The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-24 00:00:00

EAST INDIA ROUSE.--(This Day.)

A. quarterly general court of proprietors of the East
India Csmpany was held this morning at the India
House, Leadenhall•street ; Colonel Sykes, chairman of
the board of directors, in the chair.

Mr. JONES, in addressing the court, said he had been
requested by the Rajah of Coorg to tender his thanks
to the court of directors for having acceded to the prayer
cf his petition, and restored to him his pension. (Hear,
hear.) ila (Mr. Jones) thon referred to his notice of
mot ion he had given relative to the cost of the dinners
of the curt of directcrs. When he gave that notice he
was under the impression that the dinners cost 4,0001.
a year, but he had since been informed that he was in
error in that respect. There were no precise returns of
their cost; from their being so mixed up with other mat•
ters it was impossible to come to a satisfactory conclu-
sion on the subject. He, therefore, withdrew the motion
of which he had given notice, and moved that a return
should be laid before the court, showing the whole of
the refectory expenses of the court of directors.
Mr. REMINGTON seconded the motion.

The CHAIRMAN said there was no objection to the re-
turn. He had no doubt that the proprietors would see
that it was to their interest as well as to the interest of
the Court of Directors that these entertainments should
take place.

Mr. LEwIN thought that when the company was a
commercial company it was very well that these City
habits should be observed, but now the company was in
a totally different position.
The motion was then agreed to.
Mr. LEWIN then moved the following resolution

"That the seizure of the territories of Oude is one of
the worst examples of Indian spoliation, and an act of
the basest ingratitude towards the family of a native
prince, who, in a season of extremity (1815), when the
rule of the East Indian Company was wavering, its
treasures exhausted, and the Government of India un-
able to bring money to oppose the Maharatta confederacy,
opened his coffers with a loan of 2i millions sterling, on
the bare receipt of the Governor-General, Lord Hast-
ings; and, subsequently, in 1825, under a similar
exigency, assisted the East India Company with a fur-
ther loan of 1 millions; and again, in 1842, when the
E•;st India Company was in want of funds to enable
it to carry on the Affghanistan war, assisted the Go-
vernment of India with a further loan to relieve the
pressure on the Indian Treasury."

The hon. proprietor entered at great length into the
state of India at the periods alluded to, and contended
that the conduct of the directors in the seizure of Oude
could not be defended, neither morally nor politically.
A PROPRIETOR complained that sufficient notice had
not been given of the motion, and that the Court ought
not to entertain' it.

Mr. LEWIN said he should have no objection to
postpone its further consideration till the next quar-
terly court.

After some discussion the motion was negatived, as
was also the following motion, proposed by the same

gentleman :
" That in addressing a petition to the House of Lords,
in the case of the Nawab of Surat, in the name and in
the behalf of the East India Company, without first con-
sulting the proprietors of East India stock, was uncon•
stitational, unprecedented, and an illegal assumption of
authority on the part of the Court of Directors."
After the transaction of some other business the court
adjourned.