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was not satisfied as to its nature. He was certain, how-
ever, that it was not pure arsenic. The Coroner said he
should again adjourn the inquiry, in order that the
poison might be analysed, and the inquest wls again
adjourned. Yesterday, lir. Haverty, the surgeon, de-
po ed that both the above had died from the &fleets of
arsenic, a small quantity of which the male &cowed
was proved to have bought six weeks ago. After the
Coroner had summed up, an open verdict of "Found
dead" was returned.

DEATH OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR CHARLES
MAXWELL, C. 8., officer died on the 23d
instant, at Broadstairs. He was the eldest son of Charles
Maxwell, Esq., of Dumfriesshire, by the ellest daughter
of James Douglas, Esq , of the same county, and was
born in 1775. He catered the army in 1795, as Ensign ;
in 1796 be was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant; in
1797, to that of Captain; in 1808, to that of Major; in
1809, he became Lieutenant-Colonel; in 1819, Colonel;
in 1830, Major General; and in 1841 he was advar,c,d
to the rank of Lieutenant-General. Ile received the
colonelcy of the 3d West India Foot in 1843. Sir
Charles was employed on the coast of Africa in 1809
aed succeeded in reducing the French colony of Suri-
nam. He was engaged in the defence of St. Vincent
until the entire subjection of the Capihs. Ile landed
with the 63d Foot in North lloll,md in August, 1799,
and was present at the surreniier of the Dutch fl,•et iu
the Helder, and in the actions of the 19th of September,
and the 2d and 6th of October. In the following year
he took part in the expedition intended for the attack of
Belleisle, and afterwards in the affair at Ferrol, and in
Gibraltar and Malta, until the peace of 1802. In 1806
he served in South America In ISO 9 he commanded
the land force in the capture of the French fortress and
settlement of Senegal. He was Governor- General and
Commander-in-Chief of the island of Goree, the settle-
ments of Senegal and Sierra Leone, to July, 1815. He
was subsequently Governor and Commander-in-Chief of
Dominica, St. Christopher's, Nevis, and other islands.
THE LATE LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR MAURICE
O'CONNELL, K.C.H.—This distinguished officer, whose
death is stated to have occurred at Sydney on the 26th
of May last, after a lengthened colonial service, was a
distant relative of the late Mr. Daniel O'Connell, M.P.
After serving with the rank of Captain in the emigrant
army under the Duke of Brunswick, he entered the Bri-
tish army in 1793, still holding the same rank. In 1805
he was advanced to the rank of Major; in 1809 to that of
Lieutenant-Colonel; in 1819 to that of Colonel; in 1830
he became Major-General; and in 1841 Lieutenant-
General. He received the Colonelcy of the 80th Foot in
1844. Sir Maurice served at Dominica, and commanded
the light company of the Ist West India Regiment at
Roseau on the 22d of February, 1805, and successfully
resisted the repeated attacks of a very superior French
force. At the conquest of the Kandian territories, and
capture of the reigning monarch, he commanded a divi-
sion of the army under Sir Robert Brownrigg. He re-
ceived the thanks of the House of Assembly at Dominica,
and was presented with a sword, value 100 guineas, for
his services in - that island. He also received a sword
value 501., and a piece of plate value 1001., from the com-
mittee of the Patriotic Fund. The deceased was for
some years engaged in New South Wales as well in
the civil as in the military departments; and it appears
that he was on the point of returning home when death
cut him off.
ANOTHER MEETING OF THE CHAIRMEN OF T
LEADING RAILWAY COMPANIES.—Yesterday afternoo
at half-past one o'clock, another meeting of the chair-
men of the Great Western, the London and South-
Western, and the London and North-Western Railway
Companies took place at the residence in Lombard•street
of Mr. Glyn, M.P., chairman of the London and North-
Western. In order that the meeting should be as pri-

vete as possible, none of the other directors or the secre-
taries of either of the companies were present. The three
gentlemen, Mr. Charles Russell, Mr. Chaplin, and Mr.
Glyn remained in deliberation for a considerable time.
The resolutions come to have not transpired, but it is
understood among the friends of the three gentlemen that
the best feeling prevailed, and that all of them expressed
their deep anxiety to act hereafter in concert in the
adoption of those means by which confidence
in railway property may be restored, and its
market value improved. It is due to Mr. Charles
Russell, the chairman of the Great Western, to say,
that he expressed in the most emphatic manner his
earnest desire that in future the three companies should
cultivate the most friendly relations with each other,
and should do everything in their power to promote the
general prosperity of the railway interest. One of the
subjects which 'occupied the anxious attention of the
meeting, was the necessity of adjusting the differences
which existed between them regarding their respective
lines, and from the friendly spirit evinced on the part of
each gentleman, it may be regarded as a settled point,
that there will not from this time be any further misun-
derstanding between them. It was also agreed that
fewer trains should be run on each of the lines, that no
further responsibilities of any kind should be incurred,
and that every measure which the law allows will be
adopted to raise the market value of railway stock, so as
to insure better dividends for the shareholders.
TUE COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—On Saturday last
Mr. Dearden held an inquest at the Black Bull Inn,
Middleton, on the body of James Wild, miner, nearly
twenty-six years of age. William Mitchell, coal miner,
said that about half-past seven o'clock on Wednesday
morning last, ho and others went to their work at Little
Green coal pit, belonging to Messrs. Wild, Andrew, and
Haigh. The pit was about 70 yards in depth, and the
seam 30 inches in thickness. There were four seams in
the pit. He had worked there above two years. They
used safety lamps when required. The men had all been
told net to go into that part of the mine where the acci-
dent occurred; it was about fifty yards from the shafts.
The decetv-ed, Thomas Cheetham, and a boy about thir-
teen years of age, went into that part of the mine.
Cheetham had a candle with him when the explosion
took place. He was very badly burned, though the boy
was not injured; but tho deceased was very much
burned, and also injured on the left side, so that ho died
at four o'clock on Friday morning. The boy, Nathaniel
Wood, said he was about four yars from Wild when the
explosion took place. They had all candles. He had
a spade in his hand, and it was blown out of it, but he
was not hurt. The " blase" went over his head. This
boy corroborated the evidence of the last witness relative
to the previous caution, not to enter that portion of the
mine. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental
death." Cheetham, the other miner who was injured,
died on Monday morning.—Manchester Guardian.
SURREY THEATRE.—Mr. H. Webb, a gentleman
of considerable fame at the Marylebone Theatre as a low
comedian, has lately been playing a round of characters
at the Surrey. Upon the occasion of his benefit last
night he appeared as Mawworm, in the Hypocrite,
wherein he developed an abundance of grotesque and
pertinent humour, which the audience enjoyed immensely.
The outward signs of success could not well be more
triumphant. The house was crowded.
THE CURRENCY.—On Monday and Tuesday even-
inas Mr. Jonathan Duncan delivered two lectures at
Liverpool, on the evils of the present currency system.
FUNERAL Or LORD GEORGE BENTINCI. The
funeral of this lamented Nobleman has been fixed to take
place on Friday morning next, at Marylebone old church.
The remains have not yet been removed from Welbeck
Abbey.
LLOYDS' Rooms.—A general meeting of the mem-
bers was yesterday held in the Underwriters'-room, Mr.
G. R. Robinson, M.P., in the chair, to receive the re-
port of the committee for the
past half-year. The re-
port having been read, was unanimously adopted, and
a vote of thanks proposed to the committee and sub-
committee for their exertions to insure the comfort and
convenience of the members during the recent altera-
tions in the rooms of the establishment. The following
votes from the funds were then unanimously carried:—
To F. Jerome, boatswain of the American ship New
World, 10L and an honorary bronze medal, for his
courage in rescuing a number of passengers from the
Ocean Monarch. To Jonathan Bragdon, chief mate of
the Ocean Monarch, an honorary bronze medal. To
Mr. Whiston Bristow, passenger in the Ocean Monarch,
21/., and the sum of 1001. in aid of the funds of the
Shipwrecked Fishermen's and Mariners' Benevolent
Society.
NIAGARA SUSPENSION BRIDGE.--A serious differ-
ence has arisen between the directors of the Suspension-
bridge Company at the Falls, and their engineer, Mr.
Ellet. As the matter will no doubt come before the
courts on this, as well as on the other side the boundary,
it would not be proper at present to detail the particu-
lars at length, but in order that the leading features may
be understood, it is necessary we should say that the
directors discharged Mr. Ellet from their employment ;
that, acting under his instructions, his brother and some
other persons took possession of the bridge ; that the
high sheriff of the. Niagara district, accompanied by Mr.
?learner (of the firm of Messrs. Miller and Boomer, of
this town), counsel for the directors, went up on Mon-
day to eject the intruders by summary process before
two magistrates, Messrs. Lowell and Street ; that the
authorities were violently resisted, and some of the par-
ties went so far as actually to raise an axe to strike the
sheriff •, and that after great trouble and disturbance,
Mr. Ellet's brother and two other persons were arrested'
and committed to the gaol of this district, where they
now lie. The half of the Suspension-bridge on this
side of the river is in the hands of the directors ; the
half on the other side is in the hands of Mr. Ellet's
friends, but an injunction from Chancery to dispossess
them has been applied for.—Niagara Chronicle.
ABERDEEN, MONDAY EVENING.—It is now ar-
ranged that the Queen will leave Balmoral on Thursday
morning for Aberdeen, by the Dee-side-road, and t'
the Victoria and Albert will sail at two o'clock rjd
London.
Tofhethe Royalcit Yae'.at will be
y of Aberdeen
,g% the Black
pdailyotemdornbying for Capt ain
Cargill,
steamer, and accompanied by the V,ra.
Enle, and Vivid steamers, now the dock here. In
Consequence of the inconve .fence which the Royal
Family felt on the passe north from the occasional
rolling of the vesse,
the present beds in the Royal
apartments ar
stead. q to be removed, and cots slung in their
',hew cots are so constructed, and will be so
Placed, that whichever side the yacht may roll to, they
will always hang steadily in the perpendicular, and thus
the violent motion of the vessel will be little felt. On
Saturday and Sunday last we bad an easterly gale, but
to-day the weather is fine, and generally her Majesty
eAnRT o'clockug ua Icons
has_enjoyed sunny days.
FArvidaNyEnWighYt OaR
sKtdd—Betweenen
llr tenuna b andli
ng
noise was heard in this if a heavy vehicle was
driven rapidly over the city,
as
pavement, and it died away
almost as soon as it came. It is now ascertained that it
was the shock of an earthquake.
Norfolk (Ct.) informs us that he A gentleman from
there; and in Brooklyn, Newark, Tarrytown,
the shock sensibly
and many other places in this vicinity, the noise and
shock were also remarked and ex
the hands on board of a steam-boatriel ylnneed. At Nyack
got out of their berths and went oiidegckat the wharf
belief that a collision had taken place bet:ve underu t'
another vessel. In other places it was a cause n3*
alarm, but it was not so much remarked '
yoi fi coo kr; Sept, 12,

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EAST INDIA HOUSE.

The General Quarterly Court of Directors and
Proprietors of the Honourable East India Company
was yesterday held at Leadenhall-street. Sir James
Lushington, the chairman of the East India Com-
pany, presided.
The Court was very thinly attended.
The minutes of the last General Court were read
and confirmed.

EXPLOITS OF MAJOR EDWARDES.
Mr. SULLIVAN begged, before the Court proceeded
to the business of the day, to call attention to the
transcendent services lately rendered to the Company
and to the empire by Lieutenant Edwardes of the
Ihngal army, and Lieutenant Lake, of the Bengal
engineers—(Hear, hear)—services which had, he
believed, been seldom or never equalled in the annals
of Indian warfare. The sagacity and energy of these
young officers had, as he believed, saved them from
the dangers and expense of a long and protracted
war, and he hoped that both the Government
and the Court of Directors would be disposed to
mark the high sense which they must entertain
of achievements] of so signal a nature.—(Hear,
hear.) In .ithe case of Lieutenant Edwardes, some
such acknowledgment was the more especially called
for, inasmuch as that officer had lately, he was sorry
to say, sustained a severe personal injury, amounting
to the loss of the use of his right hand, in consequence
of the explosion of a pistol.—(Hear, hear.) He
tru,ted that what he had said would elicit some in-
formation as to the intentions of the Court of Direc-
tors.—(Hear.)
The CHAIRMAN had great pleasure in replying to
the observations of the Hon. Proprietor. Perhaps
the best way of informing the Court of what had been
done in the matter would be to call upon the secre-
tary to read the minutes of the Court of Directors in
reference to the subject.
The following documents were then read, amid
loud marks of approval :
"At a Court of Directors held on Wednesday, the
13th of September, 1848,
" The Chairman having called the attention of the
Court to dispatches from the Government of India and
the Government of Bombay, announcing the military
operations carried on against the rebel forces of the
Dewan of Moultan, by Lieutenant, now Brevet-Major,
Herbert B. Edwardes, of the Bengal army, as communi-
cated to the Court by the secret committee, on the 23d and
the 30th ultimo—Resolved unanimously, that this Court
do present to Major Edwardes a gold medal, in testi-
mony of their high approbation of the important services
rendered by him, in raising and organizing large forces
in a foreign territory, under circumstances of the
greatest difficulty, and in wresting within a very brief
period an extensive tract of country from the power of
the rebels, in skilfully combining his forces with those
of an ally, and in completely defeating the troops of the
enemy in two pitched battles, thus evincing the posses-
sion, in the flower of his youth, of all those qualities
which form and ennoble the character of the British
officer."
The following letter had been received from the
India Board in reference to the foregoing resolu-
tion :
" India Board, Sept. 21, 18411.

" Sir,--I am directed by the Commissioners for the
Affairs of India to acquaint you that they cordially ap-
prove of the resolution passed by the Court of Directors
of the East India Company on the 13th instant, propos-
ing to grant to Brevet-Major H. B. Edwardes a gold
medal, in acknowledgment of the distinguished services
lately rendered by that officer in the territories of
Lahore.

(Signed) " THOMAS WYSE."
PROFESSOR WILSON'S WORKS.
Mr. Sergeant STORK inquired whether the Board
of Directors had any objection to purchase for distri-
bution (as we understood), amongst the proprietary
body, the three very valuable and important volumes
by Professor Wilson, in continuation of Mill's History
of India.
The CHAIRMAN replied that the works in question
would cost an immense sum of money, and that, in the
present state of the finances of the company, it would
be for the Court of Directors to consider whether they
would be justified in spending a large amount for the
purpose alluded to.—(Hear, hear.)

REVENUES OF JUGGERNAUT.
Mr. POYNDER presented several petitions praying
for the discontinuance of the annual grant to the
Temple of Juggernaut. He did not wish to trouble
the Court with the reading of all these petitions, but
he would propose that one of them be read, as a speci-
men of the others.

The SECRETARY accordingly read one of the
documents in question. It prayed that the priests of
the Temple of Juggernaut should not in future be
allowed to receive grants of British money, but be
permitted to receive their fees from the votaries of
the idol.

Mr. POYNDER resumed—These petitions came
from Leicester, from Nottingham, from Newcastle,
from Boston, and from Leamington. They all ema-
nated from Baptist societies—from that sect to whom
they were indebted for the translation of the Holy
Scripture into the tongues of the East, and whose
views, therefore, upon such subjects, he hoped would
always be treated with respect.—(Hear, hear.) With
regard to the motion of which he had given notice,
he had slightly altered it since he had transmitted it
to the chairman ; because some of the expressions, as
he was advised, were not strictly in accordance with
the facts of the case. As it now stood, the motion
which he had to propose would be as follows :
" That it appearing that on the repeal of the pilgrim-
tax to Juggernaut, together with the abolition of
Sayer, that an annual allowance of 23,000 rupees was
awarded; in consequence of which the priests were
precluded from collecting their ancient tax, and,
inasmuch as the separation of the British
Government in India from all conneeion z-ith
the Temple, was a chief obitet of the dispatch
of the Honourable Directors, dated 20th of Feb-
ruary, 1833, it be referred to the Honourable Court
of Directors to consider whether it will not be
advisable to rescind the present annual allowance, and
to permit the attendance at the the Temple to collect
such fees 53 were heretofore received under ahe
Alahratta Government." The Court would perceive
that he wished the arrangements between the priests
and the votaries to be left entirely to themselves, and
he would remind the Court, that when the subject was
la agitation, on the occasion of the abolition of the
pilgrim-tax, it was proved that in the other parts of
India, at Benares for example, a " tidy city,' to
which upwards of 10,000 pilgrims annually resorted,
it had been found quite practicable to allow the priests
and the votaries to make their own arrangements,
wiabout any interference on the part of the British
civil or military authorities. He knew that the
proposition which he had made was seconded by the
desires and wishes of many of the best advised in
India, and he would be happy could he believe that
suce would be the view taken by the Court of
Directors. He did not want any hasty decision on the
subject, but he hoped that the Court would take a
dispassionate and impartial view of the proposition
which he had made. The Honourable Proprietor
concluded by proposing his motion.
Mr. MAitaior, coinciding, as he did, in the Views
of the Hon. Proprietor, had much pleasure in se-
conding his resolution. He thought that the opinions
of such men as the petitioners were deserving of great
weight, and he hoped that the admirable letter on
the subject, addressed by the Rev. Mr. Peggs to Mr.
Tucker, would be widely read and attentively consi-
dered.
Mr. SULLIVAN observed that, bound as they were
to give some equivalent for what they had taken away,
the question came to be, what was the best rooting on
which that equivalent could be put? Now, the priests
had substantially the right of collecting their reve-
nues as of old, and what the Hon. Proprietor (Mr.
Povnder) proposed was nothing but what had been
already suggested by members of the &trete
vernment, that the priests should be legally as well as
actually empowered to collect their revenues. To this
proposal there could, he thought, be no objection, as it
would settle the long continued agitation on the sub-

ject.
An Hon. PROPRIETOR deprecated the repeated dis-
cussions on this subject. It ought to be left iti the
hands of the Court of Directors.—(Hear,)
r,_
rupees had been awarded as corr
The CnAmax said that an annual gran °j. 2a,000
:.
n for fees
which had been abolished. nis was a fan Which
A
must be borne stead'gs in mind in Sionsidering the
question. It wP- one, ire toduld assure them, which
had not esc- -''' ' '
India. -
0- In 1844 s 4 dispatch, dated the 10th of May,
' ...owed that the views now advocated by the Hon.
-MI the -eitthition of the Government__ of
Proprietor (Mr. Poynder) were not approved of, or
thought admissible; and in a letter dated June, 1826,
the Indian Government had laid it downs as their
opinion, that it would be inexpedient t-s 3 alter the law
forbidding the collection of fees by the priests. Now
he would ask his Hen. friend whether he did not
think that a return to the old system of exacting fees
from pilgrims would not be very mischievous and
very dangerous ? It would indeed be a more direct
eesnuragement to idolatry than was afforded by the
annual payment now made.—(Hear, hear.) Indeed,
he believed that such a change as the Hon. Proprietor
advocated; would leave the system open to the same
objections, on the same grounds, as were at present
urged against it.—(Hear.)
Mr. SULLIVAN contended that the pilgrim tax was
now actually exacted in all its plenitude, and even to
a greater extent than in former times. What they
wanted was the regular legalization of the impost.
Mr. ST. GEORGES TUCKER. observed that a distinc-
tion ought to be made between the collection of fees
now permitted, and the re-establishment of the Sayer
dutier.,, to which the motion would practically extend.
Ma. POYNDER said his motion inferred nothing of
th a sort.
Mr. TucKEß—What, then, did the Honourable Pro-
Iprietor intend ?
Mr. SULLIVAN—OnIy the establishment and legali-
zation of the ancient tax.
Mr. TUCKER—That meant, that they proposed to
revestablieb the Sayet duties in a certauk 100414,