The Sun.
London, England, 1824-03-27 00:00:00

lIAILETBURY COLLEGE.

The question respecting the propriety of re-
quiring that young men destined for employment
in our Asiatic Settlements should pass through
two years at this College, will soon be decided
by competent authority, and therefore it would
not become us to add to what we have already
said upon the subject. Mr. DOUGLAS KINNAIRD
is an advocate for the negative, chiefly lest the
Students, by infringing on the rules of the Col-
lege, should expose themselves to the disgrace
and ruin of preclusion from the service.—lt
may, however, be asked whether young men
are so likely to acquire regular moral ha-
bits without the pale of the College, as in
a place where the restraints are calculated for the
formation of a character peculiarly fitted for the
intended destination ? But we shall at present
content ourselves with the insertion of Mr. KIN-
NARD's Circular on the subject, not doubting
that the result of the future discussion will be
satisfactory to the public.

TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK.

Pall Mall East, 2, March 2.5 th 1824.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—IIiiving been instrumental in
procuring for you an opportunity of expressing your opinion
upon the important question to be submitted to the ballot on
the 31st instant, I take leave to remind you of the claim it has
upon your attention and upon your attendance that day.

It will be for you then to declare, whether you are of opi-
nion that Great Britain afferds not the means of giving such an
accomplished European education, together with a competent
knowledge of Eastern Languages, as shall enable a young man,
under 19 years, to pass whatever examination may be esta-
blished, without compelling him to pass the two last years of
his life at the Hayleybury College.
It will be for you to give your opinion, whether such an
education will not be far more likely to be attained at that
very Institution, after it shall have been freed from the con-
staritly-impending risk of ruin for life being the consequence of
boyish 'indiscretion.
It is for you to decide, whether you wish to see the present
College converted from an instrument of terror and alarm, into
an object of confidence and affectionate regard—to make it,
what it was alone meant to be, a facility instead of an impedi-
ment, in the way of procuring for your service, Candidates with
the highest possible mental and moral qualifintions.
You are asked, by supporting the Proposition, to give en-
couragement to Education wherever it le to be found, and more
esp2ciall9 to this College and its Professors, by securing for it
and for them the benefit of free Competition, and an Appeal
to a Comparison with Education attained elsewhere, the only
security for its well-being and improvement, and the only just
Appeal for a decision on its Merits and its Claims to Public
Approval.
I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your very obedient servant,
(Signed) DOUGLAS KINNAIRD.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

ROCSIL OF COMMONS.
Veneris, 26° die Martii, 1824.

ROADS—lPuemantle Hall, Greenwich, Blandford and Poole,.
Durham and Tyne Bridge (Petition for additional provision
referred to a Committee), Camden Town Petition of Trus-
tees of Kentish Town Road, against, to lie on the table),
Comniercir.l, Harwell, Halifax and Sheffield, Trent Bridge,
and Littleboreugh—Bill read a second time, and committed.
Sandon ami_Bullock Smithy, and Span Smithy and Talk—
Bills read a third time, and passed. City—Petition of the
Trustees of the New North Road, against, to lie on the table.
Redbrook and St. Arvan's—Billreported, to be ingrossed.
nitiwAYs—Wedmore
} Bills read a third
PLYMOUTTS EMBANKMENT
time, and passed.
SLAVE TnADE P--

.'TRACY (Clause added) _
IMPROVEMENT—PIymouth—Bill read a third time, and
passed. Evesham—Bill read a second time, and committed.
COMPANY—OiI Gas—Petition for leave to present a Petition
for Bill reported,. Report to lie on the table.
INCLOSUR ES.--Ulce.by (Lincoln),
Long Crendon (Bucks), and Sut- Bills read a second time,
. ton Coldfield (Warwick)
KELSO Two PENNIES SCOTS' and committed.
COAL TRADE_Sunderland
GAS Lr G HT—Greenwich—Petition. for Bill reported, Report
to lie on the table. Leeds Oil--Bill read a second time, and,
committed.
SUSPENSION BRIDGE—St. Katherine's— Petitions from Wil;
Liam and Robert Fitzroy Bell, and Inhabitants Leaseholders
of St. Katherine's, against, to lie on the table.
DOCKS—St. Katherine's—Four Petitions against, to lie on the
table. South London.,-Bill ordered to be brought in.
NAVIGATION-Medway—Report on Petition for additional
provision read, and Instruction to Gentlemen appoin:ed
bring in the Bill to make provision accordingly.
DRAINAGE OF BOGS (Ireland)—Petition for Bill reported,
Report to lie on the table.'
HIDES AND SKINS REGULATION BlLL—Petitions of Taro'.
ners, &c. of Chester, and Shrewsbury, against, to lie en
the table.
Woos.—Petition from Northumberland, against the Lava'
prohibiting the exportation of British Wool ; and from De-
von, Cornwall, and Somerset, against the exportation of BO'
tish Wool ; to lie on the table,
P un LICAN s—Petitions of Licensed Innkeepers and Victual
of St. George, .Aliddlesex ; St. Margaret and St. John, West"
minster •' City and Liberties of Westminster ; St. Giles-in-
the-Fielcls and St. George, Bloomsbury ; St. Andrew,
llol-
born, St. George the Martyr, and Liberty of the Rolls ; St.
Anne, Limehouse ; Chester; and Brighthelmsteme ; for the
repeal of the increased Duties on Licences; to lie on
table.
Woot.i.rx BAGS—Petition from Westmorland, against On'
verting Foreign Rags into Cloth, to lie on the table.
HOUSE AXD INDOW DUTlES—Petitions from Doncaster,
and St. Paul, Covent-garden, for the repeal thereof, to lie on
the table.
WINDOW Tax—Petition from Bridge Ward, for the repeal
thereof, to lie on the table.
COMBINATION or lironxmr.m LAWS— Several Petitions

against.
TOBACCO DUTlES—Petition of Wm. M'Cormick, of Colches-
ter, Upper Canada. Esq., for the reduction of the Duties-03
importation of Tobacco into Great Britain and Ireland ; to
lie on the table.
11.1ir AXD BEER DUTlES—Petition from Chester, for an
equalization of the Duties on Ale and Beer; to lie on the
table.
YARN--Petition of Manufacturers and Weavers in Perth, *-
Wive to the Laws regarding hand-spun Yarn, to be printed-
MESSAGI ntox THE Loins—That they have agreed $0
Recovery of Penalties Bill, and Hull Poor Bill, without
amendment.
That they have passed a Bill, intituled, " An Act for
enabling the Trustees under the Will of Henry Backe Thorn-
hill, Esq. deceased, to sell the manor of I'leoslcy, in the
County of Derby, with divers Estates within the parish en 4
manor of Pleasley, and for applying the monies to arise from
the sale thereof in the purchase of other estates in the County
of Derby, to be settled to the subsisting uses of the said
Will."
ESTATE—Thornhill's--Bills read a first time.

NOTICES of MOTIONS, and ORDERS of the DAY-,
which now stand in the ORDER-BOOK for the Ensuing

Monday, March 29.
ORDERS OF THE DAT.
1. County Gaols Bill—Further consideration of Report.
2. Burials in Ireland—Second Reading.
3. Courts of Juitice (Compensation to Officers for losses
consequence of County Courts Bill)--Report thereupon*
4. County Courts Bill—Committee.
5. Customs Acts—Report thereupon.
6. Judges in Wales Bill—Further consideration of Report. •
7. Insolvent Debtors Bill—Committee.
8. Constables Act Amendment (Ireland) Bill—Committee.
9. Clergy Residence (Ireland) Bill—Further consideration of
Report.
10. Tithe Composition (Ireland) Bill—Second Reading.
11. Board of Works (Ireland) Bill—Committee.
12. Rum Duties Acts—Committee thereupon.
13. Supply—Committee.
14. Ways and Means—Committee.
15. Cattle 111-treatment Bill—Report.
16. Union Duties Bill—Report.
17. Plymouth Victualling Office Bill—Second Reading.
18. Beer Duties Bill—Committee thereupon.
19. Law Stamp Duties Act—Committee thereupon.
20. Four per Cents. (Ireland) Bill—Second Reading.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
1. Mr. Kennedy—Select Committee, to inquire into the Jeswes
relating to the Salmon Fishery in Scotland, and the Unitee-
Kingdom.
2. Mr. Bankes..—British Museum Estimates. (In Committee
of Supply.)
3. Mr. Goulburn—lrish Miscellaneous Estimates. (In Coln'
mittee of Supply.)
4. Mr. Lusbington—Army Extraordinaries ; Conarniesmelet
Miscellaneous Services. (In Committee of Supply?.
5. Mr. Goulburn—Bill to prevent the Stealing of Records in
reland.

Tuesday, March 30.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
1. Lord Archibald Hamilton—To refer Reports of Commis-
sioners of Inquiry on Fees of Courts of Justice in Scot'
land to a Committee of the whole House.
2. Lord Viscount Althorpe-13111 to abolish Settlement by Bird

ing and Service.
3. Mr. Ellis (of Dublin)—To explain and amend Act 36 (ice
3, for better ascertaining the amount, and securing pal
ment of Bills of Costs of Proctors in Prerogative and Ad'
miralty Courts.
4. Mr. Gipps—Motion for the better employment of Agricul-
tural Labourers in the Winter season.
6. Mr. Thomas Courtenav—To refer Poor Rate Returns for
the year ending lath March 1823 to a Select Committee.
ORDERS OF THE DAY.
1. Bristol and Tauton Canal Bill—Second Reading.
2. Aliens Bill—Second Reading.
3. Usury Laws Repeal Bill—Committee.
4. Gams Laws Amendment Bill—Committee.
b. Barrack Department Property Bill—Committee.

Frednesdrty, lifrtrch 31.
• kOTICES OF MOTIONS.
1. Mr. Maberley—Land Tax Redemption Acts.
2. Mr. Peter Moore—Bill to repeal Cornbinatidit

Thursday, April 1.
I. Mr. Cursven—Copy of Memorial conePrring the al,serce of
the Attorney-General from the Isle of Mann; ario, CQPY
of Patent of his appointment.
2. Sir John Newport,Bill to establish a Modus fcr the Tithe
of Flax grown in Ireland, in like manner as it is now
established by Law in, Great Britain.
3. Mr. Kennedy—Bill to regulate the relief granted to the
Poor in Scotland.
_ _

Friday, Arri/ 2.
ORDERS OF 'THE DAY.
1. Poor Laws Amendment Bill—Second Reading.
2. Juries (Scotland) Bill—Further consideration of liepert.
3. Qualification of Jurors Bill—Committee.

NOTICE OF MOTION. •
Lord Viscount Palmerston—Militia Estimatee. (In GotTi-
mittee of Supply.)

THE 13ANK.—At the half-yearly Court of the
Bank Proprietors, it will be recollected that Mr. Gur:lllY pro-
posed, as an amendment, that the half-year's Dividend shall
ite five, instead of four per cent. as originally proposed by the
Court of Directors. Upon this amendment a ballot was de-
manded, which took place yesterday, and at_the close the num:.
hers were announced as follow :
For the original Motion for a Dividend of 4 per cent. 800
For the Amendment of a Dividend of 5 per cent. -

Majority for the original Motion - 170
The Dividend, of four per cent. was of course de fared to Is
carried.