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Managing Committee for the zealous and judicious '
manner in which they had managed the affairs of the
Company, and he should move that the bes, thanks of
the shareholders be given to them, and that the surplus
shares be placed at their disposal.
The motion having been secor.ded,
Mr. Deputy CoaNEY moved an amendment to the
effect that the latter part of the resolution be reserved
for a future and a fuller meeting; but, on learning from
Captain Barlow that the shares, if divided amongst the
shareholders, would not yield more than lid. p.-:r share,
he declined to press his amendment, and the original
resolution was carried unanimously.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, who briefly
acknowledged the compliment, and the meeting separated.

ADDRESS TO LORD METCALFE

MEETING AT THE ORIENTAL CLUB-HOUSE.
A very numerous meeting of gentlemen connected
with India was held yester fay at the Oriental Club.
Hanover-square, for the purpose of considering the pro-
priety of addressing Lord Metcalfe on his return to his
native country. There were present at least two hun-
dred and fifty gentlemen of the highest character con-
nected with the civil and military service of India. The
chair was taken at two o'clock by
The Earl of AUCKLAND, who was greeted with con-
siderable applause, and having explained the purpose of
the meeting, proceeded to eulogise the character of
Lord Metcalfe in every part of his distinguished
career. His Noble Friend had been his schoolfellow
at Eton, and from that period to the present
day he had had the happiness and pride of Lord Met-
calfe's friendship. The Noble Chairman traced the
progress of Lord Metcalfe from the early part of his
public service in India down to the time of his return
to this country from the East, with the expectation of
being allowed to pass the remainder of his days in
repose at home. But his eminent merits marked him
out as a fit person to be entrusted with the government
of Jamaica in a time of great difficulty and delicacy.
The manner in which he discharged his important and
arduous duties in that colony induced another Ministry,
of different politics from that which appointed
him to Jamaica, to send him to Canada, where the
interests of this country were in danger, and the affairs
of the colony irretrievably involved. Whilst suffering
under the most severe bodily pain, he still continued to
discharge his important duties, and with such success as
to call for the marked approbation of the Government,
which was expressed by the Queen's calling him to her
councils and raising him to the peerage. The Noble
Lord was loudly applauded throughout an eloquent and
earnest speech.
Mr. HOLT MACKENZIE moved, and Sir J. RYAN se
conded (also in highly eulogistic speeches) the following
resolution, which was carried unanimously:—" I hat
an address be presected to Lord Metcalfe, expressing
the high sense entertained by this meeting of the
honours by which those services have justly been re-
cognised by his Sovereign and his country ; their cor-
dial sympathy in the affliction by which his career of
eminent usefulness has been interrupted ; and the af-
fection, respect, and admiration with which they re-
gard his public and private character."
Mr. B. BAYLEY then read the draft of an address,
which had been prepared by the committee, and which
he moved should be adopted as the address of the meet-
ing. It was couched in very strong terms of affection
and honours as well as of sorrow and sympathy for the
physical suffering with which the Noble Lord was
afflicted. _ _

Mr. HOGG, M.P., in support of the address, confirmed
all that had been said by the previous speakers as to the
high character, kindly disposition, and distinguished
services of Lord Metcalfe, who, he was sure, would
not feel less gratification with the tribute that day offered
to him here, than by the well-merited honours which
his Sovereign had bestowed on him.

The address was unanimously agreed to, and ordered
to be engrossed, and to lie tor a fortnight at the Oriental
Club-house for signatures.
Thanks were then voted to the Noble Chairman, and
the meeting separated.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-NOUSE.
Yesterday a man, named Nervy Oxburgh, was brought
before Alderman H. Hughes, charged with having com-
mitted a robbery in, and having burglariously broken
out of, the house of Elizabeth Ware, the keeper of the
Woolpack Tavern, Minories. The prisoner was covered
with soot upon being apprehended.
Mrs. Ware, who is a widow, stated that on Saturday
evening the prisoner was in the tap-room with some
other persons, and she believed he was the last indivi-
dual there. About seven o'clock on Sunday morning
witness was rang up, and on going down stairs she found
the door, which she had fastened before she went to bed,
(pen, and the bar in great confusion. Some wine had
been drank, and a pair of "sovereign scales" in a box,
A cloth, and some cigars, biscuits, and loaf-sugar, were
missing. The tills had been broken open, but she had
taken care before she retired to bed to strip them of
their valuable contents. There sere, she remarked,
traces of soot from the chimney corner in the tap-room
to the bar, and several articles in the bar were blackened
with it. There were missing 230 cigars, 23 cheroots,
half a pound of tobacco, a pair of scales, and a cloth,
and these were, she learned, taken from the prisoner
in the street soon after he broke out of the house. She
was convinced that the pi isoner must have slipped up
the chimney the moment he found an opportunity, and
his situation must have been most disagreeable, for some
water was thrown into the grate to extinguish the fire
while he was in the chimney, and an abundance of
smoke ascended. He had a narrow escape of a more
dangerous position too, for, after the fire was extin-
guished, some friends from the country arrived, and it
was by the merest accident that the witness did not
order a rousing fire to be lighted in the same grate.
Providentially, however, for the prisoner, she determined
to accommodate her friends in another room.
James King, a pot-boy to Mrs. Ware, was in the tap-
room with the prisoner on Saturday night, and they had a
pint of beer together at about a quarter past eleven
o'clock. When witness went to put up the shutters he
did not see the prisoner go out, and again returning to
the tap-room the prisoner was not there, and was sup-
posed to have left tee house. Witness lowered the fire,
and put out the gas.
John Peck, a constable of the Metropolitan police,
stated that between two and three o'clock on Sunday
morning he saw the prisoner with a bundle in Shorter-
'treet, Wellclose-square, running from the direction of
the Minories, so covered with soot, that it was impossible
ro say whether he was a white or a black man. Witness
'sired him what he ha got, but instead of answering, he
threw down a bundle, and ran off. Witness sprung his
rattle, and the prisoner was stopped in his presence by
another constable. In the bindle were some of the ar-
ticles spoken of as having been stolen from the bar of
Mre. Ware's house, and about his person were found
the remainder of the property. At first the prisoner
said that he had purchased the cigars of a boy, but did
not know anything about him.
Willism Hanley, also a constable of the Metropolitan
police, stated that, having heard the rattle sprung, and
.aw the prisoner run, he caught the man in his arms.
['he prisoner, who was all over soot, said, upon being
ized, "If I had known where I was running you
should not have caught me."—Committed for trial.
Daniel Cooper, a person, who had formerly been a
constable in the City Police, was charged with having
committed a robbery.
James Freeman, a bootmaker, of No. 4, Hare-court,
Aldersgate-street, stated, that about six o'clock on Satur-
lay evening he was in the Castle Tavern, King street,
'Jheapside, getting some refreshment, when the pri-
soner walked in and obtruded his conversation. The
prisoner said he was hungry, and witness gave him half-
a-crown to get some bread and cheese, and he brought
back two shillings and threepence, and left the room,
immediately after which witness missed his purse, con-
taining two sovereigns, and two half-sovereigns. In
a short time the prisoner returned, and sat
loam, and witness said he would send for a po-
liceman ; upon which the prisoner said, " Don't make
a fuss about it," and asked him to go up stairs
Witness and another person then accompanied the
prisoner up-stairs, and taw him take from his trousers
the purse containing the money. The account he gave
of the matter was, that be had picked up the purse along
with some loose papers. The witness said to him,
You rascal, you have been robbing me while I have
been giving you bread."
The prisoner said he found the purse along with some
paper, tied went up and deposited it in the water-closet.
It appeared that Cooper had, since his discharge from
the police force, engaged in cadging about Guildhall,
and advising, for a small consideration, the omnibus
drivers and conductors who have been summoned before
magistrates for
safov:oovriting the law.—Committed.
who had been upon a former oc-
casion brought up charged with having broken windows,
and acted most violently at the City of London Union, in
Cannon-street, were charged with similar offences. One
of them flung the shoes which she had on Saturday re-
ceived from the Lord Mayor, at one of the officers em-
ployed by the guardians. They were all sent to prison
in default of the payment of the penalties.
GUILDHALL.
James 3PCartley and William Lambert were brought
before Mr. Alderman Challis, charged with stealing a
puree containin 17s. I Id., from Miss Louisa Farley, of
Church-street, 'T'rinity-square.
Upon the New Testament being tendered to Miss
Farley, she said she would speak nothing but the truth;
but she could not take an oath.
Mr. Alderman CHALLIS asked why she could not be
sworn. Did she belong to the Society of Friends, or
Moravians, or Separatists?—She said she did not belong
to either of those bodies.
Mr. Alderman CHALLIS required her reason for re-
fusing to take the oath ?—She replied, the Scriptures
forbade it.
Mr. Alderman CHALLIS said she put a construction
upon the passage of the Scriptures on which she rested,
which it was not intended to have. The prohibition was
not intended to forbid the using of the name of the Su
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