The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-17 00:00:00

INDIA HOUSE.

A Court of the Proprietors of East India Stock
held yesterday in Leadenhall-street, W. B. Barley,
the Chair.

The minutes of the last Court Laving been read,
The CHAIRMAN informed the Court that the dividend
warrants would be ready for delivery on the 6th January
next.

A report from the Committee on Bye-laws was read,
recommending the substitution of a declaration for as
oath in the elections for the Directorship. It does not op-
ply to Directors or officers of the Company, who must
take the oath upon entering office.
The CIIAIRM AN moved that the proposed bye-law bour,e
of the bye-laws of the Court.
Mr. MACaIOT was most happy that such a step had been
taken, and hoped it would pass unanimously.
Mr. WEEDING was sorry that the hopes of the Honour-
able Gentleman must be disappointed ; for he felt it ills
duty to oppose the motion, and move an amendment upon
it. He thought it very necessary and becoming in all
bodies to do away with unnecessary oaths ; but in the case
under consideration he thought it meat important that tb:,
utmost solemnity should accompany so solemn an act as en-
trusting the government and welfare of millions to any
fellow-men. He moved that :it was inexpedient for the
Court to give its sanction to the proposed Bye-law.
Mr M tTIN seconded the amendment, because this
was not an age when it was proper to dispense with reli-
gious forms in temporal affairs.
Mr. TWININO, the Chairman of the Committee of
Bye-laws,' was sorry to differ with his friend Mr. Weed-
ing, but he could assure the Court that the resolution pre.
posed to the Court had not been come to by the Commit-
tee on Bye laws on light grounds. The majority of that
the evil effects predicted by
Committee were firmly of opinion that the proposed change
might be made without any of
his Hon. Friend. He did not think that any one pro-
prietor of India Stock would make a declaration more
lightly than he would take an oath.
Mr. FIELDER supported the motion.
Mr. CLARK also supported the motion. In his opinion
the Proprietor of India Stock who had the right to vote,
who must be possessed ct 2,0001. stock, would be incapable
of violating his declaration ; if he could do so, he did not
think such a men would hesitate to violate an oath. The
substitution of the declaration had had the most beneficial
effect wherever it had been made, and he had no doubt

it would work as well in the East India Company.
Mr. SALONIONS strongly supported the motion. It was
to be remembered that the Oaths Abolition Act was sup.
ported by the great majority of the Bench of Bishops, who
expressed a hope that it would be carried ,farther. The
principle of substituting declarations for oaths had been fully
established by the Legislature, and he thought that Court
would do itself honour by being the first public Corpora-
tion to carry it into full practice. He trusted that the
motion would meet with the cordial approbation of the
great majority of the Court.
Mr. GOLDSMID supported the motion, and hoped it wou.li
be passed, although he did believe that many men would
not have that respect for a declaration that they would
fur a solemn oath.
Mr. HARDY supported the amendment.
. The CHAIRMAN said they were merely following out the
principle laid down by Act of Parliament and sanctioned
by the public, nor did they at all fear that the abandonment
of oaths upon the occasion of elections would ever have
their force on other more solemn and important occasions.
He hoped the Court would pass the motion by a large ma-
jority.
The motion was then put and carried by a large majority)

THE WAR IN CHIN•.

Mr. SALOMONS asked the Chairman whether any pay-
ments had yet been made by the Indian Government
towards the war in China. There was already some ap.
pearances of the want of funds in India, and he thought
it very improper that India should be taxed for the support
of a war which was a national one.
The CHAIRMAN said it was well known that the ex-
pences of the China war was not to fall upon the Govern-
ment of India ; and he could assure the Court that the
Directors would take such steps as would :secure the ins,-.
rest of the proprietors.
The Court then adjourned.

THE GANNAL PROCESS. On Tuesday a very
remarkable exhibition was entered upond and concluded in
mill-street, GolaNi-
a assembly of
the Anatomic School, in Little W•tns
square, in the presence of a full gentlemen,
chiefly connected with the medical
profession, for the pnr-
pose of testing the utility of the invention of M. Ganna!,_
for the preservation of animal substances from deen:,.' or
which extraordinary notice has been taken in the scientific
world both in Paris and her ' ts, in our metropolis. The pro-
cess is simply the i injecten into the subject of tly? ope-
ration of a fluid, the discovery and correct preparation
of which has been the
result of many years' study ms
the part of the breach chemist.
Its great practical-pur-
pose is to supersede
the
to hinder the •
quick progress of corporeal corrupiioe
after death, and to secure for the anatomical ste-dent
relief from the deleterious odour to which his table is
ordinarily but too much subjected. The Academy of
;Medicine in Paris have given, through the reports of a
commission, their full testimony to the success of M.
Ganm,,l in his invention, and the Royal Institute of that
city has also confirmed his claim to that merit by arearciintT
to him the great prize founded by Baron Montzon, for tb,.)
discovery of the best means of rendering any art or profes.
sion insalubrious. Mr. George Smith, of John-street,
Oxford-stree:, has, it appeals, taken means to extend to
England the advantages of this process, and, by'arranze..
ments with M. Gannal, has become its sole-patentee in bola
country. To test the powers of the fluid in question in e',
strongest way, a subject was injected with it two vear* ago
n L
e-- '•
and at this anatomic theatre, where it has be ,-.T:
then carefully retained. At this mooting it —was ~,,b,„
jected to the scutiny and stricture of the professional
roan
at our side of the Channel. Mr.'Gregory
Smith pericAined
the part of demonstrator on the occasion, and removed,
with considerable trouble, the swathin gs in which the body
was eu as folded almost as elaborately a mummy. We will
not enter into any minute deseri •
ption of the examination
which followed. Suffice it to 55y that the result of con-
servation Lad been to a great extent
attained, and that the
olfactory nerves had but. little a C Ilse to recognise the sad
remains of mortality. We can feel little doubt that the
philanthropic purpose of this •
n_vention will be accomplished,
and that it will be found ofi the niust unequivocal impor-
tance to those whose
study
it is to preserve the living from
1 disease.

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