The Sun.
London, England, 1805-03-01 00:00:00

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t'nowledge. 11... looked at the polish—the Court
•,f Direthiri had the substance in view ; and if the
- oMpaAy. had men of good sound sense engaged in
their service,',Who. were -capable of • conversing
.)lainly upon business, it tvas. nut to be supposed
, hat any thing mote was wanted., A. sufgeiency of
,`tech knowledge -as, was necessary, was. easy to be
acquired in Engtanat.and the pronunciation would
be soon obtaiha,by conversing with the natives of
India. As to the other branches. of education, the
IVlithetriatics, &c the youths were not intended to -
lie male , nrofotind Scholars ; they must .be well
schooled before-they would be :admitted into the Se.
ininaey now proposed to he established,, and. they
ialould then have .nothing Added :but a general out-
line of the higher .branches .of knowledge which-.
-were necessary for Ailing their different situations.
with credit to themselves. and with
.usefulness and
hobour to the service of the Company. It would
als6 be very gratifying to the parents of those Gen-
tlemen that they 'would be .educated in salubrious
air, aird..Under their own iMmediate•observati •n. •
Mr. Mooßs explained, and the Chairman ex..
pressed himself satisfied with the'explanation.
Mr. G. joitNSTONE expressed himself highly sa.
tufted with having heard in private report...that a:
Noble Lord (Lord CoRNWALL is) whose services
had been of mosi essential benefit-to the Company
had again consented to resume the direetion of their
affairs in India; he only wished to have .some-ex.
planation as to the continuance or rejettioli of the
system of education at Calcutta.
The CHAIRMAN observed, that the adoption of
•the present plan must tend to the abolition of the
system alluded to, notwithstanding it could not pos.
sibly be at once relinqtthhed or destroyed. , •
'the DEPUTY CHAIRMAN declared, that he
thought Europe was the fittest , place for the attain.
ment of Eurapian•knOveledge, and,youths would be
best fitted'for the advaneement of/their own inte.
testi and the promotion of The benefit of
.the Com-
pany, by having a •pat ticular line of. study. pointed
out for a particular branch.ofemployment. Fl then
enumerated the different branches of cdecation• Which
were to be cornprehended ' in the system ; and fol.'
towed the Right fionotarahle the Chairman in de.
'daring, that it was not time intention of .the Court
to create unnecessary, expence, or-aim at the vast
system of learning whieb some Honourable Members
had imagined.
Mu t. a few other observations, the 90,':,titn was
put and carried tinanimously. - , •
The , Grants to • the persons already' mentioned
were, after .some little debate, osr,riert unanimou4.
Tile. only object of the debate was, whether the an.
nuity should be granted during .widowhond„or . kir
life, But the original proposition was carried With.
out a dissenting Voice, on the wound that an annuity
during the continuance of widowhood was the mans
of preserVing the attachment of. the Lady -to the
children of -a meritorious.,strvanr.', . ~

A Petting) was -then voted to Mr. P..ERAIIMI,
anti ,a w:ts fixed for next Thursday,, for did
rurpose of deciding the question oltlie restoration of
Mr. BETTY to the.Cbrupany'sServico,—All,es 1.441ich
the COWL adjourned. •

BURNS.—A correapondent observing the he- '
quent accidents by burning, recommends the follow-
ing as a rented), :—Bathe the place which is.hurned,
for two ortliree hunts constantly, with Train Oil,.
or apply a cloth well bathed therein ; change it
every to or t, ntiootc.i, !1•-! rain Will entirely cease.
The above remedy (however titsagreeable the smell
maybe to the patient) will he found to he eireduji.
If it be instantly applied no blister will rise:
On Friday the teth imt. was turned (Art at Line
Fledge, Lancashire, Mr: Astley's Brick
before,a very numerous field, At going toff Retie
sport was expelled, from hi, being too fat ; how.
ever a more rremeNious or ,hatperialltst,stl4oM, vas
witnessed. The Deer took to Pokeytield Flail,
where the, pack, gaining .uptin him every strike,
soon run up to a view, and so continued till Its
crossed Newton
,Moor, affording a grand `.,;41 curt-
lative.burst whO , shobli first head anti stop the
hounds : this no being -accomplished, they cont blued
to' press him. close ito the haunches till he got
near igarple, where, springing over Grendlble
fences,he broke view, and coNtinuing his (.freer
to 1-i'arroP hedge, he was.turt up to, and in crossing'
the, high moor near flattop hedge, this noble and
pliant animal was pulled down. Mr. Asiley and
a fen, others were-up at the death only ; the seve-
rity of the burst, and the heavy ground, Oevettted
any but the first bred hones to cone up in stl;le.!--7.,
Ten, Miles it the distance of tl,s: ground run over,
and. in less than 40 minutes.
On. Ttietdity sennight en event took pLtee in
Gateshead of rather a melancholy nature, and near.
ly fatal in its consequences. Two coal carts corn.
ing down the. Bottle-bank, near. the fon ran over a
• •fine'young bay, about three or four years old, hr.
longing to 1.1/Ir. Nicholson, publican of that place.
.The boy was taken up quite covered with mire,
and as much blood appeared about his heat% was '1
iupposed to be quite dead. On examination, how.
ever, by some of the faculty, it was f(4lilitl that the
injthry was not of quiteso serious a nature a:4l
that, thoulth he had been severely bruised, (ions of
,his hones were broken, 'which is rather worolerfol,
as it is believed that both 'of the_ carts passed Over
hirti.; and can only be accounted for, in hotel, from
the' circumstance of his .being nearly immersed in
• the kennel. The child lies at preient very ill ;
but, it is:hoped,ln 'a fair way of recove.ry.
A very melancholy accident occurred last week
at Fundenhall, Norfolk. The female servant of a
'firmer having lighted a fire in a heater stove in
whiclt her master hail incautinody placed a-cannister
full of gunpowder to dry, an'explosion took place,
which-killed-the'poor woman on the spot, .and did
considerable damage 'to the honse.
cod fish and haddOrks have been so plentiful at
Si4uth 'Shields last week, that the latter sold at ono
penny each.
As a perfon of the, name of Carter was returning
with his wife, and another person named Buili,ige,
in' a cart,' from Widnclt to Emneth, the horse, on
leaving the iown, got ottt of the road,-and over-
, turned the cart into the new Canal, by which Mrs.
Carter and Burridge were drowned.