Star.
London, England, 1825-06-23 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

irestetdaY, a Quarterly General Court of Proprietors
of East India Stock was held at the Company's House,

On the motion of the Chairman (C. MARTORIBANKS,
Esq.) a dividend of five And a quarter per cent. for the,
halt year commencing the sth January last, and ending
on the sth of July next, was declared on the Company%

Capital Stock.
The CHAIRMAN then acquainted the Court that it
was made special for the purpose of laying before the
Proprietors certain amendments which had been made
on the recommitment, lathe House of Commons, of the
Bill for regulating the S ilaries of the Judges of India,
and of the Bishop of Calcutta.
The correspondence which bad atm place, relative to those
asassdasehtx, between the President of the Board of Quintal and
the Cblikenais and Deputy Chairman, was then read.
GAILMIAM condemned the title of the liill, which classed
together a provision for the Bishop of Calcutta along with a regula-
tion for the tamsportaticht of offenders.
Mr. Lowness expressed it as his opinion, that the Judges, and
dl those who were in the Company's employ, ought to provide a
retiring allowance for themselves out of their salaries.
Mr. Hems argued on the propriety of extending the freedom of
the Press to India, and also of allowing natives and half castes to
sit upon Juries.
A desultory conversation then ensued, In which Mr. TIAN; Sir
C. Voseati, Mr. Dixon, and the Quitman participated, when the

subject was dropped.
RESIDENTS IN INDIA.
General Tooastrom then made his promised motion,
relative to the propriety of making a regulator!, by
which Re-idents at the Native Courts should be com-
pelled to transmit in Government all complaints and
representations made to them by the Native Princes,
for the purpose of being enquired into, as soon as pos-
sible, for the purpose of redressing such complaints, if
well founded ; or of exposing their fallacy, if otherwise.
The gallant General prefaced his, motion by a short
speech, in which be pointed out tl'e mischief that must
inevitably result to our Indian Empire, it the com-
plaints made by the Native Princes were withheld from
the Supreme Government.
Mr. Lowonss thought the gallant General ought not to make
a motion of so sweeping a nature. Ile ought to specify his charge.
Sir J. DoYLE entered at some length into the trans-
actions which gave rise to this motion, and isolated out
the impropriety of any Resident withholding informa-
tion from the Government, as had been done by Sir
C. Metcalfe, the Resident, and Mr. Barnet;., the Deputy
Resident at Hydrabai, when applied to by Ch +lido°
Loll, the Minister of the Rajah, to t-ansortit certain
representations to the Supreme Government.
Mr. WSEDING defended the conduct of Sir C. Met-'
calfe. He argued that it was unnecessary to send out
any regulations, because it was quite evident that, at
the present moment, the system of transmitting imme-
diately to the Indian Government any representation
or memorial placed by a Native Prince, or his Minister,
in the hands of the proper official authority, Was in
full' force.
Mr. Hum* strongly enforced the necessity of a free communica•
tion between the native Princes and the Supreme Government.
The CHAIRMAN stated, that the Court of /rectors
sent out positive orders that all information from the
Native Princes should be regularly forwarded to the
Supreme Government, and those orders were strictly en-
forced. He therefore put it to the gallant Craueral
whether it would ntt be proper that he should withdraw
his motion?—(Hear).
General Ta•ativosr acceded to this suggestion, sad the motion
was accordingly withdrawn.
BURMESE WAR.
Mr. HOME inquired whether any fresh information
had been received relative to the Burmese War ? and
also whether the report of the Commissioner appointed
to inquire into the massacre of Barrackpore had yet
be. n received ?
The CHAIRMAN answered that the dispatches relative
to the Burmese War had been laid before Parliament.
As to the Report to which the Honourable Proprietor
had alluded, it had not"yet arrived in this country.
Mr. Hums then proceeded to animadvert on the mis-
chief which had befallen the Company under the
government of Lord Amherst, and concluded by stating
that he would move a vote of censure on that Nobleman.
While he was preparing the Resolution,
The CHAIRMAN suggested, whether the Honourable
Proprietor was not taking a very precipitate count ? In
the course of the last war, a most deserving Officer,
Lord W. Bentinck, had bt en assaile I in the same man-
ner, but it u'timately appeared that no blame could be
attached to him. With such an example before them,
would it not be unwise to prcceed in the present in-
stance until they bad proper information? He hoped
the Hon. Proprietor would therefore consent to with=
draw his motion.
Mr. Hem, after a few words, adopted the suggestion of the
Chairman.
S:r C. Foams, in a speech of considerable length,
reprobated the system pursued by Lord Amherst, whom
he declared to be totally unfit to govern India. He
ought to be recalled, and the Marquis f f Hastings so-
licited to resume the Governor-Generalship.
The DEPUTY CHAIRMAN .censured the series of in-
vectives which the Honourable Baronet had levelled at
Lord Ao heist. How was it. possible that any Noble-
man could govern India effectively if accusations were
thus brought against him, and afterwards, through the
medium of the public Prev, dii.senrinated through India,
where they created diarust and suseicion in the minds
of those who were to be governed?
The Court their adjourned.

MR—Husicvs .x.—The Liverpool Subscription for the
Service of Plate to be presented to Mr. Husetsson, amounts to
£Z, 93 its. The following are amongst the late subscriptions :
American Cbansber of Commerce . . . . £lO5 0
Portugal, Brazil, South American,and Mexican Associadon. 103 0
Ship Owners' Association . . . . . . 10.3 0
West Indian Association . . . . .• 195 Q
Salt Shippers' Association . . . . . . 105 0
JBolton • • • • . . • • HO 0
C. W. Williams . . . . . . . 100 0
W. and J. Brown and Co. . . . . . 100 0
Cropper, Benson, and Co. . . . . . 100 0
Ship Builders Association . . . • . 30 0
Sunday morning, about three o'clock, a fire was dis-
covered in the workshop of Mr. John Allan, cabinet-maker and
upholsterer, in Cowan's Close, Edinburgh, which bad attained such
strength before it was observed, that, although the firemen with the
engines were brought with all possible dispatch, they could do
nothing farther than prevent the flames front spreading to the ad-
joining premises. . The shop, which was In a house of two stories
and garrets, was burnt to the ground with all its contents. One of
the firemen, named Hutton, fell from a height of twenty feet, and
was very much bruised about the body, but had no bones broken.
WRINGING WET.
It rained a deluge :—Jossrn reached home lat.,
The bell long tugged; at lasi out popped a pate—
', Who's that there ringing now.?" squalls sleepy Bay,
" 'Tis I, you fool!" says Jos,•" I'm wringing wet !"
The following charade is said to be from the pen of
a worthy Alderman of the City of London:—
My first's a little thing what hops,•
My second kivbs us good hay crops,
My whole, I eats with mutton chops ! • ,
Solution—qpnrrosegretss.

FIRE Mit OXFORD-STRERD.
IPURTIIIR PARTICULAR*.
The conflagration continued its ravages until slx
o'clock yesterday morning, when the entire angle of
buildings through which it had spread was reduced to
a pile of ruins. The fire-engines were still continued in
full play, and by nine o'clock the firemen 'were enabled
to advance and make the necessary observations, from
which it appeared that in one direction an entire square
of buildings and houses enclosed by Mortimer, Mar-
garet, Wells, and Ticl,field-streets, were bast to the
ground ; and, in another direction, the devastation
spread in a triangular form over several houses which
occupied an extensive space ; and the dreadful elem?nt
having obtained an ascendancy over them, destroyed
the backs of between twenty and thirty houses in the
abovenamed streets, in addition to completely gutting
five or six. During the night, the greatest apprehen-
sions were entertained for Mortimer-street, and the
left side of Lichfield-street, as the flames passed di-
rectly over them in such a manner that the de-
struction of that part of the neighbourhood was
considered inevitable ; however, the wind, which was
slightly veering from the North-west, changed, and the
current of flames was thrown back upon the immense
burning body, and ascended upwards, and was observed
upwards of 100 feet (it was calculated) above the houses.
From the incessant falling of heavy showers of burning
fragments, it appeared more like the awful eruption of
a volcano, extending dismay and horror on every side,
than the result of a common casualty. The yards o
Mr. Stout and Mr. Stodart, from the continual burning
of the immense pieces of mahogany and timer, looked
like a huge furnace. The fire, it is said, was caused 1,
by a compound which was heating in one of the work-
shops of Mr. Cronzett, carver and gilder, boiling over,
and catching some shavings, instantly spread through
the shops,and quickly to the ether parts of the building.
Through the very active exertions of Captain Powys,
and the military under his command, a great quantity
of property *as saved : it should be also observed, that
the Captain received the almost universal thanks of the
inhabitants for his energetic and gentlemanly conduct.
The Magistrates and Police remained in the neighbour-
hood for several hours, and rendered very important
sr:twee:. The calamity has produced cower:pence, tl•c
most lamentable, several hundred workmen, in addition
io the loss of their tools, being thrown out of work.

In the High Court of Admiralty yesterday, an appli,
cation for the condemnatigm of certain stores talon at
__APPER,
the Isle of Sr. Ge.oby Captain Hrge, in 1814, C
and the crew of his MajvAy's s.:ip SARACEN, was
granted. Two cares of s.lvage afterwards occupied the
'Court. In that of the Ha..% ke, a timber brig taken off
the Goodwin Sands in Novemb last, 6001. was ad-
judged to 26 salvors ; and 4001. to the salvors of the
Mal a, who rescued her from great peril at Southend.
SHORT ALLOWANCE TO SOLDIRRS.—Tuesday, Mr.
Howse, one of the Inspectors of Weights and Measurer
appointed for the northern district of St. Pancras, came
before the Magistrates at Marlborough-strtet, upon a
questbn of se me importance. He stated that it was
the duty of himself and colleagues to visit the barracks
in the Regent's Park, to examine the weights and /ima-
m:es in the Canteen, Suttling-house, &c. In the dis
chitr_ge of their duty, a few days ago, they paid a visit
l'irefietarracks, at a period when the baker brought the
bread, which was supplied by contract to the soldiers.
Two of the sold ers requested him and his colleague,
to weigh some of the loaves, as they were of opinion
that they were not suppli d with their legal weight. He
asked the baker for two of the loaves, and on %eighing
them, instead of being of the weight of tour pounds,
tiler were each five and a half ounces deficieat. He',
afterwards weighed four other loaves, and they were'
only fourteen pounds thirteen ounces ia weight, instead
of being sixteen pounds. Ile (Mr. Howse) thought it a'
duty be owed to the Public to come before the Magis-
trate, and make the above statement.—Mr. DYER said,
he regrew.d that he had not power to punish the Con-
tractor, as the Act of Parliament, which had been
drawn up by the Bakers themselves, did not give him
power to convict for selling bread short of weight.
Mr. DYER lamented that he did net possess the power
to punish the party, and put an end to the practice;
but the circumstance being made public might be of
some service ; and if it was taken up in a proper gear-
ter, the evil would be remedied.
PRODERT'S Ptitssnar..—The corp-e of this wretched
man was on Monday night conveyed in a shell to an
undertaker's in Long-acre, from whence it was yester-
day taken for burial to St. Martin's church-yard, about
three o'clock : by mistake some ground had been
opened which belonged to another family, wheel) being
discovered, the grave was filled up, and another dug.
Dating the delay occasioned by this operation, it be-
came known that Piobeit was to be buried, and an im-
mense crowd was collected; and so great was the wise,
that the yoke of the Clergyman was scarcely audible,
and the Reverend Gentleman appeared considerably
agit stet' by the painful sea vice which he had to petform.
'Vise corpse was followed by some persons belonging to
the undertaker, and the turnkey of Newgate who has
the'care of the prisoners under sentesce of death. None
of the relations attended as mourners ; but the aged and
afflicted mother of the deceased was observed in the
churcl:-yard, witness ng the mournful spectacle.
PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—A-Last night, between eight
and nine o'clock, a serious accident was likely to have
occurred to a number of workmen, who were employed
by a Mr. M.Natr. in building some safety fire-proof
rooms for Messrs. MASTER/41ANS and Co.'s bat,king.
house, in Three Fox-court, Clement's-lane, Lombard-
Istreet. It appears the shoring of an adjoining house
was observed to shake, when a man was sent up to as-
certain the equilibrium of a large stack of chimneys
which they supported. After applying his plum-rull,
he had barely time to give notice to his fellow-workmen
below and wenn his own retreat, when the whole fell
with a tremendois crash. Had it not been' fqr this
providential discovery, twenty men must have met an
untimely death.
The readers and admirers of the novels by the Author
of Waverley, bad nearly met with a grievous disap-
pointment, in the threatened loss of the Taies of the
Crusaders on the voyage from Leith to the Metropolis.
The steam-packet which conveyed the last Novel struck
on a sand-bank, and it became a question what should
be thrown overboard in order to lighten the vessel? Of
course the luggage of the passengers could not be a
willing sacrifice, and the most bulky commodity being
the l'ales, they were domed to destruction, when hap-
pily the rise of the tide again floated tht vessel. Had
the whole edition been thrown into the sea, several
weeks must have elapsed ere the printing of another
copy could have been completed.

•
POLICE DiTELLIOENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
lasses &elk, charged with bigamy, as mentioned in oer last, ws4
brought up
in attendance, and the second marriage not being a legal one, the
for reuelamination. His first wife, howeVer, not
wa
prisoner (a Protestant) was married by a Catholic Priest, According
to the forms of the Rotnish Church, be was diecharged ,kith
suitable admonition. Tim prisoner then requestekthe Loan Marisa
would liberate the three sailors who were committe.l the day he-
fore for an assault upon him, stating, that they had written a letter
to him, apololising for their conduct, and that be did not wish to
procee:l further against them.—They were accordingly ordered to
be liberated.
BOWESTRRET.
Samuel Levy, a Jew salesman, residing in Hemming's-row, wag
brought before Mr. Minium'. on the following charge et fraud
Mr. William Boswell Barrington, a surgeon in the Rat India Com-
pany's service, stated, that about a fortnight ago he went into the
prisoner's shop to examine a double barrelled gun, which the prise:
net warranted as a good one; on the barrel was written " °Ili:
mer, Gun Maker to his Majesty," and on the hack was writietf
" Mortimer, London." RAieving that the gun was ole of Marti;
mer's, he gave the prisoner nine guineas far it ; he should not have
purchased the gun unless he believed it to have been one of Moe:.
timer's. After he had ascertained that the gun was not one of
Mortituer's he went to the prisoner and told him so; the prisoner
replied that he was no Gentleman if he had expected tts get a Mut.;
tinier fur nine guineas.—Mr. Mortimer said the gun purchased by
the complainant was not his manuf,cture, but was of a very inferior
make.—The prisoner, in his defence, said he believed the gun to
have been worth the sum the complainant paid for it—lle was or-
dered to find bail.
Love AND JEALnusy.-241rs. Pmell, a woman of very portly per-
sonage, and fashionably attired, was brought up under a warrant, by
Thompson, of the tow-stret t patrol, charged with assaulting Mrs:
Henderson, a decent looking woman, residing in her own neigg-
bourbood, Clare Market. A feeble old man, her husband, was
brought in, in a tottering and agitated state. Mr. Aintsnot.t. called
upon Mr. Powell to endeavour to give some explanation of this
strange proceeding. Mr. Powell—" Please your Worship, as re-
spects that ere woman, (pointing to the complainant) I'm as inno-0
cent of her as your Worship. As to my wife, when she's sober; I
have no complaint against her; but she is always in a state of ine-
briation, and when she is sts; I know she is affected with hydropho-
bia, for she is always for throwing herself over Waterloo-bridge."
During Mr. Powell's statement, 11Its. P. stood by his side in a
genuite Mrs. Offkly style, stampi"4 her foot, now and ttrzn ex-
" Hem! dear me! how badly
Mr you are; thank your
--- for it ;" and then tun ing round to the spectators—" Gen-
tlemen, did you ever witness such a caniNtteiNt of a husnand a;,airst
a wife ?" Mr. Missitut.t.—" You must find bail." The Magistrate
' then Asked the husband, " will yoia go hail for her?" The very
, question threw Mr. Powell into fits. Mr. MINsUULL—" Then she
, must be lucked up."

MARLBOROUGH STREET.
Yesterday Enderby, the chief witness against Turpin, appeared
before the Magistrate, to answer the charge which had been pre-
ferred against him, for attaining £35 front Mrs. Turpin, under the
pretence that he would not find a true hill against her husband.
Mr. Butler, Mr. ilarrn!r's Clerk, attended for the defendant, and
Mr. Isaacs fot the prosecution. Mr. Fitzpatrick, the Chief eke',
produced the evidence which was taken on the former examination.
Mr. Butler said that he wished to ash same questions of Miss Duf-
fen, the sister of Turpin, who had sworn that she had sold out
Stock, for the purpose of supplying Mrs. Turpin with money to
give Enderhv. Miss Duillen wa. introduced, and she was examined
by Mr. Butler. She said that she sold out the Stook on the 15th
of May ;it was in the New Four per Cents. She received one
£2O and one £lO Bark of England note, and ten sovereigns. After
some delay, she gave the names of the Brokers; and the reason site
gave for withholding their names was, that she did not wish re-
spectable persons to be brought before the public, connected with
such a transaction as the present. She said the Brokers gave her a
cheque on Ladhrooke and Co. and then she received the money
abovementioned. She put a private mark on the notes, and she
knew " Drummond," was written on the £lO note paid to Ender--
by. After some conversation, in which Enderby complained of the
publication in the Newspapers of the evidence brought against him;
the Magistrate ordered him to enter into recognizances in the sum.
of ,CBO, to answer the charge at the Sessions.
HATTON-G ARDEN.
Ann Balls, who keeps a school in Payne-street, White Conduit,
and Elizabeth Clapperton, two very elegantly attired Ladies, were
charged with purloining a pair of shoes from a shop at Islington,
where they had purchased one pair. The property was missed soon
after they left the shop, and found on Balls, who was fully com-
mitted. Her companion was discharged.
Charles Hewett, a gentleman of the sooty tribe, was brought up
yesterday morning, under a warrant, by Lee, the Officer, charged
with assaulting Mrs. Matilda Virginia Freelove, a lady residing
in his neighbourhood. Magistrate—" Are you married r " Oh,
yes, Sir, and have six beautiful children." " Pray, Madam, what
is your husband ?" " A sweep, Sir, and a more genteeler man
there's not in the profesdon." Here Hewett was called on for'
his defence ' • he protested he never attempted to strike until the
Lady called him a teV't at all events he only threatened to strike,
while she not only threatened, but executed. As a witness, he
called Mrs. Flaherty, an apple-woman, who protested she never
saw any poor man in her life get such a polltope. This pulkogue
pleaded powerfully for the sweep, and accordingly the Magistrate
discharged him on his paying the expenses of the warrant. Mrs.
Matilda Virginia Freelove then withdrew, evidently indignant, and
expressed her conviction that, had the case been heard at Bow.
street, Sir it. thong would have shewn more respect to " female'
imen."

NIAR.Y LA-BONNE.
Margaret Sullivan was committed for stealing at the ire in Wells-
street. She had stolen a shawl and pledged it at a pawnbroker's
close to the burning houses, and had returned to kelp herself to
more property, when she was seized.

BIRTH&
Friday, in Charles-street, Berkeley-squate, the Lady Isabella
Cust, of a son.
June 15, at Astley Castle, Lady Sahara Newdigate, of &son.
June 15, in Baker-street, Lady Susan Roam, of a son.
June 14, at Idenie. the Lady of Pdajor Turner, Royal Horse
Artillery, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
Thursday, at Mary-la-bonne Church, Lieutenant-C*lone! George
Higgimon, of the Grenadier Guards, to Lady Fran:es Elizabeth
Needham, third daughter of the Earl of Kilmorry.

DIED.

June 14, at Twyfozd Lodge, Sir Thomas Berrie, Admiral of
the Blue, aged 66.
Tuesday sennight, Ms. William Ure, farmer, Foregathering
Mill; in the pariah of Houston, 'after a few days' illness, in the
95th year of his age. He was born and spent his whole life, and
was the oldest wan in the parish. His journeys were always
bounded fay Greenesk on the one side, and Glasgow on the other.
He never slept above a 'right at a time out of hie OWII house, ex-
cept on one occasion, when he was persuaded to go as far as Edin-
burgh to-see a daughter, who was housekeeper to a Gentleman in
that city. His reading was confined exclusively to the Scriptures
and religious works; and having an excellent memory, he could
repeat considerable portions of sermons he had heard in his youth.
lie had a fund of amusing anecdotes which he was find of re-
lating with all the complacent garrulity of age, and his • style of
conversation was the more attractive from a happy use of peculiar
Scotch phrases, now very little used except by the old. He was
very industrious, temperate, and regular in his habits, an entire
su auger to disease of every sort ; he never complained of even a
hand-ache in his life. He enjoyed an unusual buoyancy of spirits.
and two years ago he walked with the speed and gait of a man of
forty. He continued to work about the farm till be became bed-
rid; and he enjoyed his recollection, hearinz, and sight unimpaired.
He was a pious, sober, industrious, mid respectable man--a ge-
nuine old Scottish farmer.

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