Star.
London, England, 1824-02-26 00:00:00

'EAST INDIA HOUSE.
Yesterday a special Court of Proprietors was held at
the East India House, for the purpose of taking into
consideration a Requisition for inquiring into the state
of Hayleybury College.
Mr. DOUGLAS KINHAIRD rose to bring on his pro-
'nisei Motion relative to the Company's College esta-
blishment at Hayleybury. He reviewed the proceedings
of that collegiate establi,hment, and adverted to the
many expulsions which had taken place since its foun-
dation—expulsions that were, in their consequences,
particularly severe, from the imperative nature of the
clause of the Act of Parliament, which rendered a

service of four Terms at the Company's College ins
dispensable, before the student could be qualified
to embark in their civil or military service in India. In
bringing forward the present subject, he did not mean
in the slightest degree to impute any misconduct to the
Professors at the College; the evil was inherent in the
system of the establishment, and not arising from any
fault on the part of individuals. At this College, an
iron controul was placed over the discretionary power
of the Professors by the Act of Parliament, and they
had no authority, as in the other Colleges of the country,
to send a refractory student away, without being cern-
pelted, as at Hayleybury.-to visit him with the several
sentence of expulsion, which for ever blasted the pr0..1
spects of the individual upon the Company's establish -1
ment. If the discretionary power to which he had alluded
were vested in the Professors, they would remove an
improper student, without waiting until he had violated
some of the statutes of the College, and thereby
prevent the progressive contagion of his vices among
the other students with whom he must associate.—

The Honourable Proprietor read a variety of extracts
From Mr. Malthus's book, which he contended deve•

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loped the evils inherent in the system of the Institution,.
and recommended the extension to the Professors of

a power to send home refractory students in the first
instance. He urged at considerable length the impolicy
of confining to Hay ley bury College the exclusive edu-
cation of the persons destined to serve them in India,
and pointed out how much better it would be, to allow
parents to educate their children where they pleased,
always establishing a test of proficiency (for instance,
the same as at Hayleybury) before they were permitted
to proceed to their ultimate destination in India. Let
that test of proficiency be clear and public, so that the
examination would leave no doubt of the Lent; fide qu*.
lifications of the individual. On the whole, he thought
that the restrictive clause which prohibited appointment
to office, except through the medium of education at
Bayley bury College, ought to be repealed, and that,
still preserving that College as a seminary for the edu-
cation of their Officers, other roads for education should
be open, so that, by a fair competition, the College
should be excited to emulation, and the acquirements
of their Officers enlarged. He iidiculed the idea, that if
the monopoly of the College were withdrawn, students
would no longer be sent there, and contended that an ex-
isting and well-established Institution, when reformed
and placed upon a proper basis, would always command
a preference. He pointed out the improvements in the,
system of education which had been adopted of late years,
and strongly recommended for adoption that pursued by
Dr., Russell, at the Charter-house. By the practice at
Hayleybury, they barred themselves from the improve-
ments which circumstances called forth, and which the
Professots, if unshackled and left in loco parentis to the
students, would themselves adopt. He wished to abo-
lish the exclusive privilege attached to Hayleybury, and
to arm the Professors with a better moral power; and
for that purpose, moved 4. that an application be made
to Parliament to repeal the clause of the Act which pre-
scribed a residence of four Terms at Hayleybury as in-
dispensable to an official appointment in India," and
said that he also wished to have a fit test of examina-
tion established, which all students would have to pass
before their appointment, but without reference to the
place of their previous probation. In conclusion, he
expressed a warm anxiety that the Court of Directors
would take the subject in hand, and do that as emanating
from their body, which he now recommended for the
adoption of the Court of Proprietors.—On the motiot
being banded within the bar,
The CHAIRMAN (Sir RobertVrigtam, M.P.) said, that
being appealed to by the Honourable Proprietor who
had introduced this subject in a calm and dispassionate
manner, he was anxious to inform him, that were it not
for his (Mr. Kinnaird's) repeated notices of motion upon
this subject, he (the Chairman) would have himself
brought the subject under the consideration of the Court
of Directors. Hesubmitted, therefore, whether it would
not be advisable for the Honourable Proprietor to with.
draw his motion, and let the matter rest for considera-
tion in another quarter ? The Honourable Proprietor
was certainly misinformed as to some of his details--:
for instance, the Professors had the power of sending
home students after the first time, which was merely
probationary, if they found them unfit for the/ College.
A long
_conversation then arose between Mr. Km-
NAIAD, Mr. Hums, Mr. RANDLE JACKSON, and the
CHAIRMAN, in which it was pressed upon the Court of
Directors to consider the specific proposition at present
made, or something like it, but upon the refusal of the
Chairman to commit either himself or the Directors in
any specific course of proceeding, the discussion of the
general question was resumed.
Mt. CARRUTHERS, at considerable length, opposed,
the motion, and said that the establishment of Hayley-
bury College had been found eminently useful—a fact
which was demonstrated by the superior acquirements
of the civil servants dispatched from it to India during
the last few years. He contrasted the liberal scale of
education in use there, to that of the old Colleges.under
the obsolete Stattites of Henry VIII. and urged the im-
portance of preserving an institution which sent forth to
the millions subjected to their Government in India,
men of enlightened and highly cultivated minds, fit for,
the arduous duties of their station.
Mr. POYNDER also opposed the motion, and denied
that Mr. Malthus had spoken so decidedly against the
system of education at the College, as was mentioned.
On the contrary, he had in many instances spoken in
the highest praise of -it. He contended that the effect of
this motion would be to abolish the College altogether.
On the whole, he thought it was better to let well alone.
Mr. RIGBY and Mr. Weems° spoke in favour of the
motion, and contended for the necessity of ameliorating
the system of education at Hayleybury.-
Mr. TWINING saw no adequate reason for making an
innovation upon the present system of the College, and
should therefore oppose the motion.
Mr. SAMUEL DIEoE spoke in favour of it, ~'
Mr. limy opposed the motion, and argued at some
length for the continuance of the present collegiate dis-
cipline at Hayleybury, which he asserted had materially
improved their present class of civil servants in India. ,

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' Mr. CAIIACAST warmly supported the motion, and
denied that an expulsion from College ought to be,a
final bar
to a Student's professiohal advancedent in
life. The ablest men of the day had suffered that sort
of punishment, and after Wards become very distingnished
in life. Sir nancis Burdett (with whose politics he did
not always agree, was, he had heard, expelled both
from Westminster and Oxford—(A laugh).
Mr. RANDLEJACICSON supported the motion.
It being nearly five o'clock, an adjournment of the
debate was loudly called for; some proprietors were,
however, for going to a decision without further delay.
A division ensued, when the numbers were—
For the adjournment, 62, I Against it, 52
Majority tor the adjournment.
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The debate was then adjourned until Friday nett.

It is stated in a respectable Morning Paper, that Mi•
nisters are determined instantly to send another exile.
dition against Algiers, and thit homb-ves-els are pre-
paring for that purpose. Such we are assured is not
the case; indeed, had Ministers any such intentions, a
considerable increase in the N ivy supplies would have
beep necessary. A sufficient force will be sent to the
Mediterranean, to protect our trade and our flag from
insult, and to prevent the further vi lation of the
Treaty into which the DEY entered, when such a lesson
was taught him as he cannot easily forget. It is most
probable that the piratical Dv/ will not long provoke out
hostility, or incur the hazard of another bombardment.
Parliament will be adjourned on the 15th till the 28th
April, for the Easter.recers. The Ministers have made
such progress with what is termed the public business
—the Eititnates and the Annual Bills, all of them be-
ing now before the flouse—that it is calculated in the
Government Offices that the present Session of 'Parlia-
ment will not last beyond June, about one month earlier
than usual.

The Parliamentary vote•pa per contains a long list of
eallutions, on the subject of the Four per Cent. Acts;
but the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S speech on
Monday contained so full an explanation of the mode of
carrying into execution his intended project for convert-
ing the Four per Cent. into Three and a Half Stock,that
it is not necessary to publish these resolutions.
The propriety of employing female prisoners on the
tread-mill having given rise to much difference of opi-
nion, Mr, Secretary Pm., with a commendable anxiety
to set the question properly at rest, directed three of the
mast eminent physicians to be consulted on the subject.
These Gentlemen -visited Cold-bath-fields Prisort several
times last week, but their opinions have not yet been
made known.
A new Bill relative to the management of Gaols has
been brought forward by Mr. PEEL. The following is
the clause respecting compulsory labour before trial:—
And whereas doubts have arisen, whether by the said recited
Act, prisoners before trial can be compelled against their will to
labour on the tread-mill, and it is expedient to remove such doubts;
be it further enacted and declared, that it is not and shall not bel.m..
ful to compel any untried prisoner to such labour against his will."
The rate of in:urance on vessels in the Mediterranean ,
trade experienced another advance at Lloyd's yesterday, five to sir
guineas having been given. It is not more than four days since the,
price was 50s. to 60s. The general opinion, however, is that very
little loss will be sustained by our commerce before the arrival of
the squadrons there to protect It, as the Algerines had not many small
vessels of war fit for immediate service.
A meeting of the Catholic Association was held in
Dublin, on Saturday last, at which th t wiseacre, Mr.
O'Connell is represented in one of the Dublin papers to
have made use of the following, language He (M!..
O'Connell) would ask, bad not the Duke of York pub-
Italy avowed himself their enemy ? Had he not voted
against them, and made speeches against them ? Was
he not, a short time ago, at the head of the Orangemen
of England ? To be sure, some friend about him had
lately advised him to shew a little mote poliey;anJ he
was to preside at a meeting of the Society of St. Patrick;
but the people of Ireland were not to be deluded by
such shallow artifices. The Duke of York was heir to
the greatest empire in the world ; he had before him
all the enjoyments which roan could desire; but he
ought to remember, that one Duke of York lost Ireland,
by endeavouring to force the consciences of the Eng-
lish nation, and another Duke of York might lose it
by attempting to force their consciences. It became
them to speak as freemen, and to tell the Heir-apparent,
that one Duke of York, by his bigotry, lost the throne
of England, and, that another Duke of York, might ex-
perience the same fate."
DREADFUL ACCIDENT IN CONSEQUENCE OF INTOXICA-
TION.—Saturday evening last, Thomas Church, the
driver of a stage waggon belonging to Mr. Claridge, of
Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, called with his waggon
at the sign of the Boot, Edgware, being quite drunk at
the time, but did not drink anything at that house.
He soon afterwards left the bar, and went towards the
waggon, and the ostler, with other persohs seeing the
Mate he was in, endeavoured to get him into the waggon,
at he persisted in driving the team himself, and taking
is whip out of the band of one of the bystanders,
started his horses briskly ; he had not pre, eded more
than twenty yards, before he fell down, when both the
near wheels passed over his head, and crushed it ih such
a manner, that he survived but a few minutes..
HABERDASHERS'ALMS-HOUSES.—This oncebeautiful
pile of buildings, which were situated at the end of Pit.
field-street, Horton, are now levelled with the dust, in
order to give way to modern improvements, after having
stood about 230 years, and from the sound state of the
materials were likely to have endured as many more.
Monday night an alarming fire broke out in a dwell-
ing-house (of a Mrs. Wallis) in King's-row, Dog-row,
sear Mile-end turnpike, between ten and eleven o'clock,
which totally destroyed the building and furniture, and ,
part of two otherrudjoining.
Friday night a young man, of the name of Joseph
Reeves, having met a young woman by appointment at
Carr's Hill, near Gateshead, they unfortunately missed
'their way, and both fell into a quarry. The young wo.
man was not much hurt, but Reeves was killed.
In the village of "Larbert, where lies interred the ce-
lebrated Abyssinian traveller, there is placed at the end
of a house fronting the road, a large figure of the lion,
cut from stone, by some country mason, and which
'may rank among the most unlion looking of the many
characters of the noble beast. The traveller could not.
fail to be offended with the unnatural thing, and used
to recommend to the man who kept the house to have
it removed. When Mr. Bruce was siding through the
village one day, the owne', having got the animal newly
painted a bright red, was standing at the door, the
traveller's horse naturally took fright at the grinning
monster, and reared and pranced with every symptorts,
of fear. " All ! Mr. Bruce,' cried the pleased owner,
".although yi n have been in Africa, your horse knows
best when it sees a lion."
The di:west sheet of bright tin-foil, (;rroperly lead-
joil,) is a pet leer fire screen ; you may eneJunter a glass-
house fire in a mask of this description. •

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