The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-24 00:00:00

RAMSGATE„ SEPT. 23.—S1d. Stewarts, Fisher, Cape of Good Hope ;
Hercules. Wilson, Galveston.
LiAMi'ION, ;a: PT
oal;Ay, PLthaiil, itv o ,O.
-FAVERSHAM, SEPT. 20.—Arrd. Wansbeck, Chambers, Quebec ;
Euphemia, Crockett, Quebec.
llaisTor., SEPT. 23.—Arrd. Nonpareil, Murray, St. Andrews, New
Brunswick ; Reliance, Quebec ; Columbus, Howling, ditto. Sid.
Pollock, M`lntyre, Dalhousie.
NEWPORT, SEPT. 23.—S1d. Margaret Forbes, Prescot, New York.
LYTHAM, SEPT. 21.—Sid. Union Rose, St. Stephens; Helen and
Anna, Dowson, St. John's.
CLYDE, SEPT. 22.—Acrd. Shamrock, Shannon, Pictou. Sld. 21,
Diogamn, Leitch, Calcutta; 22, Brilliant, Brown, Demerara.
Dunwr, SEPT. 21.—Arrd. Cushla Ma Chree, Bower, Prince Ed-
ward's Island.
KINGSTOWN, SEPT. 22.—Arrd. Bristol, St. John's, New Brunswick.
KiNsat.E, SEPT. 20.—Arrd. Felonia, Hanrick, Pictou, Nova Scotia ;
Exchange, Crosby, St. John's, New Brunswick.
GALWAY, SEPT. 16.—.Arrd. Victoria, St. John's, New Brunswick.
LONDONDERRY, SEPT. 15.—Sid. Envoy, Mason, St. John's, New
Brunswick.
:NEWRY, SEPT. 20.—Arrd. Brothers, Valpey, St. John's.
STORNAWAY, SEPT. 18,—Arrd. Jessie, M`Leod, Pictou.
OFF WHITBY, SEPT. 21.—Sapphira, Brown, Quebec.
• Hutt., SEPT 23.—Wind W.N.W., light.—Newton, Hall, Pugwash ;
Matthew, Harrison, Quebec. A clinker-built boat, painted black,
was passed, on the 20th inst., in the North Sea, lat. 53'30 N.,
lon. 2•30 E., and a topmast, by the Tremont, Taylor, arrived here.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 23.—A small brig, with the name of Mary on
her quarter boards, apparently laden with deals, masts painted
black, with white tops, was passed on her beam-ends 22d Jily, in
lat. 40, lon. 49, by the Grampion, arrived at Saguinay.
Ltroxiism, SEPT. 23.—The Veloce, Pynonblane, from Havre to
Monte Video, slipped an anchor and chain and came into the harbour
this morning, leaky.
LYTHAM, SEPT. 22.—The Isabella, of Whitehaven, and the Dykes,
of Maryport, which were on their beam-ends at the entrance of the
Ribble, 17th inst., righted on the following flood, end are both ex-
pected off next spring-tide without m uch:d amage— cargoes discharging.
STORNOWAY, SEPT. 18.--A vessel of about 150 tons, dismasted,
waterlogged, and abandoned, was passed, 17th ult., lat. 43, lung. 48,
by the Jessie, arrived here.
DUNBAR, SEPT. 22.—The Lively, Denly, of and for Whitby, from
Leith, drove ashore this morning upon the sands during a heavy gale
at N.E., but expected off without damage should the weather mode-
rate. The Antelope, Gordon, of this port, from Stettin to Cove, has
been driven on shore four miles to the eastward, and has received
considerable damage, but is expected off.
Ilaawicu, SEPT. 23.—The Elizabeth, Carter, of Limerick, from the
Mediterranean to Aberdeen, with brimstone, was assisted in hero
this afternoon, very leaky, &c., having been on shore on the-Ken-
tish Knock.

MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY

Since Monday the arrivals of English Wheat for our markets,
coastwise as well as by laud carriage and samples, have been on a
very limited scale ; however, the supply of that article on sale was
small. Although the demand was by no means so active as
quoted in our last report, a full average amount of bu-
siness was transacted at the late improvement in the
quotations. The show of free Foreign Wheat was comparatively
small, while the sale for it was lirm, at very full prices. Bonded
Wheats were again inquired after, chiefly for exports, and
holders would not sell except at higher rates. Barley was
in limited supply and steady request, at full prices.
Superfine White Malt sold freely, other kinds slowly, at previous
currencies. For Oats there was a very steady inquiry, and prices
were well supported. Beans and Peas were quite as dear, while the
value of Flour had an upward tendency.

Oath. I Flour.
460 gra 2,290 sks.
6,210 i -
3,610 I ----

ARRIVALS.
Wheat. Barley.
1,830 qrs. 280 qrs.
330
16,070 :74;
M t, 1,860 qrs.
WHITECIECAPEL
We had a full average supply of each kind of Meat, yet the de-
mand was tolerably steady at full prices. Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 6d ;
Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s Gd ; Lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 6d ; Veal, 45 to ss; and
Pork, 3s to 4s 4d per Sibs. by the c arcase.

English • • • • ••

Irish
Foreign ......

EAST INDIA HOUSE-(THIS DAY
The Directors anti Proprietors of the East India House held a quar
terly general Court this day, in Leadenhall-street, for the purpose of
taking into consideration the petition of Akhoond ilabeer 011 a Dawen
Metaram and Dewan Diaram, deputed to this country by the ex-
Ameers of Sinde ; and also to hear certain charges preferred against
Lieut.-Col. Ovens, late Resident at Sattara.
At twelve o'clock Sir Henry Willock, Mr. Hogg, M.P., and a consi-
derable body of the Directors, entered the theatre.
Mr. Peter Gordon, the Proprietor, who, it will be remembered, had
already tested the power of the Court to elect its own Chairman, had
determined this day also to bring the question to issue, and with
that view had taken the chair at least a quarter of an hour before.
On the entrance, therefore, of Sir Henry Willock and his friends a
scene of indescribable confusion ensued, the Chairman ordering the
Hon. Proprietor to vacate the chair, which the latter resisted, on the
ground that no chairman had yet been elected by the meeting.
The officers of the Court were then called in, and Mr. Gordon was
lifted completely out of the chair, and placed outside of the circle
more immediately used by the Directors. It was quite impossible
to hear amid the noise what was said by the Chairman, Mr. Gordon,
or Mr. Sergeant Gazelee, who, with half a dozen more, were speak-
ing at once, but as nearly as we could judge, tire Learned Sergeant
was entering a protest against the proceedings.
Silence being somewhat restored by the clerk reading the minutes
of the last meeting,
Mr. Sergeant GAZELEE then rose, and said that he wished to speak
on a question of privilege which involved in the highest degree the
vitality of that Court. He was surprised to find that the Directors
had, on a previous day, revived a rule which had been
for many years esteemed obsolete, for the purpose of ex-
cluding the public from the gallery. Now, before concluding
with a resolution, ho would endeavour to show, in the
first place, that the rule itself was worthless; and secondly,
that even supposing it good, it did not apply to this case. Ile (Mr.
Sergeant Gazelee) would be the very last to refuse every courtesy to
the Hon. Baronet who then filled the chair, but he had yet to learn
why he claimed it as a matter of right. He (Mr. Sergeant Gazelee)
affirmed that the Hon. Baronet had no more right to it than he had.
It was claimed by the same rule which had been applied in order
to exclude the public, and he would ask why, if they paid such respect
to one part of it, they did not respect it as a whole ? He asserted
that those who entrenched themselves behind that barrier had no
more right to do so than they (the Proprietors outside) had. And
now he would show from the bye-law itself, that it was quite op-
posed to the constitution of that Court, as exhibited in its charter.
By the bye-law It was ordained that no Proprietor, unless possessed
of stock to the amount of 5001., could be permitted to conic into
Court. But by the charter this was declared void, and therefore
they were not bound to respect it. (The Learned Sergeant
then read the charter, which had no such reservation.)
This showed that every Proprietor had a right to be present. Then
what became of their bye-law about Proprietors holding 5001. stock
only being allowed to be present? The Hon. Proprietor then cited
a case of a bye-law of last century, providing that no Proprietor
holding an office of emolument under the Government should be a
Director, being decided against by eminent legal authorities, on the
ground that no departure could take place from the original charter
without an Act of Parliament. Under these circumstances ho was
astonished at the exclusion of the public. He was surprised at the
Directors doing so. In this free country it was the boasted privilege
that deliberations of the kind which that Court was in the habit of
entering upon were open to the public. They need not, therefore,
think they would succeed in carrying on their proceedings in secret.
The people of this country, he was satisfied, would not tolerate it. He
would cenclude by moving that the gallery as heretofore be open to
the public.
Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON, and another Proprietor, simultaneously se-
conded the motion.
The CHAIRMAN said that he and the Directors beside him had no
desire that this debate should be conducted with closed doors, and
the fact that such a course was adopted arose simply from the cir-
cumstance that on a late occasion a Proprietor had circulated bills
about town, inviting the public to be present. In consequence
of those notices many persons had assembled, who, in the course of
the argument, had expressed their feeling in such a way as to call
down the displeasure of the Court. He therefore felt that it was his
duty to preserve the respectability and the dignity of the Court,
by acting upou the bye-law which the Learned Sergeant had referred
to. Upon that law he acted, and if any doubt were entertained of
its validity, the better course would be to refer it to the Committee,
who could also decide upon his claim to that chair as the elected
chairman of the East India Company. That, he thought, would be
the proper mode of settling these questions.—(Hear.)
Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON supported at some length the motion of
Mr. Sergeant Gazelee, on the ground of the illegality of the bye-law.
When he came to the door of the theatre, he saw outside a notice,
that Proprietors holding 500/. stock should alone be admitted.
By what authority did they put that notice there ?
Why did they assume those powers ? They were, altoge-
ther illegal. They had no more right to put that notice there
than they had to come to his dwelling and deprive him of any of
his domestic comforts. lie was sure such an exclusion of the smaller
Proprietors could not be supported in a court of law if a
mandamus were taken out against that notice of exclusion.
lie appealed to the legal knowledge of many of the Directors pre-
rent, and especially to the Standing Counsel of the Company, whether
such a bye-law could be maintained. After several other observa-
tions of a similar character, the lion. Proprietor concluded by in-
treating the Court to rescind the bye-law. If they maintained it he
would disqualify himself; he would become a proprietor of 4501. stock,
and let them exclude him if they dared. He spoke not in menace,
but in sober earnestness, standing on the law, and the protection
which the Charter gave him.
Mr. Hocu, M.P., said that there was not the slightest disposition
on the part of the Directors to shut out the public from a full and
complete knowledge of that day's or any other day's proceedings.
From time immemorial, as far as he could inform himself, the
public were admitted, but their doors were not flung open to
all persons from the streets. The House of Commons was riot indis-
criminately opened, and in that Court admission could be obtained
in a similar manner. If, therefore, any gentleman chose to send in
his card to the Chairman, the Secretary, or any of the Directors, he
would be at once attended to. The best evidence of their wish to
accommodate the public was to be found In the fact, that no impedi-
ment was offered to the representatives of the press, and he trusted
that the gentleman he saw present would do the Court of Directors
justice in this respect.
Mr. R. TWINING supported the views taken by the Direetors on
these matters. Ile thought their only object was to preserve order ;
and they were, therefore, perfectly justified in the measures they
had adopted.
Several Proprietors having spoken to the question,
Mr. Sergeant GAZELES, after the explanation given by the Chair-
man with reference to the admission of the public to the gallery,
withdrew his motion.
THE RAJA OF SATTARA. _

Mr. Geottoz TuomrsoN then, in a speech of considerable length,
moved for a Select Committee to inquire into the conduct of Lieu•
tenant-Colonel Ovens during the period that he filled the office 01
Resident at the Court of Sattara.
[The meeting had not concluded when our report left.]

SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY.)
There was only one case set down for hearing this day, which
was for goods sold ; the case was undefended.

BANKRUPTCY.--(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner EvaNs.)
The COMM was principally occupied in hearing summonses under
the new Act. In one case a judgment-paper was produced ; the
judgment had been entered up for the nominal sum stated in the de-
claration, which was above the actual amount ot the debt.
The Learned COMMISSIONER refused to admA it in evi-
dence, and the summons was therefore dismissed, leaving the plain-
tiff to amend the judgment.
In another case, a defendant did not appear, but had sent a letter
to the plaintiff's solicitor admitting the service of the summons, and
offering to pay the amount by instalments. The plaintiff pressed for
an immediate order.
The Learned COMMISSIOI•IER. said that the point was, 'whether he
was not bound to commit him for not appearing, and should do so
on an affidavit of debt and service of the summons being put in.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
William May, a man of decent appearance, with his arm in a sling,
was charged with begging.
William Rainey, one of the constables belonging to the Mendicity
Society, stated that about eight o'clock last evening, he saw the pri-
soner beg of several gentlemen in Pall-mall. Witness overheard him
make a statement of his having met with an accident and broken his
arm, and that he had but just come out of the Westminster Hospital.
On searching him Is. l Id. in money was found in his pockets, and
also a quantity of broken victuals.
Mr. IleanwicK asked the defendant if he wished to say anything
in answer to the charge against him ?—The defendant said it was
true he was begging, as the constable had described, but he was in-
duced to do so to make up a sufficient sum to purchase this: morn-
ing, being market morning, some fruit to sell about the streets, to
support in an honest manner his wife and two children.
The constable said he had made inquiries, and had ascertained that
the prisoner had not been either an in or out patient of Westminster
Hospital.
The prisoner said that part of the representation he had made to
obtain charity was certainly false, but he was induced to do so by the
fact of his having just returned from transportation. He was sen-
tenced to seven years' banishment, but after serving four years and a
half he obtained his discharge, and was returning to his wife and
family, whom he had left in London. When at Portsmouth he broke
his arm, and was obliged to go into the hospital there.
Mr. HARDWICK asked how his wife and children had been supported
while he was away from them ? The prisoner said his wife had
worked for their maintenance in the best way she could.
The wife and the two children were brought forward in the Court
Their clothing, though ragged, was remarkably clean. The elder.
child was a very fine-grown girl, about nine years of age, and the
youngest a strong healthy boy, about seven. The wife said she had
Worked hard to support the children and herself, while her husband
was'absent, and if he now could sell a little fruit about the streets, they
might manage to obtain a livelihood without troubling the parish.
Mr. HARDWICK said that begging could d not be permitted under any
circumstances, but in this case the prisoner should have the benefit
of the circumstances under which he was placed.
He was ordered to be discharged, with a caution not to be brought
before the Court again.
The prisoner, with much emotion, expressed his thanks for his
release.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.--A young lady, Miss Pear-
gia, residing in Gloucester-place, Portman-square, yesterlay received
a serious accident on the head from the falling of a flower-pot. While
returning from Hyde Park, through Park-street, Grosvenor• square, a
large slower-pot was blown down, and struck Miss Pearson on
the right side of the head. She was rendered insensible from the
blow, and was carried into the house from whence the pot fell.
ppople cannot be too careful in squalll weather of havlug flbwer-
pots on win:UW-014 is a rieVare