on occa-
sions of that sort, the conduct of that Right Hon. Gentleman
towards him was bordering on insult.—( Hear, hear.) He
was told by the Right Hon. Gentleman that he had joined
a party under Sir Charles Forbes to embarrass the Govern-
ment, and to bring the case into Parliament—that he would
not allow the Rajah to sit on the throne of Sattara again--
that he would support the Government of India whether
right or wrong, and would stop the turban gentlemen from
filling London with their appeals.—( Loud cries of " Hear,
hear.") lie bad also asked him (Capt. Cogan) how he
dared to give an opinion as to the Rajah's innocence in op-
position to the Government, and that he had written to the
Governor-General to dismiss every man from the service
who presumed to give such an opinion.—( Hear, hear, and
laught2r.) He (Capt. Cogan) was not fearful of any evil
consequences to himself, but he trusted the Court would do
its utmost to protect the natives of India —( Hear.) He
was not attached to any party, nor did he wish to embar-
rass the Government of India, or any other Government,
but he had thought it his duty not only to himself, but to
the Court, to have those sentiments proclaimed in order
that they might have the means of checking them in future
) The Chairman said it had been a cause of
regret to hint that the Court adjourned at the period it (lit
last evening, because he had been unable to have an op-
portunity, without stopping other gentlemen, who were de
serous of giving their opinions, of sa)iug a word on behalf
of themselves and the Directors. Ile regretted that the
question had been brought before the Court without being
in possession of the official information which alone, he must
say, could enable him to come to a just and proper decision
on tile question. He admitted that the case of the Rajab of
Sattara was a distressing one, and he would venture to say
of the Government of India, that whatever resolution they
had come to in this case, had been adopted w.th extreme
reluctance. The case of the Rajah was at this moment
under reference to the executive—the Court of Directors—
and what grounds were there for supposing that the Court of
Directors would not come to a decision on the question
with a due sense of its importance, and the most anxious
desire to perform those duties which bad been entrusted to
them under the obligations of an oath ? He would there-
fore beg to move as an amendment " That this Court
deems it highly inexpedient, and accordingly declines to in-
terfere with the responsible execution in the affairs
.of
Sattara."
The Deputy- Chairman seconded the Amendment.'
A long discussion then ensued, at the conclusion of
which the Court divided, when there appeared

For the Motion

Li)
For the Amendment 56

Majority for Chairman's Amendment —36
The Amendment then having been put as a substantive
motion,

Mr. .SOLOMONS moved as an amendment " That the cue
eE the Rajah of Sattara be recommended to the attentive
consideration of the Court of Directors, and that inch
documents connected with his dethronement as shall come
before them, be laid before the Court of Proprietors as
soon as their decision shall have been come to on the
subject."
The amendment having been seconded by Major Oli-
phant, it was put to the Court, but negatived by the same
majority.
The Court then adjourned at a few minutes after Five
o'clock.

FATAL STEAM-SHIP COLLISION. •-•-• We
stated yesterday that the barque Tyrian, bound for Valparaiso,
was run down by the Manchester steamer off Gravesend, and
five lives lost. On further inquiry, we find the melancholy
statement but too true. It apl ears the barque sailed from the
London docks on Tuesday evening with a valuable cargo, part
of which was said to be gold dust. She arrived at Gravesend
on Wednesday morning, and dropped anchor off the north
shore, a short distance from Tilbury Fort, where she was to
have laid till yesterday, and then to have sailed for her destine
tion. The steam-ship Manchester, which is the property of
the Leith and Berwick Steam Navigation Company, sailed
under the command of Captain Polwart, from the Leith and
Berwick Steam-packet Wharf, Lower East Smithfield, at ten
o'clock, on Wednesday night, with a large cargo and a few
passengers, for Berwick. On arriving at Gravesend about half-
past one o'clock, she came into collision with the barque Tyrian.
The crash was frightful. The Manchester was going at full
tpeed, and with the ebb tide. She is supposed to have struck
the Tyrian on the larboard bow, and to have entirely
stove in her bulwarks, and a portion of her hull, as
she filled and sank almost within five minutes after.
The crew and passengers, with the exception of the
watch,were asleep at the moment of the collision, and
they were seen to rush simultaneously on the deck, and make
for the rigging ; several, however, were washed overboard.
As soon as the Manchester recovered from the shock, every en-
deavour was used, on the part of the captain and crew, to
save the lives of those in the water, and clinging to the rigging,
and they succeeded in saving all except three men and one boy
belonging to the crew, and one passenger. Every attention
was paid by Captain Polwart to the survivors, and they were
conveyed ashore; but the damage sustained by the Manchester
being considerable, she laid up off Gravesend for the night.
In the course of yesterday her damage was repaired, and in the
afternoon she set sail for Berwick. A number of fishermen
have been engaged in dragging for the bodies, but none, saveeircr
that of the boy, has been found. Portions of the rigging A„,..
iv
masts of the barque are seen above water. ,
Viscount Villiers, M.P., and the Hon. Fre r .ri WC/2
-
rick Villiers left town on Tuesday afternoon for Coombe Pei. :V ,
> '•
on a visit to Earl and Countess Craven. A numerous pug
about to assemble at that hospitable mansion, ,

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London, was at work from the hour of publica-
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without vanity, because it is truth, that in all
the history of the Newspaper Press there never
was such a quantity of Newspapers published
,6ithin the same time.

The arrangements we had to nzake were of the
most complicated description, yet, with one ex-
ception, all have succeeded. Our readers will
perceive that the Paper is ofa smaller size than
usual. We had ordered weeks ago a large
supply of the.fitll sized paper. It was sen.? of
by the manufacturer, but owing to the breaking
vp of the roads in consequence of the floods, it
has not yet arrived. Luckily we had made
preparation for such a contingency, and had
reserved a sufficient quantity to answer the tem-
porary demand. Our readers in a few days
will see what an elegant Marriage Present we
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no doubt, have now received their Papers, as, owing to
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next day, or possibly the day after. Last night we
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few exceptions, the Papers have reached their desti-
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FATAL STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.--This
morning, between eight and nine o'clock, the Lively steam-
boat passing down the Pool, on account of the dense fog,
ran foul •f a large boat with six men in it, belonging to
Woolwich, and overset her. The crew were immersed in
the river, and four of them succeeded in saving their lives
by hanging to the bottom of her, and were safely got on
board the steamer ; the other two were unfortunately lost. The
disaster was purely accidental.

Few Nobl3 Lards, even after the explana-
tion given by the Noble Marquis, could see the
connection between the two subjects, and after some
conversation, a Committee was appointed to inquire,
first of all, into the supply of water for the metropo-
lis. To illustrate the inutility of such Committees, the
Duke of RICHMOND said that he had been a member
of a Committee appointed to inquire into the means of
preventing sparks from steam-engines setting fire to
thatched buildings, &c., which Committee sat some
weeks, and incurred great expense, but broke up with-
out doing anything. Nothing has been Ire,i,rd of mis-
chief caused by sparks since.
Th, it Lordships adjourned at Half-past Six.

A :•ery considerable number of petitions were pre-
sented in the House of Commons on various subjects,
em several for the remission of the pu-
and amongst
nishment of Mr. 17.:
OST and his companions, and one for
settling the law of treason.
given which we can
A. number of notices ;ere
scarcely abridge, and therefore ;"fer our readers to our
report.
reduction of
Mr. PRYUE postponed his motion for I;
the duty on corn.
Sir EDWARD SUGDEN begged that his name tn.;:ht
be withdrawn from the Committee on Printed Papery.
The Right Hon. Gentleman seamed rather in a pet.
In answer to Mr. G. PALMER, Mr. LABOUCHERE,
the Presi.lent of the Board of Trade, stated that no di-
rections have been given to the Custom-house to refuse
clearance to ships for China, but in granting them
the Government took no responsibility on itself, and
expressed no opinion. Mr. HUME wished to know what
instructions had been sent out by Government to Can-
ton, but Lord JOHN RUSSELL declined entering- into
any explanation.
When the commercial treaty with France is con-
cluded, which the Government is negociating on fair
and honourable terms, Mr. LABOUCHERE said the Go-
vernment would lay it on the table of the House.
A further petition from Messrs . HANSARD, concerning
the new action raised by STOCEDALE, was presented by
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and ordered to be taken into
consideration on Monday.

The Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London pre-
sented a petition, praying that the Sheriffs might be
released, because it was the established usage, when an
address was voted to her Majesty by the Corporation,
for the Sheriffs, attended by the Remembrancer, to
wait on her Majesty to know when it would suit her
to receive the address ; and the Sheriffs, being confined,
could not perform that part of this duty. The petition
was ordered to be printed, and Lord MaHoN is, to-
morrow, to bring it under the notice of the House.
Lord GEORGE LENNOX moved for the names of the
Commissioners of Military and Naval Inquiry,
and how often they had sat. He mentioned the
case of a marine officer, serving in Upper Canada,
in contrast with the case of Captain GREY serving at
Newport, the latter of whom was promoted, but the
former could not be ; a marine officer being the only per-
son her MAJESTY cannot promote for meritorious ser-

Sir H. VII, tax stated that the Commissioners had
been assiduous in their attendance—that the special
Reports on each branch of the firvice were ready, and
that the general Report would soon be ready, and the
proceedings of the Commission terminated. He declined
acceding to the latter part of the Noble Lord's motion,
who withdrew it. The conversation will be found in-
tersting to our naval and military readers.
Mr. MacioriNoN, after a brief explanation and an
understanding that the matter should be left in the
hands of Government, withdrew his motion for leave to
bring in a Bill to alter and amend the laws relative to
turnpike trusts.

The remainder of the evening was occupied with a
long debate on Ole finances of the country, and on
Whin and Tory mismanagement. Mr. HERRIES
moved for a number of financial returns, to none of
which was any objection made, except a return of the
probable produce of the revenue for the present year.
The Right Honourable Gentleman explained at con-
siderable length why he wished this return, in-
steal of leaving it to the leisure and con-
venisnce of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QUER to lay it before the House. The sum of
those reasons is, that the Whigs mismanaged the
finances, and that he wanted the means of convicting
them of incapacity and inefficiency. The Right Hon.
Gentleman was more abusive than is customary with
rival politicians, and attributed all the difficulties of the
country to the mismanagement of the Whigs.
He is persuaded that the resources of the coun-
try never were so great as now ; and it is only
required that the Tories should be restored to office to
bring back to England the golden age. But Ministers,
he said, had increased the funded and unfunded debt,
they bad augmented the expenses, and, with a deficiency
in the revenue, they bad committed that unforgivable sin
of listening to the prayers of the whole people, which
they ought, by the aid of the Gentlemen of England,
dies the bread-taxing landowners, to have resisted,
and had established a uniform penny post. They
ought to have continued to make the miners of
Glamorganshire pay ls. 10d. for sending a half-sove-
reign to their families, which they now send for 1 d. ;
theyiouighleit not to have abolished franking, and so, by
poor and the industrious, and carrying the
letters and parcels, and even the boot-jacks of the rich,
free, they ought to have kept up the Rsvenue till the
Tories could have got into office—have put all things in
order, and had the merit of reducing the postage when
it was not asked for. To grant the prayers of Church-cxtea-
sionists, or any other would-be plunderers of the public,
pushed forward by the parsons, is a great merit in the
Tories : to concede to the spontaneous wishes of the mil-
lions, is stigmatiz d by the same Tories as yielding to
clamour. Mr. liEnraEs—thou.l he may have esta-
blished the fact that it is a disgrace to England in
the twenty-sixth year of peace to have an expenditure

An Extraordinary Gazette was published last
night, with the despatches of Lord AUCKLAND
and Major-General WI LLSHIRE, announcing the
capture of Kelat. The main particulars of this
gallant achievement have been already laid bMfo►e
our readers, but they will nevertheless peruse the
detailed and official account with that pleasure
which descriptions of the valour and success of our
countrymen always excite. Lord AUCKLAND ex-
presses an earnest hope that the conduct of Major-
General WI t.r.s HIRE will not fail to elicit the appro-
bation of her MAJESTY'S Government, and they who
so promptly and readily proposed to her MAJESTY
to reward the services of Lord AUCKLAND and Sir
JOHN KEANE, will, we are sure, not be slow in
bestowing some similar honour on Major-General
W t LLSIIIRE for his success. If such events had
not become familiar to us by frequent repetition, the
circumstance of a handful of troops belonging to
this little England, amounting to less than 1,200
—a third of whom appear to have been natives—
deposing a Sovereign in the heart of Asia, and ap-
pointing new rulers to provinces and kingdoms,
would appear more wonderful than the history of
CORTES or PIZARRO. Whether posterity will
read these great achievements as we read the
achievements of the daring Spaniards, we presume
not to conjecture ; but if they do, the continued
sliecess of the English in Asia, and the vast em-
pire they have conquered there, will appear one of
the most memorable series of circumstances in the
whole history of mankind.

Sir ROBERT INGLIS last night postponed till
after Easter his intended motion still further to tax
our ever-taxed people, to pay more parsons and
build more churches. During the ibterval it will
be proper, in the opponents of the measure, to
spread abroad information on the subject, and get
up petitions against the project of extending the
power of the priesthood. 'We shall fulfil our duty
on this point, because we consider the Established
Church to he a source of living and perpetual strife,
and one of the chief:obstacles to progressive, quiet,
rational, and sober political improvement.

Madrid Journals of the dth instant have reached us.
Their contents are unimporting. The M inisters cal-
culated on a majority of sixty in the ensuing Cortes.
Despatches from ESPARTERO, the purport of which had
not transpired, had put the Regent in excellent spirits.
i;:vonne letters of the 9th state that the Christino troops
have h„:1 a reverse at Peralejos, RODRIGUES'S column
having been :urprised and attacked by a Carlist division
of 3,500 infantry.
and 200 cavalry. RODRIGUES re-
treated, after greatto Molina.

esi:lpesdaY are extremely
barren of intelligence of any gene2-4_
I interest. The
The Paris Papers of W
following are extracts from them :
A letter from Malta, of the 25th of January, 62. ya :
"We have had here a parody of the hle of France. Loay..l.
Exmouth, who commands a Royal Yacht, having lately
given a ball, had placed in the front of his hotel a French
motto, which was rather odd--viz., Vice la Bagatere,
but, by a sad mistake of the decorator, a large French
flag was displayed in the balcony below the motto. The
French went to the hotel to complain, and the flag was im-
mediately removed,:the motto alone remained."
The Madrid Journals of the ad and 4th have not yet
arrived.

A letter from that capital of the ad, published in the
Plzare des Pyrenees of the Bth, says :
" Yesterday afternoon an extraordinary courier arrived
from il,l,is le Las Mates with despatches for Queen Chris..
tine. The contents have not transpired, but it is affirmed
in well-informed circles that this communication Ills been
satisfactory to the Government, and especially to her Ma-
jesty, I cannot speak to you of this matter till my next
letter, for there are things which ought not to be mentioned
till a proper time comes."—Le Commerce.
By the English packet-boat which has arrived at Mar-
seilles with the India mail, we have news from Alexandria
of the 25th. All the hopes which France had held out to
the Pacha are there considered as vanished. Immediately
after the arrival of the last French packet but one, the Rus-
sian, English, and Austrian Consuls presented an ultinia-
turn. Soon afterwards the French Consul having come to
the palace, Mehemet Ali caused an intimation to be given
him that be could not receive hint officially, and that in
future he would have no diplomatic connection with him.
When the packet of the 201 i arrived, the English
Consul waited on the Viceroy, to have his answer to the
ultimatum. The Pacha replied that he would never aban-
don the advantages which conquest had given him, and
would defend them at all hazards.
Another letter from Alexandria says that 8,200 inhabi-
tants of that city had voluntarily enlisted in the National
Guard.

The Arediterraneo says it was reported on the 2d, after
the arrival of the Acheron French packet, that the Four
Powers had agreed on the measures to be taken for pre-
serving the integrity of the Ottoman empire.
In consequence of the attack on Aden by the Aral,s,
6,000 men of the Angle-Indian army had been ordered to
penetrate into the country. They had advanced to Mocha
without any opposition from the inhabitants.—Le Coma-
id ionnel, Feb. 12.
FIsONTIERB Or ITALT, FEB. I.—The latest negotiations
for a reconciliation between the King of Naples and his
brother the Prince of Capus, have failed, in consequence
of the persevering opposition of the latter. The King
has recalled the Chevalier Verace, who was entrusted with
the negotiation.
130 URSE.—PaRts, WEDNESDAY, FBI. 12.
f lest Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
french 5 per Cents ll2 85
... 112 85 ... 112 70 ... I 2 SO
ay, per Cents JCS .., 1t.3 ... 108 ••• 165
4 per Cants lO4 ,_. sO4 ... 104 ... 101 3
per Cents Bl 8C ..„ 31 00 ... SI CO ... 81 al
Bank of trance 3170
...3;50 ...3175 ...3170
Lattitte Bank 1,0001. Sh 1052 50 ...10,-,5 ...1052 50 ...1 55
5,000 f. SS s2ro ...5215 ...520J —5215
Belgian Bank 9O 50 ... 045 ... 912 50 ... 945
5 per Cents
3 per Cents 7l 30 ... 71 39 ... 71 25 ... 71 25
Spanish Active. 2B ... 2S ...2714 ... 28
Passive 71,,i ~,, 74£ ... 7 ... 7
Old Deferred 714 ... 7% ••• 7% —• 7%
Portuguese 3 per Cents 24
... 24 ... 9.4 ... 24
Neapolitan

lonian - •• ••• •
1013 ... 103% ... 103 ••• 11'3(
ItAILVVAY SHARE,.
St. Germain 632 50 ... 647 50 ... 63') 50 ... 047 50
Versailles. IL It 5:35 ... 51.5 ... 535 ... :",43
L.B. 337 50 ... 3:47 50 ... 3-12 50 ...:197 5"
Mulhausen to Thann
Strasburg to Bale .........

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT DOCK HEAD.--
LATEST PARTICULARS.—Yesterday evening, about eight
o'clock, a fire broke out in the extensive premises of Mr. Brown,
mast-maker, Dockhead. The fire-engines from the various
fire engine stations were quickly sent for and promptly arrived.
Unfortunately, however, water could be procured only from
the river Thames, and the hoses were laid on to it., but the
flames had gained such an ascendancy that all was of no avail.
It continued to rage with uncontrollable fury, and communi-
cated to Mr. Holland's, barge builder, Messrs. Brown and
Young's granary, and also Messrs. Groves, on the river side,
all of which are destroyed. The flames reached the opposite
side, and burned down three other granaries belonging to
Messrs. Groves. It is not known in what manner the fire ori-
ginated. The damage sustained is estimated at 150,000/.which
is insured in the Sun, Phasnix, and Norwich Union Fire
Offices. The large floating engine from Southwark-bridge sta-
tion was fortunately got down to the scene of conflagration, and
manned with 150 men, throwing up three tons and a half of
water a minute. At two o'clock this morning the fire was got
under so as to remove all further fears. The police rendered
very efficient service on the occasion.