The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-08 00:00:00

NEW ZEALAND COMPANY

Yesterday the annual meeting of the shareholders
in this company was held at the New Zealand House,
Broad-street-buildings, to receive the directors' re-
port, to elect (Sneers, and to transact other business.
Mr. G. Lyall, the deputy-governor, presided.
The report, which was exceedingly long, set forth
the claims of the company on the Government, the
engagements entered into with the Canterbury Asso-
ciation, and the current expenses and other liabilities
outstanding. On each of these heads the directors
lamented that they were unable to make a satisfactory
report. The Government had not yet settled one
portion of the company's demands, and had settled the
other in a measure short of the company's equitable
claims. With the Canterbury Association the com-
pany is still in litigation. Out of the sums
received from Canterbury during the past
financial Sear, amounting to 11,1931. Os. Gd.,
a sum of 662/. 14s. sd. has been paid to the
Government ; and the debenture for 10,0001., bor-
rowed from the Baron de Goldsmid, has been paid off,
but the interest on this debenture is still unpaid. For
the bills held by the Union Bank of Australia, drawn
on account of the Canterbury settlement, and amount-
ing to 14,987/. Gs. 2d., exclusive of interest, 26 mem-
bers of the company have given, as collateral security,
their personal promissory notes, to the amount of
14,4601., falling due on the Ist of next December.
Before that date effective provision for meeting the
Raid notes must be made. For such provision,
failing every other resource, the directors will be
compelled to make aCell upon the unpaid.up capital of
the company. The °flocr outstanding liabilities, as
stated iu the annual accounts, mount to 4 057/. 41.
2d., exclusive of the sum of 5561. 1 ls. 41., con•
sidered to be chargeable to the Government, but
as yet not admitted by the latter. Against these
can be placed, at present, only such portions of the
sums above mentioned as may be applied to the liabi-
lities incurred on account of Canterbury, and such
sums as may be eventually allowed by the Govern-
ment towards the expenses incurred by the company
between the sth July, 1850, and the 30:h September,
18.51, the latest date recognised by the Lords of the
Treasury. This is one of the questions before alluded
to as being not yet finally adjusted. Sir halph
Howard and Lord Courtensy had resigned their
seats in the direction. Mr. Gowen, Mr. Filcher, and
the Baron de Goldsmid went out of oflice by rotation.
After considerable discussion the report was
adopted, and it was agreed
that an adjuurntd meeting
should be held on a future day fur the purpose of
going into sonic business details.
Mr. Jeremiah Filcher and Mr. Gowen, the retiring
directors, were unanimously re-elected, and a vote of
thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
EASTERN UNION,—A requisition has been presented
to the directors of this company, calling upon them to
take the sense of the proprietors with reference to sn
arrangement for better alliance between that company
and the Eastern Counties.
EDINBURGIT, PERTH, AND DUNDEE —This company
have, at length, succeeded in arranging a division of ch., it;
capital among the various interests. Thu total o.tfata
being in the aggregate. 3 38.5,29:4. _

pIIDIFRIEI ~
dND KIRKCI7DBRICIIT. MeCSUITS are
being. takeu for the formation of a lino from Dumfries
to Kirkcudbright, viti llalbeattie and through CAMIO
Douglas.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, OCT. 7.—The Penin-
sular
s .
R a
sasnedl l ,
sailed Oriental
thisCo
ft on with MaPafrYn'ossteamshipTagus, Captain T.
the usual mails for
Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, a very large
number of passengers,
among whom are Lord Eliot, Mr. E.
A.
v iii,"enrd' a Bzc iood general cargo.
specie value 12,5001., 20 bottles of
quick-
er, The Royal rnai;-steamer,
Teviot, Captain Ons!ow, leaves on Saturday with the Brazil
mails, and t
he Peninsular and Oriental Com '
Th
sa
pany s screw-
steamer mbay, Captain E. Cooper, for the Indian seas, the
same day. The Pitch, is expected United States nail-steamer, Washington,
Captain E- MFI
on Sunday from Bremen,
and will leave on Wednesday, the 13th inst., for New
York, with the usual semi-weekly American mails.
.
DEATII 05' EARL SOME/13.—We announce in our
obituary, this day, the decease of Earl Somers, which took
piece at his residence in Grosvenor-place, in his Gfith year.
The deceased peer, John Somers Cocks, married in ISIS the
youngest daughter of the third Earl ofllardwicke, by whom
he had issue Charles Somers Viscount Eastnor, now Earl
Somers, and three daughters. He succeeded bis father as
second earl in 1841, and was Colonel of the Herefordshire
Militia, which post is vacated by his demise.
DEATH OF JOHN BENETT, EEQ , LATE M.P. FOR
WILTS.—This gentleman expired on Friday morning, at
half-past eleven o'clock, after an apoplectic seizure on the
previous Wednesday. The deceased, who was in the 80th
year of his age, only retired from the representation of the
southern division of the county at the last dissolution of Par-
liament, after having devoted nearly 33 years to the service
of a Wiltshire constituency. Throughout life Mr. Benett
was a decided Protectionist; and in this repeet, though a
Whig in general politics, he read a striking lesson of consis-
tency to bis friends and contemporaries. The deceased gen-
tleman was a magistrate for the county; he.i., had filled the
office of high sheriff, and many years ago dis.in ,uished him-
self by his writings on agricultural topicr. He completed his
79th year on the 20th of Slay last, having been burn in the
year 1773.—P05t.

DEATH CP LORD FERGUS KENNEDY.---Thiff young
nobleman died in Jermyn-street the day before ye,,4tertley, in
his 27th year. Ile was son of the late Earl of Cassilis, and
brother to the present Marquis of Ailsa.

THE AUSTEALIAN MAIL SCREW PACKET MEL-
BOURNE, ALIAS MAL S. GREENOCK. —The mails, the departure
of which from Plymouth should have taken place on Sunday
last, are still delayed in consequence of the damage received
by the Melbourne, screw steam-ship, formerly her Majesty's
ship Greenock, in a gale on her way from the River to Ply-
mouth, by which she was compelled to Lear up for Deal.
The Government have given Permission to repair her defects
in the dockyard at Devenport. We understand sLe has lost
everything above her tops.

THE
PILESS AS A MEANS OF NATIONAL EN.
LIGHTENMENT.-At the Newport Eisteddfod, on Tuesday,
Mr. William lilorris, printer, Stamp-office, Swansea, was de-
clared to be the tuccessful competitor for the best English
Essay on the above subject. There were seven competitors.