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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEIVII3ER 22, 1858.

ORIENTAL INLAND STEAM COMPANY
(Limited).
(Under subsidy from the Indian Government.)
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from
the 21st to the 31st of December, and the Interest Warrants
will be payable by Messrs. WILLIAMS, DEACON and CO.,
the bankers to the Company-, on and after the Ist of January,
1859. The whole of the shares in the Company having now
been allotted, no further applications for shares can be re-
ceived. By Order.
O
9, Billiter-street, 17th jDecl.i,lllBLIA. THE WSON, Secretary.

SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.-
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.
The Trains on CHRISTMAS DAY will run the same as on
SUNDAYS, with the addition of LATE TRAINS, which will
leave London at 12 midtiight, for all Stations upon the Windsor,
Richmond, and Loop Lines, and at 11.45 p.m. for all Stations
between London and Hampton Court.
The ORDINARY -DOUBLE JOURNEY TICKETS be-
tween all Stations issued on Friday, 24th December, or sub-
sequent'days, will be available for the Return Journey up to
Tuesday, 28th December, inclusive. Return Tickets between
London and Salisbury, Dorchester, Weymouth, and Reading,
will be available to return up to Wednesday, inclusive.
The CHEAP RETURN TICKETS, at little more than
Single Fare, issued on Saturday, 25th, and Sunday, 26th, De-
cember, from London- to all Stations below Woking, and to
Windsor, will be available to Return up to the following
Monday.

THE WELLINGTON RESTAURANT,
ST. JAMES'S-STREET. AND 160, PICCADILLY.

Gentlemen visiting* the Metropolis will find ample accom-
modation for dinners at this establishment. The arrange-
ments are varied and perfect, and the tariff of charges is very
moderate. Private rooms for large or small parties may be
engaged on application to the Superintendent.
By Order. JAMES GOFTON, Superintendent.
27th November, 1858.

OIINAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library.
and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant
assortment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obe-
lisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paperweights, &c.,
in Italian Alabaster, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, kc.
Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT; Mine-
ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Strand, London.
Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS,
MINERALS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate the
interestip of MINERALOGY, CONCHOLOGY, and
GEOLL-at,•2, 5, 10,20,.50, to 100 guineas each.
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE-
RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, at 149, Strand.

BOARD AND RESIDENCE. -=-A Superior
Home is offered to a Gentleman of steady habits, en
gaged during the day, by a family residing near Regent's-
Park. For a young man coming to London for the first time
tltis would be found a desirable residence. Terms moderate.
References to be exchanged. Address, J. P., Wright's
Dairy, Granby-street, Hampstead-road, N.W.

THE OPERA COLONNADE HOTEL
COMPANY (Limited).
:Charles-street, Haymarket (late Feuillade's), London, S.W.
Capital, £25,000,_ in 5,000 shares of X. 5 each. Deposit 10s.. per

Share on application, and £2 per share on allotment.
The alterations and furnishing are being proceeded with'
and the Hotel will be opened in February.
Applications for the remaining Shares, Prospectuses, &c.,
may be made, for a Limited Period, to the secretary, at the
Hotel ; the solicitors, Messrs. Prichard and Collette, 57 Lin-
coln's-inn-fields, W.C. ; to the brokers, Messrs. Samuel Hill
and Son, 3, Copthall-buildings, Bank, E.C. ; or at the tem-
porary offices of the Company, 152, Gresham-house, Old
Broad-street. T. R. COMYN, Secretary.

THE MADRAS IRRIGATION and CANAL
COMPANY.
(Incorporated by Special Act of Parliament.)
For Cmistructing, Maintaining, and Working (wider the
sanction and with the support of the Government of India)
a comprehensive system of Irrigation Works and Navi-
gable Canals throughout. the Presidency of Madras and
the neighbouring Territories of Berar, Cochin, Hyderabad,
Mysore, Nagpoor, Orissa, the South Mahratta Country,
and Travancore; and also throughout the Lower Pro-
vinces of Bengal, when the necessary powers shall have
been obtained.
First Capital, £2,000,000 (with power to increase). First
Issue thereof, £1,000,000, in 50,000 Shares of £2O each,
upon which a perpetual Minimum Interest of £5 per
cent. has been guaranteed by the Secretary of State for
India in Council, all surplus profits being divisible equally
between the Government and the Company : which
arrangement is subject to be determined only by the Go-
vernment purchasing the Works constructed within six
months after the expiration of each period of 25 years, at
a sum equal to the market value of the shares of the
company on an average of the three preceding years.
Deposit, £1 per Share, to bear Interest at, the guaranteed
rate from the day on which the same shall be paid into
the Indian Treasury.

DIRECTORS.
CHAiRmAri—JAMES THOMSON, Esq. (Messrs. Line
and Co., Madras), Deputy Governor of the Agra Bank,
and late Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, Madras,
and President of the Madras Bank.
Colonel Philip Anstruther, C. 8., Madras Artillery.
The Hon. Philip Pleydell Bouverie, M.P. (Messrs. Ran-
som, Bouverie, and Co.)
Lieutenant-Colonel Grimes, Madras Army, Chairman of the
Oriental Inland Steam Company.
Colonel Atwell Lake, C. 8., late Superintending Engineer
of the Kistnah Irrigation Works.
Lieutenant-Colonel Onslow, late of the Commission for

governing Mysore.
Lieutenant-General Sir George Pollock, G.C.8., F.R.G.S.,

&e.
Major-General Westrow Watkins, Madras Army.

CONSULTING ENGINEER.
Col. J. T. Smith, Madras Engineers, F.R.S., &o.
AUDITORS.—James Bonar, Esq. (Messrs. Small and Co.,
Old Jewry).
BANKERS.—Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co.,
1, Pall-Mall East.
SOLICITOR.—John_ Mackrell, Esq., 34, Cannon-streot West.

SECRETARY.—John Westwood, -Esq.
Offices-27, Cannon-street, London, E.C.

Full Prospectuses and Forms of applications for shares
may now be had on applicatios at the Company's Offices,
27, Cannon-street, London, B.C. ; of the bankers, Messrs.
Ransom, Bouverie, and Co., 1, -Pall-Mall East; and of the
solicitor, John Mackrell, Esq., 34, Cannon-street West,
E.C., London ; but no application will be considered unless
a deposit of £1 on each share applied for is previously
made to Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co., bankers., of
the company. The deposit will be returned if the applica-
tion is not acceded to.

Extract from Minutes of Consultation transmitted by the
Government of Madras, on the 15th May, 1858, to the
late Court of Directors of the East India Company :
The Government express their unanimous, strong, and
earnest advocacy that all irrigation works which, on a com-
prehensive view of the wants of the country, may be deemed
necessary to develop its undoubtedly great resources, be
commenced at once boldly and on a large scale, be pressed
forward throughout all times and under all circumstances,
and be looked on, and be practically treated, as in fact they
really are, as the most economical, because the most pro-
fitable, undertakings in which the Government could pos-
sibly engage. It is needless now again to bring forward
the innumerable instances in which money has in the Pre-
sidency been most advantageously invested in irrigation
works. The proceedings of Government have, in this re-
spect, been only too dsultory and vacillating, and it is
confidently asserted that India could be placed in a
position to pay all her own expenses, and gradually dis-
charge her debt far more readily and speedily by a judicious
expenditure than by any scheme of retrenchment or reduc-
tion.

sioners of the Court of Bankruptcy, to act in the room of
Edmund Robert Daniell, Esq., deceased.
CROWN-OFFICE, DEc. 20.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
COUNTY OF HEREFORD.--The Hon. Montague Wm.
Graham, commonly called Lord William Graham, in the
room of Thomas William Booker Blakemoro, Esq.,
deceased.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 21.
Royal Artillery—Second Captain Reginald Onslow Farmer,
on the Supernumerary List, to be Captain ; Second Cap-
tain Charles Maitland Govan to be Captain, vice Rogers,
placed upon half-pay ; Lieutenant Thomas Wright
Blakiston to be Second Captain, vice Govan.

BREVET.
The following promotions to take place, consequent on
the death of Major-General 'William Turner, on the 12th
December, 1858:
Brevet-Colonel Lord William Paulet, C. 8., from half-
pay Unattached, to be Major-General.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John Edward Orange, Cap-
tain half-pay 34th Foot, Staff-Officer of Pensioners, to be
Colonel. _ .

Brevet-Major Henry Buckley Jenner Wynyard, Captain
on half-pay Unattached, Major of Brigade at Gibraltar, to
be Lieutenant-Colonel. _ _

Captain Daniel Henry Mackinnon, half-pay Unattached,
Staff-Officer of Pensioners, to be Major.

• WAR-OFFICE, PILL-MALL, DEC. 21.
MEMORANDUM.—Lieut. John Bryce Wilkinson, of the
4th Lancashire Militia, having obtained a First Class Cer-
tificate at the School of Musketry at Hythe, has been ap-
pointed by the General Commanding in. Chief, with the
concurrence of the Secretary of State for Var, to act as In-
structor of Musketry to the 4th Royal Lancashire Regi-
ment of Militia.

COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
Royal North Lincoln Militia—James Walter Tweed,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice John William Marshall, ap-
pointed to an Ensigney in the 60th Foot.
Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia—Thomas. Joseph Sun-
derland, Gent., to be Ensign.
2d Royal Lanarkshire Militia—A. H. H. Lefroy, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice Davidson, promoted ; D. S. Mason,
Gent., to be Ensign, vice Herbert., resigned.
sfh Regiment of West York _Militia—Lieut. William
Lynam to be Captain, vice Edwin Hewgilloesigned ; "tn-
mem Samuel Humby to be Lieutenant, vice Lynam, pro-
moted ; Ensign Wm. Waddington to be Lieutenant, vice
Sea-ell, removed from the Regiment.
West York Rifle Regiment of Militia—Percy Hughes
Hewitt, Gent., to be Ensign, vice William Munro, pro-
moted ; Thomas Leonard Hill, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Richard Hewley Graham, promoted.
Ist Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Lieuts. William George Daniel, James Ruthven Elphin-
stone Gouldsbury, and Arthur Wallace Munro, having
been absent without leave from the recent training, to be
struck off the strength of the regiment.
6th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Lieut. Chas.
Berington, having absented himself without leave from the
recent training, to be struck off the strength of the regi-
ment.

_EAST INDIA COMPAN.r.

ADJOURNED MEETING.

The adjourned meeting of the proprietors of
East India Stock was held yesterday, at twelve
o'clock, at the India House—Lieutenant-Colonel
Sykes, M.P., in the chair.
In answer to a question the CHAIRMAN replied
that the meetings would in future be held at twelve
o'clock precisely.
Mr. CRAWSHAY intimated his intention of going
on with his resolutions Itearing upon the future
management of the company's funds and the accept-
ance of accommodation in the house, offered to them
by Lord Stanley on behalf of the Council of India.
Mr. ARBUTHNOT moved an amendment, having
for its object the simple acceptance of Lord
Stanley's offer.

ThComurai AN said that Lord Stanley had con-
ceded everything except the unclaimed dividends,
which his lordship recommended should be ascer-
tained by a court of law as to whether those divi•
dends belonged to the proprietary or to the Govern-
ment of England. He thought any course in oppo-
sition to the report of their committee would detract
from the dignity of the Court of Directors ; at any
rate he could not hold any position wherein he was
to be considered as a mere clerk, without any inde-
pendent action or control.
Some further discussion having taken place, and
Mr. Crawshay having replied, the motion which he
moved was put, to the effect that the payment of
the half-yearly dividend as the same becomes due,
together with the payment of the unclaimed divi-
dends, is essential to the independence of the com-
pany, the maintenance of its legal poktion, its cor-
porate rights, and the exercise of the due authority
of the Court of Directors.

On counting it was found to be carried.
The question of the unclaimed dividends was next
considered, and several propositions were made to
submit the whole case to the arbitration.oithite in,
dependent gentlemen of the bar, the Council for
India consenting, and that such decision should be
binding.
Mr. Sergeant GASELEE suggested that both the
Court of Directors and the Council of India should
agree upon a case to be submitted to counsel.

—A
desultory conversation ensued, when the Chair-
man announced that Lord Stanley had communi-
cated that very day upon the matter being referred
to legal opinion of eminence, and be bound thereby.
Mr. CRAWSHAY moved a resolution to the effect
that the directors be requested to obtain a legal set-
tlement of the question.

Several proprietors called out that they hoped
the company was not going to law.
Mr. Sergeant GASELEE wished to save law ex-
penses. When they had got a lawyer's opinion it
was worth nothing. They would pay a great
deal of money and then be no nearer a settlement.
(Laughter.)
A discussion then ensued. It was put and car-
ried by the meeting that, as the title of the East
India Company to all past and future unclaimed
dividends had been called in question by the Secre•
tary of State for India, that a case be prepared
and agreed upon to be submitted to three eminent
counsel for opinion, and that such opinion shall be
binding.
Mr. CRAWSHAY then moved that the offer of
Lord Stanley of the use of the India House and
staff for the conduct of the company's funded pro-
perty be accepted. He thought that the latter
part was very important, and would tend consi-
derably to preserve a harmony which was so essen-
tial to their welfare. The resolution further pro-
vided for salaries to the secretary and Court of
Directors.

Captain SIIEE seconded the motion, and com-
plained that the accommodation was not at present
sufficient, as they were bandied about from one
room to another.

Mr. ARBUTHNOT moved an amendment, when

Mr. Sergeant GASELEE seconded it, and in doing
so passed some very severe remarks on the personal
conduct of the chairman, and condemned his con-
duct in endeavouring to make work and places at
the expense of the people of India. He (the
speaker) wanted no rooms or anything of the kind.
The Chairman, who was member for Aberdeen,
was indebted to the proprietors of India stock for
that position in consequence of his being a member
of the Court of Directors. He now turned round
on them, and wanted to be just as bad as the old
ones. They got their salaries increased from £3OO
to £5OO a year, and when the end was coining it
was helter skelter who should run fast enough to
get places under Government at £l2OO a year,
without any reference to proprietary. (Hear,
hear, and cheers.) Here was another set wanting
to do exactly the same thing. The others had
made their bargain with the Government, and did
not care a straw for the company.
The remarks of the learned Sergeant were loudly
contradicted by the meeting. He contended, in
reply, that the company could only cry out mise-
ricordia, and sue to the Government in forma pau-
peris.
Mr. JONES disagreed with this, and said the com-
pany was not so bad as that. It had no need as
yet to cry Date obolum Belisario. (Laughter.) He
was of opinion that Lord Stanley's offer should be
accepted.
Mr. CRAWSIIAY replied, and contended that the
offer of the Secretary of State in Council for India
was one which would save a large expenditure of
many thousands per annum of the revenues of
India, which would be the result of the company
having a separate. establishment.
The motion was then put and carried by a large
majority.
Mr. Crawshay's next motion had reference to the
payment of salaries to the chairman, court of
directors, and secretary of the company, in addition
to such other incidental expenses as were necessary
for the proper conduct of the company's affairs, as
were not already provided for by the late act, and
that the Secretary of State in Council for India be
requested to make provision for the same.
Dr. BEATTIE rose to substantiate an assertion he
had made, that a member of the Court of Directors
had said lie would not serve unless. he received £2OO
a-year. On being pressed to name, he said it was
Major Moore.
Major MOORE, with great warmth, denied the
accusation. What he said was, that unless the
salary was equal to the position he would not
Serve.

A personal altercation ensued, when
Mr. JONES thought that there was nothing im-
proper or indelicate about the matter. He was the
member of the committee who proposed salaries of
£3OO a-year each to the directors and £5OO to the
chairman. Such a proposition, including other
expenses, were submitted to Lord Stanley, and they
were waiting for his lordship to decide.
Mr. Sergeant GASELEE found great fault with
the directors for having written to Lord Stanley a
letter, which, in effect, was asking for salaries.
They kept very close to that. (Laughter.) The
influence that had been brought to bear
on him to support some gentleman of that board
was enormous, and when once elected they treated
the proprietors, like dirt. (Hear, and No, no.) They
had an itching for salaries, but he called upon them
to wait a little, and apply for a sum in the lump for
the management of the company's business, without
any reference to the directors' salaries.

Mr. PLOWDEN spoke in explanation, and said
that the letter alluded to was never intended to ask
for salaries for directors, but merely to ascertain
what funds would be available for the purposes
meant. The speaker entered further into a defence
of the conduct of the new directors in filling up the
vacancies in their own body, and passed some re-
flections on Mr. Sergeant Gaselee, Mr. Jones, and
others, in respect to their conduct at their meetings.
So far as Dr. Beattie was concerned, his hostility
could be understood, as he had tried and failed to
be elected. Hine ilke lachryznee. (Laughter and
confusion.)
The matter was becoming very warm, when
The CHAIRMAN said there had been quite enough
of personalities, and the motion had better be
allowed to proceed.
Mr. Sergeant GASELEE moved an amendment
which had for its object that Lord Stanley be re-
quested to allow such sum of money for the entire
management of the company's business as he may
think fit.
The CHAIRMAN put the question, when Mr.
Crawshay's motion was carried, that gentleman ex-
pressing his regret that so much personality had
been imported into the discussion.
The next motion was, that the above arrange-
ments, so far as the accommodation in the India
House was concerned, be terminated by each party
giving six months' notice.
The motion was agreed to.
Mr. CRAWSHAY'S next motion was to the effect
that the directors should not make any application
to the Security Fund without calling a general
meeting of the proprietary for the express purpose.
He said that a bye-law existed for that purpose.
Mr. Sergeant GASELEE replied to an invidious
remark respecting himself, made by Mr. Crawshay,
and said, had that gentleman been in the Court of
Directors when the question of the Rajah of