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First issue 10,000 shares. raeDnetpoofs,eitiopne:ea;lilaic,ation £1 per Share. and a further pay tier Share. a t , .re on allotment Calls not to exceed £2 It i s . and t utee months' interval between each Call. not later den to call up more than £lO per Share. Joh, - DIRECTORS. don A 13aery, Esq., Merchant (Barry and Nephews), Lon jtriceeannd teaenpke.Town, Director of the London and South -les Black, Esq•, (Black and Co.), Merchant, London, Al exraaandaerartes riaon7nE:saqnd Port Elizabeth. All°treldd,Talirvainsd, BPBocirt,hlizabeth. (AIE xander Croll and Co.),Merchant, ziettet'elal P.ank P.ortLEonli d z e i n be ( t l h a ) t! Chairman of the Cora eorldBhertrtan, Esq., Merchant (Levicks and Sherman), aos, er' , . and Cape Town. „.-12,11 7alosenth I E e•, Merchant (Mosenthal and Co.), J J ', °radon P t:Eslizie-atthe,raaontd,KCeapep,Town. e°4l4 Pat4soonr koridon, and Ca ( p l e m and Co.), Merchant, of Good of Hope,Director of the Stan. 4, erd Bank of British South Africa. 0. Stewart, Esq., Merchant (Stewart and Co.), Liver ..ppool Red Port Elizabeth, 1,,:, . Van der Byl, Eso , merchant (Van derßyl and Co.), London, Cape Town, ' . and Port Elizabeth. Th e A i .. )3ANKERS. '' l ance Bank of London and Liverpool, Lothbury, L wedon, and The Albany, Liverpool. ke SOLICITORS. 1. 88 N. Flux and Argles, Mi nc ing -lane, London. ''''leaer4' *1 e B ti OILERS. . and J. Whitehead, 8, Moorgate-street, London. 'TEMPORARY OFFICES. No. 27, Meorgate-street, London. The R PROSPFet - ;TUS. is e „, so uth African Irrig!‘tion and Investment Company bht'autiahed with a view to aid in the furtherance of those 3 " lie undertakings 'ea the South African Colonies, incluacl - g the CaPe of 0- d H British Kaffraria, and Nat 1, y weie, %Vll,ksEttisfactory to those who embark their capital. oinpany's operations will embrace three main I.B t. Th Patof of a L an d and Irrigation Company. i t 2 d. That a Public Work s ( more especially a Lig ht- % av ing, and Water Company) ; and helttsh That of a Trust, Loan, and Investment Company* . as seemed wise to the directors to combine these ob - - p atib r one company, ei.-ece, while all are entirely com aervetrenent, the keavy Ina ba e ' a nd eau be very properly undertaken under one ~ me for sepe:rate companies Att e e expenses of offices, directions, and will thereby be avoided. ,we e lbe„,—"-", -fiefricatt-Irrigatfoneatrdinvesttaimt COmpeny, time b --- olle tbe wants most keenly felt at the present t o ito ,Y , L a i 0 50,..... poets a Land;"Lei African Colonies, cannot fail ealise starsllarehol ample returns upon the capital. Irgation Company it will enter upon a tioil af„ r"niB . 4 g field of operations. Lerge tracts of fertile the - ng the rivers, and in the great karoos or plains of 1 17 in.7, 4t , r .Y , are to be purchased at very low prices, which, riv er , 6,,.119n works, in dams, tanks, or water leadings from beg , : t v ,`"aY be converted, by no great outlay, into proper tetur,l:47 es their original value. The Government N ov , . tor 1 860 of the value of landed estates in these et r et e lee show that where by private enterprise irrigat t ton Value ,have been constructed on arms, the enhaneemen of lee ve has been from RYE! to tenfold ; and as such results , e ao , been achieved by private enterprise, yet more setts o,,,.7q' results may be looked for where labour is more fp",llged and scientific skill is brought to bear. The Conapany will not only purchase lands with a view tet t , s ale after the construction of irrigation works, but eio..take con racts for the construction of like works upon to,vernment and private lands. It is known to be in con per in next session of the Colonial Parliament . to in n ice a bill to facilitat e the construction of a series of Go etti.`ettholaent tanks, and to secure on the capital employed in wilt iNvorlee on Government land a Government guarantee east 6 per cent. per annum. ka a Public Ate Works Company for the towns of South 4 4. 4e4 the prospect is equally Inviting. There is scarcely '4 , 4z o p , tlo g i. ~, 1 magnitude which is not now prepared to offer l) ct " lib and r emunerative terms to this Company, to '‘11411? to it a constituted Water and Gas Company; and ,tllzabh (Peeve the commercial capital of all South- seeeic,',rll Afrieet), caused a Bill to be introduced into lasthole Dro ~:" bi the Colonial Parliament, charging t t s e,t oo -t tY of the town for £BO,OOO, to guarant t e h e e a su t least he th. ~per annum on outlay for works for f w a a v t o e u r rabl p e op -1,„1, e)reetors feel that the present is a most toW c4ll tY for the establishment of a Company fo u r lbe Pu a b b l l i e c ° J o k m B, a,lcid they confidently anticipate that they w •liz — he P ,T t e tabrranments with the authoritiesdae Water Port ° a n — e ' come its Lighting, Paving, an commence be Pi °l4 e f ` -11 Y, so ensure a most favourable e , — of bu tin a e s ss, to and facilitate future operations. lilmocaz leeiillltinned that in towns where, by authority of ba l . letPalities, water-works have been constructed, they ievee,Proved sources of very large profits on the apitll 80 4 , 8 e 'ed, and the only Gas Company in operation in De -` Africa pays annual dividends varying from 16 to 20 ;cent, tell, E Trust Company a very considerable and profitable e4 l ,`,Liess can be d(ne. It will be in position to offer very of see security to constituents and the following statement ,„. selling prices of Shares in existing Trust Companies will '' o l.? what may be done under this head :-- \ Name of iclicTiii:7Theilin Price --7-7.--cr. Z 8. d. A 114tt t of Executor a lOO 0 0 350 0 0 -",ociation for Administering t .litates 187 10 0 375 0 0 e ner al Estate, &c. 2OO 0 0 252 0 0 Vrtilizabeth Guardian and Illtt• 00000000 00000000000 • • 110 0 310 0 f 4 Loan and Investment Company it cannot fail to show t1.t0,.44.t0rY results. Money may be invested to almost any l'ty',"la firs t or preference mortgages, of the amlestsu nttet;tl landed property in the South African Colonies,. at S ege ina,,tYilag from 6 to 12 per cent. per annum, thus yield i ''Re Profit over the cost of money in England ; and ~412otWatt14! be the object of the Directors to raise money on Plied j et ; of the Company or neharwi r , +.O be specially ,sa eaey to go of on such first mortgages, it becomes matter tall • calculation that the profits to be made by the Com e 4 44, 1 11 this d business will be highly re mer t• ePartment of its ,rr a a „ l ve• '44l,lein-glettc:ftltfiiBearhe in . gress for the immedia coin : th'troetttB) and th e kagetel.l, t° the selectiZeoc will give their especial a a t . rne p s t r s o o s f the Company in allots de !1,0,,, f or efficient and well-qualified m t i l e faeT 3 W ill be taken in the Articles of . I . ..ss . ociati o o na n p fo a_ r e ll of ikoration with this Company of existing Chp tiliec,°klect in South Africa. klllllii':l,lPany is established at the . urgent request of t Ylo , oioniste, who are prepared to invest in the Corn ' Sts' considerable extent 2 000 shares will be reserved 41°.‘hilliprollt,h1. South Africa. ' ' payilthinarbvialon has been made by the Directors for the kid t,',4an-iieeztlenses as lyill secure the Company th ‘QO article4lll Whatever in the nature of promotion money, e ~ s A against ° f tOreh o p r of Association will contain a clause giving Th e _Pi tect7 7 ?It.he power to fix, year by year, the amount ttt:teVioN QeeTflit: Company will be in London o , f b t l i r e t Nl:don B oar s and local committees, under the control A ti t •kf r i ' ti lt will be established in the chief owns of eit4li ev a• et to then for s hares to be made in the following form, b E roker s or to the Secretary of the Company. • 0 11 AT , Toth -OF AP PLICATION FOR SHARES. G e ip-reet° r3 of the South African Irrigation and In. k,ehtietno vestment Company (Limited). the , b P.'s -I-laving paid to your Banker s the sum of tbet4bove t 'l- a deposit of £1 per Share on t, .. 3 '4 4 4 111 6 . 4 41 ati P d ani, I hereby request that yo o u wi p l r l e a s l o lo ri t h n: d e t , mes of agr!e rtccording to the fof Al nelber Association), to accept such shares, or . any k ln ity b Bo A ei,etiot allot me, and l to re ex n e s c s u t t t e h t a h t e m A y r n ti a te e s N I -Pmeert Whineyen required ; and ett ecl, ' c tt the Register of Shareholders for the Shares Name in full Residence Profession of Business Date S C IAL ----- elati?,B - ri l ' i ,""EE HOSPITAL FOR THE ttßn 2`-' RD ICR Gray's-inn-road.—FUNDS are 44 .1:, 4 20e r tU IB • -m e. and Ba nker —Edward Masterman, Esq., Nieho \. By order, STANFORD S. SMITH, Sec. r i T , Iv, E 0 EIDONt 11-11 p lint i . t At ` 1 14,, 0 5, it? See Patent, March 1, 1812, No. 560. pm Tti,„°,,Self-adhesive Patent Indestructible MINE -111 11 4 ' - ' 4 4-1 and FLEXIBLE GUMS, without palates, "jai fires, o lt ll s , nd v e i ,a, and without operation. One set lasts a 4 t, ("tit ATIOANR. ItgeTsr inDatle2sMoAySTaltChtTflgeNusauani 1 111 gsrs. GA exi BRIEL, the old-established Dtists, i IIARLEYSTREET, CAVENDISH-SQUARE; 34, L UDGATE-HILL, LONDON ; 6s, NEW-ST REET, BIRMINGHAM; and 134, MK h.-STREET, LIVERPOOL. 0 ) , INTERNATIONAL RxrarraiTioN, CLAIM 17. At „, eal Ni Treatise t only required from country patients, Gabriel's 't \.... Consultations free. A l l (MN TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS.- of W_ tk r T H E F P RIVATE DIE tr, , to , • SMITH has just published a REE EDITION DI. v‘l, p,pies of his valuable work, te9)ilit tIIEND (116 pages), on th e e t bt.,, 411 ,i11; l ',Pos of Memory, Dimness Lassitude,ry gums. Self li c t u , reof Ne to the Author's r ei iip y it,, .roin the secret sinsofyouth Copies may be had "(4e4',:flelng a stamped directed envelope' 8, B urton-crescent , London, W.C.WU Fee. l u r k C onsultation by Letter without Of ~1 % 14‘ . .,A . 1 . will, for the BENEFIT eiving a description tlyrir eaOITS DEBILITY, dm, n ec t°''. "Mir"' of persons suffering and directions for . 4 e ,' l 'etid g,e (enclosing' a stamped o dir r ected envelope for re s, triOist 4 WMtten opinion, with advice Ortott.!iliccessful treatment and cure . — Address , Dr. Smith, crescent, London, Vir.C. I\i 1 , 1, T'S A, A''',Sn'',-,IOTIJAL REMEDY.—LAMBER the le 44 i'IMATIC BALSAM, without confming Ni,lirlltte,"ifitecting the bead, truly efficacious and pleasant, Nti' 4 B , e o i a o be the best medicine for im l'e ,'loii. %confirmed cases ot asthma, and incipient co_n mediately relieving 414 V -4n ce h.,''' frequently cures persons whom whichllriy.. t 4 trf,„-41rShie, admirably allays the tickling P R la,a etrul 1 / 1 4 4t-si' coughing. In approaching consumption l e t: 't ',Own for Y veneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, orev _ u Nlv Iblititzt fear of suffocation, may depend on relief fn AB 4,lS4llter taking it. swill only n 4 1„i , q ...i40n.„ 0 „ ~ C hemist, 8, Kim , . iam-str e e s a et, l.s Ch . a , ring-- 64a. and dr k , lo ' l• titt ntlit4 4 Yfi by ail druggists, in r b e otti 14, it - l ' a rnbe,...P 3 one, 2s. 9d. each. ... particular, and on the stamp. elig-rmreci ! Asthmatic q 4tv p. Balsam. The name and ad -11 IN' V IQou , RESTORED IN „rt, °lilt Avi,, l t OF YOUIII • ESSENCE OF Ph'fil. - ' , RS by Dr. RICORD S tolteZouq„fut 4 1. 448 es e° botitt arisingfrom self-pollution, , P,'ent gill restore manhood to the most oa.:4l44llocturta,'cn, whether fleets of climate, or natu .tth is to, : T he s,_ emissios, the cure the most inveterate ITtioi lt s i nr Week's'fae required to according to the printed in ta,„_sitte(Which , and, if used _ ure ii is impossible. tvry, „. re sto ., are very simple), fa by all about to c tutii. its eff nillg remedy should be taken knowledged by Ota z , est p re ects arc he It is ac ever made. ', t ot. 4 14 eves JO be the greatest discovery . t A'r,,_ . ili "`Y ease is as certain as that water quenches el l ` kti o t kird' h t with full in -044 o p.ll to , n.asenee of Life is sold in cases, one for 338., litioN, eii, ° ,. c 1(.4 , at 11 8., or four quantities packed, k 0 of 0 arty part of the world, carefully P eltltt ble to Front Atemiu ance or post-office order pa” "4ecticineliVarehonse, 229, Strand Loudon. 590. , 0 Lt 30 a. 10. N°. 21,973. PUBLICATIONS. NQTICI. A THIRD EDITION of FEMALE LIFE IN PRISON, by a PRISON MATRON - , Revised, with Ad ditions, will be ready on Friday, Dec. 5, in 2 vols., price 21a, Hurst and Blackett, publishers, 13, Great Marlborotigh-street. NEW WORK by the AUTHOR of "JOHN HALIFAX." Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., 2is., MISTRESS AND MAID. By the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." "All lovers of a good novel will hail wi h delight another of Miss Mulock's charming fictions."—John Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Mat'lborough-street. Second Edition ' N ow n Ol, O, Complete in 3 vols., 31s. 6d., LES MISERABLES. By VICTOR HUGO. Authorised English Translation. " The merits of Les Miserables ' do not merely consist in the conception of it as a whole; it abounds page after page in details of unequalled beauty."--Quarterly Review. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HOTELS, &c. CHAPLIN'S hOTEL. AND SPREAD EAGLE TAVERN, 81, GRACECITURCH-STREET,: LONDON. omfort, combined with moderate charges, will be found at this Establishment. PRIVATE APARTMENTS FOR FAMILIES. Sitting Room, is. per Day. Bed Rooms, ls. 6d. and 2s. per Night. A Night Porter in attendance. No INCREASE OF CHARGES. INDIA AND THE COLONIES. - PASSENGERS Embarkin g or Di sem b ar ki ng will find superior accommodation and moderate I arges at CIIAPLIN'S CLARENDON HOTEL, GRAVESEND, Adjoining the Terrace Pier. A Lawn in front, extending to the River. AMUSEMENTS. VANTERBURY HALL. GRAND SELECTIONS from VERDI'S " SIMON BOCCANEGRA," MACFARREN'S CANTATA " MAY DAY," LOCKE'S MUSIC of " MACBETH," and Mr. BE .NETT GILBERT'S NEW OPERETTA, " A NIGHT IN FAIRY LAND." Conduct e d by Mr. JONGHMANS. Full Band and Chorus, PRINCIPAL ARTISTES. Miss RUSSELL, Miss TOWNLEY. Sig. : Tivoli, Mr. Green, Mr. Raynor, and Mr. Russell Grover, The Comic by ITNSWORTH (the Original Stump Orator, " OR ANY OTHER MAN") in conjunction with Eugene, Difey, and Little Bob, forming the greatest Comic Quartet in London. Also, the following Comic Favourites:—Mies Georgina Smithson, Messrs. E. Marshall, Hollingsworth. and Arthur Lloyd, and the surprising Performance of " THE ETOILE FAMILY." rrH E O X F O R D, 6. OXFORD STREET. Re-appearance of Unsworth (the original of "Or any other man.")—The Colleen Bawn, by Miss Caroline Parkes.— Eucrene, the great Burlesque Prima Donna.—Arena and Angelica, the Neapolitan Minstrels.—W. Randall and A. B. Hollingsworth,—Mr. T. Maclagan's Entertainment.—Drew Dean's Soles on the Flute.—Comic Pas Seul, by Henri—ln addition to varied high-class musical attractions, consi s ti ng of Selections from Verdi's "Nabuco" and "Il C orsaro, " Donizetti's " Don Sebastien, " A über's "La Circassienne," and Choruses, Glees, Duets, &c., Ace., by Miss Russell, Miss Townley ; Messrs. Bernardi, Greene, Huish, and Albert, with Full Band <lnd Chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonutmans. Admission, Bd.; Balcony and Stalls, ls.; Private Boxes, 10e. 6d. • ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE AND AMPHITHEATRE. OLMAR EVERY EVENING. Les Freres Conrade on the Low Rope (without balancing' pole). —Lee Petites Monstres.—The Olympic Wonders—Pas Seul by Lord Dromedary. -Mrs. Bryan, Wieland, Woodman, Sac. —Grand Musical Entertainment of Sixty Performers. First appearance of the celebrated Talliotts on Monday next, Bth December. A RGYLL ROOMS.— G rea t Wi n d m ill- s t ree t, Haymarket. —GRAND CASINO FRANCAISE.— pen every Evening for Promenade and Dancing, with the elebrated Band of 50 performers. Conductor and Principal ornet-a-Piston, M. BOITLCOIIRT.—The new Imperial Qua- Valse Cotillion, and L. Moses's Peep o'DayValse will t e played nightly. A new Conversation Salon ham been added to the above 1. stablishment for Reading, Coffee, and Refreshments.— Admission ls.—Manager, M. Grenet. OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING Wallace's arrogßee"l4graTea/M1 T M R egr rlll B. G ru eo;g m e I P u erVen n , a /V P . v. ll l Weiss, H. Corri, A. Cooke, and W. Harrison. Conductor—Mr. A. Mellon. Doors open at ball-past 7—Commence at 8. THEATRE -ROYAL HAY MARKET. Lessee Mr. J B. Ruckstone. THIS EVENING, at 7, A DAUGHTER TO MARRY,. Messrs. Farren, Rogers, Clark, and Miss E. Romer. A (ter which, at a quarter to 8, will be performed (225th time) UR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck ;tone ; Lord I)undreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by a new Fare, entitled DUCK PUNTING: vr. Compton, Mr. Howe, Mr. W, Farren, Mrs. Wilkins, and Miss C. Hill. To conclude with JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. N' TTIF ATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHL- Sole Proprietor And Manazer, Mr. B. Webster. TUTS EVENING, THE GREEN BUSHES. Messr.. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Billing - fon, Sefton, Stephenson, Eburne, Romer, Ilitehenson, Aldridge; Mies Avonia. Jones, Miss Woolgar Mrs. Sillinzton, Mrs. H. Lewis, and Mrs. Stoker. To comude with A TICKET OF LEAVE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, F. Bedford, Stephenson, and Mrs. Billington. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. T,apsee and Manager. Mr Lindua. THIS EVENING, the Farce of A.S.S. : Mr. Fitzjames and Mr. Henderson. After which, at half-past 7, the new Drama by John Oxen ford, Esq., entitled THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. Mr. Geo. Vining; Miss Constance Aylmer, Miss M. Oliver, and Mrs. B. White. To oonclude with THE HONEYMOIN. Mr. H. Vezin, Mr. R. Roxby ; Miss Constance Aylmer, Miss M. Oliver, and Miss Of. Jones. OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. ‘ Sole Leesee and Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. 328th Night of the ^ontinuous run of "Peep o'Day." ITIIS V ENING. the new Comedietta. IT MUST BE TRUE, 'TWA S IN THE PAPERS. Walter Lacy, J. Robins ; Mrs. Weston, Miss Weston, and Miss L. Thompson. Followed by PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. % ewe. Waiter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, ,nd Edmund Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. To eor elude with the Last View of KILLARNEY, intro ducing the Ballet. CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY. NOTICE IS H EREBY GIVEN,That the Fifteenth Ordi narv, General Meeting of the PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate street, in the City of London, on WEDNESDAY, the 17th of December instant, at one o'clock precisely, for the purpose of receiving a Report from the Direc.ors, and of transacting the ordinary business of the Company, as prescribed by the Deed of Settlement and Charter. The Books kept by the Comnany for the registration of Transfers of Stock will te CLOSED from the 3d to the 17th instant, both days inclusive. By order, 1 GEORGE GROVE, Secretary. 'Crystal Palace, Deo. 1, 1862. CIA MR TirTEINICES. THE COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND REVENUE Hereby Give Notice, that LISTS contain ing the Names of all Persons who have taken out LICENCES TO KILL and DEAL IN GAME, in the current Year. to 31st October last inclusive, have been printed for each Excise Collection, and that a copy thereof may be obtained GRATIS by any Person on application at this Office, or to the Collector or Supervisor of Inland Revenue, Distributor or Sub-distri butor of Stamps in the country, The Commissioners further give Notice, that instructions have been issued to their officers to take the necessary steps to prefer informations for penalties against all persons found in pursuit of or dealing in Game without licnce. THOS. DOB O N Secretary. Inland Revenue, Somerset House, London, 21st November, 1862. TO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED. DR. CURTIS ON MARRIAGE, NERVOUS DEBILITY, ;PER. MATORRTHEA, BCO., WITH PLATES. Post free by the Author, 12 stamps; sealed end s, 20, MANHOOD: The CAUSE and CURE of PRE MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Direc tions for Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour; being a 111edi'al Essay on the Treatment of Nervous and Generative Debility, Impotency, and those peculiar disqualifications to marriage which originate in youthful errors and excess the cure of Infectious Diseas , s without Mercury, and their Pre vention by the A uthor's Prescription of his infallible Lotion, the re-nit of 25 years' successful practice. By Dr. J. L. CURTIS, 15, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, London. REVIEWS OF THE WORK. al T ua h b e le pr w o o fe r a k . profes sional reputation of the author, combined, and should be in the hands of with his extensive "CunTis ON MANHOOD. young -This t a ru n lY d old. The immense circulation which ttc , fully accounts for the mm has obtained." experience as medical referee in the treatment of nervous de bility,this popular and a bly-written medical treatise Sunday Times, March 23, 1856. "Dr. Curtis has conferred a great boon by P ublishing this little work, in w hi c h i s d escr ib e d th e s ource of those diseases which prodwe decline in youth, or more frequently prem a. ture old age."—Daily Telegraph, March 27, 1656. The Author of this Medical Treatise may be DAILY con sulted as usual, either by letter or personally, at his residence as above. The efficacy and harmless nature of the remedies employed by Dr. Curtis, having been demonstrated by the most complete success during a practice of 25 years, nervous sufferers of every ekes h ave a utmost skill and experience will be made available in the casTeha,etßooalcochncilaudadesdwiedththneur arPtoehuriosre,vetaarrieguecedai treatment of their cases. praatunodtfeet the t eh interestingaatb o t h v e e rsohwel Mann, 3d, e by or J nhil . Allen. 20 London ; ar aa wi d c a k u -lti o l o e k l e a ll t ara er- Infallible Preventive Lotion. Pater noster-row Town and Cowan'. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 1861 CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. MEETIMI THIS DAY. At the tenth annual and forty-first quarterly general meeting of the members of the above society, held at Exeter Hall, the following report was read and agreed to The four auditors, Messrs. Astbury and Winstanley, ap pointed by the board, and the Hey. W. G. Goodchild, vicar of Tilbury, and Mr. Harding (public accountant), elected by the shareholders in October last, having verified the vouchers and books on the 6th and 6th of November, and signed the balance sheet, ft is now the pleasing duty of the executive committee to submit the satisfactory statement of accounts and their tenth annual report to the members of the Conservative Land Society. The receipts for each quarter, the totals for the year, and the grand totals since 1852, are shown in the subjoined tabular return : __. 0. Papillon, Esq., M.P., in the chair, at which C. E. New comen, Esq., and H. Pownall, Esq., attended as a deputa tion from the executive committee. The two estates at Newark-on-Trent were allotted at the Town Hall, after a public meeting at which the mayor presided, and Vis count Ingestre, YIP., Hon. and Rev. W. C. Talbot, and Col. Knox, M.P., attended as a deputation for the Board. The new roads fed sewerage have been completed, and building operations have already commenced on both estates, Beaconville being for first.class villas, and Northgate adapted for the working classes. Both properties are so advantageously situated as to secure a steady development, should Newark cmtinue to progress as satisfactorily as it has done of late years. The increase of tenants and the ad vanced rents on tie Brighton estate, with sales of some of the freehold houses and plots during the year, proves that the property is piogressing. It has had to contend with adverse opinions expressed as to its value, emanating, strange to state, from officials in the employ of the munici pality. These opinions were based evidently on political partisanship, and not from the purely commercial point of view, and from the actual facts connected with the develop ment of the estate. It is to be regretted that the great social advantages presented by the sale of freehold land, so difficult now to obtain in Brighton, should be overlooked, and the adverie feelings created by electoral animosity, be suffered to predominate. It is certainly not in a Revising Barrister's Court at Brighton that the real value of the Roundhill Park estate is to besought, when it isfound that land costing £l5O is pronounced not to be worth 40s. per annum, and a plot adjoining a house producing a rental of £4O per year, is also declared to be not of the value of 40s. per annum. The works on the Park estate, Weymouth, are completed, and bligding operations are in active progress. The Executive CoinMittee have the pleasure to report, that the Tottenham„ and _Hampstead Junction Railway Bills having passedikagthe last—session, the Kentish Town estate will be much enhanced in value, as the proposed line will traverse the estate, and a station will be erected in Junc tion-road. There is still a considerable portion of the land for sale in plots, from which the society will doubtless ex perience considerable benefit, owing to the new channels of communication which will be afforded by the railway, in opening and extending this suburban district. The returns of houses built, and of buildings in progress on the various estates, are very satisfactory for the past year. On the Maid stone property, the drainage of which has been connected with the improved town sewerage, no less than 35 houses are com pleted, in addition to the church and school, besides eight in progress. On the Leeds estate, 29 houses are finished, and 17 in course of erection. On the Alford estate, 35 houses now exist. On the Taunton estate, 14 houses are in occupation, and five building. Oa the Old Ford estate, there are 97 houses, and on the Roman-road 54, besides 11 building. On the Hackney estate, the building movement has been recently very remarkable, 46 houses being com plated, and 16 in progress. On the Battersea property there is equal activity, 51 houses finished, and two in pro gress. Impetus has been given to the Reading estate, by the erection of a first-class villa on the high road frontage, besides an important improvement to the back portion of this estate; and the erection of a church on a site reserved by the society will, in all probability, be secured in the en suing year, St. Margaret's estate has assumed a very pro mising appearance since the erection of some first-class villas. The Winchester estate, with its new church and handsome houses, may be seen to great advantage from the railroad. As regards the development of the suburban estates generally, there can be no reasonable doubts, for the extension of the railroad system in and near the metropolis is yearly more marked, and the tendency of all classes to re side at convenient distances from their occupation is greatly on the increase. Building is also in progress on the Oxford, Weybridge, and Ealing estates. There is every induce ment for the allottees, either by combination amongst them selves or by individual operation, to build on the plots they may hold on the various estates, and great facility is afforded by the society's system of insuring this object. The exe cutive committee can safely congratulate the shareholders on the acquisition of the Woodhouse estate, Wanstead. This valuable freehold property, late in the occupation of Money Wigram, Esq., consists of a comfortable and com modious residence, and about 30 acres of land. The house is well built, of good elevation, and is well adapted either for a large family, or for a public institution. It is so placed that it can be sold with as small a quantity as three acres of garden and well-timbered pleasure grounds, with excellent stabling, domestic offices, farm yard. It is the intention of the committee to reserve the house, and a cer tain quantity of the grounds, for private offer, and to allot the remainder of the land for building purposes, for which the estate is particularly well adapted, being only a very short distance from Stratford, on the Leytonstone-road, and net far from the Low Leyton and Forest Gate stations, The estate has a frontage to Wanstead Flats, and is close to Epping Forest, Woodford, and other popular localities. 1. Lib L prove acceptable to those who desire to have the advantage of a country residence within a short distance from the centre of London. A portion of the estate will be one of the ear liest allotments in the year 1863. The registration returns this year are very satisfactory ; indeed, with the extraordi nary exception of Brighton, referred to elsewhere in this report, there has been less of vexatious opposition than on former occasions, adversaries having ascertained that it was not quite consistent on their part, as advocates for the extension of the franchise, to oppose the exertions of the Conservative Land Society in the same direction on the basis of property, by creating qualifications on the most ancient of our electoral privileges —that of the 40s. free holders. In concluding their report, the executive com mittee feel called upon to express to the shareholders their high sense of the great service rendered to the Conserva tive Land Society, by the large attendance of members at the adjourned annual meeting last year; and the acknow ledgments of the board must now be tendered for the reso lutions which were almost unanimously passed on that oc casion. So long as the board enjoys the kind support it has met with, its operative energy and anxious desire to promote the prosperity of the Conservative Land Society will remain unimpaired. goes on : THE SPEECH 01 MORDINI IN THE MALIAN PARLIAMENT. Of all the speeches delivered in the debate with which the present meeting of the Italian Parlia ment has opened, the one of Antonio Mordini, the member for Palermo, is by far the most important, and has been the most effective. We shall enable our readers to form the best idea of the facts of the case, and of the present state of feeling in Italy, by presenting them with the substance of this speech. The historical facts recalled are important; white the tone which marks the language, and the anxious demand for the stability and sanctity of the law, are hopeful signs for the future of Italy. The fre quent reference made to English example gives the speech a special interest for Englishmen. After a modest reference to his personal position, Mordini says : " Buoncompagni told you that Aspromonte was a cause of mourning for the nation. I fully agree in this; and I add, that if the day of Aspromonte was a cause of mourning for the nation, it was a day of triumph for the foreigner. " That foreigner looks to-day more fixedly upon us than commonly ; and I think I am not wrong in believing that he would like to see, to-day, in this Hall of Italian Legislation and of National Liberty, the fatal day of Aspromonte continued by violent disputes. " Gentlemen, the fears and hopes of Italy are concentrated here; and towards this place the at. tention of the world is turned. I ant - certain that, at a time when in Europe the tendency of govern ments is shown to attack the spirit of representative institutions, and to destroy the independence of par liaments, a radiant example will go out from Italy, which will give heart to the friends of political liberty, and will give to our country the place which, in the constitutional life of nations, de servedly belongs to her. "Some of our opponents think they can forge arms against us, by citing the example of England, the classical land of respect for the constituted powers. And the fact is true; and of all the titles of honour which deservedly belong to the people of the United Kingdom, this is certainly not, the least beautiful, not the least great. But I do not hear, joined to that citation, a satisfactory explanation of the fact. When I search for this, with her history in my hand, I find that the respect for the authori ties in England has been gener a t e d, an d i s main- tained, by the conviction of the people that the con stituted authorities are the principal enemies to any kind of arbitrary measures. " England shows you, gentlemen, most remark able instances of kings, of ministers, of high func. ionaries, and of lower agents, accused and sen tenced for arbitrary measures, for illegality, for want of constitutionality. It can be said that, in England, each political and individual right has, in turn, received a penal sanction. Hence it is, that the English citizen from his early youth knows that the authorities respect him, that they will not subject him to arbitrary measures; and, if they attempt this, that they will be punished imme diately and in an exemplary way. Therefore he lives in safety. And therefore he respects the au thorities, because he knows that he is himself re spected by them." Mordini then contrasts the state of things and of feeling with the state of things and of feeling that exists in many states of continental Europe. He "As long as Italy shall not be governed by the law, do not hope to see representative institutions firmly established. As long as all the citizens, from the highest to the lowest, from the most renowned to the most obscure, have not the certainty of en joying, without disturbance, their individual rights, of exercising all their political rights, the position of our state will remain precarious. It is necessary that the new generation should be brought up in Luc love ui, atm respect tor, the authorities. it is necessary that, with the fall of those who had the misfortune of being educated under the rule of des potism, the remembrance of arbitrary measures should fall and be lost. "The Chamber has a most noble duty, the duty of controlling the different powers of the state, and the duty of repressing them when they overstep their constitutional limits. "The Sub-Alpine (Piedmontese) Chamber has given many examples of wisdom and independence, and there is one which deserves to be remembered in the first session of the Chamber of the Italian Kingdom. " An Italian of the old provinces, after having been an exile for liberty and because of his own struggles for liberty, and after having raised and held high the name of Italy in distant countries beyond the seas, had, in 1848, with a heroism rather unique than rare, led the enthusiastic youth against the enemies of the country, to struggles unequal indeed but crowned by glory. Rome fallen, and the Roman republic destroyed by French bayonets, that Italian, coming unhurt out of the walls of the Eternal City, attempted to rouse the populations of the Central Appenines against the Austrians. Dis astrous marches, unheard of privations, hard battles, compelled him to disband his diminished ranks. Then, with desperate resolution, he entrusted him self and a few followers on the Romagnole coasts of the Adriatic to frail boats, asking from the sea the good fortune denied to him by the land. He sailed towards the city of the lagunes, Venice, which still resisted the Austrians with the gallantry of old, in spite of cholera, famine, and fire. Threatened by hostile ships, and driven to the land, he found him self alone in the marshes of Ravenna. Here he re ceived the last breath of his faithful wife, the vic tim of excessive fatigue. He buried her honoured remains, and taking the staff of the pilgrim arrived in Liguria, the land of liberty. It is superfluous, gentlemen, to tell you the name of that man. It is Giuseppe Garibaldi, born at Nice, that most faith ful town of the kingdom of Sardinia. Returned to his country, he was arrested by order of the minis try at Turin, that same ministry which, two months later, arrested and imprisoned the honourable Sir tori, and expelled the patriot Dr. Pietro Maestri, our honourable colleague Guerrieri, and myself. " General Garibaldi was transported to Genoa, where General Alphonso Lamarmora administered public affairs as Commisi_oner Extraordinary. Oa the 10th of Sept., 1849, there was an elaborate and animated discussion in the Sub-Alpine Chambers, upon a petition from the Delegate Council of Chiavari, which protested, in energetic terms, against the violation of the article 26 of the Consti tution to the injury of Giuseppe Garibaldi. The ministry of that day fearlessly maintained that Giuseppe Garibaldi, a Sardinian subject, having fought for Italian liberty at Rome, which was fo reign ground, without the permission of his own government, had been arrested rightly and deserv edly, and that he would be rightly and deservedly expelled from the ancient provinces. " Against this doctrine, there rose and eloquently spoke distinguished deputies. By fulness of argu ment, by power of language, my friend the honour able Brofferio commanded attention as usual; and the honourable Lanza, and the honourable Rattazzi, • and Depretis. And the honourable Tecchio, the noble representative of so ardently desired Venice, our worthy President, had the honour of closing that memorable discussion with an order of the day, which faithfully expressed the liberal feelings of the Sub-Alpine Chamber ; an order of the day which was adopted by a great majority, and which, with your permission, I shall read : " The Chamber, declaring that the arrest of Gen. Garibaldi, and the threat of his expulsion from Piedmont, are violations of the rights consecrated by the Constitution, and of the national feeling, and of Italian glory, passes to the order of the day.' " An assembly which thus speaks, and thus votes, gentlemen, is secure that its memory will remain imperishable in the history of the nation. Let us now return to our days, to 1862. Three members of the Parliament are ar- PRICE..... -...4d. STAMPED ....sd. rested, towards the end of August, at Naples ; where the General Lamarmora, in the quality of Commissioner Extraordinary, administers public affairs, as he did at Genoa in 1849, They are arrested and retained for forty days in the Castel Nuevo, up till the time when the amnesty was pro claimed, as to which my honourable friends Fabrizzi, Calvin° and myself, declare that it does not concern us in any way." ' Mordini goes fully intnthe facts attending and following the arrest'; ib)e contradictory pretexts set up, to excuse it, by Lamarmora and by Rat tazzi ; and the non arrival at its destination of either of the protests sent, by the arrested mem bers, to the President and to the Vice-President of the Chamber. Carefully , 'and calmly he points out that neither by the letter nor, the spirit of the civil law can the arrest be justified; and that no interpretation that can be put upon the . language of the written and binding statutes of the Constitu tion can cover the transaction from illegality at every stage. He then continues as follows : " General Lamarmora, versed in the art of _wan but little familiar with the science of Jaw, has com mitted an act unknown in the annals of free nations; and if we try to t. seek precedents, we must go back to coups creed, He acted wrongly, whether he ordered the arrest or obeyed ministerial orders ; just as the Ministers acted wrongly, whether they ordered or only approved the urea of the three deputies. "Gentlemen, with such precedent#, liberty will not be established in Italy, and- constitutional. life will remain a dream. And if such a system of arbitrary measures and illegality is to be sanctioned, who can tell that what has happened to us yester- day may not happen to morroWto yon. Once be gun, arbitrary measures, more or less disguised, will reign in Italy, and our country will become the prey to passions and civil struggles. " Having demonstrated that there was no act done by us which could justify cur arrest, I now intend to show that it cannot be justified by the state of siege. " I ask, first, can the law and public liberties be suspended ? Who has the right to suspend them ? What does the state of siege mean ? It sets up the rule of force, silencing all civil authorities, confound ing all the powers in the State, suspending all liberty. Whatever power in the State would issue such a decree must openly violate the constitution. I think it will not be superfluous to throw a rapid glance on the examples given in this respect by two great nations, France and England. "In the constitutional times of France the right of declaring the state of siege belonged solely to the legislative power. The executive had it during the prorogation, but with the obligation at once to con voke parliament. In 1832, two royal orders put a portion of La Vendee under the state of siege ; a third order extended it to Paris. According to these orders, the military tribunals were invested with the right of trying civilians. Some of those con demned by the military courts appealed to the Court of Cessation of Paris, maintaining the incompati bility of the state of siege with the French Charter of 1830, which, like our constitution, requires that no citizen shall be withdrawn from his natural judges. The Court of Cessation pronounced a very clear decision, by which it annulled the sentences appealed against. That decision had such moral effect on the public, and it so much alarmed the ministry, that Paris was immediately released from the state of siege_ In England, the Petition of Rights of 1628, in the ninth section, contains the following words:— ' This commission for martial law, and all others of like nature, are wholly and directly contrary to the ,aws and statutes of this realm.' "Throughout the debates on that Petition of Rights, and on the amendment to it proposed by the House of Lords, for saving the rovaLprprnan. Live, toe wnoie question was,—` Can the Being, by proclamation or decree, supersede the law of the land, and set up martial law ? ' And the emphatic answer was,—' The King cannot' "It is a fact well worthy of attention, and which deserves that Italian statesmen should devote to it their most careful thoughts, that, during the whole time of the civil wars that began several years after wards in England, martial law was never pro claimed; but, notwithstanding the actual presence of contending armies, the ordinary courts of law went on, as usual, respected by both parties. It is in this manner liberty is understood in England; and mark, that in those times and those places people fought fiercely. "According to English constitutional institu- tions it is utterly and absolutely repugnant to every principle that martial law shall be proclaimed in any part of the kingdom without the express sanc tion of Parliament ; and nothing can be more un constitutional than the pretence that the ordinary course of the law can be thereby superseded. " The very first declaration of the Bill of Rights of 1689, in denunciation of King James the Second, stigmatises his endeavour to subvert the laws and liberties of the kingdom by assuming a power of suspending the laws and dispensing with their observance. Statutes of the present reign might be cited in this matter; but what I have now said seems sufficient. We, gentlemen, must imitate this example of England, if we wish to live and die in freedom ; for, as that most celebrated of English lawyers, Lord Coke, said, in the discussion about the Petition of Rights, ' the greatest inheritance a man hath is the liberty of his person." Mordini proceeds to show that there is nothing in the constitutional law of Italy that can justify the proclamation of the state of siege without the consent of Parliament He then goes on : " Gentlemen, you see that the want of all legis lative and judicial sanction for the state of siege, and the absence of all precedents, ought to have kept the Mi n i s t ers f rom such a measure . They _ _ should have remembered that the constitution is inviolable; that even Parliament has only those rights which are attributed to it by the constitution. They ought to have remembered that, according to the second article of the constitution, the executive may issue decrees and regulations for the execution of the laws ; but it cannot suspend the laws. " But when the public weal is threatened, when there is a danger for the very existence of the State, this gives, according to some, the excuse of a ne- cessity for the state of siege. "But I deny, most emphatically, such a necessity. It is nothing else but polittcal empiricism. The executive is more thee sufficiently provided with legal means for facing any extraordinary state of things in Italy, without violating the constitution, and recurring to those exceptional measures which, sooner or later, lead to unavoidable ruin. " Machiavelli, who knew something of the affairs of state, said • Measures taken in an extraordinary way, and not in the regular course of the law , - (In h ar m to the commonwealth.' And aga i n : It is always wroug to govern by exceptional la w s , if they shoul d succeed for the time, since t b h ef e c g o even m e o e am ple itself does ha rm, an d when people accus t o med to break the law, under pretence en d s , the pretext gets a colour when it is wantedotdO break them for bad ends.' 44 And since Nicole Machiavelli, there has been another statesman, so much lamented in these last times; a statesman who was in the Ministry when the town and province of Sassari were put under the state of siege. But when the kingdom of Sar dinia was transformed into the kingdom of Italy, he rejected the idea of proclaiming the state of siege. He rejected it on his death-bed. To the monarchy which he had served so faithfully, Cavour left, as a legacy, the advice never to proclaim the state of siege. " I do not deny that the state of siege may, for a while,establish calmness in the streets and market places of a town, but in the hearts of the people it kindles the fire of hatred. After some application of what has been thus IN V 31 , c_t T 1 A v) , `argued to the facts before the eitepkb, t • thus closes his very able speech " Gentlemen; you who have iol:l4'cifak Jr , vinces among your electors, yottal„. *. flood of discontent with the presetif : Min rising daily bi;her and higher. Whatlillallasays of Lombardy, that rich, populous, patriotic, heroic province, where the Ministry could not find one ; single friend P What of Tvecany, that most noble and refined province, which has .become the key- . 3 stone of Italy, and which now cannot retrain from openly expressing her indignation and grief s What of the Southern provinces, where arbitrary mea sures and endless illegalities have destroyed indivi dual liberty—where Bourbonites of the worst kind are listened to, coaxed, rewarded, and employed by the Ministry, whilst, on the other hand, people are arrested and shot without a shadow of legal pro ceedings P Is it in such a way that Italy is to be made one ? It seems as if an evil genius had spread its wings over those unhappy Im...winces. " Gentlemen, the disapprobation of the Cabinet is universal throughout Italy. The Ministry has altogether lost its authority. The country is die heartened. Anarchy is spreading. The nation has lost hope. Let us speak of things as they are; and I appeal to aridly colleagues who have been in the provinces. " I have perhaps to hastily said that the nation has lost all hope. One hope remains —the trust in Parliament. But the nation eXpeets from Parlia ment a great deed—to redeem its atitbority. Sh e expects that Parliament will be the aseertor ofjus- ticei the fulfiller of law. It is from Parliament that 'thicountry waits anxiously - for th e word of 1 life or death." The speech was listened to,throughout with the meet marked Attention, and warm applause greeted the speaker from all parts of the Chamber when he sat down. • AMERICAN FINANCE. ` AFIVIO , O* • 4 2etstiL i If the experience of the past id n-oc,teaeb. US UMW Witt can be serried on by a nation despite an embi:rrassed condi tion of its finances, the world might look for a b'peedy ter mination of the strife in America. We last week gkrre the latest financial statements of both North and South. A re markable family likeness is displayed in their financial sys tems, which may be described as one of borrowing much and taxing little. We do not know what the taxes to be laid will produce; we can only see what taxation has hitherto produced. The Federal :accounts are made up to June, 1862. The receipts from taxation are composed of four items : Customs £9,811,279 Direct Tax Sale of# Public Lands 30,441 Incidental 186,358 Total £10,387,144 Raised by loans of various kinds 105,938,492 £116,325,636 Consequently, in round numbers, the revenue from taxa. tion did not amount to one-tenth of the sums received from loans for the year ending June 30, 1862, and after all this enormous borrowing the balance remaining in hand was but £2,608,709. The Confederate accounts are made up to Aug. 1, 1862. Their receipts from taxation were— Customs £287,479 War tax Miscellaneous £2,790,415 Raised by loans of various descriptions 57,720,623 Total Z 0,511,038 Thus, their receipts from taxation were not 1-20th of those derived from loans, and instead of a balance in hand there was an excess of expenditure over receipts of £8,943,553• So far, then, as the accounts show, the Confederate finances were in a more desperate state than those of the Federals, although the expenditure of the latter is nearly double that of the former, the one being stated at £114,168,340, and the other at £69,454,591. As friends of peace, we would fain hope we may discern in this state of the finances of both contending parties a pro spect of a termination of the war from the impossibility of continuing it. The system pursued is really that of dis counting taxation for many years to come. Now, this may be done for one year—and, very possibly, for two ; but then a collapse would become imminent. In a country so rich in material resources as America, we can easily ima gine the producers, whether of corn, clothing, iron, lead, leather, or other commodities, being willing to exchange them, to a very large extent, for Government loans or bank notes. We can also imagine banks and the moneyed inte rest doing the same with their surplus or unemployed funds, but the process cannot go on for ever, inasmuch as these very intrests wiil thsmsplvsK tAa i u money oraer to reproduce, and this accounts in part for the large pre mium which exists on gold. The fact that the Federals and Confederates have been able to raise in one year no less an aggregate sum than £173,622,931, shows in a striking manner how rich America had become in material resources, and how great an effort both North and South have made to crush each other in a single campaign; but it is becoming doubtful whether an equal effort can be repeated. -Indeed, it is perfectly clear that it cannot be repeated without additional taxation; and it must be borne in mind that additional taxation in itself lessens the power of lending. Yet the present amount of taxation is not more than enough to cover the high rate of interest which both Federals and Confederates have to pay for the loans already raised. It is reasonable to believe therefore that the reaction of public feeling in America, clearly indicated by the elec tions, has been brought about by the conviction that if the war is to be continued on its present scale, permanent taxa , tion to an amount that would seriously affect all incomes must be levied. War is always popular at first. With all our bitter experience and all our sufferings from it, we know how eager the multitude ever is to rush into it, without counting the cost. It is the same in Europe as in America ; but when the bill has to be paid, we know also how strong the reaction is, and how fervently peace is sighed for. Is this reaction now commencing in America ? is a very im portant question. Although the proposition of the French Emperor seems to be yet premature, and it is satisfactory to know that England declined to join in it, America, both North and South, will seriously discuss it, and will, perhaps, from financial exhaustion soon become more-in clined to listen to pacific counsels. There is at least some room to hope that when they hear the almost universal opinion of Europe, and learn that there is no desire or ap pearance of coercion, the advocates of compromise may find themselves better able to gain a hearing. ShareS in Shares Total Qrs. ending progress. Complete. Shares. Receipts. .................16..1 Dec. 24,1881 202 41 243 13,529 1 4 March 25, 1882 ~ 103 26 129 17,821 17 11 June 24, 1862 126 60 186 17,026 12 1 Sept. 30, 1862 563 18 581 15,426 11 1 .----- - - - Totals to Sept 994 145 1,139 63,804 2 5 30, 1881 13,766 3,780 17,546 561,588 10 9 ---- Grand totals to Michaelmas 1862 14,760 3,925 18,685 625,392 13 2 Comparing the three first quarters in the above table with the corresponding ones of the preceding year, the return shows an increase of £622 Bs. Id. ; and, making allowance for the sale of the Roehampton Mansion, which swelled the total of last year's account, the cash receipts for the finan cial year of 1861-62, render it one of the largest returns since the formation of the society. The total withdrawals from September, 1852, to Michaelmas, 1862, are £179,541 18s. 3d. The returns of the Register of the Order of Rights are as follow : Completed. Drawn. Seniority. Total. 4722 3175 1671 9568 Deduct Rights exercised on estates, &c.. 7258 Unexercised Rights The last share number on the Register by seniority, is No. 13,634, and the last share issued up to the 30th of September, 1862, was No. 18,685. The subscriptions on shares during the year 1861-62 were £23,075 10s. Bd., and the cash received on deposit, under rule 45, amounted to £14,203 16s. Bd. The subscriptions withdrawn on shares were £23,031 13s. 3d., and on deposits £11,949 17s. 10d. The total amount of subscriptions on shares now in the society is £115,175 35. Bd., and total deposits £18,043 lls. 2d. During the past year the sum of £7,062 155. 4d. was transferred from the share account to pay for allotments of land, and the repayments of loans on land were £18,443 12s. 4d. The amount advanced in 1862 to allottees, who borrowed reven-eighths of the cost of their land, was £9,485 25. 11d. The total balance of advances to allottees on land account is £30,741 6s. 6d. The sale of land on the allotment of 1861-62, as per balance sheet, was £6,085 3s. The sale of the stock on hand (being land previously allotted), and by private contract, during the past year,was £8,706 18s. 2d. The total sale of land in 1861-62, as per prices on the plans, was 414,792 Is. 2d. The freehold building plots for sale in various counties amount to £70,205 2s. 6d. The grand totals of the sale of land to Michaelmas, 1862, are £314,686 12s. 10d. The repayment of advances for building, &c., during the past year, were £8,430 15s. 4d. The amount advanced for building, &c., in 1862 has been £13,142 O s , 10d. The total balance of advances for building, &c., is £36,202 7s. 2d The reserve fund is now £10,190 Os. Bd. The balance sheet further shows, that after providing for the guaranteed interest of 5 per cent. per annum on shares, and 4 per cent. per annum on deposits, there remains an available balance, out of which the board is enabled to de clare a bonus of 5 per cent. per annum for the financial year ending Sept. 30, 1862, on all subscriptions paid on existing uncompleted shares, in respect of which plots on estates have not been taken. Such bonus of 5 per cen t . per annum will be added to the accounts of the several members in their pass-books, as provided by the rules. Every pay ment into the society on shares not in arrear, and on the register at the annual meeting, will thus realise 5 per cent. per annum for. the year ending 30th Sept., 1862. Until further notice, the rite of interest on completed shares, and shares in progress paid a year in advance and upwards, will continue at 5 per cent. per annum, payable half yearly, up to Lady-Day and Michaelmas, the warrants for which will be issued on the Ist of May and Ist of November. The interest to be allowed for deposits, under Rule 45, will con tinue at 4 per cent. per annum, payable in warrants issued at the same dates as the interest on shares. The quarterly firttiOr were half xe g t"e rl r Hall, alterations and additions were made in the rules with the unanimous assent of the numerous shareholders who were present. A copy of the amended rules, certified on the Ist of March, 1862, by John Tidd Pratt, Esq., the bar rister-at-law appointed to certify rules of building societies, savings banks, &c., will be forwarded to each shareholder with his pass-book, when it is sent to the office for the usual annual audit. No change has been made in the funda mental principles of the society, but the members are now more effectually protected, and their interests secured under the new rules. The Hon. W. C. Duncombe, M.P., being unable to continue his services, has resigned his place at the board. The following members of the executive com mittee retire by rotation, but are eligible for re-election, namely : 1. Lieutenant-Colonel Augustus Meyrick ; 2. the Hon. and Rev. W. Talbot, 3. H. W. Currie, Esq. ; 4. C. E. Newcomen, Esq. ; 5. Henry Pownall, Esq., who offer themselves for re-election. The allotments during the past financial year were the Queen's-road estate, London-road, Tunbridge Wells, being a portion of the Woodbury-park estate, on the 16th October, 1861; the Beacon Hill and Northgate estates, Newark upon-Trent, on the 12th of February, 1862 ; the second portion of the Roehampton estate, the fourth portion of the Brighton estate, besides freehold houses thereon, and ground rents on the Roman Road estate, North Bow, and Battersea estate, on the 30th of April ; and the Putney Heath estate, and the first portion of the Mersea-road, Col chester, on the 16th of August. The above allotments and additional sales on the Roehampton and other estates, to gether with increased prices on sundry properties, have brought the year's transactions to a successful close. The Roehampton-park and Putney-heath estates are a remark able illustration of the advantages accruing from the system followed by the Conservative Land Society, namely—in disposing of portions of the land by private contract, and of portions by allotment, the capitalist is thereby enabled to erect a first-class villa with acres of pleasure grounds at tached thereto; and the smaller investor to building his own house, with a sufficient quantity of land for garden purposes. Thus, the estate now shows a number of hand some villas and convenient houses, which have vastly im proved the neighbourhood. As regards the Roehampton park estate,Alton-road is now completed, and Bessborough road is far advanced. These two new communications completely open up the estate, and by judicious clearance of the ground, fine views of Richmond-park and the Surrey Hills have been obtained. Taking into consideration the theand the g rea t l e a r r g d e e i v n e c l o r e p a m s e e n o t f p g o re p a n t la im tio p n o , r w tan hi c e e h o w f t il h l is re p a r n o lt pe f rt ro y m , of building operations, the executive committee have set apart, on the junction of Bessborough and Alton-roads, a freehold site for the erection of a church. Communications have been recently opened with the local and central Boards of Works, for removing the brook intersecting the frontage of the Putney-heath estate, and converting the same into a sewer in Roehampton lane, for the benefit of the society's frontages thereon. The Squatters' cottages, so long a disfigurement at the corner of Back-street and Roehampton-lane, have been acquired by the society and pulled down, and the land added to the estate. Ponsonby-road, on the Putney Heath estate, will now be commenced, and Back-street widened. Thus,may ny be u s be en toha edt locality generally will be in every respect amelio rated, and th e o bj ect o f l oca l i mprovement, which i t h as g always added, ehd, t e h et that society'sa a i mt since eteehs estates, executiveahteea,will operationshave eom of m been t i he t e e se t o ffeee ie s et t te t y a d attain a vi Itne tchoomtaldmitieeesnstcaoetfde, omnibus communication with London has been at e o t e m st e a n te t is w A i l t l h facilities from Roehampton, in addition to the existing within the easy ohi c u h tn es ey he s e t n at a io m ns e , e fr t s o u m eee w e h e i f : cottages walking erected : h T e un ß b ar :dg es e Wells, has thereon, Cluee in n' a s most substantial style, have been sold with the exception one plot, and the four new roads, intersecting the estate with the sewerage therein, are nearly finished. Of the Woodbury Park estate, ther e n five acres for all o t ment, which willw only remains some five The town of Tu n b r id ge Wells has been so much in crease d take pl ace i n th e spr i ng. of late years in ex t ent and population, that the e ar ly pur chase of the soci e ty o f t h e Woodbury Park has improved remarkably in value and importance. The parish autho rities of St. John's have lately acknowledged the society's gift of the freehold site for church and parsonage by the in sertion of a tablet in th e edifice recording the fact. Th executive committee ent er t a i n great expectations that a the Mersea-road estate at Col c h es t er will prove of considerable The advantage to the town, as w e ll as to the society. perty, the subsoil of which is gravel and santj n adjoins rim- th site of the barracks in course of erecti on ; and the establish ment of a vast military station, similar to Aldershot, must render necessary the erection of a number of fine houses. both for business and habitable purposes. Th e enhance- . ment of the value of land at Aldershot may reasonably be regarded as affording a criterion, to appreciate the import ance of the purchase of the Colchester estate for the society, The roads are now in progress of construction. A public meeting was held in Colchester, on the 30th of July, Philip SCOTTISH HOSPITAL. Last evening the the Freemasons' Tavern • festival of this St. ----- Andrew's-day anniversary Dr. Cumming, Webster, Dr. kel,:acon,ThProferls' excellent charity was celebrated at Sir Max well, Bart., in the c hair . com pany present, amongst who Itcoorhaetertds,wßit.hAt. Professor Kerr, Dr. Thomson, Dr. whom were Sir W. Stirling, clans. After the usual loyal and constitutional toasts. The CHAIRMAN proposed the toast of the evening, and in doing so said that the Scottish Hospital charity dated so far back as the time of King Jamie the First, and since that time it rendered great good to those Scotchmen although having the sam e He wished it to be know resident in London. n that the Scottish Hospi tal,ohject in view as . the Caledonian As h y e lu b m a , n different class of persons. The Caledonian Asylum was intended to assist the young, and to educate them for the business of life. The Scottish Hos pital, on the other hand, gave assistance to the old. He hoped, therefore, that those who supported the one institution would support the other, for they were duo juncta in uno. During the last twelve month this charity had been the means of affording pensions to 137 aged persons, relieving upwards of 150 cases of distress in each month, and defraying passages to Scotland, the whole amounting to £1,949, 14s. 10d. The school fees, cost of books, offeredn e banners s l'o7 ntoeshrrs e ej i was sDot wha different onnanes Dona ld son, aadsteltoeae H eron ugq, Scottishl large M yi tae a dv x ei ad - &c., of above 140 poor children, were paid from the school fund. Nearly £2,000 in pensions had also been paid to more than 400 disabled soldiers and sailors, from the Kinloch bequest. He might in form them that he had just received a telegram from the St. Andrew's Society of Glasgow, stating thatmp o e non. (Cheers.) r d to the prospe rity of theyHe hoped, therefore , they would agree with him in drunk Hospital in L sending back an immediate answer to their friends the h Scott i sh ad just in Glasgow, stating that 120 Scotchmen in London were at that moment drinking Prosperity and suc cess to their brethren in Glasgow—(cheers) —and would also join with him in drinking " Prosperity to the Scottish Hospital of London." (Cheers.) The toast was drunk with much enthusiasm. The ohe g n h i l n a g nd and Caledoni a n were—" The Ca ledonian Societies," " The D uke of Suther land, the President of the Institution , " " The Vice- Presidents," "The t A e e r yl toasts uni o " f The the H e v i Chaplains and Officers of the Corporation," &c. The subscriptions amounted to near £650. The musical arrangements were cond uc t e d b y Mr. Ransford, in ad di tio n to which Pipe-M a j or pipes. 80nnit e the piper ie Henderson,niapteiovr t feto the CaledonianheScotehFusi Aliers, and M r . Wil o eylum,performed pass ing off inferior l eaves as in the usual Tea is uncoloured, t h erefore always good alike, Sold in packets by Importing tea without colour on the l ea f pre -2,2Boagente, kvinendtss.theHCohmiminesane RED RIVER. We have received an account of the plunder of a convoy of goods on the road from Georgetown down to Fort Garry. It appears that in consequence of the Sioux mas sacres in Minnesota, and of a warning sent from Fort Abercrombie to prepare for the worst, Mr. Kittson, who was in charge at Georgetown, determined to remove the property at that station, and all the party there, to Fort Garry, and started in September, sending 15 or 20 tons of cargo by barge, and taking about the same quantity with him in waggons. At the Grand Forks, where the Red Lake River empties itself into the Red River, about 2,000 Chippewas were encamped, waiting for the long-expected treaty with the American Government respecting certain tracts of land ; and !:a. number of half-breeds from the neighbourhood of the boundary line were assembled. When the party from Georgetown approached they stopped for the night three miles off; but a band of Indians soon arrived and demanded provisions, and after getting these they coolly drove off all the cattle. Mr. Kittson followed and appealed to the chiefs. The plea was that they were starving, and he was obliged to be content with getting back but bel onged it to n the cattle absolutely necessary for th e waggons. But a de emxapnladinthed thenaartesethfeery weregoDis n fr o o t m h t i h s e t N o vag giv g e e: ibau . Mr. Kittson Red River merchants, with whom the Indians were wont c y h e i a a r sbycyomeaprltoaindeod th us b in at t e t h s s e y i nhtande been most n fri m e . n ted dly d w own ay. by T th he e Government and kept waiting with no result ; their provi sions were gone, and they had lost time in which they should have provided fur the winter. Long harangues were made of a characteristic description. Mr. Kittson said he could not believe they would set themselves to barefaced robbery. The chiefs said they would not do that; what they wanted was, that he should hand over the goods to them, and their necessities compelled them to insist upon it. He replied that he could not give th em th e goo d s, b ut he was in their power, and it was useless for him to offer opposition. All this took place in the presence of 2,000 ex cited Indians, who began shouting that they were now at liberty to help themselves. The chiefs still restrained them, but represented that if Mr. Kittson did not give, a general plunder might be the result, which would leave him no thing, and perhaps endanger life. At length, amidst the general noise, wrangling, and confusion, Mr. Kittson, see ing his helplessness, and anxious for his party, which in cluded both sexes, bade the Indians go forward in their work. Then tea, sugar, tobacco, carpets, blankets were flung hither and thither among the crowd, silks torn into pieces to tie over their heads, and the finest scarlet cloths rent into pieces and tossed about. A few half-breeds, being Roman Catholics, exclaimed against taking some priests' robes and holy vestments, but the Red Lakers cried, " We don't care for priests, bring the things here." When they had helped themselves, Mr. Kittson found himself proceeding on his way, plundered to the extent of above 20,000 dols.—a loss which will fall hea vily on the traders of Selkirk. Some of the half-breeds were from parishes actually within the Red River settle ment. The barge was some distance in the roar, and suc cessfully stole past afterwards in the deadofthemght. It is said to be considered in the settlement t h a t Mr . and the chief trader of the Hudson's Bay Company, who was with him, acted with discretion, and that the lose could not have been averted by any other course. ma y - , lad ith hat cant 3nci ,ject 1 the n or tit Of iff road and 0 0196 , a rle9 r 0916 to 470 to 35 e 301/ ,er 36 ltiDgf oat° , eslol 6 29 ° I 280 3 '2,s to '0 2 0 ;0 0 6 . 4 Red 100 to , 19. . 13' 28. 7. 0 , ~ 2 8 . ,2'6 SA° , Of ti ) wife : 9 jor s pelt Rd Pill 11 '6 01,0 0 Of of ,toll - 0 0 t p e rt, ode VO . fie ld laid A LS, 0 2 ; iv OA TI