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EAST INDIA HOUSE, OCT. 25, 1t34,3,
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice—
That the TRANSFER BOOKS of the said COMPANY'S
STOCK will be SHUT on TUESDAY, sth December, at
Three o'Clock, and OPENED again on TUESDAY, the 113th
January, 1844.
That the WARRANTS for the DIVIDENDS of the said
STOCK, parable on Saturday, the 6th January, 1644, Ander
the 11th Sec. of the Act 3d and 4th Will. IV., Cap. 85, will
be ready to be delivered on that day.
JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, JAN. 10, 1844.
PHE COURT of DIRECTORS of the
EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice,
That a GENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY will
be held at their House in Leadenhall-streot, on WEDNESDAY,
the 24th :Instant, from Nine o'Clock in the Alorning until
Six in the Evening, for the ELECTION of a DIRECTOR
of the said Company in the room of William Stanley Clarke,
Esq., deceased.
That the Form of a Letter of Attorney, and of a Declaration,
for enabling Proprietors of East India Stock to Vote by Prexy
on this occasion, may be obtained upon application at the
Treasury in this House.
JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
WHEN I had the honour to address you on the
let instant, the result of my canvass at that time led
me to look forward to the probability of success on the approach-
ing election.
Having now, however, ascertained that I shall not be able
to pod a majority of votes, though my relative numbers are very
considerable, I feel it due, no less to my numerous kind friends,
than to my opponent, Major Oliphant, to intimate that it is
not my intention to proceed to the ballot in the present vacancy.
I desire to tender the most grateful acknowledgements to my
kind and numerous friends, and I feel assured that the course
which I have adopted will be approved by them, and by the great
majority of the Proprietors, and I have only to crave their sup-
port on the very nest vacancy which may present itself.
I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your faithful servant,
JOHN CLARMONT WHITEMAN.
London Tavern, Jan. 10, 1844.

TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
THE Chairman of Mr. Whiteman's Committee
has just intimated to me that it is not Mr. Whiteman's
intention to offer any further opposition to my being elected to
the present vacant seat in the East India Direction.
I hasten, therefore, to convey my warmest and most grateful
acknowledgements to my valued friends and supporters who
have placed me in this position, and to inform them that the
election is fixed for WEDNESDAY, the 24th instant, on which
day I respectfully solicit the presence of as many of the Pro-
prietors as may find it convenient to honour me with their
countenance and support.
I have the honour to be, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your faithful and obliged servant,
London Tavern, Jan. 10, 1844. J. OLIPHANT.

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TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
PIM Election of Major Oliphant to succeed to the
1 present vacancy in the direction of your affairs being se-
cured by the withdrawal of his only opponent, Captain White-
Evan, confirms the view of the probable issue of the contest ex-
pressed by me in my address to you of the Ist instant. A large
and influential body of independent Proprietors, who have pro-
mised me their support, being thus released from their engage-
ments, I have, therefore, the honour to announce my determi-
nation to proceed to the ballot on the next vacancy.
The constitution of the East India Company being no longer
commercial, but political, the great object of the Government
of India ought to be the moral and physical advancement of oar
fnclian fellow-subjects. An intimate acquaintance with their
languages, manners, and customs, and a practical knowledge of
India, are consequently the most essential qualifications for
those aspiring to a share in the administration of our vast
eastern empire.
Under these circumstances, having filled various responsible
situations in India, during a period of fifteen years, I respect-
fully offer myself as a Candidate for your suffrages on the first
vacancy, assuring you that having no other pursuit, should I
be successful, I will devote myself exclusively to the discharge
of the important duties entrusted to me, and to the promotion
of the best interests of the people of India.
I have the honour to be, with great respect,
. Your faithful and obedient servant,
W. J. EAST WICK.
London, 22, Sloane-street, Jan. 10, 1844.

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" How best the fickle fabric to support
Of mortal man; in healthful body how
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At home daily till two; evenings, from seven till nine.

DREADFUL MURDER OF TWO
CHILDREN, AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

Yesterday evening, shortly before six o'clock, the parish of
St. Paul, Deptford, was thrown into an extraordinary state of
excitement, by the discovery of a horrid murder in Giffen-
street, Deptford.
It appears that the father of the hapless children, whose
name is John Fawley Dickenson, returned home from London
soon after five o'clock, having been in town all day on private
business, when, on going into the back parlour to meet his wife
and children, he found her with her throat cut, lying with her
head towards the foot of the bed, weltering in her blood, but
still alive; and, en getting a light, he discovered his two chil-
dren, one aged IS months, and the other two years, lying at
their mother's feet, next the head of the bed, with their throats
so dreadfully cut that life must have become almost immediately
afterwards extinct. In this dreadful state of things he ran out
and informed the police, when Ewing, 160 R, Sergt. Lowell, 15
R, and Sergt. Roscoe, R, entered the premises, and immedi-
ately sent for Dr. Arthur, the parish surgeon, and another gen-
tleman, who came at once to the scene of horror, sewed up the
wound in the unhappy woman's throat, and bandaged it. By
this time the churchwardens, &c., had arrived and searched
he place, and, after some time, they found a razor covered
with blood, and with which the fatal tragedy had been enacted.
The name of the father is John Fawley Dickenson, recently
carrying on the business of a licensed victualler at the Peter-
borough Arms, Parson's-green, Fulham, where, it is under-
stood, he was unfortunate. His wife's name was March, and
formerly lived at Kensington. The deceased children's names
are Jane Eliza and George. At the time of the dreadful event
Mr. Dickenson was keeping a lodging at No. 5, Giffen-street.
In some boxes and drawers were found an immense number of
pawnbrokers' duplicates for articles pledged at Bermondsey,
Horselydown, Knightsbridge, and Kensington, and it is therefore
evident that the family had been supported by such means for
some time past.
The following part of a letter was found in a box by the bed-
side :—" Dear Sir,—l now write to you for the last time.
You said last night it was my fault, it was owing to my own
misconduct, that I was now in my present distress; but that I
deny. I say now, and always shall say, that you were the
cause of my downfal at the Peterborough Arms. lam com-
pelled to write to you, as I could not express myself to you last
night. I now wish to know if you will be so kind as to pay my
rent for me?"

The repoker heard Dickenson's wife say to the surgeon,
police, and churchwarden that she did the deed herself. Some
brandy and water and also warm tea was poured into her mouth,
which revived her a little, and enable.] her to speak in a low
tone. Mr. Dickenson, in a most distracted state, was removed
to the Union for personal safety. Two policemen are left to
sit up and watch the unhappy woman.

CRUEL PUNISHMENT BY A
SC HOOLMASTER.

CIIELTINITANI, JAN. 9.—Cheltenham and the adjoining
village of Wincheomb and neighbourhood have, during the last
three days, been gainfully excited in consequence of a very pre-
valent rumour that Master Conrad Algernon Carter, the
youngest son of Giles Carter, Esq., solicitor, of Winchcomb,
who was an exceedingly promising youth, of twelve years of
age, had come by his death in consequence of the severity of
punishment which had been administered to him by Mr. Charles
Lapworth, the master of the endowed grammar school at that
place. Information of this circumstance having come to the
knowledge of the Coroner, that gentleman deemed it his duty
to hold an inquest on the body.
Mr. Carter, the father of the deceased, deposed that his son,
who was twelve years of age, had attended the endowed
school at Winchcomb for three years, and he was a fine
talented lad. Previous to the month of March last he en-
joyed most excellent health, had good spirits, and was of a
robust constitution. During the latter part of that month,
the master, Mr. Lapworth, for a very slight transgression,
corrected him in a cruel manner. He beat him about the
head, shoulders, and arms, until the lad was one mass of
bruises, and he fell on the school-room floor from exhaustion,
and fainted away in consequence of the severity of the punish-
ment inflicted. The boy's health from that period was broken,
and early in the month of April he was confined to his bed.
In May sores and ulcers broke out all over his body, and in
the neck, which corresponded with the marks inflicted by the
punishment. Witness said his son continued unwell from the
nay his master beat him until the month of September last,
when he became rapidly worse, and on the 31st of December
death put a period to his sufferings.
The Coroner and jury had caused the body to be opened, in
order to have a post mortem examination, and to have medical
testimony of the cause of death.
Mr. Hawkins, surgeon, of Cheltenham, found the body, but
more particularly the neck, ulcerated to a very great extent ;
but after the most minute and anxious examination he was of
opinion that the immediate cause of death was ulceration of the
lungs. It was impossible to say what was the exciting cause of
the disease, or whether it originated in the punishment de-
ceased had received from his schoolmaster.
The jury returned the following special verdict:—" They
find that the deceased, Conrad Algernon Carter, died of disease
of the lungs ; but the jury cannot separate, after returning
their verdict, without expressing their high sense of disappro-
bation of the conduct of Mr. Lapworth, the schoolmaster,
towards the deceased in March last, when he inflicted an ex-
tent of corporal punishment on him which was unwarrantable,
and done in a manner the most discreditable. The jurors also
consider that after the deceased was allowed by his parents to
return to school (although in had health) after the Midsummer
holidays, at the particular wish of the school committee, in
order to restore harmony and good feeling, the orders given by
the schoolmaster, Lapworth, to the other boys, not to associate with
or speak to the deceased, as they had formerly done, was cruel,
imprudent, and injudicious in the extreme, and by no means
calculated to reconcile parent or child."

A GINNT PUDDING.—A plum-pudding, purchased
by subscription, weighing two hundred and ninety pounds, mea-
suring six feet in length, five feet in circumference, and which
took thirty hours in boiling, was carried in procession through
the pleasant little village of Aughton, near this town, headed
by a band of music, on Tuesday last, and, after having been
submitted for some time to the inspection of the curious, was
cut up and disposed of among a host of rustic visitors, who had
flocked to the village, on account of its being the day when tho
annual sports take place. The boiler in which it was cooked_ is
a copper one, made for the purpose of boiling willows for basket
makers, and from this boiler, the idea of the monster puddings
eriginated, this being the third which has been cooked in it.
When the pan was first put down about forty years ago, an in-
habitant of the village, named Christopher Beetham, jocularly
remarked, " that it would boil a rare puddinr, for a plough-
man." This conceit so tickled the fancy of four or five gen-
tlemen farmers present, that they determined to have a pudding
made as large as the boiler would contain, and that a similar
specimen of the pudding tribe should issue from the same caul-
dron, every fi Aeon or twenty years. They furnished the neces-
sary funds, and the first pudding was boiled en the 2d of Janu-
ary, 1602 ; the second on the 2d of January, 1819 ; and the
third on Tuesday last.—Lancaster Guardian.

THE DUKE OF BORDEAUX'S
VISIT TO ENGLAND.

The following is a full report of M. Guizot's
speech (ot which we gave an outline on Wednes-
day), relative to the court paid by Frenchmen to
the Duke of Bordeaux. It appears he intended
to remain silent after the candid and honest
speech of the Duke of Richelieu, but was com-
pelled to reply to the remarks of another
speaker :
The Marquis de Verne thought that the last phrase
of the first paragraph of the Address appeared to him to
attack both the dignity of the Chamber and the inde-
pendence of its members. Was there, in fact, in the
conduct of any one of them, anything that ought to
excite the disdain which the Committee had deemed it
necessary to express. In 1830, a Royal child, the loyal
heir to a throne, had been included in the exile of his
family. What reproaches had one to address to the young
and chief victim of the fatal ordonnances? Providence had
preserved that Royal child (noise, murmurs), and brought
him to man's estate. He wished to gain information
by visiting various countries, and for two years he had
been travelling through Europe. At present he was in
England. What was he doing there? Was he endea-
vouring to form a party? Was he calling around him
adventurers and men at arms? No such thing. A few
friends had crossed the Channel to express to him their
respect and affection. One of the great men of the age,
M. de Chateaubriand, led the way, and after him 2,000
or 3,000 Frenchmen of all conditions.—(Loud disappro-
bation, marks of denial.) He repeated his assertion-
-2,000 or 3,000 other Frenchmen had imitated M. de
Chateaubriand. Who would dare blame their proceed-
ings? He would affirm loudly that the progress of civi-
lisation would prevent all blame or punishment falling
on the meeting of the noblest sentiments around the
most respectable misfortune.—(Noise and interruption.)
His conscience as a Peer of France impelled him to ex-
press himself thus, and to call for the removal of the last
lines of the first paragraph.
M. Guizot observed that he had not thought it neces-
sary to speak after the Duke de Richelieu, for ho had
endeavoured to withdraw from the act in question all
political importance—he had represented it as an act of
personal gratitude, of respect to misfortune. A man
might testify respect to misfortune, and yet fail in other
duties. Respect is due to this world to other things
besides misfortune, and men had other duties as well as
that suggested by gratitude. The Duke de Richelieu's
address to the Chamber called for no reply ; but it was
quite a different thing with the words just uttered. The
sentiments of the address are, in the latter case, com-
pletely attacked, and a proposition has been made to re-
trench part of the first phrase. The sentiments of the
address expressed the duties of the Peers and the duties
of the Government. The Government intended to up-
hold them, and to remain faithful to them.

The Marquis De Verac had demanded merely the re-
moval of two phrases alluding to a party improperly
attacked.

M. Guirot—lt was of that party (the Legiti:nists)
that he was about to speak. He would not in any way
elude the question. The various Governments in France
since the Revolution had seen many culpable acts of
parties with a most tolerant eye ; but at the same time
they had used a proper share of vigilance. The present
Government had not attempted to exercise any exagge-
rated surveillance over the Prince, to whom allusion had
been made ; but when his presence in one of the great
capitals of Europe appeared to involve one of two con-
sequences—either to place the French Ambassador in a
false position, or to furnish matter for exciting men's
passions—they at once declared that such a position
could not last, and that if it was persisted in, the pre-
sence of the Ambassador appeared to them neither
suitable nor possible. They declared that at Vienna in
1841, at Dresden in 1842, at Berlin in 1843, and every-
where, the declaration was received as a natural and
legitimate consequence of their international inter-
course. Everywhere the complaints thus made
were attended to. When the Duke de Bordeaux
arrived in England, a similar position was foreseen.
England was a country of great liberty and great pub-
licity. The Government was aware that the English
Government was not armed against the consequences
which they had treated of elsewhere, but at the same
time they had a right to reckon on its loyal friendship.
Their hopes in that respect had not been deceived. The
Queen of England refused to receive the Duke de Bor-
deaux, and by that step gave a striking proof of her dis-
pleasure, and of her disapprobation of the political
colour that was attempted to be given to this journey,
and the consequences that might be drawn from it.
After this resolution of the Queen not to receive either
in public or private the Duke de Bordeaux, scenes took
place in Belgrave-square, to which he should intention-
ally apply the epithet of scandalous ; yes, scandalous,
in the eyes of all men of sense or worth in every
country. It was the duty of the Government to demand
from the English Government if they had no means of
putting down what had been forbidden elsewhere—what
would not have been tolerated in any part of Europe.
The reply was, that they had no legal means of doing
so ; but they at the same time expressed their
profound displeasure, and openly manifested it to
them and to others, declaring that they found
the scenes alluded to absolutely scandalous, and they
excited their severe reprobation. It was all that it was
possible for them to do, or the French Government to
ask for. But a grave fact, which the whole of Europe
was struck with as well as we, was the disappearance of
the quality of an unfortunate Prince travelling for im-
provement, and in its place the title of Pretender to the
throne of France—of Pretender, in virtue of a right
which since 1830 no French subject living under the laws
can for an instant allow to appear. The Government
knew that in those matters, there was neither for the
Government nor the King any danger; the King's Go-
vernment was based on too wide and sure a foundation—
it had too deeply identified itself with the great national
interests and sentiments, to fear that any party could
place it in danger. The experience of thirteen years
did not allow any doubt to exist on the point—they
had surmounted many perils of far greater extent—
had overcome factions sometimes separately, and at
others united together—all this they had done, not by
their own merit, but by the strength of the natural
position of the Government.—(Loud cries of " Hear.")
They, therefore, felt no uneasiness, but other consi-
derations ought to occur to them. The Legitimist party
had sent to London a certain number of their adherents.

He did not hesitate to affirm that amongst those who
had set out to render homage to an exiled Prince—now
become a Pretender—many had gone, with regret very
possibly, but most undoubtedly without being actuated
by any ♦ery ardent desire—from being at all influenced
by such or such a journal—without, in fact, any real
political conviction.—(Hear, hear.) The meetings that
were spoken of had been as frivolous as noisy. Had it
not been well known that the proceedings were of an
unimportant character, the Chamber might be certain
that far fewer persons would have gone to London. He
would go farther, and would ask, did his hearers suppose
that they of the Legitimist party, who acted in a differ-
ent manner—they who, being Peers or Deputies, ab-
stained from going, did not deeply deplore and loudly
blame what had occurred at London ? He had no hesi-
tation in affirming that by far the greater portion of the
Legitimist party blamed energetically what had just been
lauded in the Chamber. There were, doubtless, to be
found in the Legitimist party many busybodies, but
there are also many men of sense ; there are many who
could conciliate their regrets or their affections with
their duties as citizens ; those sincerely deplored the
scenes which had lately occurred in London. He
was very sure that there was in those no
danger for the Government. Whether he considered
the mass of the nation, or the Legitimist Eparty,
he had good reason to say that the facts had nothing
in them of an alarming character. Why, then,
should they concern themselves with them ? Why,
because in this world, Gentlemen, there was something
else besides danger ; because it was not the question of
existence alone that should engage them. There was an
insult, a great insult—a political and moral insult.
There was an enormous insult in the affair, for it in-
•olved with some a forgetfulness of their first duties.
There was here no question of an oath, for an oath was
not necessary to enforce the duties of obedience and
submission to the laws of one's country ; and when
those were openly and arrogantly neglected—when, so
to speak, parade was made of that neglect, the disorder
was immense—the insult of the most enormous descrip-
tion ; for it was scandalous for a party to escape from
the laws of his country to go and abuse the liberty of
a foreign country. This step might compromise the
good harmony which prevailed between the two nations
—it 'night bring about embarrassments, the danger
of which it was difficult to foresee. This conduct, he
could not too often repeat, was an insult which must
cause uneasiness to all Governments, whoever they
might be, and which they should visit at least by a
severe censure. This was a plain and simple expression of
facts, awl facts which they could not fail to consider a great
evil. He believed that the Legitimist party, like every
other old party in the country, united by deeply-rooted
sentiments and beliefs, reckoned amongst its members
men animated by noble and good feelings ; but the
wisest, the most moderate, and the best intentioned in

all parties, allowed themselves to be rxceeded by poli-
tical busy bodies. In fact, to use a vulgar expression,
" the tail ran away with the head."—(Loud marks of
approbation.) What was the duty of the Government in
such a situation ? It was, doubtless, to protect the men
of sense against those mischief-makers. This duty they
would, with the assistance of the Chambers, strictly
fulfil. There was another evil which was produced by
such manifestations as these, and, in order to produce
this great evil, it was not necessrry that a revolution
should break out, or a civil war be organised. It was a
great evil when discord was instilled into men's minds,
when extinguished animosities were revived, when ancient
prejudices and passions were again roused. This was what
might have resulted from a step which the conclusion of
the first paragraph of the Address wished to censure.
Were they aware that it was not, perhaps, very
ditlicult ;,0 revive in Franco revolutionary sentiments ?