The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-25 00:00:00

EMIGRATION TO NOVA SCOTIA.

The Parliamentary evidence on the condition of
Nova Scotia gives some curious details of the way
in which the emigrants get on and acquire property,
although they may begin the world without a
penny. In the first place they go to a farmer and
hire the use of a cow for 20s. ; that cow they get in
the spring of the year in calf; they keep that cow
through the summer, and they keep it the next
winter, for the sake of the produce the cow will
have, and then they pay the owner of the cow 205.,
and return him his cow in the ensuing spring in calf,
as they got it. They begin with that calf which is
in the cow for their stock ; that calf in time becomes
a cow; and they hire a sheep and an ox in the same
way ; the produce of the ox is the use that he is of
in harrowing in the corn. But now they have got a
stock of their own; they have now got sheep, and
cows, and oxen, and they have got horses, and they
are living in a great degree of comfort, the original
twenty shillings, although agreed to be paid in mo-
ney, being generally taken by the farmer in labour.
In the same manner the colony is enabled to provide
for all the children of emigrants when they reach the
age of five and upwards. Any farmer will take
them as apprentices, according to the terms detailed
in the evidence. As the army and navy resort to
Halifax we have generally a very large portion of
orphan children thrown upon the poor list ; and our
mode of disposing of these children is, that at four
to five years of age we put them out apprentices to
farmers, unless they choose a trade ; if they choose
a trade, of course they are bound to a trade: The
stipulation that is made for those children with the
person to whom catth child is bound is, that the first
year he is to give that child a sheep, the second
) ear a heifer-calf; and as long as that child is under
indentures to him he is bound to preserve and keep
that sheep and heifer-calf, and all the produce of it,
till the child comes of age, and then it becomes a
portion for that child to settle with ; if a female, in
marriage, or if a male, as farming stock. He will
generally have a stock of five or ten head of grown-
up cattle and eight or ten sheep by that means. In
fact, we never can supply half the number of chil-
dren that there is a demand for.

BANKRUPTCY COURT, SEPT. 24.

(Before Mr. Commissioner FANS.)

MESSRS. ALEXANDER AND CO.'S BANKRUPTCY.

A meeting of the creditors under the fiat issued
against the great East India agency and banking
firm of Young, Bracken, Bolland, Sutherland, and
Alexander, was held this afternoon for the further
proof of debts, &c.
The debts proved during the day were not nume-
rous, or for large amounts. Claims were, however,
submitted for upwards of 30,000/.
The Solicitor to the Commission stated that a
claim had been made by Mr. T. Smith, of the
Honourable East India Company's service, for the
expenses he had been put to by the non-payment of
a bill drawn in Canton, and circulated, hut which
had been dishonoured by Alexander and Co. The
bill had, in consequence, been sent back to China,
and heavy costs had been incuired. He thought
Mr. Smith had a clear right to wove for the legal
expenses he had been put to in consequence of the
bill having been dishonoured. A proof had been
already made by Mr. Smith for 29,106 sicca rupees,
and he never wished to prove for the expenses.
There was some difficulty, however, in making out
the sum, as it was reduced from sicca rupees into
Spanish dollars, and then into pounds sterling.
The COMMISSIONER said the best course would be
to expunge the prior claim, and then Mr. Smith
cou►d prove in pounds sterling.
The proof of 3,0771. was then admitted.
The amount of deb's proved during the day was
about 13,8001, and the claims entered were nearly
40,000/. The debts proved against the estate up
to the last meeting amounted to 4,697,060 sicca
rupees, which, added to the proofs and claims made
during this day, make a total of about 5,230,000
sicca rupees, or about 520,000/.
Mr. Commissioner IiANE appointed the first audit
of the accounts to take place on the 2d of February
next.

The further proceedings were then adjourned.
A BANKRUPT OUTLAWED.
A meeting of the creditors under the fiat of bank-
ruptcy issued against James Roberts and Frederick
Woolfe, of Gravesend, cheesemongers, was also
held before Mr. Commissioner FANE, for the pur-
pose of auditing the accounts.
The bankrupt Roberts has decamped from his
creditors, and there being a balance of 400/. defi-
cient in the accounts wholly unaccounted for,
strong suspicions are entertained upon the subject.
The bankrupts have claimants to the amount of •
1,8001., and at present the assets are not expected
to realise more than 3s. in the pound. Woolfe
joined Roberts in a solvent state a few months
since, and has given every information in his power
of the concerns of the firm ; but Mr. Whitmore, the
official assignee, stated that the accounts were in a
most unsatisfactory condition, and too great a value
had been placed upon the effects. A horse had
been valued at 161., but he (Mr. Whitmore) had
felt it necessary to sell him fur 71., to prevent the
animal eating his head off.—(Laughter,)
Mr. Commissioner FANE said he had made it a
rule, when the accounts of a bankrupt were unsatis-
factory, to adjourn the final examination until the
last audit.. He should not object to the bankrupt
having five shillings a day when he was required by
the official assignee in making out the accounts.
The final examination was then adjourned, and
the bankrupt (James Roberts) was proclaimed in
the usual form.

The Moniteur Beige contains an Ordon-
mince of King Leopold, by which the following Consuls
are appointed :—At Margate, for that town and Whit-
stable, Mr. William Cobb, jun. ; at null, for that town
and the ports of the Humber, Mr. Henry Morris ; at
Cork, Mr. Henry Bury, in the room of Mr. J. J. Finn,
deceased ; a t La Rochelle, for that town and its depend,
encies, M. Romieux ; at Nice, M. Eustace Golan ; at
Boston, Mr. A. Homer ; at Charleston, Mr Henry Le.
fehvre ; at the Htvannah, M. Francis tie Coninek ; and
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at Valparaiso, M. Hippolyte Serruys.

The following are the excellent set of instructions,
or heads of inquiry, prepared for the Commissioners
appointed to " Inquire into the existing State of
Municipal Corporations in Scotland." We add,
likewise, the Royal Commission itself; though the
whole, or a part of it, we believe, has been before
printed.