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was wanting to prove that the prisoner had cut Lady
Malcolm's bag. He would leave it to the Magistrate
whether her attendance was not requisite to substan-
tiate the case.

EAST INDIA
.HOUSE.

(THIS DAY.)

Major Malcolm made an observation to the Magi&
trate, and

COURT OF PROPRIETORS.
The General Quarterly Court of the Proprietors
Of East India Stock was held this morning at twelve
o'clock, in the Court-room at the#East India House,
in Leadenhall-street ; Sir James 'L. Lushington,
Chairman of the Court of Directors, in the chair.
The minutes of the proceedings of the last Court were
read by the Secretary.
The CHAIRMAN laid before the Court the accounts
for the quarter.

Mr. ltAwmxsoN said, that as Lady Malcolm was
of advanced age, and the contents of the bag were
found uninjured, he should dismiss the prisoner this
time, but he might rest assured that the police would
have their eyes upon him for the future.
Mr. Payne—You have had a narrow escape, Sir;
take care of yourself after this.

WELCH MUTTON AND PORK.—For a considerable
time past the carts of nearly all the Montgomeryshire
and .Merionethshire carriers have been filled with hind
quarters of small Welch mutton, destined for the
London market, which arc sold in this town at 4d. per
pound, and of which the London coaches almost daily
carry very considerable loads. The quantity thus
sent, owing to the lowness of the price, has vastly in-
creased this season ; and as it can be carried to Lon-
don from this town for id. per pound, may be sold
there for 6d., and afford a fair profit, although
we believe the price demanded there is very
much higher. The trade in Welch pigs
has also lately assumed a degree of import-
ance suited to the vast amount of capital
drawn into Wales by the superior tending and
feeding, which renders pork reared in the Principality
superior to much that is fattened elsewhere. In Shrop-
shire several extensive dealers have recently sent
agents into Merioneth, Montgomery, and Radnor
shires, who remain there during the autumn and
winter, purchasing at the doors of the feeders all the
fat pigs they can procure at prices ruled by Shrews-
bury fairs, and taking them away in light spring
waggons, by which they are conveyed to Shrews-
bury at a very trifling outlay either of time or money,
and thence proceed either by the river Severn or in
vans to the densely-peopled districts of the collieries
and ironworks. In the course of October, November,
and December, hundreds of these pigs, weighing from
10 to 25 score pounds each, weekly reach Shrews-
bury, and are mostly taken off into Staffordshire by
the canal, or into the lower parts of Shropshire and
Worcestershire by the Severn .—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
EXTRAORDINARY FIRE.—On Monday week, before
daybreak as the London mail was approaching Hunt-
ley, a village between Gloucester and Ross, the guard,
in passing a van loaded with goods, discovered some-
thing on fire inside the waggon, and immediately
called and gave the alarm to the driver, who quickly
climbed up the side of the vehicle, removed the tar-
paulin, when the flames burst out with great violence.
The horses becoming much frightened, started off at
full gallop, and with such speed that the guard of the
snail was obliged to call out to the coachman several
times, to enable them to keep a-head of the fiery
vehicle in the rear, which blazed away for several
miles, the affrighted animals galloping at the top of
their speed; till the whole of the goods, which consisted
of hops, grocery, and drapery, and the body of the
waggon, were totally consumed. The driver of the
van is severely burnt, and the value of the goods con-
sumed is very considerable.
ACCIDENT TO LORD WORSLEY, M.P.—We under-
stand that Lord Worsley is suffering from the severe
injuries he received on Saturday week, by being
thrown from his horse when out hunting. It appears
that his Lordship, on losing his seat, was thrown, and
his horse fell upon him, by which he received some
contusions, which happily are not so serious as was at
first anticipated. However, such were the injuries
sustained in the fall, that his Lordship, by accounts
received from Manby Hall on Monday, was still com-
pelled to keep his chamber, and it is likely some weeks
will elapse before the Noble Lord will be able to
again resume the sports of the field. His Lordship
and Lady Worsley were to have left Manby for
Brocklesby this week, but, in consequence of the ac-
cident, their removal has been deferred for the present.
DISTRESS AND DESTITUTION.—We are sorry to
have to record the death of a poor man named Cold-
well, who died on Saturday last from sheer destitu-
tion. From the evidence on the inquest, it appeared
the deceased had been long out of work, and subsisted
by the kindness of neighbours almost as poor as him-
self. On Saturday he attended prayers at the Ca-
tholic chapel, and was found in a kneeling posture,
immediately after the service, a corpse. It seems
strange, that in a town where charity is ever going
about seeking to do good, that this poor fellow's dis-
tress should have escaped observation and been at-
tended with so lamentable a result.—Cheltenham
Examiner. At the inbuest held on Monday, a ver-
dic...f, was returned of " Died fiorn want of the common
necessaries of life."

AFFGHAN WAR.
Mr. SALOMONS rose to bring forward the motion of
which he had given notice, relative to the Affghan war,
more:particularly with regard to the expense attending
that war. He was now enabled to bring it forward
under happier auspices, than he could have done at
the last Court. Now, instead of having to allude to
the desertion of Caubul, lie could refer with plea-
sure to the successes of our arms in that country,
and to the adoption of a line of policy, which sepa-
rated us for ever from any further connexion
with Affghani,tan.—(Hear.) He congratuated the
Court on the adoption of this line of policy. The
Hon. Proprietor then passed a high eulogium on the
conduct of the troops under the command of Generals
Nott and Pollack, and more particularly the glorious
defence of Jellalabad, by Sir Robert Sale, to the
conduct of whose heroic lady a great part of our
successes znignt be attributed. It was impossible to
bring forward his motion without alluding to the
achievements of that army, and he congratulated the
Court of Directors and the British army on
the successes which that army had achieved.
He also congratulated the Court and the country on
the change of policy which had taken place. The
policy of Lord Auckland was a great blunder, and it
was to the honour of the present Government that
they had changed it. He was opposed to what
had seemed to be the policy of the Directors
for some years past, namely, to submit
in everything to the Executive Government. They
should, therefore, review the conduct of the Court of
Directors, and of the Board of Control, in under-
taking this war. He was ',glad the policy
was abandoned, although he did not ap-
prove of the terms on which that change of policy
had been announced by the Governor-General.
The war was one of a European character' and it
was necessary to know if the Directors had taken
those measures for the protection of the natives of
India. It was necessary that they should know all the
protests made against the war, and also what were the
instructions of the Secret Committee to Lord Auckland.
He knew that political questions ought not to be
lightly entertained by this Court, but in a question of
this nature it was the duty of the Court of Proprietors
to interfere, as that Court was better fitted for the
discussion of such questions than Parliament ;
and notwithstanding the war was at an end,
the policy on which it had been undertaken ought
to be discussed; for if it had been undertaken for
European objects, the whole expense of it ought not
to be thrown upon India alone, It was their duty to
watch narrowly the finances of India. In two years
the revenue of India had been deficient five millions,
and judging from what took place at the close of the
Burmese war, there would be every probability of
that deficit increasing. He moved that there be laid
before the next Court a statement of the expense of
the Affghan war, an account of all loans raised to
cover the expenses of that war, and also a copy of the
protest of Mr. Tucker, and any other Director, agains
the war.

Mr. LEWIS seconded the motion.
The CHAIRMAN objected to lay the accounts at pre-
sent before the Court, because they could not pos-
sibly be yet made out accurately ; when they could
be so made out there would be no objection to laying
them before the Court. There had been one loan
raised redeemable at five per cent., to which 3,800,0001.
had been subscribed, and he thought there were no
reasons why further subscriptions should be received.
He certainly objected to the production of the protests.
The motion was then put, and negatived without a

WonuaN ABBEY, BEDFORDSHIRE.—The Duke of
Norfolk arrived on Friday last, from Arundel Castle,
on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford. The
Duchess and the Ladies Howard had previously ar-
rived from Fornham Hall, Suffolk. Dinners, concerts,
and private evening parties will be given, and their
Graces will receive a succession of visitors until the
close of the next month. The Earl and Countess of
Albemrle Lord William Russell, Lord Foley, and
the Hon. Miss Foley, and Lord Charles Russell, have
been among the visitants; and his Royal Highness
the Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of Inverness are
expected on their annual visit to their Graces about
the second week in the ensuing month.
EXTRAOIIDIXARY SUICIDE.—Last evening, at seven
o'clock, Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Edinburgh
Castle, Rhodeswell, Limehouse, on view of the body
of Edward Mullins, sixty-six years of age. Mr. John
Mullins, brother of the deceased, deposed that, on
Monday morning, he called at his house, and not
finding him within, he made search for him, and found
his hat lying on the banks of the Regent's Canal,
which runs at the bottom of the deceased's garden.
Fearing some accident had happened to him, he pro-
cured the drags, and in a short time the body of the
deceased was got out. He was quite dead. Ile had
fastened a bucket round his neck, which he had tied
tight with his handkerchief. The father of the de-

Tased had been drowned about Christmas, forty-three
years ago, and the deceased, at this time of the year,
was always very dejected and low-spirited. At the
full moon be was generally very flighty and wild.
There were two incised wounds on the throat, and
one in the region of the heart, apparently made by a
penknife, but neither of them were held sufficient to
have caused death. There.being no evidence to show
how the deceased came into the water, the Jury re-
turned a verdict of—" Found drowned in the Regent's
Canal."

TILE DUKE or BOURDEAUX.—A letter from Dres-
den, of the 12th instant, given by the Quotidienne, in
announcing the arrival there of the Duke de Bor-
deaux, which we have already mentioned, on a visit
to the King of Saxony upon his Majesty's invitation,
states that the Prince had visited the field of battle at
Culm, in company with General Latour Foissac,
where, in 1813, the General effected his retreat from
superior forces, by cutting his way through the Rus-
sian columns, and bringing the remnant of his regi-
ment back to the French army. The letter adds, that
his Royal Highness was received with every mark of
affection by the Royal Family of Saxony, and that
before he returns to Prague he will visit -Leipsic.—
Galignani.
SUICIDE FROM TIIE WANT OF POWER TO EAT.—
Mr. Baker held an inquest on Monday, at the Coal-
meters Arms, Heath-street, Stepney, on the body of
Robert Campbell, aged 72. From the evidence of the
witnesses, it appeared that the deceased's spirits had
been recently much afflicted by a fear that a com-
plaint, under which he suffered, and which in a great
measure prevented him froth. -eating any solid food,
would eventually cause him to die of starvation. He
often expressed his horror at the idea-of such a death,
and, from the want of power to eat, grew very thin
and emaciated. On the afternoon of the 6th inst. his
wife went out to post a letter, and upon her return in
a few minutes, saw him sitting up in bed and bleed-
ing from a razor wound he had inflicted on his throat.
Mr. Falkner, a surgeon, was called in and attended
him. The surgeon said, that the deceased would have
soon died from the complaint under which he was
labouring, but there was no doubt that the wound in
the throat accelerated his death. He died on Monday
morning. Verdict, " Temporary insanity."
INGENIOUS ROBBERY.--Yesterday the police re•
ceived information that, about eight o'clock on Sunday
evening, two women knocked at the door of the house
of Mr. Johnson, butcher, No. 37, Adam-street, Wrest
Portman-square, and said they smelt fire, and while
the inmates were gone to examine the premises, they
decamped, stealing a great coat, a body coat, and
other articles which were hanging in the passage.
Both were between thirty and forty years of age, one
five feet two inches high and the other taller. Both
were respectably dressed.
At the late Isle of Thanet Agricultural Society's
meeting, an opinion was expressed by Mr. Boys and
several Kactical agriculturists against the use of four-
horse ploughs in the Isle of Thanet, where the use of
one horse might generally be dispensed with. Mr.
Coleman said, he had been over 50,000 or 60,000 acres
of land lately, in his engagements in the apportion-
ment of tithes, and he could say, without fear of con-
tradiction, that this county might produce two bushels
extra per acre if the land were more highly cultivated.
—Kent Paper.
His Serene Highness the Prime of Mecklenburg
Strclitz, and suite, embarked early this morning on
board the General Steam Navigation Company's mail
packet, Countess of Lonsdale, Captain R. S. Stranack,
for Hamburgh,
The Lord Chancellor has been pleased to appoint
Francis Hernaman, Esq., who has been engaged many
years as a banker and merchant at Torquay and New-
ton Abbott, to be an official assignee of her Majesty's
Court of Bankruptcy for the district of Leeds.
LONDON Docics.—ln consequence of the numerous
fatal accidents that have occurred lately by persons
falling into the docks and being drowned, and which
accidents have generally- occurred after dusk, the
Directors of the Dock Company have resolved that
iron railings shall be fixed up round those portions of
the docks where accidents are likely to arise.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEN IN 6, _DECEMBER 21, 1642

post which he had held under the previous govern
went, and to put a European in his place—the Eu-
ropeans adding to the insult by invariably treating
the natives as beings of an inferior class, unfit to
mix in the same society, to dwell in the same build-
ing, much less to sit at the same table. Thus we
had acted in Mysore, notwithstanding the strong opi-
nions expressed by the late Marquis of Wellesley and
his brother the Duke of Wellington, in favour of a
contrary policy.—(Hear, hear.) The effect of this
conduct towards the natives was visible in the dete-
rioration of their character. They had no
voice in the making of • the .laws by
which they were governed. They had no share in the
executive government, and very little in the adminis-
tration of justice. There was now a commission
sitting to frame a body of laws for the administration
of justice in the empire, and it was composed altoge-
ther of Europeans.—(Hear, hear.) It was vain for
us to attempt to elevate the character of the Hindoos
by education, through the means of universities, public
schools, and other such institutions, whilst we with-
hold from them every inducement toself improvement,
all the roads to wealth and honour, by means of
public employments, being closed against them. In
support of this view, he quoted largely from Sir Thos.
Munroe and others. In truth, the public seminaries
were of little use for the purpose of elevating the
character 4: the natives. Those of high caste
would not send their sons to them, be-
cause there was no market for the talents
of an educated native ; therefore it was only •
the inferior_ castes who availed themselves of these in-
stitutions, and they only sent their sons there
to qualify them for the office of copyist in
the public departments. Thus those expensive
establishments fur promoting education were of little
or no use. It would be quite otherwise if natives
were employed in public offices of high-rank 'and im-
portant duties, for the discharge of which they were,
by their knowledge of the language, manners, habits,
temper, and prejudices of the people, immeasurably
better fitted than Europeans, however talented, Could be
rendered by any education. The Hon. Proprietor
then argued at great length to prove the fitness of the
natives for office, and to disprove the allegation that
they could not be trusted. He referred confidently
to the trial that had been made of them as Judges in
courts of law and justice, which he said was by no
means a fair or adequate trial. He was convinced
that our administration of the Government had not
tended to the improvement of the country. Under
the native chiefs, property was as safe as under our
Government, and the police was far better. All the
great works for which the country is remarkable,
were constructed under the native chiefs. Here
again, the Honourable Proprietor referred to
the same authorities from which he had quoted
before. In a dispatch from Lord Minto, in
1811, the countries under the British Government
were described as infested by murderers and robbers;
and in 1841 the state of things was precisely the
same. In the latter year the Indian newspapers describ-
ed the prevalence of murder, and affirmed that whatever
other blessings the English Government might have con-
ferred upon Hindostan, the security of life and property
could not be numbered amongst them. In this
respect, the contrast was very greatly in favour of
the worst native Governments. He had heard it
objected, that if we opened the door to the natives of
Hindostan for advancement in civil offices, we should
be obliged to do something for them also in the
military department;—(Hear, hear.) He would
ask, why not ? Our Alusselman predecessors had not
scrupled to avail themselves of the high military quali-
tieof some of their Hindoo subjects.—(Hear, hear.'
(LEFT SPEAKING.)