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

MARKET IN E tv HIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNE4'DAY
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 tree Foreign Wheat was comparatively
small, while the sale for it was firm, 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 o..ts there was a very steady Inquiry, and prices
wire well supported. Beaus and Peas were quite as dear, while the
value'of Flour 'had an upward tendency.
Barley.
280 qrs.
330

Wheat.
1,830 grs,

Engliih
I ..
Foreign

Oils: I Flour.
460 gra 2,290 sks.
4,210 I -
3,619

16,070
Mal

.:74
It, 1,860 qrs.
,ply of each kind of Meat, yet the de-
full prices. Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 6d;
48 8d t, 5s 6d ; Veal, 4s to ss; and
Lhd c arcase.

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We had a full average 74:
mand wits tolerably steady at
utton, 3s 4d to 4s 6tl ; Lamb,
Pork, 3s to 4s 4d per 81bs. by t;

EAST INDIA HO SE--(THIS DAY.)

The Directors Ana 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 Ifabeer 011 a Dawen
Metaram and Dewan Diarann, deputed to this country by the ex-
.Aineers of Sinde ; and also to hear certain charges preferred against
Ovans, 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 ,o 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 Wiliock and his friends a
scene of indescribable confusion ensued, the Chairman ordering the
Host. Proprietor to vacate the chair, which the latter resisted, on the
ground that no chairman had yet been elected by, the meeting.
The cflicers 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 Gazelce, wh., with half a dozen more, were speak-
ing at once, but as nearly as we could judge, the Learned Sergeant
• was entering a protest against the proceedings.
nence being. somewhat restored by the clerk reading the minutes
of the last meeting,

Mr.. Sergeant GAZELEE then rose t- and said that he wished to speak
on a question of privilege which involved in the highest degree the
vitality of that Court. Ile was surprised to find that the Directors
had, ou a previous day, revived a rule which had been
for mapy years esteemed obsolete, for the purpose of ex-
ending• the public tYom the gallery. Now, before concluding
with, a resolution, he would endeavonr to show, in the
first phice, that the rule itself was worthleas; and secondly,
that even supposing it good, It did not apply to this case. lie (Mr.
Soi'geant. Gazelee) would be the very last to refuse every courtesy to
'the:lion. Baronet who then tilled the chair, but ho had yet to learn
why he-clahned it as a matter of right.. Be (Mr. Sergeant Gazelee)
aflirmed 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 ? lie 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 w.,uld 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 hye-law it was ordained that no Proprietor, unless possessed
of stock to.the amount of 5001., could be permitted to conic into
=Coda.- 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 01 their bye-law about Proprietors holaing 5001. stock
only being allhwed to be present ? The Don. Proprietor then cited
a case of a bye-law of last century, providing that no Proprietor
holding an office of emolument under,lite. COvernmetit should be a
tdreetor, being decided against by entitle:tit legal authorities. on the
ground that no departure could take place from the original charter
without an Act of Parliament. Under these circumstances he was
astonished at the exclusion of the public. Ile was surprised at the
Dlr.:tors doing so. In this free country it was the boasted privilege
thattieliberations 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 ca. rying on their proceedings in secret.
The people of this country, he was satisfied, would net tolerate it. Re
would conclude by moving that the 'gallery as heretofore be open to
the, public.

]tr. GEORGE THOMPSON, and another Proprietor, simultaneously se-
conded the motion. •

The CHAIRMAN said that he and the Directors beside hi .n had no
desire that this debate should be conducted with closed doors, and
the fact that such a course was adopti.d arose simply from the cir-
cumstance that on a late occasion a Pioprietor 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 upon 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.—(llear.)
Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON supported at some length the motion of
Hr. Sergeant Gazelee, on the ground of the illegality of the bye-law.
When Ile came to the door of the theatre, he saw outside a notice,
that Proprietors holding 5001. 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
titan they had to come to his dwelling and deprive him of any of
his domestic comforts. He was sure such an exclusion of the smaller
l'roprietors could not be supported in a court of law if a
mandamus were taken out against that notice of exclusion.
He appealed to the legal knowledge .:f many of the Directors pre-
tent, 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 Hon. Proprietor concluded by in-
treating the Court to rescind the bye-law. If they maintained it he
would disqualify himself; ha would become a proprietor of 4501. stock,
and let them exclude him if they dared. He spoke not in menace,
but hi sober earnestness, standing on the law, and the protection
which the Charter gave
Hr. HOOO, M.P., said that there was not the slightest disposition
on .he 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
itll persons from the streets. The House of Commons was not Indis-
criminately opened, and in that Court admission could be obtained
in a inn-liar manlier. If, therefore, any gentleman chose to send in
his card toile 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 Directors on
these matters. rie 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 GAZELE23, after the explanation given by the Chair-
man with reference to the admission of the public to the gallery,
withdrew his motion.

TIIE RAJA OF SATTARA.
Mr. Grottca THOMPSON then, in a speech of considerable length,
moved for 'a Select Committee to inquire into the conduct of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Ovans during the period that he tilled the office of
Resident at the Court of Sattara.

(Tho 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 COURT 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 01 the debt.
The Learned CommissioNEß refused to actin t it in evi-
dence, and the summons was therefore dismissed, leaving the plain-
tiff :o 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 COMMISSIONER 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 mtt with an accident and broken his
arm, and that be had but just come out of the Westminster Hospital.
On searching him Is. lid. in money was found in his pockets, and
also a quantity of broken victuals. '

31r. 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 tile 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 pr:soner 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-
tcneed 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. 111.111:mica asked how his wife and children had been supported
while he was away from them ? The prisoner said his wife had
Worked for their maintenaLce 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
w. rked hard to support the children and herself, while her husband
wasabsent, and If he now could sell a little fruit about the streets, they
Might manage to obtain a livelihood without troubling the parish.
Mr. Ilsanwtcx said that begging could 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 emotien, expressed his thanks for his
release.

SERIOUS A CCIDENT.—A young lady, Miss Pear-
son, residing in Gloucester-place, Portman-square, yester lay 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 tiower-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.
eople cannot be too careful in !Tally weattor of Iljn Bower.
11* can wirderso-siils in a fCtuie poetical,