The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-18 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE.--(THIS DAY.)

A half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of
India:Stock was convened this morning at the India
House for the purpose of declaring a dividend on the
stock of the company, for the half-year ending in
July next. The chairman, deputy chairman, and a
majority of the Coyrt of Directors entered the court-
room shortly after twelve o'clock, 11. St. George
Tucker, Esq., took the chair.

The dividend fixed by the late act of parliament was
agreed to.

- A considerable discussion took place relative to the
compensations to be allowed to the company's mari-
time officers.

The chairman stated that the Directors had laid a
scale before the India Board, and as soon as the com-
missioners had expressed their opinion, the plan would
be laid before parliament and the court.
Left sitting.

Mr. Parsons, box-book-keeper at Drury-lane
theatre, takes his benefit on Friday night. As the per-
formances announced for representation on the occa-
sion are full of variety and attraction, and as Mr. Par-
sons is well known and generally esteemed for his di-
ligence and general courtesy, we have no doubt but
his benefit will be well attended.
This morning, in consequence of its being
the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, the 3d Regi-
ment (or Coldstream Guards) assembled on the parade
in St. James's-park, attired in their new uniforms,
when they were inspected by their commanding
officers, during which the band played, " See the Con-
quering Hero comes," and other martial airs. The
colours were surmounted by branches of laurel, and
those veterans who were present on the plain of
Waterloo this day 19 years were permitted to wear a
sprig about their dress. The area was surrounded
by thousands of respectable spectators, who appeared
greatly amused by the surprisinc, evolutions which
the corps performed in honour of ?he day.
Captain Byng, we learn, will by. opposed by
a Radical and a Tory candidate at Chatham. Mr.
Erskine Perry is again in the field. Who the Tory
Opinion is every where forcing governments
candidate is we have not yet heard. —Morning Chro
nide.
upon commercial emancipation, and peace is We learn from a provincial journal that a
bench of country magistrates were last week occupied
bringing with it its real, but tardy fruits. The
. great part of a day in investigating an assault arising
out of a dispute between five tailors who had quarrelled
great monopolies of France have received their
warning in the late ordonnances brought to respecting the propriety of taking " a goose" from the
England by Dr. BOWRING and Wtich are fire; which ended in their worships fining the
,
announced as the first steps in the way of assailant half-a-crown. We should suspect that there
must have been more than one goose concerned in the
liberalizigg. The Portuguese government is
matter.
proceeding in the same career, and the destruc-
What is the juste-milieu ? The rope be-
tion of the Oporto 'Wit C tween the ruffian and the gallows—the child on its
no of is alike honourable to the intelligence
le ompany's mo- back between two chairs—the grape in the wine press
and the courage of the Lisbon ministry. —the white in the tri-coloured flag—the gutter in the
street.—French Paper.
These are the best answers given to our anti- DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.—The fine ship
Shenandoah, Rose, which sailed from Bremerhaven
free-traders, who clamour for the return to a on the 16th of April, bound to Baltimore, with 190
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policy of restriction and prohibition which ever passengers, was cast away the same day, or the fol-
y lowing night, on the Mellum, near the Bremer beacon,
nation is abandoning in its turn as worn out and went to ieces, with the loss of thirty passengers
drowned ! The remainder have returned to port.—
and ruinous. We lately observed in the Lisbon Philadelphia Paper.
newspapers an extract from the report of tne BRUTAL ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—WhiISt
French Commercial Commissioners, breathing the magistrates were assembled in petty sessions at
lying on
hJyohlisrtov‘• F-n,don the 2d instant, areport was received
the most liberal sentiments, and have seen a pri-
vate communication from the Minister declaring
proceeded to, thcoeuisppaonti,
e; chief constable,
.stating that a girl was..
the road near Spa Hill, almost dead. He
of trade immediately ae I that he only desires the freedom
They ascertained that her name was Judith Brophy,
lookather's house
edwhbeyreCatphteayin
found the
eC
girl..Nl.,
dau hter of James Brophy, of Ballyspellan); that
and the removal of the many impediments
which interfere with its extension. The
she( leftg her f
morning, to for a
fall of M. THIERS who took up the •pig aboutirhieh tenhad o'clockstrayed ianwatyhe;
gauntlet in favour of the French monopolists— , that, after an absence of some hours, she was dis-
when no hand but one so rash as his would covered weltering in her blood, and lying in a field on
the lands of Clomanto, about a quarter of a mile from
have ventured to do so—is a strong evidence in her father's house. Three wounds had been inflicted
favour of the progr,ss of enlightened views in on the unfortunate girl's head, which was
fractured,
France. Allowance must be made for th and but slight hopes are entertained of her recovery.
e many It appeared that she was met by some ruffian, who
difficulties which a change of system brings
attempted to commit violence on her person, and
with it ; but the seeds of a mighty commercial .whom she threatened to prosecute, upon which he
revolution are sown, and they will
abused her in the br
produce 1a Kt kenny MO d eratorutal manner above described.—
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