The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-16 00:00:00

SHIPS WITH INDIA.

" Preamble.—NVl;ereareiiiTaTion was made and
passed by the Court of Directors of the East India
Company, and transmitted to India by a dispatch dated
the 28th day of July, 1837, and promulgated by the Su-
preme Government on the 29th day of December, 1837,
for rescinding and re-enacting, with modification, cer-
tain provisions contained in a regulation made and passed
by the said Court of Directors on the 12th of August,
1829, for regulating the trade of foreign nations with
the ports and settlements of the British nation in the
East Indies ; and whereas doubts have arisen as to the
true intent and meaning of certain parts of such regula-
tions, and it is expedient that such doubts should be re-
moved, the Court of Directors of the said Company, by
virtue of the powers granted to them by the Act passed
in the 37th year of the reign of his late Majesty King
George 111., entitled An Act for regulating the trade
to be carried on with the British possessions in India by
the ships of nations in amity with his Majesty," have
rescinded the whole of the said regulations, and in lieu
thereof have framed the following regulations :
" Foreign ships belonging to any State or country in
Europe, or in America, so long as such States or coun-
tries respectively remain in amity with her Majesty, may
freely enter the British sea-ports and harbours in the
East Indies, whether they come directly from their own
country, or from any other places, and shall be there
hospitably received, and shall have liberty to trade there
in imports and exports, conformably to the regulations
established, or to be established, in such sea-ports ; pro-
vided that it shall not be lawful for the said ships to re•
ceive goods on board at one British port of India, to be
conveyed to another British port of India, on freight or
otherwise, but nevertheless the inward cargoes of such
ships may be discharged at different British ports, and
the outward cargoes of such ships may be laden at dif-
ferent British ports for their foreign destinations; and pro-
vided further, that it shall not be lawful for the said ships
in time of war between the British Government and any
State or Power whatsoever, to export from the said
British territories, without the special permission of the
British Government, any military or naval stores, salt-
petre, or grain.

" J. P. GRANT, Officiating
Secretary of the Government of India.' "

DEATH OF SIR ROBERT ANDREWS DOUGLAS, BART.
—We have to record the death of Sir Robert An-
drews Douglas, Bart., of Glenbervie, which took place
at the Mauritius on the Ist November last, where he
was in command of the reserve battalion 12th Regi-
ment. Lady Douglas, with her three infant chil-
dren, arrived from England only two days before the
sad event. The deceased Baronet was eldest son of
the late General Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, who as-
sumed the name and arms of Douglas by sign manual,
and married the daughter of the late Joshua Rouse,
Esq., of Southampton, by whom he has a sun, Robert,
born 1837, and two other childern.
CORONER'S INQUEST.--DREADFUL DESTITUTION.

—Mr. Payne held an inquest yesterday evening at the
workhouse of the West London Union, West•street,
Smithfield, on view of the body of Dominic Cousins,
aged 58. Police-constable Joseph Dunney, No. 258, stated
that about three o'clock on Thursday afternoon last, de-
ceased came to the station-house in Smithfield, just at the
time witness was taking in a prisoner. He asked leave to
come into the station-house and lie down. Witness
told him that could not be allowed, and directed
deceased to go the workhouse in West Smithfield.
Witness
_subsequently took deceased to the work-

house. That Was only a few minutes afterwards.
He told witness that he had a wife in a madhouse.
He said also that he was a cabinet maker and a
foreigner. George Henry Davies, a porter at the West
London union workhouse, said that he saw deceased
on his being brought in, and was with him up to the
hour of his death, which took place about seven
o'clock the following (Friday) morning. Deceased
had some tea and bread and butter, and was put to
bed almost as soon as he was brought to the work-
house. He appeared to be dreadfully ill, and in a very
emaciated state. He could hardly speak, and gasped
for breath. By Mr. Ray's order, the parish surgeon,
he had several glasses of port wine, and also some
medicine given him. Mr. Ray attended him several
times in the course of Thursday night. At first he ap-
peared to rally, but he gradually sunk, and every effort
to save him proved ineffectual. Deceased evidently died
from exhaustion. From a paper found in his hat at the
time he was brought to the workhouse, it appeared that
he had been a patient of the Royal Free Hospital not
long before. After some deliberation, the jury returned
a verdict that deceased died a natural death, brought on
by want and exhaustion.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 14.—A public meeting was held
on Friday evening, at Wesley Chapel, in this town, for
the purpose of affording an introduction to the deputa-
tion of the Free Church of Scotland—the Rev. Patrick
Fairbairn and the Rev. James MEenzie. A large body
of Dissenters assembled on the occasion, but the chapel
was not so full as the subject might from its novelty
have occasioned, and the exertions which were adopted
to get up the meeting. The deputation intend visiting
every town in the country ; and, from the large number
of Dissenters therein, the contributions are likely to be
considerable.

BRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM.—Yesterday, the 33d
Annual General Meeting of the subscribers to this
Society took place at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-
street, Mr. S. B. Brook in the chair. The Report, after
congratulating the subscribers on the continued pros-
perity of the charity, stated that the Society's asylum
had lately been enlarged at a cost of 1,7861., about 4881.
of which still remained to be paid off. During the past
year 13 orphans had been received into the asylum, and
17, of whom 13 had completed their education, had left
and obtained situations. The number received since the
commencement of the year had been 78, of whom 53
were boys and 21 girls. The Committee had to announce
that his Royal Highness the Duke. of Cambridge had
become Vice-Patron of the institution, and that the
amount subscribed at the last anniversary dinner, at
which his Royal Highness presided, was 545/. During
the day an election of seven children out of a list of 23
took place.
THAMES TUNNEL.—Last week 27,556 persons paid
toll at the tunnel.
The workmen in every branch of the scissor manu-
facture in Sheffield have commenced the new year by a
general strike for advance Qf wages•

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