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At the Quarterly General Court of East India Proprietors, held on Thursday, Mr. Weeding gave notice, that he would move, at the next quarterly General Court, " That a petition be presented to the House of Commons, praying that Honourable House to pass a law, providing that sugar, the produce of any British possession in the East Indies, shall be admitted into the United Kingdom at an equal rate of duty as is now levied upon sugar imported from America or the West Indies." Dr. G. Campbell, in allusion to the recent failures in India, enforced the necessity of some safe means being afforded for the future remit- tance of money from persons engaged in the Company's service to their relatives in this country. The Chairman stated, that the subject was under the consideration of the Indian Government, but that he was not able to give a satisfactory answer respecting it at present.
We understand that the notice of Exchequer process, served on several persons in St. James's, is under the act of 43d George III. c. 99, for obstructing the collectors of taxes in the performance of their duty, and which subjects each of them to a penalty of 501.—Globe.
At a Vestry meeting of the rate-payers of Clerkenwell, on Monday, a resolution, to the effect that the Police system was unconstitutional, and ought to be abolished, was carried by a large majority. An In- spector of the G division of Police, named Busain, entered the room at the conclusion of the discussion, and was loudly hissed. When silence was obtained, he said he came there as a rate-payer : if he had not appeared in his uniform, he would have been pointed out as a Police spy. He then proceeded to defend the Police from the imputations cast on them, and obtained a pretty fair hearing. Others spoke in favour of the Police ; and it was agreed that a poll should be taken on the resolution.
The parishioners of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, refused on Tuesday to authorize the cleansing and whitewashing of the church, which is admitted to be in a filthy state, at the parish expense. They also de- termined not to repair the churchyard-walls. It was very distinctly avowed, that the practice of compelling Dissenters to pay for the sup- port of the Established Church was iniquitous, and could not long be upheld. The Reverend Dr. Russell, the Rector, was in the chair. There were only nine persons present at the meeting who differed from the majority.
An investigation has been made at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, re- lative to the abstraction of the teeth from the corpse of a handsome young female who died in the Hospital. A person employed in the Institution was searched, and two sets of teeth were found on him. Two other men are said to be implicated with him.
The agents of Donna Maria were very active last week in recruiting for her service. Upwards of four hundred young fellows marched on Wednesday, by divisions for Gravesend, to embark on board two ves- sels engaged to convey them to Lisbon. A contract for 1.5,000 mus- kets, 5,000 pistols, and 10,000 sabres has been made by the agents to be shipped for the same destination.
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