The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-29 00:00:00

DECCAN PRIZE MONEY.

The following is a return of the value of the booty
captured as prize money by the army in the Deccan in
1817-18, the amount which has been distributed, and
the dates when distributed, stating also the amount now
in the possession of the trustees of the East India Com-
pany, and when the distribution of that amount will
take place :

Bengal Sicca
Rupees.

By amount of Deccan booty realised 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 credited in the same ac-
count
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 above, there are the Nagpore
jewels in the custody of the East Company, at Benares,
and the subject of a correspondence with that court, and
there are other points 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 Lords Commissioners of her
Majesty'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
Prothers' 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 20 099
_ _

P.S. It has not been considered expedient to distri-
bute this balance until the outstanding claims, the sub-
ject of discussion, as stated above, shall be settled.
London, June 20, 1838.

WELLINGTON.
CHAS. ARBUTHNOT.
John Kirkland, Agent to the Trustees
of the Deccan Booty.
Present amount of the Deccan Prize Money, stating
the amount of accumulation since the last return to
Parliament, and whether any and what measures have
been taken for its distribution.
Thsre has been no distribution since the date of the
Parliamentary Paper, No. 556, above-mentioned.
The Nagpore jewels, which bad been the subject of
litigation in the supreme courts of law in Bengal, were
finally directed, by a minute of the Lords Commis-
sioners of her Majesty's Treasury, dated Nov. 14, 1842,
to be immediately restored to the Raja of Nagpore, as
commut icated in a letter from the Secretary of the Trea-
sury to the Trustees 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 had 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 E%st India Company to the trustees art- still the sub-
ject of discussion ; but the accounts and the whole cor-
respondence having been under the consideration of the
law officers of the Crown, an opinion has been lately
pronounced by them which, it is hoped, will lead to a
speedy 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 account of the trustees have been
increased subsequently, by the investment of the in-
terest and compound interest thereon, from 23,6001. to
29,4001.

(Signed) WELLINGTON.
11ARLES ARBUTHNOT.
London, August 11, 1
C 846.

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
Legislative Council of Hong-Kong, in virtue of the
powers conferred upon her Majesty by the Act of the
6th and 7th Vic., cap. 80:
An Ordinance for her Majesty's subjects within the do-
minions 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.

Anne None Victoria Regina 3. (No. lof 1845.)
By his Excellency John Francis Davis Esq., Gover-
nor and Commander-in-Chief of the colony of Hong-
Kong and its dependencies, her Majesty's Plenipotentiary
and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British sub-
jects in China, with the advice of the Legislative Coun-
cil of Hong-Kong.
An ordinance to amend the ordinance No. 7 of 1844,
entitled " An ordinance for the better administration of
justice in the Consular Courts, and to establish a regis-
tration 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 Consuls to deport in the case of a second con-
viction, it is provided that said convictions shall be
"duly confirmed by the Chief Superintendent of British
Trade ;" and whereas it is expedient that the sentences
or judgments of the Consuls in said ordinance men-
tioned should not require or be subject to the revision of
such chief superintendent of trade, so far as is provided
for in and by the said 9th section, and that accordingly
the words therein, that is to say, " duly confirmed by the
Chief Superintendent of British Trade," should be ex-
punged therefrom :-
1. Be it therefore ordained that the said 9th section of
No. 7, of 1844, be and it is hereby repealed.
2. And in order more effectually to repress crimes and
offences on the part of British subjects in the dominions
of the Emperor of China, be it hereby further enacted,
that it shall and may be lawful for any of her Majesty's
Consuls to cause any British subject who shall have been
twice convicted of any crime and offence in the Consular
Court under sentence, and who shall not be able to find
good and sufficient surety to the satisfaction of her Ma-
jesty's Consul for his future good behaviour, to be sent
out of the dominions of the Emperor of Chins ; and to
this cud any such Consul as atoresaid 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 detain
in custody any such person until a suitable opportunity
for sending him out of the dominions shall present
itself, and any person to be sent out of the said do-
minions as aforesaid may be embarked on board one of
her 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-
Kong, in the same manner as if such person was a dis-
tressed British seaman. But in all cases in which a
British subject shall have been sent out of the do-
minions of the Emperor of China as aforesaid, the officer
sending him out shall forthwith report his having done
so to her Majesty's Chief Superintendent of Trade; and
should any person so sent out of the dominions of the
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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 shall
and may be lawful to and for her Majesty's Chief
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 such
to that part of the said dominions from whence he was
so removed or deported.
(Signed) J. F. DAVIS, Governor, &c.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong-Kong this 7th
day of July, 1845.
(Signed) ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,
Clerk of Councils.

IRELAND.
ARRIVAL OF THE LORD-LIEUTENANT.
DUBLIN, AUG. 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 Majesty's
steam-ship the Medina. His Excellency was accom-
panied by Lady Emily Ponsonby, Lady Harriet Pon•
sonby, Lady Kathleen Pousonby, the Hon. Gerald Pon-
sonby, Mr. Corry Connellan, private secretary, and Cap-
tain Begot, 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 Master of the Horse.
THE IRISH GOVERNMENT.—THE REPEAL