The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-08 00:00:00

NEW ZEALAND COMPANY.

The third adjourned general court of the pro-
prietors of this company was held on Thursday at the
New Zealand House ; Mr. Henry A. Aglionby, M.P.,
Deputy Governor, in the chair.
Before commencing with the ordinary business of
the day,
The CHAIRMAN said that it was his sad duty to
announce to them the lamentable death of Lord
Petre, who had been an active friend and supporter of
the company, though latterly unable to devote that
attention to their interests which he knew it was his
ardent desire to do.

The CHAIRMAN said that it Was their next duty to
hear read the resolutions come to at the meeting on
Tuesday last, and any report which it might seem fit
to the committee of investigation to submit to their
consideration.

Her MAJESTY'S COMMISSIONER here rose to make a
statement, which he considered of importance, rela-
tive to the assertions of Mr. Woollcombe at their
former meeting, in connexion with the part which
the late Mr. Charles Buller had taken in drag ing up
the agreement of 1847. The facts of the case were,
that bolh the letters to which allusion had been made,
and which bore the signatures respectively of Mr.
Srephenson and Mr. llawes, were written by Mr.
Buller, and the restrictions that were drawn up sub-
sequent to the drafr of the original agreement were
also made by Mr. Buller.
The report from the committee of investigation was
then read, and was as follows:
" The committee have occupied the very brief space
allotted to them for the consideration of the difficult cir-
cumstances in which the company is placed in anxious
deliberation with several of your dire cosrs, and in such
an examination as was practicable of accounts
and documents submitted to them. The corn-
mitte are of opinion that the position of the
company is one of infinite difficulty and peril, and that
whatever course of operaion may be decided upon, the
proprietors must be prepared to meet heavy
unless the wrongs and injuries of the company can
be redressed by an united and a vigorous appeal to
Parliament and the country. If the course recom
mended in the report of the directors wauld have re-
lieved the company from further liability, the committee
would have unanimously advised its adoption, but such
is not the case, and being reduced to a choice of evils,
four of your committee are agreed that the safest course
will be not to surrender the charters of the company.
The two remaining members of the committee main-
tain the contrary opinion; those of the directors
who were present and expressed their views coincided
with the minority of the committee. If it shall be the
determination of the proprietors not to surrender the
charters, it will of course be necessary to pass instant
resolutions to suspend all expenditure in the colony, and
to reduce the same in this country to such an amount
only as shall be absolutely necessary to obtain redress
for those wrongs, of which the committee are Rath tied
that ample evidence exists, and to which alone are to be
attributed your present disastrous position."
Mr. DRANE, who had acted as one of the commit-
tee, was the first who adverted to the result of the
committee's deliberations, and he admitted that the
case had been placed in a new light to him by the
examination of the papers in the possession of the
directors. Yet he could not renounce his opinion
that a dissolution of the company was the only way
to consult their true interests. They were committed
to heavy liabilities in any view of the case. If they
dissolved, their liabilities would amount to about
20,0001. or 25,0001, while, if they held to Mr. Wooll-
combe's plan, they would amount to nearly double
that sum.

Mr. FREDERICK YOUNG as one of those who had
formerly advocated the dissolution of the company,
but since the investigation of the documents, had re-
versed his opinion, and advocated the non-surrender
of the company's charter.
Mr. BUCKLE said he had attended the committee
meeting of the day before, and had heard all that
Mr. Woollcombe and his friends had to urge in
favour of the policy of preserving the charter,
but he bad heard nothing calculated to alter his
conviction that the true and honest policy of the
company was to hold to the agreement which they
themselves had made. He had heard it advanced
that the New Zealand Company should now proceed
by locking up its charter, and urging upon Govern-
ment its grievous remonstrances, and keeping up a
continual agitation in public to advance their ends and
gain those indemnifications to which they laid claim.
He thought such a course was wholly unworthy of
the New Zealand Company. It would be a crooked
policy, and would in the end ruin itself. He would
go further—he would call it a dishonourable policy.—
(No, no.) It was evident that the charter had been
received for public services, and that certain privileges
they enjoyed through it were coupled with certain
duties. What was proposed by Mr. Woollcombe was
nothing more than that they should reserve the privi-
leges and decline the duties. Was that an honest, was
it an honourable policy ? Was it an honourable course
to tike all the advantages of protection, as it was
called, and to decline any one of those duties with
which they were coupled ? Was it likely that the
laws of this country would provide no remedy fur such
a course? They might depend upon it that they
would be compelled to petform those duties specified
in the charter, which were also coupled with the pri-
vileges of which they had sought to take full benefit.
Mr. WATSON then endeavoured to show, by the
terms of their agreement, that in point of fact they
were bound, whatever might have been the result of
their efforts, to resign the charter at the expiry of the
stipulated term.
Mr. LEE and Mr. Dowsorr spoke to a similar effect,
and urged upon the 13:Ref] g to throw themselves uphn
the sense of justice of the Government and the Parlia-
ment.

Mr. WOOLLCOMBE then proceeded at length to
justify the opinion _which he had urged at the former
meeting, and to deny that his amendment merited any
one of the epithets which Mr. Buckle had heaped on
it. He defended the conclusions which the commitee
of investigation had arrived at, and reiterated his
arguments in favour of retaining the charter.
Mr. Burnand, Mr. White, Mr. Bugby, Mr. George
Young, General Briggs, and other proprietors, took
part in the discussion, but the sense of the meeting
was so evidently in favour of surrendering the char-
ter, that, after a very protracted conversation, Mr.
Woollcombe was induced to withdraw his amend-
ment, and the following resolution was then unani-
mously carried :

" That, in accordance with the recommendation con-
tained in the director,' retort, the court of directors be
empowered and required to give notice to her Majesty's
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sions and conditions therein contained."

The other resolutions agreed to were as follows :
That in giving the nctice an earnest representa-
tion be addressed to her Majesty's Government on
the following points:-1. That the surrender of the
company's charters upon the terms 10th and 11th Vic.,
chap. 112, sec. 19, is a course forced on the shareholders
by a hard and cruel necessity, which,
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vested in them by law. 2. That the abandonment or
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Grey of the real nature of the request submitted, as well
as of the intentions of the directors as expressed
in their letter, inasmuch u it was not an appli-
cation for positive pecuniary assistance, but for a
contingent guarantee only. 4. That, for these
and other reasons, the shareholders confidently
rely that her Majesty's Government will not avail them-
selves of the legal formality which compels the share-
holders. for their protection, to intimate this day their
readiness to surrender their charter, but will receive
in a candid spirit a further explanation of the causes
that have prevented the realisation of the expec-
tations on which the agreement of 1847 was founded,
and will enter frankly into an equitable reconsideration
of the whole case before they proceed to the exercise of
the powers with which they become legally invented by
the notice now resolved to be given. 5. That, in accord-
ance with the suggestion in the directors' report, a corn-
mittee be appointed to co-operate with the directors, for
the purpose of urging
the legal and equitable claims and
rights of the company upon her Majesty's Government,
and that Messrs. Buckle, Drane, Frederick Young,
Watson, and General Briggs, constitute such committee
6. That all expenses of the establishments of the New
Zealand Company cease from the present time except
those absolutely t ee,essary for carrying on the 'unctions
for which the company will continue to exist, and that
the requisite instructions be sent to the principal agent
by the Phoebe Dunbar. That this meeting be adjourned
to Tuesday, the 16th inst., at twelve o'clock, at this place,
for the purpose of receiving the report of the committee,
and for filling up the vacancies in the direction, if at
such adjourned meeting the shareholders shall thiuk
proper so to do."
The thanks of the meeting were then accorded to
Mr. Cox, her Majesty's Commissioner, and to the
Chairman and board of directors, after which the
meeting adjourned.

THE Fox CLUB.—The members of this club had
their last meeting this season on Saturday last, when they
dined together at the Trafalgar at Greenwich. The follow-
ing noblemen and gentlemen met on the occasion :—The
Earl of Zetland, the Earl of Strafford, the Earl of Gosford,
the Earl of Scarborough, the Earl Spencer, the Earl of
Leitrim, Viscount Ebrington, M.P., Lord Dinorben, Lord
James Stuart. M.P„ Lord Marcus Hill, M.P., the Right
Hon. Fox M4uk, Aix., the Right Hon. Edward Ellice,
M.P., the Right Hon. J. W. Fitzpatrick, M.P., the Right
R S. Carew, ALI%
Hon. Dr. Lushington, the lion. Colonel Boyle, M.P., the
Hon. E. L. Mosryn' M.P., the Hon. H. Duncan, the Hon.
M.P., the Hon. II: Tracy, Sir W. Gibson Craig, Bart., M.P.,the Hon. Charles Compton Cavendish,
Sir Montague J. Cholmeley, Bart , M.P., Sir Robert Heron,
Colonel Ferguson, H.P., Colonel Boldero, Mr. Edward Ellice,
M.P., Mr. F. pandas, Mr. Rowland Alston, Mr. Stephenson,
Mr. A. Stepheuson,
Mr. L. A. N. Sanford, &c,,

THE LATE SIR ROBERT PEEL.

IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF DEATH.

Before the fatal accident which 1.; fldeuniversally
deplored Sir Robert Peel, the Right Hon. Baronet had
not been in his usual health. For a week or two he had
looked unusually pale and languid; but on the occasion
of his speech in the debate on the foreign policy of the
Government, delivered on the morning of the fatal ic-
jury he looked well and vigorous; his address was ad-
mired by the whole House, and he exhibited no defi-
ciency of mental power or spirit. It has been rumoured
that Sir Robert fell from his horse in an epileptic seizure,
and that in his convul,ive clutchings of the rein, his
horse stumblel, and fell upon him. But there is, we
are assured, on the best authority, no truth whatever in
this story of an epileptic Et. Nothing of the kind was
observed by those persons who were near him at the
moment of the accident, nor did any of the subsequent
symptoms point in the least degree to such an occur-
rence. The fall was accidental, and the subsequent in-
sensibility was doubtless caused by the shock of the
injury. It is of importance, we should observe, that we
have the best authority for stating that Sir It ,bert Peel
never in his life had a symptom which indicated any
affection of the brain.

As soon as surgical aid was procured, it was found
that there was a comminuted fracture of the left cla-
vicle, with considerable se elling from the first, which,
together with the excruciating pain of the whole shoul-
der, rendered a minute examination extremely d'fficult.
A swelling as large as the hand might cover, subse-
quently formed below the fractured clavicle, which pul.
sated to the touch synchronowly with the action of the
h-art. Whet, examined carefully by the eye, it was
found that the. movement of this tumour corresponded
with the contraction of the auricle, and was, in some re-
spects, similar to the pulsations observed in the veins of
the neck in very thin persons, and in certain forms of
venous regurgitation. It was evident, from these signs,
that some vein beneath the clavicle, probably the cub-
clavian, had been wounded by the broken bone at the
time of the fall ; and that the subclavicular swelling
consisted of blood effused from the wounded vessel. It
was also evident, that the swelling was in this way,
connected with the heart, forming what might be citled,
a diffused false venous aneurism. This was all that could
he ascertained positively. Sir Robert Peel was well
known to be of a gouty habit, and he was at all times
extremely sensitive to physical pain. His sufferings
during the whole of his brief illness were of the most
agonising kind. This might have arisen from the lace-
ration of some nerves converging beneath the collar-
bone, to form the axillary plexus—a complication which,
as is well known, sometimes occurs from severe frac-
tures in this situation. After death, one or two of the
ribs on the left side were found to be fractured, which
had not been detected during life. The injuries we have
referred to would have been sufficient to cause death in
such a subject; but there may possibly have been fur-
ther injury, or disease, resulting from the accident,
within the chest. This, however, was, us we have said,
extremely difficult to make out. From consideration to
the feelings and the express wishes of Lady Peel ~nd
her children, no examination of the body has taken
place, so that what we have stated is probably the sum
of all that will ever be known of the cause of the death
of this illustrious statesman; but upon the authenticity
of what we have now placei before our readers may rely
most implicitly.
Sir Benjamin Brodie, Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Caesar
Hawkins, Dr. Seymour, Mr. Shaw, and Dr. Foucart.
were in attendance upon Sir Robert until his death.
The latter gentleman is a Scotch physician, resident in
Glasgow, who happened to be passing when the accident
occurred. He was one of the first to raise Sir Robert
teem the ground, and accompanied him in Mrs. Lucas's
carriage home, where he continued in constant attend-
ance, with the full concurrence and sanction of Sir
Benjamin Brodie, Mr. Hodgson, and Mr. Caesar Haw-
kins.—Lancet.

ARRIVAL OF HIS REMAINS AT DRAYTON

MANOR.

TAM WORTH, SATURDAY EYENING.—It would be
difficult to give any idea of the gloom which pervades
this place and the surrounding neighbourhood. Every
one speaks and feels as if he had lost, in the death of
Sir Robert Peel, a personal friend. The intelligence of
his demise created a profound sensation in Tamworth,
but the feeling of sorrow at the sad event has, if
possible, been greatly deepened since the ar-
rival of his remains. It was sought to keep
concealed from the inhabitants the time when
the body would arrive at the station, in order
that there might be no manifestation of public feeling on
the occasion. With the same object in view it was ar-
ranged by the friends of the late Right Hon. Gentleman
in London, that the remains should not reach Tamworth
till the hour of midnight. The fact, however, got whis-
pered in the course of yesterday that the coffin contain-
ing his body would arrive about twelve at night; many
hundreds of the inhabitants, being determined on taking
every opportunity of showing their respt-ct for the
eaemory of the deceased, proceeded as early as ten
o'clock to the station to await the arrival of the train,
where they stated they would remain till daylight if ne-
cessary, rather than not be present when it reached
Tamworth. On the hearse containing the coffin being
taken out of the carriage, the congregated multitude
took off their hats, while many were affected even to
tears. They also accompanied the procession to the town
of Tamworth, and many of them went all the way to
Dray ton Manor, a distance of two miles and a half. "Ile
remains of the deceased reached his country residence
about one o'clock. Mr. Frederick Peel, his sot!, and
Mr. Lawrence Peel, his brother, accompanied the hearse
in a carriage.

At the funeral on Tuesday morning there will be
twelve mourning carriages, which have already been
engaged for the occasion. Lord Hardinge, Sir Jams
Graham, and Mr. Guulburn, are among those who are
sure to be present at the funeral. The Duke of Welling-
ton has been invited by the family of Sir Robert to be
also present, but the impression here is that his feelings
will not allow him to accept an invitation which he
would otherwise have done with a melancholy pleasure.
Though it is the wish of the family there should be as
few followers as possible of the funeral train, it is under-
stood here that not only will all the inhabitants of Tam-
worth be present to render their last tribute of respect
to the remains of the deceased, but that thousands of
persons will come to witness the funeral ceremony from
all parts of the country for many miles around. In the
meantime the blinds in private houses are drawn, and
the shops partially closed throughout the whole place.
The town of Tamworth baa consequently a very
sombre aspect. As a stranger walks through its streets
and lanes, he can hardly divest his mind of the idea that
there are the remains of a departed relative or friend in
every house. As a further token of respect for the
memory of the deceased .statesman, the inhabitants will
all go into mourning, as if they had each lost a personal
friend. The churches and chapel., too, are all to be
hung in black cloth, while funeral sermons be preacued
from all the pulpits ef the place.
It has just been stated that a telegraphic dispatch has
been received announcing the arrival of Mr. (now tir
Robert) Peel at Dover, in which case he may be ex-
pected here to-morrow. It is supposed that he will suc-
teed his late tather in the representation of this borough.
Last night the inhabitants met in the Town-hall, to
agree to an address of condolence to the family of the
deceased. The place, as might be expected, was
crowded. The grief which pervaded every mind was
visible in every coin ;mance, as well as expressed in the
tone and manner of the speakers. The mayor having
called the meeting, presided over it. Among those pre-
sent were Sir Charles Clarke, Bart., General A'Court,
and the Rev. Mr. Hars:on, vicar of the parish. The
latter reverend gentleman read tte lett'r of condolence
to the family of their late representative, the adop-
tion of which was moved by Sir Charles Clarke. It
is unnecessary to say that it was unauiaauusly adopted
by the meeting.
I have just learned that it has been proposed by some
of the most influential men in Birmingham that on th.!
day of Sir Robert Peel's funeral all the church bells
should be tolled, all the shops shut, and business be en-
tirely suspended, as a mark of respect for the memory of
the illustrious deceased.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF FRIDAY.
' DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basirighall-street.

W. Star, Lynn, Norfolk, currier and leather-seller,
July 27, at twelve—W. Roberts, Burnham, Buckinghatn-
shire, apothecary, July 27, at half-past twelve—W.
Gootch, Bath-street, Clerkenw,ll, grocer, July 24, at
eleven—Charlotte Cooper, Northampton, dealer in Ber-
lin wool, July 24, at half.past eleven.
In the Country.
W. Perkin, Utoxoter, Staffirdshire, timber merchant,
July 29, at ten, at the Court, Birmingham—T. P. Collins.
Brit' )1, tailor and draper, July 31, at twelve, at the Court,
Bristol—W. Hrgoe, Manchester, smallware dealer' July
29, at tvelve, at the Court, Manchester—J. Smith and
William Dart)) shire, Manchester and Egerton within
Turton, Lancashire, dyers, July 26, at twelve, at the
Court, Manchester--W. Dar byshire, Manchester and
Egerton within Turton, Lancashire, dyer, July 26, at
eleven, at the Court, Manchester—J. Newton, Ashton-
unde --Lyn°, innkeeper, July 26, at • leven, at the Court,
Manchester—D. 11. Bereslord, Stockport, Cheshire,
linendraper, July 26, at eleven, at the Court, Manch,ster
—J. Worsley, Preston, cotton-spinner, July 26, at twelve,
at the Court, Manchester—G. Wilson, Wakefield, York-
shire, draper, July 26, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—
H. Bradtord, Yorkshire, tea dealer, July 26, at
eleven, at Vie Gant,