The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-19 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

The usual quarterly meeting of the Court of Directors and
Proprietors of the East India Company, took place yesterd.iy
at the East India House.

The CHAIRMAN haying, stated the objects, for the consi
deration of which the muting had been called,
The SECRETARY read a list of the Parliamentary and
other papers of the Company that had been presented and
received since the last meeting.
THE RAJA OF SATTARA.

Mr. GEORGE TIIGIIPSON then rose and proceeded with
his usual motion in reference to the claims of the Raja of
Sattara.

LIEUTENANT WAGHORN AND THE OVERLAND

MAIL.

When Mr. Thompson el. sed his address,
Major-General BRIGGS seconded the motion.
Mr. GORDON said he had heard the whole of the discussion
that had taken place upon this question, and he felt assured
that every person who had heard that diseussion must be
convinced of the justice of the case made out for the Raja.
The question was then put and negatived.
Mr. D. SALOMONS gave notice of the following motion
for the next Court day :
" To call the attention of the Court of Proprietors to the
advantages conferred on India by the exertions and perse-
♦erance of Lieutenant Waghorn, with a view of recommend-
ing his services to some fitting remuneration or acknowledg-
ment."

The following is a copy of the petition
The humble memorial or petition of Thomas Waghorn, a
Lieutenant in her Majesty's Navy, to the Court of Pro-
prietors of the Hon. East India Company,
Shewet b,—That your 'petitioner entered your honourable
service in 1819. He served your interests in service from 1819
to 1832, both in peace and in war, as the records on your own
shelves, and that of the Court of Directors, in common with
those of the India- Board will prove, and continued with
his various usefulness, by which you received a great
amount of money from his personal labours, especially in
the American war. These documents have only to be again
read to detail, if detail be necessary, his extraordinary useful-
ness. He was afterwards pioneer and executive of the over-
land route; he leaves you to calculate the immeasurable ad-
vantages each of you gained from his labours.
The overland route might have existed at this date; but
it is universally acknowledged it could not be formed in its
present aptitude to your interests unless your petitioner had
striven, through evil and good report, to perfect it as it now is.
The accompanying two documents are from your two late
Governors-General of India. Your petitioner prays of you
to relieve him from the debts he was obliged to incur to a
large amount by granting him a pension (not a donation),
and in so doing you will have the recollection of your peti-
tioner so long as it pleases God he shall exist.
With the most humble supplication he craves this at your
hands, in order that posterity may not record his name as a
martyr without a reward to yourselves and his country.
(Signed)' THOMAS WAGHORN.
The Court then adjourned.

THE MIDLAND RAILWAY V. LORD HARBOROUGH.—
The indictment for alleged railway riot, yreferred by Lord
Harborcugh against John Smith and Henry Elliott, con-
tractors, and Thomas and Samuel Morris, labourers, con-
nected with the Midland Railway, for rioting in his Lord-
ship's park at Stapleford, last autumn, came on for hearing
at the Oakham Assizes yesterday week, before Chief Justice
Tindal. Mr. Whitehurst, Q.C., and Mr. Flowers, conducted
the prosecution ; Mr. Humfrey and Mr. Macaulay, the de-
fence. The jury acquitted all the defendants. A bill was
also preferred by the Midland Company against Lord Hat-
borough and others, for conspiracy and riot ; and the grand
jury (the foreman of which was Lord Harborough's brother-
in-law), found " a true bill," as regarded the conspiracy.—
Leicestershire Mercurg.
IMPORTS OF FOREIGN WHEAT AT GLOUCESTER.—
We have had, within the last few days, as will be seen from
our shipping list, some rather extensive arrivals of foreign
corn from the Mediterranean. From Odessa, three vessels
are reported; from Constantinople, two; from Smyrna, one;
from Catania, one ; and from Leghorn, one ; all wheat laden.
When the free trade measures of the Government shall
have been carried, the port of Gloucester will assuredly
participate very largely in the benefits to be derived from a
liberal commercial policy. One indication of an expected
increase of trade may be observed in the progress
which is being made in digging out the foundation for
another very capacious warehouse, adjoining the Basin. It
is intended, we believe, for the use of the corn firm of Messrs
Phillpotts and Co. A Treasury order, we understand, -has
reached this, in common with the other ports of the kingdom,
for the liberation of Indian corn and rice at the nominal duty
of Is. per quarter; but the importers are required to enter
into a customary bond to pay the higher duty (in the case of
Indian corn, lls. per quarter), in case the Bill at present
before Parliament should not pass into a law. This stipule.:
tion will, in all probability, induce the merchants to continue
their Indian corn in bond till the fate of the measure in Par-
liament shall be decided, or rendered tolerably certain. There
are something more than 1,100 quarters of this corn in bond
in Gloucester; and this, there can be little doubt, will in a
few weeks at the very farthest, be liberated for consumption.
—Gloucester Journal.'

TIIE MIDDLESEX NEW PRISON.—We stated last week
that the designs for the Middlesex House of Detention were
furnished by the Government Inspectors of Prisons; and this
has been generally reported. The fact is, however, that it
is from an original design of the county surveyor, Mr.
Moseley. The magistrates have determino: to adopt that gen-
tleman's plan for the entire rebuilding, rather than that of
the " Surveyor General of Prisons," for its partial construct-
ion only ; and the Secretary of State having (subsequently
upon the report of the inspectors) sanctioned this more per-
fect mode of execution, the work is proceeding under the
superintendence of Mr. Moseley.—The Builder.
The Warsaw courier states that by order of the
authorities a Te Deum was chanted in the cathedral of that
city, "as a thanksgiving to God for permitting the Poles to
retain the happiness of living under the Russian domination."
CORN RENTS.—Corn rents will soon likely become
the method of paying the rents of arable farms. It is the
case already on some of the properties in this country, and
we understand that the Hon. Mrs. Stuart Mackenzie of Sea-
forth has proposed to her tenantry to receive so much corn
per acre at the fiar prices on an average of three years for
existing leases ; and on new leases at the prices are annually
struck fur these kinds of grain respectively.—Ross-shire Ad-
vs Cs .T. _ _ _

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THE STATE OF TUSCANY.—The Journal des Debats
mentions that considerable agitation at present reigns in the Grand
Duchy of Tuscany. It would appear that the extradition of M.
Renzi had greatly displeased the majority of the population, which
cannot understand why the Tuscan Government should consider
itself obliged to deliver up to the Court of Rome, this winter, the
individual whose extradition it refused to sanction last summer.
" Of all the States of Italy," says the Journal des Daces, " Tuscany
is the only country in which the Jesuits have net established them-
selres, and to that fact may be attributed the peace aed tranquility
which the Grand Duchy has so long enjoyed. The Jesuits, finding
that they could not succeed in establishing themselves openly in the
Grand Duchy, tried to obtain their object by indirect means. To this
end they introduced some sisters of the Sucre Cceur, who it is well
known are excellent auxiliaries for the Jesuits. Funds were provided, a
suitable house was found, and in short every thing arranged for their
installation at Pisa ; when on the 21st ult, a large number of the in-
habitants of that city congregated upon the square before the cathe-
dral and cried Down with the Jemits l Down with the sisters of
the Sacre Cceur This little emeute (against which it does nct ap-
pear that the Government showed any disposition to act) produced a
great sensation In the town. Without loss of time several ecclesias-
tics and professors of the University, and other notab'e inhabitants,
addressed to the governor a protestation against the introduction of any
establishment in any way connected with the Jesuits. That document
plainly shows, what men who are really attached to their religion,
and who desire that the world should return to Catholic unity, think
of the Jesuits, and of the sisters of the Sacre Cceur." "We trust,"
concludes the Journal des I),Gats," that the excellent Prince who
presides over the destinies of Tuscany, will take into consideration
the protestation which has Wen addressed to the Governor of Pisa."