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London, England, 1850-09-03 00:00:00

28s tor good to fine. Of Uround Nuc Oil 40 ossks
auction realised 341 103 to 37/ 5s per tun. Cod Oil is
with difficulty to be obtAined under 35/. For Seal
the dear:lntl continues active, pale selling at 371 to 3=.4.
straw, yel!o v and brown 341 to 86/. There is a further
ris in Southern; sales to a fair extent have been made
privately at 33/ 10 to 36l for low to fine. For Sperm
hollers (b:e 831 to 841 for fine British, and 901 to 931
per tun for Helftrna t-r.

EVENING,

BANKRUPT.

155. 7d., and the txpenniture 13,4441. 7s. ld., leaving
a balance of 13,G501 Bs. GI

A strong discussion respecting the agreement with
the London and North-Western Comp.lny ensued,
the forfeitures of calls were confirmed, and two auJit-
ors chosen, after which the meeting separated.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BAIVKRUPICY, Sept. 2.
(Before Mr. ComTnissionor HOLUOYD

IN THE MATTES Or THEODORE DE RUMIONY, A

The bankrupt was in this case described as " The-
dore de Rumigny, of No. 3, St. Mildred's.court, in
the city of London, merchant, commi4sion agent,
dealer, and chapman, trading in copartnership with
Sq.phen Charles Lakernan, under the firm of Lake-
man and Co."

At the sitting for the last examination, on the 2-1 of
July last, Mr. James, Q C., and Mr. Lucas, as coun-
sel for the bankrupt, who was aide-de-camp to the
late King of the French, Louis Phillippe, cbraind an
order of Mr. Commissioner Holtoyd to enlarge the
time for the bankrupt to surrender until the 10.11
inste nt, it being stated that the General, who was then
in Paris, was unable to obtain a passport from the
Prefect of Police, and it nlio appearing that the Ge-
neral was not in England when the petition for ad-
judication was filed.
Mr. Lucas this day applied under the 104th sec-
tion of tile B,:nkrupt Law Consolidation Act, 1849,
fir a further enlargement of the time for surrendering,
upon the ground that the General was still unable to
leave France, and further, that a petition for adjudi-
cation had since been filed against Stephen Charles
Lakeman, the General's . late partner, and that it
would be convenient that the same day should be
appointed to take the last examination of both the
partners.
Mr. LAWRANCE, on behalf of the petitioning cre-
ditor, objected that the application was premature,
and was unsupported by any evidence, although the
Learned Commissioner had intimated, when he made
the previous order, that any subsequent application
must be verified by an affidavit of the bankrupt, set-
ting forth the causes of his inability to surrender,
and that the application was bona fide. Mr. Law-
rence stated that he should offer no unreasonable ob-
jection when the proper time arrived, but that the
creditors felt much aggrieved, as, in consequence of
the General's absence, they were unable to obtain any
information as to the assets of the estate or the Gene-
ral's private means.

Die Learned COMMISSIONER stated that he should
decline to mate any order at present ; the bankrupt
had until the 10th inst. to surrender, and, for aught
that at present appeared to the contrary, the bank •
rupt might be able to surrender on that dsy, or that
A all events the requisite evidence of his inability to
surrender might be procured in the meantime.

The other cases heard were not of the least im-
portance. In the bankruptcy of G. Hammond, of
Gravesend and Millwall, wharfinger and builder, a first
class certificate was awarded. E. S. Gill, of Glo-
cester, a toy dealer, applied for his certificate, and one
of a third class was granted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Yesterday a young gentleman of highly-respectable
connexions, who gave his name as Augustus Robinson,
was placed at the. bar before Alderman Film's,
charged with embezzling the sum of 951., and with
uttering forged cheques for obtaining it. It was the
property of Mr. Charles Keyser, of the Stock-Ex-
change.
The prosecutor stated the prisoner was his clerk,
and that he had the care of his account-books.
Prisoner was in the habit going every week to
the bank to obtain the bank-book, in which was re-
turned all cheques that were paid at the bank to pro-
secutor's account. On the 2d of May last there was
a cheque presented by the prisoner for 101., purporting
to be drawn and signed by the prosecutor, and drawn
on the firm of Sir J. W. Lubbock and Co. Since
that time nine different cheques for various small
amounts had been presented in like manner. and paid
to the prisoner. He generally filled up all cheques
after they were signed by the prosecutor, but none
of the ten chi ques in question were issued by
the prosecutor, or with his knowledge and
consent. On the 17th of August last prisoner
presented the-last cheque, which was paid to him
in gold. Prosecutor believed he would not be
able to sustain the charge of forgery. The forge-
ries, he thought, were all destroyed, prisoner having
every facility to effect his purpose, as the cheques
were returned every week in the bank-book, when
those alleged to be forgeries were abstracted, and he
had no doubt were destroyed. The amount of the
cheques did not at any time exceed 101., and they
were generally drawn as for " petty cash." Prose-
cutor never authorised prisoner to draw cheques un-
known to him. He had only now found out the sys-
tem carried on by the prisoner, as he had always
succeeded in deceiving the prosecutor by making his
private account tally exactly with the bank-book; and
it was not until he was told at the bank that his
balance there was not more than 2,9001. th it he found
the balance in his own private account. ,:f 3,0001. was
a fictitious one, ..made up by the prisoner. Prose•
cutor kept no clerk to check the accounts after the
prisoner.

Alderman FINNIS thought he had conducted his
business in a very loose manner not to have disco-
vered the discrepancy in his accounts, particularly as
it commenced su long as four months ago.
Prosecutor said he did not consider that he con-
ducted his business in a loose way. He managed his
accounts as well as the nature of the business would
allow; but he could not tell he was being robbed un-
til he was informed at the bank (on re'erring to their
private account) that he had not so large a balance in
hand as his own accounts led him to expect.
Alderman CHALLIS said there certainly was no evi-
dence of the forgeries, and, therefore, that charge
could not be sustained fur an instant; but he thought
there was sufficient to remand the pri4oner on the
charge of embezzlement.—Remanded accordingly.

REPRESENTATION OF THE UNI

VERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

CAMBRIDGE, SEPT. 2.—The deputation which took its
departure hence on Saturday, in order to present a re-
quisition to Mr. Walpole, has returned here without.
effecting the purpose of their mission. On their arrival
in London they found a letter from Mr. Walpole await-
ing them, expressing his deep regret that be should be
unable to receive them that day, as his presence was ab-
solutely required elsewhere.
At a meeting holden at Jesus College this day there
were twenty-five Conservative members of the Senate
present; the Master ot Jesus (Professor Corrie) occupied
the chair. The above result was communicated, and it
was determined that the Rev. W. H. Stoke;, M.A., of
Cetus College, and the Rev. W. Bonner Hopkins, M.A.,
of Caius College, be requested to take charge of and
wait upon Mr. Walpole with the requisition. These gen-
tlemen according take their departure this evening, but
as they have to proceed as far as Mr. Walpole's ri si-
dence, in the neighbourhood of Epsom, the result will
not be known here- before Tuesday evening or Wednes-
day. The deputation are further empowered, in the
event of Mr. Walpole's acquiescence with the wishes of
the requisitionists, to wait upon Mr. Cowling, and en-
deavour to induce that gentleman to withdraw from the
contest. At any rate those present abstain from all pro-
tithe of their votes until a definitive answer be received
from Mr. Walpole. Mr. Cowling's friends here are in
the meantime most actively engaged in making arrange-
ments for his election. under any circumstances, their
head quarters being the Combination-room of St. John's.
Mr. Macaulay having been requested by the Liberals to
allow him, elf to be put in nomination, has positively de-
clined, and the more influential members ot the party do
not seem inclined to disturb the quiet of the University
by proposing any ono else; the Conservatives, however,
appeared inclined to do this without any aid from the
other party. The requisition to Mr. Walpole, and the
names attached to it, will be published atter presents-
Lion, whatever that gentleman's determination may be.

A CURIOUS BURDEN.—We noticed a few weeks
since the curious fact of a duck swimming about in a pond
with a young chicken on her back, and have now to match
it with an incident in a different quarter of the animal king-
dom. The toad is not a very lovely creature, but under the
forbidding hide of it there are instincts in which one might
trace a shade of beauty. On Monday last a party of young
lathes were enjoying a walk in Mr. Turnbull's nursery
grounds, and in coming on the road near the Hatton, leading
down to the Dundee-road, they observed a large toad, with
a family of seven, seemingly on the way of removal to a
new settlement. For some time they watched its more •
ments, and were not a little amused to see the young ones all
get on the back of their parent, who then moved away with
them, evidently heavily loaded, yet willing to bear her
burden. She wended her weary way down towards the
Manse of Kinnoull, which, by the time the young ladies
had finished their walk, she had nearly reached. We would
hope that this incident will not be lost upon our youthful
readers, but will help to shield the toad race from the boyish
persecution to which- it is unreasonably subjected.—Pcrth.
shire A dret tiser.

Hiram Power's marble statue of Eve, which it will
be remembered was lost in the vessel in which it was em-
barked for shipment to America, has, we rejoice to say, been
recovered, and is now on its pedestal in New York. As a
set-off against this comforting inteliigence, the sculptor has
had to endure another calamity by shipwreck; his marble
statue of Calhoun, commissioned by the Senate, was also
shipwrecked off the entrance to the harbour of New York.
The shippers, however, had the precaution to pack it in huge
enclosures of timber - so huge as to be sufficient to float the
statue; there are, consequently, hopes of this work being
also recovered.— Art Journal.

On Saturday Mr. \Vllliatn Payne held an inquest
in the Queen's Prison, on the body of Mr. John Hardy Hollo-
way, aged 39, a prisoner therein. The evidence proved that
the deceased was an attorney, and, having fallen into diffi-
culties, he had been an inmate of the gaol upwards of three
years. Previous to his apprehension heLutfered from disease
of the liver, and soon afterwards he was seized with a vomit-
ing of blood. From fin., period he had been attended by
,
Mr. Hooper, the prison surgeon, and also by Dr Roberts of
New Bridge street, Blackfriars, and under their treatment
Ito seemed to rec,ve; materially. On Saturday night, how-
ever. very alarming symptoms set in, and, alter lingering
till Wednesday night, he expired from suffocation, owing to
a rupture of one of the large vessels of the lungs. The jury
returned a verdict of " Natural Death, from a rupture of a
blood vessel of the lungs."

1850.

THE CANTERBUItY COLONISTS.
A leave-takieg d:naer to the workingec!aas emigrants
about to proceed to the Cauter'eury Settlement wee
given yesterday at Gsaveseni, in a epiee'.eu; test ereeaed
on the green adjoicing the Fort, known as the " Cap-
tain's field." At the ;wee end of the tent was pieced
a cross-ttae, on which covers were laid tor 50. Frew
this table extended down the tent four tables, call' cal-
culated to accommodate 150 persons at dinner. The pro-
prietor of Wetes' lintel, who was charged by the Can•
terbury Association to provide this entertainment, had
made excellent arrangements for the accommodation of
the guests and for the members of the committee. The
cross or top table was furnished forth with a cold col-
lation, whilst on the emigrants' tables were hot rounds
of boiled and sirloins of roasted beef in profusion, with
an appropriate number of plum puddings. At one
o'clock the whole of the colonists', having disembarked in
good order at Wate's Hotel-pier, proceeded to the tent,
accompanied by a large concourse of the inhabitauts aryl
visitors of Gravesend, and took their seats at the tables
prepared for them without the smallest confusion. The
number that sat down, men, women, and children, who
all appeared to be of the labouring class, and of staid
and orderly dem anour, might be about 600.
It was, though a pleasing, in some respects a touching
spectacle. Here was a large body of cur fellow-coun-
trymen with their wives aid children, ebout to become
voluntary exiles from their native land and to seek at
the Antipodes a better reward ter their labour than the
competition, which is the inevitable result of a high
state of civilization, will enable them to obtain in the
place of their birth. How interesting a volume would
the history of these emigrants make! What en instruc-
tive picture would it present of struggles and privations
—of high aspirations and heart-sickening disappoint-
ments, terminating in the resolve to fa gin life anew, as
were, on the other side of the globe! This is no light
matter. Even the humblest are not without friends and
connexions- whom it must pain them to part from for
ever—for in the great majority of cases the separation
must be final. Long aster the vessels shell have borne
their living freight to New Zealand many an old familiar
race will be missed from it, te,ual haunt, and men will
note the absence of the accustomed greeting tram friendly
lips. Let us hope teat the modern Canterbury pilgrims
will find in the lund of their adoption an ample and last-
ing recompense fur any sacrifices they may have made
in leaving their own country.
When the colonists had taken their seats the tent be-
came inconveniently crowded with spectators, most of
whom were friends of the emigrants. The heat was al
most insupportable, but all was borne with pert', ct good
humour, and no breach of di COMM occurred throughout
the proceedings. The Rev. Dr. Jackson, Bishop Desig-
nate of Lyttelton, the proposed capital of the new colony,
said grace, and the party at the long tables commenced
a vigorous onslauaht on the viands so profusely supplied
to them. Almost all the hotels and taverns in the town
sent as many as they could spare of their waiters to as-
sist at the feast, and carvers were had from the various
dining house', so that there was no lack of attendance.
Ale and porter were liberally furnished to all of the party
who were not members of tetaperauce societies, of whom
we understand there were many.

Lord Lyttelton was expected- to take the chair, but nithaving arrived atLthe appointed time, Dr. Jackson pre-
sided. The repast being finished,
The REV. GENTLEMAN gave thanks, and again rising,
requested silenco whilst he proposed to them a health
which was always drunk with enthusiasm by Engiiah-
men, and he wa i sure it would not be received with less
enthusiasm by the Canterbury colonists—" The Queen,
and might that illustrious lady long live to be a blessing
to her subjects bath at home and in the colonies."—
(Three times three.)
The Marine band, from Chatham, played the National
Anthem.

Dr. JACKSON again rose and said that it was with the
utmost exultation he witnessed the scene now before
him. The Canterbury colonists were biciiiing adieu to
this country, but they did not ceme to be Englishmen.
They were proceeding to form a settlement wnereit the
laws, customs, and manners, and, above all, the religion
of their native land, would be perpetuwei, and treir own
cow:lift-4r maproved.—(Applause.) They must, however.
not expect that such improvement he attained ex-
cept by the constant exercise of habits cf morality, in-
dustry, and by religious observances.—(ll. ar, hear.)
The substance of a dispatch received only the day before
from Mr. Godley, in the settlement of New Canterbury,
would be read to the assembly by Mr. Sewell, arid from
this they would find much encourakenient in their enter-
prise, and much to console them for their departure
from their native land. The ten our of the liispatch
was fsvourable,—(flear, hear.) The Rev. Gentleman
then alluded to the excAlent erring merits made for the
emigrants on board the: four ships in which they were
about to satl. and added, that amongst other arrange-
ments connected with the moral discipline of the pas-
sengers, schools were provided f>r the education of
the children in each ship—ichools founded on a system
that would afford an example for the foundation of
schools for peasants' children in England. Thule were
many moral as well as physical dangers attending a long
voyage, and every precaution had been taken to guard
the colonists against such mischief'. was desirable
that the colonists should cultivate mutual kindness and
good feeling; newness in their habits, purity in their
conversation, and decency in their demeanour during the
voyage, and when they arrived at their destination they
would find that they would be prepared for the attain-
ment of that physical condition of comfort which he had
never doubted awaited them. In conclusion he would
say, nyty he who " holds the waters in the hollow of his
hand" guide them in safety through their voyage ou the
waters.— (Onsers.)
Mr. SEWELL, deputy-chairman of the association, then
came forward, and, atter a short address, read some ex-
tracts from the dispatch of Mr. Godley, alluded to by
Dr. Jackson, which gave a very favourable view of the
condition of the working classes in the colony.
At this stage of the proceedings Lurd Lyttelton
arrived, and the chair having bet n vacated by Dr. Jack-
son, his Lordship assumed it, and r xielaitted that his
absence at the commencement of the business was occa-
sient d by his mistaking the dinner hour.
The Rev. Dr. JACKSON reminded the company that
the chief town of the t-ettleintnt was named after a
nobleman whose Christian f eling anti ste ling English
honesty bad won for him the respect of all connected
with the Canterbury settlement. Through future gone-
rations the great English name of Lyttefton would be
connected with the great English colony of Canterbury.
—(Applause.) He called upon the comp my to drink
the health of Lord Lyttelton.—(Drunk with three times
three.)

Laid LYTTELTON hoped that the assembly would
accept his imperfect expression of thanks for the honour
conferred upon him, It had been his lot to act as chair-
man of the committee which presided over this great
undertaking, and though is that capacity he bad en-
deavoured to discharge the duties devolved upon him to
the best of his ability, yet he felt that the persons to
whom the association was mainly indebted were those
who were about to venture their whole life in under-
taking the practical part of founding the colony.—
(Fleur, hear.) He could add little with reference to
the enterprise to what ho stated a short true since
at the public breakfast which took place at Black-
well, It augured well for the success of the undertak-
• ing that many of those who had teen most useful in the
committee were going out themselves to take part in
this new settlement.—(Appleuse.) It might be difficult
to fill their places in the committee, but he would ven-
ture to promise that that buds would continue to do all
in their power to promo to the permanent prosperity of
the colony. Ili: Rev. Friend had referred to the cernpli-
went which had been paid to him by naming the capital
of the new colony " Lyttelton." It was not his (Lord
Lytteiton'e) wish that this should be done; but, since it
had been done, he received the honour with the warmest
sentiments of gratitude. Perhaps he might be excused
for observing that it was the characteristic of this under-
taking that the characters of all the labourers and the
members of their families about to proceed to Canter-
bury had been subjected to strict inquiry. It had been
too long the custom to associate emigration with an idea
of inferiority, bat it was the distinction of the Canter-
bury settlement that its c.,louists would form the best
specimens of their respective classes which this country
could furnish.—(Applause.) lie trusted that the colo-
nists would bear in mind that the maintenance of a good
character was that which the promoters of the under-
taking were most desirous of observing amongst them,
and that the bitterest disappointment the founders of the
colony could suffer would be any well-founded allegatioe
of misconduct on the part of its settlers.—(Hear, bear.)
For the first fiat() in the history •of colonization,
the labourer proceeding from this country to a dis-
tant settlement would find around him the clairch,
the clergyman, and the schoolmaster he had been used
to at home.—(Applause.) This was an advantage which
the colonists could not fail to appreciete. He could not
avoid on this occasion expressing hie sense of the de-
votedness of his friend Dr. Jackson, the future bishop
of the colony, who had not only given up his comforts
and prospects in this country to proceed to the colony,
but was resolved to cross the ocean again if it should be
necessary for him to return to England to be conse-
crated.—(Applause.) A little difficulty—a lawyer's
point which he could not allow himself to dwell upon—
bad intervened to prevent the consecration of Dr. Jack-
sen, which ought to have taken place long ago, with his
brethren of the colonial episcopate in Westminster Ab-
bey. Dr. Jackson would gu out with the emigrants as
their bishop, and take part in laying the foundation of
the spiritual and temporal welfare cf the colony. The
emigrants had been selected not only for their physical
powers but for their religious and moral qualifications.
They were going to a country which would furnish few
temptations to vice and many incitements to honourable
industry, and under those circumstances he hoped they
would not belie the hopes which had been formed or
them.—(Applause.) The Noble Lord concluded by
proposing "'The health of his learned friend Mr. For-
syth, as one of the earliest and best friends of the as-
sociation."

The toast was drunk with the honours.
Mr. FORSYTH said that the undertaking they were
assembled to celebrate was without a parallel in mo-
dern times. Ancient Greece, it was true, occasionally
tent f( rh expeditions to people the shores of Asia
M;nor, but he would answer fur it that no Greek colo-
nists ever tat down to as substantial a dinner of roast
beef and plum pudding as the Canterbury colonists had
pa,* talct n oL--(Cheers and laughter.) It was pleasing
to think th.t old English fare and old English feeling
would coexist in New Zmland a thowand years hence.
—(Applause.) Ile hoped he ,hould be pardoned for
offering a !ow words of advice to the labourers present.
Let no one go to the colony with highly•rai,ect exreeta-
tions. If any man imagined that he would find a Laid
flowing -aith milk and honey he would be grievously
disappointed. The cs,lonisP, howcver, were going to a
country where they would be able to get a fair d-ey'ei
w:Tes for a fair ela)'s lab,ur, and what Englishman
would de-1;e morn?—(Applause,) In coriel•union, the
Learned Gentleman urged the colonists to cultivate self-
respect, end to act as it the welfare of the colony de-
pended on the individual exertions of each man: all
would then go well.—(Applause.)