The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-31 00:00:00

DECCAN PRIZE MONEY.

The following is a return of the value of the bowy
csptured as prize money by the army in the Decoin in
1817-18, the amount which has bet n distrihutbd, and
the dates when distributed. stating also the amount now
in the pos3c•ssion of the trustees of the East Ir_dia Corn
pany, and when the distribution of that amount vk ill
-take place

Renard Sicca
Rupees.

By amount of Deccan booty realived and car-
ried to the credit of the Deccan prize fund
in an account rendered by the East India
Company, dated August 23, 1830 65,60,214
By interest thereon cm dited in the same ac-
count

36,83.733

By amount of profit on remittances of bullion 1,17,399
By amount of interest realised upon Exche-
quer •bills in the custody of the Bank of
England in the names of trustees
By amount realised by sale of the Nassuck
Jewel, in August last, invested in Exche-
quer-bills, and deposited in the Bank of
England in the names of trustees

86,988

74,072

Total S.R. 102 22.406

N.B.—ln addition to the ab we, there are the Nngpore
josi els in the custody of the East Compan3, at Betilres,
and the subject of a correspondence with that court, and
there are other pints connected with the account
rendered by the court, which are the subject of discussion
with the directors.
30th Sept., 1826.—Amount distri-
butable under royal warrant of
this date
13th Feb., 1828—Ditto .. 43.48,432
30th July, 1832—Ditto 30,00,000
6th Aug., 1834—Ditto 91,872
Amount of legal costs paid by order
of the Lott(' s Comtnissioners of her
Mtsjesty's Treasury, in the years
1834 and 1835, to the solicitor
who represented the late Marquis
of Hastings, Lieutenant-General
Sir Thomas Hislop, and Colonel
Prattlers' Force, in prosecuting
the claims of those parties; and to
the Solicitor of the Treasury 1,27,526

-- 98,02,207
Balance in Exchequer-bills in the Bank of
England, or in the possession of the East
India Company 4,20,299
P.S. It has not been considered expe lien( to distri
bute this balance until the outstanding claims, the sub
je4 t of discussion, as stated above, shall be settled.
London, June 20, 1838.

WELLINGTON.
CIIAS. ARBUTHNOT.
John Kit kland, Agent to the TrLstets
of the Deccan Booty.
Present amount of the Deccan Prize Money, si.atirg
_he amount of accumulation since the list -return to
Parliament, and whether any and wh,t measures have
bet n taken for its distribution. _ _

Th.ls has been no distribution since the date of +he
Parliamentary Paper, No. 556, above-mentioned.
The Nagpore jewels, which had been the subject of
litigation in the supreme courts of law in Bengal, were
finally directed, by a minute of the I.rds Commis
sioners of her Majesty's Treasury, dated Nov. 14, 1842,
to be immediately restored to the Raja of N..gpore, as
commuf icated in a letter from the Secretary of the Trea-
sury to the Trurtees of the Deccan Booty, dated the 12th
of that month, in confirmation of the decision of the pre-
ceding Board of Treasury, that those jewels hat not be-
come forfeited to the Crown as prize of war, and must
be restore to the rightful owner, the Raja of Nagpore.
The points connected with the accounts rendered by
the East India Company to the trustees are still the sub-
, j•ct of d.scussion ; but the accounts and the whole cor-
respondence havit g been under the consideration of th-
law officers of the Crown, un opinion has been lately
pronounced by them which, it is hoped, will lead to a
,peudy adjustment.
In the meantime, a partial distribution is not deemed
expedient.
Subject to the above explanation the state of' the prize
funds is as shown in the return dated June 29, 1838.
except that the Exchequer Bills in the custody -of the
Bank of England on accouf:t of the trustees have beet,
increased sw,sfquently, by the investment of the in-
terest and compound interest thereon, from 23,6001. to
29,400/.

(Signed) WELLINGTON.
C lIARLES ARBUTHNOT.
London, Augu.t 11, 1846.

BRITISH TRADE IN CHINA.

The following ordinance has just been issued in a
printed form by order of the House of Lords, having
been passed in the year 1845, by the Chief Superinten-
dent of British Trade in China, with the advice of the
Lc gislative Council of Hong-Kung, in virtue of the
powers con'eir..d upon her Majesty by the Act of the
6th and 7th Vic., cap. 80:
An Ordinance fit her Majesty's subjects within the do-
mini.ons of the Emperor of China, or within any ship
or vessel at a distance of not more than one hundred
miles from the coast of China.
AllllO Neno Victorise Reginre. (No. lof 1845.)
By his Exc, hericy John Francis Davis, Esq , Gover-
nor and Commander-in Chief of the colony of Hong-
Kong and its det,endencias, her Majesty's Plenipotentiary
and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British sub-
jews in China, with the advice of the Legislative Coun
mi of Hong-Kong.
An ordinance to amend the ordinance Ne. 7 of 1844,
Kidded "An ordinance for the better adtnieistratioe of
justice in the Consular Courts, and to establish s regis-
ration of British subjects, within the dominions of the
Emperor of China."
Whereas by the said ordinance, No. 7 of 1844, in the
9th section thereof, giving, under certain restrictions, a
power to Consu!s t i d. port in the case of a second con
vietton, it is provided that said convictions shall be
'duly confirmed by the Chief Superintendent of Bridsi,
Pratte ;" land whereas it is « xpedtent that the sentencws
or judgments of the Consuls in said ordinance men
tiomd should not reqaire or be subject to the revision o,
such chief superintendent of trade, so far as is provided
fee- in end by the said 9th suction, and that accordingli
the tv,rds therein, that is to say, "duly confirmed by thi,
Chief Superintendent of British Trade," should be ex
punged therefrom :-
1. Be it theref re ordained that the said 9th s'.ction of

No. 7, of 1844, be and it is hereby repealed.
2. And in order more effectually. to repress crimes and
ff-nces on the Fart of Britisii subj. ets in the dominion,
of the Emperor of China, be it hereby further eroicted,
that it shall and may be lawful for any of her Majesty's
Conuls to cause any British suriject who shall have been
twice convicted of any crime and offence in the Consuls--
Court under sentence, and who shall not be able to find
good a;.d sufficient surety to the satisfaction of her Ma-
j. sty's Consul for his future good behaviour, to be sent
out of the dominions of the Emperor of China ; and tt
this end any such Consul as aforesaid shall have power
and authority, as soon as may be practicable after execu-
tion of the sentence on any second conviction, or at any
time while such sentence is in execution, to send to the •
colony of Hong Kong any British subject. and to detaiil
in custody any such person until a suitable opportunity
for sending him out of the dominions shalt present
itself', and any person to be sent out of the said do-
minions as aforesaid may be embarked on board one of
tier Majesty's vessels of war, or if there should be no
such vessel of war which can be employed for such pur
pose, then on board any British vessel bound for Hong-
in .he same manner as if such person was a dis-
tre-sed British seaman. But in all cases in which a
British subject shall have been sent out of the elo-
minions of the Emueror of China as aforesaid, the officer
sending him out shall forthwith report his having dime
to her Malesty's Chief Superintendent of Trade; and
should any person so sent out of the dominions or the
Emper.ir of China return to the said dominions with-
out the sanction of her Majesty'. Chief Superintendent
of Trade or Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, he
shall no longer be entitled to be protected as a British
subject in the said dominions. Provided always, that
on the arrival of such person at Hong Kong, it shah
and may be lawful to and for her Majesty's Chiet
Superintendent of Trade either to confirm the said sen-
tence of deportation and forward him to England as a
distressed British seaman, or to remit him back as suet.
to that raft of the said dominions from whence he was
-o removed or deported.
(Signed) J. F. DAVIS, Governor, &c.
Passed the Le4islative Council of Hong-Kong this 7th
day of July, 1845.
(Signed) ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,
Cle!k of Councils.

IRELAND.
ARRIVAL OF THE LORD-LIEUTENANT.

DUBLIN, Auc. 27.—His Excellency the Earl of Bes-
borough left Liverpool at seven o'clock yesterday even-
ing, and arrived in Kingstown Harbour this morning, at
a quarter-past seven o'clock, on board her Mjesty's
steam-ship the Medina. His Excellency was accom-
panied by Lady Emily Ponsonby, Lady Harriet Pun
sonhy, Lady Kathleen Ponsonby, the Hon. Gerald Pon •
sonby, Mr. Corry Connellan, private secretary, and Cap-
tain biagot, first aid-de-camp.
His Excellency and suite disembarked under a salute
of twenty-one guns from the Revenue cruisers, and pro.
ceeded to the Viceregal Lodge in carriages, under con-
duct of the Mastt r of the Horse.
THE IRISH GOVERNMENT.—THE REPEAL