The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-01 00:00:00

Pernambuco and Bahia on her ontward passage to Rio
Janeiro, and the other six months on her homeward.]
SYDNEY, &c.—The next mails for Sydney, New South
Wales, South Australia, Van Diemen's Land, and New
Zealand, will be made up ou the evening of the 31s
October, to be forwarded vici Gravesend.
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W ZEALAND COMPANY.
A special Court of Proprietors was held yesterday at
the Company's House, Broad-street-buildings, for the
purpose of authorising the directors to borrow and take
up a sum of money not exceeding 100,0001., to be paid
out of the Consolidated Fund, under order of the Go-
vernment.
Mr. Aglionby, M.P., took the chair, in the absence of
the Deputy-Governor.
The SECRETARY then proceeded to read the twenty-
first report of the Court of Directors. It stated that an
Act was passed on the 3d of August last, authorising
the loan of 100,0001 out of the Consolidated Fund to
the company, and that a further Act was passed, per-
mitting a portion of the said sum, to the extent of 32,5001.,
to be applied to the payment of' debentures falling due
in the present and ensuing months, and that the pre-
sent meeting had been convened, because their formal
approval was requisite to the completion of these trans-
tions. In stating their reasons for applying to Govern-
ment for this aid, the directors refer to their ignorance till
lately of the arrival of Governor Grey, and his proeeedings
at the Bay of Islands; to the result of his measures in
Cook's Straits being unknown; to the delay of issuing
crown deeds, and last, to the unfortunate circumstances
which had retarded the progress of the early settlers,
and the resumption of the company's land sales.
They reminded the proprietors that at the last general
court they had urged the closieg of the affairs
of the company, unless Government, before the separa-
tion of Parliament, adopted measures which were
thought indispensable ; that they had represented their
position to the late and to the present Government, and
had received a letter from Mr. Hawes of the 6th of
August, enclosing the Bill, which had since become law,
and stating that, in the opinion of her Majesty's Go-
vernment, the dissolution of the New Zealand Com-
pany would be an event greatly to be regretted,
and expressing an anxious desire to concur in any ar-
rangements for the support of the company amid their
difficulties. Application was made to Government for
32,5001 to meet the debentures, and this was granted
on terms contained in the Act, which received
the royal assent on the 26th of August. They
state also that a Bill had been lately passed,
bearing upon the Government of New Zealand, but
differing in some respects from the memorials which
had been addressed on behalf of the company to the
Government. Lord Ingestre's letter of the sth May,
1845, suggested to Lord Stanley that the northern
half of the northern island should be formed
into one province, and that the remainder of
the islands should be formed into a separate
province, under a new company, having a
proprietary charter, and that the company should be
bound to grant to the colonists representative institutions
within a year. The Act which had passed was based,
however, on the principle of separate principal corpora.
tions, having the same powers as borough corporations in
England; separate permanenent provincial legislatures,
distinct from those corporations, and one general legisla-
ture, having supreme legislative authority upon nine par-
ticular points, and upon these only. It had no reference to
this company, or to any similar body. It had, however,
met the views of the company and of the settlers. The
details were under the consideration of the present Se-
cretary for the Colonies.
The SECRETARY then read a series of resolutions
adopting the report, and authorising the directors to
borrow a sum not exceeding 100,0001. from the Consoli-
dated Fund, and A. Aglionby, Esq., M.P., and S. Marjori-
banks, Esq., to receive the sum of 32,5001 out of the
said 100,0001., and to grant receipts for the same, and
any two of the directors to receive any sum not exceed-
ing the remainder.
In reply to a PROPRIETOR,
The CHAIRMAN said, that the Government at first
had granted a loan of 100,0001. on the security of the
lands of the company, the company at that time expect-
ing to be able to pay their debentures out of their own
proper profits. This month, however, debentures were
coming due to the amount of 32,5001. in all ' • the land
sales, through unfortunate circumstances, had ceased
altogether,4and the company was utterly powerless. The
question with the directors came to be, how they were
to take up these debentures? It was in this position
that they applied to Government. Iler Majesty's
Ministers had determined to support the company in
carrying out their prime objects, and had introduced
a measure to make a relaxation in the terms of
their first loan, and to give immediately 32,5001. to be
applied for the purpose named. At the same time he
(the Chairman) ought to state that this 32,5001. would
not be diverted from the first objects of the company---
the purposes of colonisation ; for if the company should
recover themselves, this sum would be repaid out of the
proper profits of the company, and if not, then the
unpaid calls, the surplus capital should be given in re-
payment of this sum.
An HoN. PRopmETon. wished to know what amount
of uncalled-for capital there was ?
The CHAinmAN said the original amount was just
100,0001.
An HON. PROPRIETOR wished to know whether this
100,0001. was in addition to the former 100,0001. ?
The CHAIRMAN said the proprietors had given them
power to borrow 100,0001., which they had exercised to
the extent of 76,5001.; and this was an additional
100,0001 on lands, 20,0001. of it having already been
got on the security of lands in Otaga and other settle-
ments. The present sum was on the security of about
100 millions of acres of land, and the repayment of this
was to be, according to the arrangement, within three
years.

- After some further discussion, the resolutions were
agreed to, thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting separated.

WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL.
After a tedious and toilgme day's labour, the work-
men engaged at Constitution-hill, yesterday, succeeded
in safely placing this groat statue on its pedestal. Up
to three o'clock, they were engaged in making all the
necessary arrangements, preparing all the machinery,
regulating the tackle, windlasses, &c., and properly affix-
ing the ropes and cable slings by hich the immense
mass was to be perpendicularly raised to the desired
height. The ascent was accordingly commenced a little
after that hour, and although Mr. Green, in the Nassau
balloon, has often done the distance in &second, he could
hardly accomplish it more surely. However, four hours
had nearly elapsed before the statue had attained the
requisite elevation, during which it hung like Mahomet's
coffin, 'twixt heaven and earth, in, as it seemed to the
minds of the spectators, a rather perilous position.
Meantime the shades of evening were gathering round,
and subsequently night fell in, and it appeased as though
an adjournment of the proceedings sine die had occurred.
The moon soon after rose, and though clouded in the
commencement of her career, shone as brilliantly as a
young moon could, about half-past eight.
The riggers, who had for some time disappeared from
the scaffolding, now again began to mount the ladders
and " man the yards," and soon after, the large move-
able platform aloft, on which were the windlasses by
which the statue was carried up, commenced its horizon-
tal locomotive efforts, and before nine o'clock the plat-
form, statue, and all, had been backed westward, and the
precious burden fairly landed on its proposed site.
Having viewed it then through the various disadvantages
of imperfect moonlight, and intervening ropes and spars,
we are the more confirmed in our impression that, so far
from the statue being too large in its proportions for the
arch, if anything, the arch is too large for the statue.
But we honestly think the public will agree when a
proper time and opportunity for judging have been
allowed, that there could not be found in London a more
magnificent position for such a noble work of art as that
which the triumphal arch on Constitution-hill affords for
the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington.
A great concourse of visitors during the day, and to a
late hour of the night, thronged the neighbourhood of
Hyde Park-corner ; and indeed the end of the Green Park,
near Grosvenor-place, presented more the appearance of
a fair than anything else.

SUICIDE AND DROWNlNG.—Yesterday evening,
about six o'clock, the following melancholy occurrence
took place off Chelsea, resulting in the death of two
human beings. It appears that at the time just named a
decently dressed young woman was observed walking
on the banks of the river in a desponding state, when
suddenly she jumped into the river. The act being seen
by a young man of the name of Payne, who worked near
the spot, he plunged into the water after her and suc-
ceeded in catching hold of her, but she struggled so
fiercely that they both got out of their depth. Payne
appeared to let go his hold, and the unfortunate woman
disappeared. The man struggled hard to reach the
shore, but in vain, and before assistance arrived he had
sank, and shared the same fate as the female he had
endeavoured to save. The bodies could not be found, it
being nearly dusk at the time.
THE DAGENHAM MuRDER.---Since the verdict in
the above affair was returned, a number of active and
intelligent officers of the police force have held fre-
quent communications on the necessity of adopting
further measures to secure, if possible, the appre-
hension of the parties implicated in the brutal
murder of poor Clarke. The result was, that the
leaders in the movement forwarded to Scotland-yard a
memorial expressive of their anxiety to procure a united
expression of the sympathy of the force, by a general
subseription for the purpose of offering a further re-
wad d for the discovery of the actors in the late tragedy
at Dagenham, and requesting the opinion of the Com-
missioners as to the legality of such a course. A favour-
able answer was returned in reply, and the subscription
is now in course of collection. To facilitate it, printed
forms have been conveyed to all the station and section-
hous es.
spondedto alacrity; that the ser-
geants will agree to a contribution of ss. and the subor-
dinates 2s. 6d. each, sums which, when the numerical
strength of the force is considered, cannot fail to secure
a munificent amount.

IN.—Yesterday the New York packet-ship West-
minster, Captain lf. R. Hovey, one of the regular liners,
left the St. Katharine Docks with 30 emigrants on
,
board, chiefly small farmers from the home counties and
2.000 boxes of manufactured tin. This vessel will leave
Portsmouth for New York to-morrow morning.
A HEAVY WEIGIIT.—On Tuesday evening last,
the celebrated " stout lady," Mrs. Armitage, who had
been for some time exhibited here, was desirous to
change her locality to Glasgow, and found her way for
of the railway carriages were found sufficiently capacious
that purpose to the terminus at flay Weights; but none
to admit her gi eat bulk; and after some consultation
among the officials here it was found necessary, as the
only alternative left, to put up a horse-box for the con-
veyance of the nearly 32 swine weight female, in which
we understand she got safe* and comfortable to the
' west of the city."—Caledonian Mercury.