The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-25 00:00:00

LAST IsIDIA. HOUSE—(THIS DAY).

A quarterly general court of the directorS and proprietors
of this company was held this day in the theatre of the East
India House, Leadenhall-street. The Court was also made
special for the following reason, namely, ‘• to call the atten-
tion of the proprietors to the fact of the existence of a recent
correspondence between the Home authorities and the Go-
teruor-General of India relating to the case of the deposed
Raja of Sattara, and to the circumstance of the exclusion
this correspondence from the return dated India House,
!..,st of July, 1847, made pursuant to an order of the House of
'-'ocamons, dated August 28th, 1846, in order that the pro-
Prietors may take the proper steps to have the corre-
spondence in question laid before them without further
delay."
At twelve o'clock precisely, the Governor, Sir James Weir
'egg, the Deputy-Governor, and a full attendance of direc-
!Ors, entered the Court, and the minutes of last meeting
Raring been read, and some ordinary business transacted.
RAJA OF SATTARA.
Mr. jAMRS ARTHUR LEWIS proceeded to call attention to
the case of the ex-Raja of Sattara, and said, that on one
subject, that Court (whatever opinion they might have en-
tertained upon the justice of his claims) had always agreed,
namel that all the papers connected with the circumstance
of his deposition and present retirement should be placed
before the proprietors, and they held that the suppression of
8401 papers would leave the directors open to charges which
were butt r avoided. It would be remembered that at a
vCourt; held on the 18th March, 1843, Mr. George
.thompson had read a communication showing that
the Government of a former day had offered
terms to the present ex-Raja, terms involving a
retirement, and an annual revenue suited to his
station, if he would peaceably vacate his throne. The Go-
t'ernor of that Company seemed taken by surprise that this
conversation existed, and he expressed his entire ignorance
that such terms had been offered. What was the duty of the
Governor and of the Court under these circumstances ?
hat, but to make inquiry into the truth or falsehood of the
uocument and to report to the Court of Proprietors upon
the subject. Why withhold these papers ? Did the fact that
these papers passed through:the secret Committee, make them
confidential?—(Hear, hear.) But why should such a docu-
'tient at all have passed through the secret Committee ?
But it was said that these papers were surreptitiously ob-
tained. But supposing that to be true,— assuming it to be
, how did it affect the right of the proprietors to the
Raja? But
of those papers. How did it affect the case of the
But he denied that they were so obtained. The pa-
rs were ordered by the command of the House of Commons.
t did this objection come with a good grace from the
Court of Directors? Was it not the Bombay Government
that employed lialajee Punt Nator, when a Prime Minister
of the Raja, to watch over and act the spy upon the conduct
of his master? Was it not that Government that hired their
own servants to make out a case against the Raja? He
would not refer (although he might well do so) to more
of these atrocious actions, but he thought it ill became the
Governor of Bombay, in this matter, to throw the
first stone. He trusted, therefore, that no further
objection of this kind would be offered to the production of
these Papers. The Hon. Proprietor then read a letter from
t Ir. Hume, M.P., one of the requisitionists for calling this
Meeting, excusing his absence, and also a copy of the letter
written by that gentleman to Sir John Cam Hobhouse, with
respect to the case of the ex-Raja. The Hon. Proprietor
concluded by moving the following resolutions :
" That, inasmuch as all papers relating to the ex-Raja of
Sattara, and hitherto recorded in the secret department,
have been produced and laid before the Court of Proprietors,
this Court resolves that the Court of Directors be respect-
fully requested to obtain the sanction of the Board of
Control for the secret Committee of the Court, to lay before
the Committee of the Court of Proprietors all corres-
pondence which has passed between the home authorities
led the Government of India, in relation to or concerning
the ex-Raja of Sattara, which arose id consequence of a com-
munication, publicly made to the Court of Proprietors at the
Quarterly General Court, held on the 18th of March, 1846,
lied which has not yet been communicated to this Court."
General BRIGGS seconded the resolution.
(The meeting had not concluded when our report left.)

GREECE AND THE PORTE.
LETTER OF KING OTHO OF GREECE TO THE
SULTAN.
May it please your Majesty,—A vexatious incident
threatens to compromise the good understanding be-
tween the two Crowns which Providence has confided
to us. This good understanding may be reinforced for
the present, and assured for the future, by a frank and
honest explanation. Why should I hesitate to give it
spontaneously ?
Your Majesty will, I am firmly convinced, under-
stand the sentiments of perfect confidence and pro-
found esteem which counsel me to take a step the object
of which is too high to be made the object of false
interpretations.
In claiming for a royal guarantee the respect which
Was due to it, I conscientiously feel that I fulfilled a duty
Which, for the interest of the sovereign dignity, I should
Bee eonfided to the hands of your Majesty with en-
tire security. Moved by this sentiment, I addressed a
reproach to the representative of a prince for whom I
profess a sincere affection. I was not induced to do so
Y the fact which seems to have been the only motive of
Th
—Y words.
5uP or some time the attitude and conduct of M. Mus •
p4itat the subject of different representations on the
me truf my Government to that of your Majesty, gave
the frr" uneasiness with respect to the maintenance of
and g0e:4413'
are commonand nehbourly relltiens so precious to me,
inrotannt to the two countries whose interests
In test' so many points, and by so many rights.
not sol. 51" the dissatisfaction which made me feel,
much a refusal as the proceedings which ac-
companied it, I especially expressed a feeling of solici-
tude, often shared I doubt not by your Majesty, who
labours with a noble ardour for the pacific progress of
the people confided to your Government.
This is the true and complete explanation of my
words ; they were only addressed to him ,who forgot
the high object of his commission. This explanation
I have thought it honest to give complete. Your Ma-
jesty will consider the resolutions that will be counselled
by your wisdom.
As for myself, I feel that this explanation, freely
given, is as conformable to my duties as it is to the
feelings of my heart. Thus, I entertain a firm hope—
I think I may say, a certainty—that your Majesty will
find therein a proof that, like your Majesty, I place my
real honour on the ground commanded by the Almighty,
and that my most ardent desire is to maintain harmony
between two crowns, between two nations, whose glory
and prosperity, far from being rival, have everything to
obtain from a mutual assistance.
Upon which I pray God that he may keep you, most
high, most excellent, and most potent Emperor, our well-
beloved neighbour and ally, under his holy and condign
protection.—Your very dear and perfect friend,
Athens, the Ist (13th) February, 1847. OTHO.
The Sultan's reply is as follows:—
I have received the letter which your Majesty ad-
dressed to me under data of the let of February. lam
mach obliged for the sentiments of friendship which
your Majesty therein manifests towards me, and for the
desire which you express for the constant maintenance
of the happy relations established between the two Go-
vernments., and I hasten to assure you that my heart
also partakes of those sentiments and that desire.
As to the deplorable incident to which reference is
made in that letter, it has seemed to me more suitable to
the dignity of the two crowns, and more conformable to
the matters which must consolidate our mutual friend-
ship, to confide the solution of this question to my
Sublime Porte and to the Ministers of your Majesty. In
consequence the necessary orders have been given to
that effect. Your Majesty will, doubtless, see in the
choice of this form of procedure a rroof of my considera-
tion and my sincere friendship, as well as of the desire
which I have to banish everything that may tend to
endanger the existence of that friendship.
I pray God to keep your Majesty always under his
lllprotection.
the 13th Rebi-ul-evril, 1263 (Ist March, 1847.)

FATAL OCCURRENCE AT THE CAMDEN STATION
or THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—A.
fatal accident took place on Tuesday afternoon, at the Cam-
den-station of the London and North-Western Railway, on
the premises in the occupation of Messrs. Pickford, the rail-
Way carriers. It appears that for some months past, a num-
ber of workmen in the employ of Messrs. Piper and Co.,
builders, of Bishopsgate, have been engaged in erecting
additional warehouses for Messrs. Pickford, the basement of
which is supported by arches, forming a capacious stabling,
On Tuesday afternoon the men, chiefly carpenters, were em-
ployed in finishing the stables, when suddenly four of the
arches gave way with a frightful crash, burying the poor
fellows who were at work in the ruins. As soon as the con-
sternation had subsided, a number of men set to work to re-
move the rubbish. Four of the unfortunate men were
so deeply buried, that a considerable time elapsed before they
could be extricated, and they were got out frightfully muti-
lated and apparently lifeless ; but they were at once con
veyed to University College Hospital. Every one of the
poor fellows was in a state of insensibility on their
arrival, and one of them died in an hour after
admission. The following statement of the house surgeon,
as to the injuries sustained by the men, will show the fright-
ful nature of the accident. Edward Whitman (since dead),
a carpenter, aged 35, residing at 41, Middlesex-street,
Somers-town, was found, on admission, to have sustained a
scalp wound and fracture of the skull, crushing in the whole
of the right ride of the forehead from the temple to the nose,
several ribs crushed in upon the lungs, a compound fracture
of both bones of the right leg, a dislocation of the left ancle,
and other injuries. William Edwards, carpenter, aged 30,
residing at 32, Warren-street, Camden-town, comminated
fracture of the left thigh, and compound dislocation of the
left ancle joint, fracture of the tibia, severe bruises about
the forehead and face, a wound on the head, with consider-
able extravasation oeblood under the scalp. George blurfin,
aged 20, carpenter, residing at 3, Prospect-place, Islington,
dislocation of the ancle j,int, severe wound in the back of
the head, very severe contusions of the left arm, and other
injuries. Jeremiah Mayhoe, aged 21, labourer, of 6, Hill-
street, Finsbury, severe injury to the lower part of the spine.
Another man, named William Sanders, was also severely in-
jured. On instituting inquiries into the cause of the accident,
it is accounted for by the breaking of a tension rod, conse-
quent, it is supposed, on the insecurity of the brickwork, oc-
casioned by its being built during the late frost. On inquiry
at the hospital yesterday it was ascertained that the other
sufferers are still in a dangerous condition.
MODEL LODGING-HOUSES FOR THE LABOURING
CLASSES.—The new model lodging-house, in George-street,
St. Giles's, of the Society for the improvement of the La-
bouring Classes, is nearly completed, and will shortly be
opened. It will accommodate 100 labouring men, each of
whom will have a separate sleeping place, with the use of
large living-room, a kitchen, store-room, washing-room, and
every necessary convenience. The sum to be charged will
be fourpeuce per night. The cost of the building will, lode
pendent of the site of ground, which was purchased for 1,2701.
amount to about 5,5001. Among the principal subscribers
are, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, 1001. The Corpora-
tion of London, 3001., &c. &c.
AN UNTcrLikanDREAM.—A respectable auctioneer
of Chesterfield was so troubled a short time back with a
dream, as led him to inflict upon himself a serious injury
while under its influence. He dreamt that he was much
troubled with a nutshell that had become jammed between
his teeth, and so strong was that impression, that he tugged
violently at the supposed shell to relieve himself from it. ;
awakening with his efforts, he found to his great consterna-
tion that he had pulled out a sound double tooth, which had
been the night before a firm-set and serviceable grinder, but
which he then held between his finger and thumb. —Derby