The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-20 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE-(THIS DAY.)

This morning'a quarterly general meeting of the Propri.
etors of East India Stock, was held in the Court Room,
in Leadenhall-street. At twelve o'clock, the Chairman, J.
G. Ravenshaw, Esq. and the Directors, entered the Court,
when the minutes of the last Court were read and confirmed.
The Chairman then said that the Directors had come to a
resolution that they should recommend that a dividend of
54 per cent. on the capital stock of the Company, be de-
clared, which was put, and carried unanimously,
Mr. TWINING presented a report from the Bye.laws
Committee, which stated that they had been strictly at-
tended to during the past year. The old Committee were
then reappointed.
Mr. LOWNDES said, that he was an Englishman of the
old shoo!, and would speak his mind in any place. He
93. w that the papers were calling for a reduction of the
interest, but he for one would never consent to it, while the
proprietors of these very papers were dividing more than
double every year than what the Company could afford,
to do. Neither could he consent to a reduction of the
interest, till the large salaries were cut down, and the in.
ferior officers better paid. The Honourable Proprietor
made a long speech about the Reform Bill, the Duke of
Wellington, &c. ; but as it had no connection with the
business then before the Court, we omit it.
After a few observations from Mr. RIGBY, the Court
adjourned.

Lord DOVOR is again spoken of as likely to
replace Sir Roaawr ADAIR our present Minister at
Brussels. His Lordship is known to be a steady and
uncomprising advocate of liberal principles, and a per-
sonal friend of the present SOVEREIGN of Belgium, who
stood sponser to the Noble Baron's infant son the Hon.
LEOPOLD GEORGE FREDERICK AGAR ELLIS. Lord
DovoL is also favourably known as an author of reputa-
tion; he has recently completed a life of FREDERICK the
Great of Prussia, and is an acute and industrious inquirer
into most historical questions.
WILLIAM and JOHN LOWTHER, who sup-
ported by their votes Mr. PITT'S motion for a Reform in
Parliament, were, at that period, both representatives for
the county of Cumberland, nominated by their near rela-
tion, the late Sir JAMES LOWTHER, afterwards the Earl of
LONSDALE, and one of the largest boroughmongers in
England. Are the persons who now adorn the British
Peerage and Boronetage as the Earl of LONSDALE and
Sir JOHN LOWTLIER (the sons of a very pious and excel-
lent person, the Rev. Sir WILLIAM LOWTHER, of Swil-
lington, in Yorkshire), the active members of the New
Conservative Club, the same individuals who, during the
lifetime of Mr. PITT, were out and out advocates for Par-
liamentary Reform ?
EXCURSIONS IN INDlA.—Under this title
Captain SKINNER, 31st Regiment, is about to publish a
Narrative of his Visits to various parts of India. The
work will include an account of a walk over the Himalaya
Mountains to the sources of the Jumna and the Ganges—
a description of the city of Delhi, the once famed metro-
polis of Hindostan, &c. &c. The author sailed upwards
of 1,200 miles up the Ganges, and gives an animated pic-
ture of the towns and villages situated on its banks, of his
intercourse with their inhabitants, &c., as well as of other
interesting objects which presented themselves to his
attention.

Sir WALTER SCOTT and family have taken
np their residence at the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street.

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NESS KELLY, under the immediate patronage
of the QUEEN, and the special permission of the Duke of
DEVONSHIRE, is going to give, for six nights only, a new
and varied entertainment, consisting of songs and recita-
tions, both serious and comic, after the manner of the
Comic Annual of Mr. MATHEWS.

Mr. CHARLES KEMBLE and Miss FANNY
KIMBLE will perform in the Theatre in Edinburgh about
the 2.1 of July. They are engaged, by Mr. MURRAY,
for a limited number of night.. The Hunchback will be
one of the early novelties—in which, we understand,
CHARLES KEMBLE will personate Master Walter, and
Mr. MASON Sir Thomas Clifford.
CHARLES KEMBLE and his intellectual and
accomplished daughter, Miss FANNY KEMBLE, yesterday
finally arranged with Mr. PRICE, late lessee of Drury-lane,
to perform one whole year in the principal theatres in the
United States, for which they will take their departure in
July, when they have finished their engagement in Scot-
land. In the present state of the drama in London, the
loss of these incomparable professors is irreparable, and
deeply to be deplored. They have our sincere wishes for
their success on the other side the Atlantic, and for their
safe return to their native land laden with " golden opi-
nions."

GEORGE COLMAN, the younger, has hitherto
been prevented from giving his testimony before the COM•
rnitte of the House of Commons, appointed to consider the
present state of the Drama, in consequence of indisposi-
tion. The Committee adjourned on Friday until Monday
at half-past one, when it is expected the Worthy and Ve-
nerable Licenser will be able to attend. Mr. L. BIILWER
(the Chairman,) Mr. G. LAMB, and Mr. T. DuNcostax
appear the most active members of this Committee.—Sir
GEORGE WARRENDER is also extremely active.
COURT OF COMMISSIONERS OF BANK-
RupTs...-CONTEMPT OF Counx.—Yesterday (Tuesday)
his Honour, Sir ALBERT PELL, and Commissioners ME-
RIVALE, HOLROYD, PANIC, EVANS, FONBLANQUE, and
Wurdasis, assembled in the Judges' private room of the
Court, in Basinghall-street, in consequene of one of the
Commissioners having been most grossly and personally
insulted upon the Bench by an attorney practising in this
Court, and the Commissioner not feeling himself justified
in committing him for contempt of Court, without taking
advice upon the subject, to take into consideration whether
the Commissioners of this Court have the power of com-
mitting attorneys practising therein for contempt. After
a long discussion his Honour decided that the Commis.
sioners of this Court have an equal right and power of
imprisoning attorneys for contempt of Court as the Judges
of any Court of Record.