The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-29 00:00:00

McoIc~I!4EQU#.I:4TRATIONB.

JOAIIPM Dermot, al, iheDun4e:Ttleitehtiiti6Unipany, bleacher, Mid.
min, new Dundee, Doe. I and k 2, at tiro British Hotel, Dundee.
DAVID ELII.II, lun., and WILLIAM 111ACGIMMIUM, Angincers,
Dec It and 21, at the Steck Est:hinge home, I tlairocr.
lleoa MacTsvisio, GLiegow, wine merchant, Doc. 6 and 27, at the
Stock Lachauge Houma, Glasgow.
Jolts MILLAM and G 15361411 Awntek, Leith, cit merchants, Dew. 2 and
at the New blurt Hotel, Leith.
TIADMAY Sasso, Ilowford, reehleeettire, farmer, Dee. 5 and 2G, at the
Sheriff Court-room. Pestges.

NEW ZEALAND COMPAN Y.—Yesterday an ad.
journed annual meeting of the shareholders iu this com-
pany took place, at the company's house, Old Broad-street,
for the transaction of general business. The cluur was oc-
elided by Mr. Agliunby, M.P., Chairman of the Board of
Directors. The Chairman stated that an arrangement had
been come to by which they extiected shortly to be able to
pay off Baron Doldstuid's claim of 10,000/. The Union
Dank of Australia was willing to let its Claim of 15,000/.
stand over the a year, upon receiving collateral security.
The Canterbury Association had not yet sold sufficient land
to enable them to liquidate the 25,0001. which this company
had advanced. It was not due till the end of December.
The association would pay from time to time the sums they
had agreed to pay towards its liquidation ; and the other
sums mentioned in the act, arising from the sales of land,
would be paid to the government, and by them paid to the
company. As yet, they had had no official statement from
the government of the quantity of land sold. Application
had been made to the company by the govern-
ment to deliver up their seal and charter; but the
application wits not pressed. Acting on counsel's
opinion, they had refused to deliver them up.
With reference to the government proposition the chairman
said they were aware that, under the recent act of parlia-
ment, their principal of 268,000/., with 31 per cent. interest
thereon, was secured upon the proceeds of the land sales ;
and he had always been sanguine that those sales would go
on, so as to enable them to pay all expenses, and that by
and by, as the colony progreaccl, there would be money
coming in. The arrangement which the government had
consented to was this--that they -should continue to re-
ceive from the sales of land in the old settlements those
amounts of money which in the prospectus were cubed the
" Vendors' Fund." They would also continue to pay the
company a certain proponent on the sales iu the northern
prosince and iu the whole of the island, deducting horn
the sales in other portions than their own a reasonable sum
for the government and for the expenses of the colony.
These payments would vary from ss. tu 10s. per acre, as-
suming the land to be sold at the original price. In the
old settlement there was some difference ; at New
Plymouth the per tentage was 10s. ; at Nelson,
Gs. Id. per acre. It would also vary in Otago
and Canterbury, according to the exact price of the land.
The payments would be made from time to time in the
government department, according as they were received
there. They would he paid, first of all, into the hands of
the Land and Emigration Commissioners, who would band
them over to Mr. Barnett, of Cannon-row, the emigration
agent, and from him the company would receive the money
on giving such a receipt as might be required by the Trea-
sury. 1 hey were now entitled to three and a half per cent.
on NB,OOOl. The chairman, in answer to further ques-
tions, said they were trying to let the house now held by
the company, and they had reduced their establishment as
much as possible—to two clerks and a messenger. The fol.
lowing directors were unanimously re-elected :—Mr. Aglion-
by, M.P., Mr. Boulcott, Mr. W -Hutt, Mr. W. Lyall, Mr.
Smith, Mr. Armstrong, Lord Talbot, and Mr. Monts!.
The proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the chair-
man and court of directors.

SPANISU BONDS.—Mr. Daniel Weisweiller, English
delegate, in a speech delivered at the meeting of bond-
holden of the Spanish Home Debt, held at Madrid 18thDEATH FROM EXCESSIVE DRlNKlNG.—Yesterday i Nov., 18,1, spoke in the following terms respecting a
Mr. W. Carter held an inquest at the Brown Bear-tavern, doubtful clause in the law voted by congress ;—" We must
Southwark-bridge-road, respecting the death of Mrs. Esther not despair of Balding sympathy in the chambers, and even
Elissln4h Cope, aged 44, late organist to the church of St. I in the government, when the reparation of an injustice is
Saviour's, Southwark. The deceased occupied apartments under discussion, or rather when a doubt presented in the
at No. 2, Morriss-place, Bridge-street, and had been some said law has to be solved. That doubt, gentlemen, con-
years engaged as organist at St. Saviour's-church, but for sista in that the law, while it stipulates the previous re-
irregular conduct had been discharged from her appoint- duction of overdue interest to one-hell, for its conversion
merit. 0n Thursday morning she wee found lying dead in into Deferred Three per Cent. Debt, does not determine
bed. There were us marks of violence, nor anything near I the fate of the other half. And it is impossible that the
her to account for death ; but Mary Brooks, the servant I legislators can have wished to deprive definitively the
who waited upon her, stated that she had procured for her j holders of the said stock of what belongs to them ; it
miatrese generally three pints of brandy daily for the lam becomes necessary that there should be given them a
ten weeks, which she usually miltd with water. Deceased document showing the amount which is at once with-
always had • glue by her side. Kr. Wooldridge, the ear- held, in order to ifs. being subsequently placed to
gems, had been sent for and prescribed for the deceased, their credit. To this cud I have solicited of the
who told witness to throw the medicine away, for brandy Corks, in the namo of the English committee, that the
would do her more good. The surgeon, who was called to second half of the overdue interest of the active debt (which
Oft the deceased, mid that when he visited her he generally according to the 2nd article of the law comprises the Certi-
&sand her suffering from the effects of drinking large quan- Bates of 4 and 5 per cent. both home and foreign) may be
tides of brandy, and no doubt she died from exhaustion in like manner consolidated in Deferred Three per Cent.
consequent upon such habits of intemperance. The coroner lteute; and so powerful and deserving of attention arc the
remarked upon the case, when the jury returned a verdict, reasons which recommend it that I entertain the firm hope
" That the dimmed died by the szoessirs drinking of that we shall obtain it from the acknowledged equity of the
brandy." Spanish legislators."

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