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THE SOUTH: AFRICAN IRRIGATION and INVESTMENT COMPANY (Limited). To be incorporated under the Companies Act, 1862, which specially limits the liability of each Shareholder to the amount of his Shares. Capital £1,000,000, in 20,000 Shares of £5O each. (Power to increase.) First issue 10,000 shares. Deposit on application £1 per Share, and a further pay- Meat of LI p er Share on allotment. alls not to exceed £2 Per Share, intended to call up more than £lO per n Share. DIRECTORS. John Barry, Esq , Merchant (Barry and Nephews), Lon don and Cape Town, Director of the London and South African Bank. "Ries Black, Esq , (Black and Co.), Merchant, London, Graham's Town', and Port Elizabeth. Alexander Croll Esq.(Alcxander Croll and Co.),Merchant, London and Port Elizabeth. Alfred Jarvis, Esq London (late Chairman of the Cora itmercial Bank, Port Elizabeth). a ' etu.37 Sherm, Esq., Merchant (Levicks and Sherman), London and Cape Cape Town. Joseph Mosenthal, Esq., Merchant (Mosenthal and Co.), Lo ndon, Port Eli za b e th, an d C ape T own. John P aterson,Esq. (Patersot,Kemp, and Co.), Merchant, London, and Cape of Good of Hope,Director of the Stan- t A dard B an k of British South Africa. 'rra 0. Stewart, Esq., Merchant (Stewart and Co.), Liver ,.pool and Port Elizabeth. Van Capey, Esq., merchant (Van derßyl and Co.), 4...0ud0 Town, and Port Elizabeth. The Alli ance Bank of London BANKERS and Liverpool, Lothbury, London, and The Albany, Liverpool. Messrs, SOLICITORS. Flux and Argles, Mincing-lane, London. Messrs, BROKERS. J. and J. Whitehead, 8, Moorgate-street, London. TEMPORARY OFFICES. No. 27, Moorgate-street, London. PROSPECTUS. is The South African Irrigation and Investment Company established with a view to aid in the furtherance of those lPublic undertakings in the South African Colonies, includ ing the Cape of Good Hope, British Kaffraria, and Natal, m_Y which their resources may be more fully developed ; the oult being in the opinion of the Directors, certain to prove )host satisfa c t ory to those who embark their capital. Object s The Company's operations will embrace three main -- Ist, That of a Land and Irrigation Company. en2d. That of a Public Works (more especially a Light 3d.Pn, and Water Company) .„ That of a Trust, Loan, and Investment Company. It has seemed wise to the Directors to combine these ob- Pets in one company, since, while all are entirely com patible, and can b e very properly undertaken under one servants f male, th e h eavy expenses o f o ffi ces, di rect i ons, and or separate companies will thereby be avoided. The so uth African Irrigation and Investment Co m p an y, m while mee ting the wants most keenly felt at th e p resen t ; r _e' i_e by the S outh African Colonies, cannot fail to realise its Shareholders ample returns upon the capital. Most As a Land an d Irrigation Company it will enter upon a soil p r omising field of op e rations. La rge tracts of fertile al ong the riv ers , an d i n th e grea t k aroos or p l a i ns of b "untrY, are to be purchased at very low prices, which, irrigation works, in dams tanks, or water leadings from r v ers, may be converted, by' no great outlay, into proper ties many times their original value. The Government ' r eturns for 1860 of the value of landed estates in these colonies show that where by private enterprise irrigation Works have been constructed on farms, the enhancement of value has been from five to tenfold ; and as such results have been achieved by private enterprise, yet more satis factory results may be looked for where labour is more organised and scientific skill is brought to bear. The C ompany w i l l not only purchase lands with a view to t he C om p any after the construction of irrigation works, but Will take con racts for the construction of like works upon Government and private lands. It is known to be in con templation in next session of the Colonial Parliament to in troduce a bill to facilitate the construction of a series of Go vernment tanks, and to secure on the capital employed in such works on Government land a Government guarantee of at least 6 per cent. per annum. As a Public Works Company for the towns of South .frica the prospect is equally inviting. There is scarcely a town of magnitude which is not now prepared to offer m ostt liberal an d remunerative terms to this Company, to portto it a cons tit ute d W ater an d G as C ompany; an d -re tt Elizab e th ( now t h e commerc i a l cap i ta l o f all South "r'astern Africa, caused a Bill to be introducedinto last ses sion of th e Colonial Parliament, charging the whole 11°Perty of the town for £BO,OOO, to guarantee at least 71, )° ./13 r annum on outlay for works for water supply. - Directors feel that the present is a most favourable op 11,nily for the establishment of a Company for Public s r , " r4 s, hnd they confidently anticipate that they will be able Co mpany, arrangements with the authorities at Port eth to become its Lighting, Paving, and Water P - PatlY, so as to ensure a most favourable commence ent of bu s i ness, and facil i tate future operat i ons. I t may be Mentioned that in towns where, by authority of local h Mu nicipalities, water-works have been constructed, they ave proved sources of very large profits on the capital Invested, and the only Gas Company in operation in South Africa pays annual dividends varying frem 15 to 20 Per cent. As a Trust Company a very considerable and profitable business can be dine. It will be in position to offer very ample security to constituents, and the following statement of selling prices of Shares in existing Trust Companies will Show what may be done under this head Name of Company. I Paid up. I SellingPrice Board of Executor s 48Rociation for Administering Estates ?eneral Estate, &c g°„rt Elizabeth Guardian and ust s. d. £ s. d. 100 0 0 350 0 0 NEW WORK by the AUTHOR of "JOHN HALIFAX." Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., 215., 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 Bull. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 187 10 0I 375 0 0 200 0 0 252 0 0 110 0 1 310 0 eat ts,.4 Loan and Investment Company it cannot fail to show txt:iatory results. Money may be invested to almost any rity llt in first or preference mortgages, of the amplest secu• pateson landed property in the South African Colonies, at ing a oar from 6 to 12 per cent. per annum, thus yield ria it ! i rge profit over the cost of money in England ; and I) h e wn' be the object of the Directors to raise money on apeointures of the Company or otherwise, to be specially og e tti : l t° loans on such first mortgages, it becomes matter Dati 3 , Y"leulation that the profits to be made by the C=- I nerati v 1 hie departm en t of its business will be highly re thence gements are in progress for the immediate cora- Part re meat of th e b us i ness o f the Company . in all its de hell,tBl and the Di rec t or s will give their especial at -44ger°8-.1" the selection of efficient and well-qualified ma 4, P o ,' Lae were will be taken in the Articles of Association for nieal-c°.l',Poration with this Company of existing Compa ; Ag t i;" object in South Afric4. ' lt Aaen.! B Company is established at the urgent . request of Pat, to colonists, who are prepared to invest in the Com : f ct an e ° ,a c onsiderable extent, 2,000 shares will be reserved N_lnient in South Africa. I)reii: Provision has been made by the Directors for . the _l D aYip ill , al 7 expenses as will secure the Company against ‘nd tg " t 'Y sum whatever in the nature of promotion mon . ey, th e she Articles of Association will contain a clause giving ' 3 f the She Articles the power to fix, year by year, the amount .1,110 irectors' remuneration. lit Etz , h head office of the Company will be in London, but l'onti e ; t lces and local committees, under the control of the "'nth -- Ar2ard, will be established in the chief towns of Ap . eithMioation for Shares to be made in the following form, I , o ; t lt h i e Brokers or to the Secretary of the Company. ' 0 01 OP APPLICATION FOR SHARES. -uirectors of the South African Irrigation and In. vestment Company (Limited). 11-erne n, Hay' g paid to your Bankers the sum of the above eing—a deposit ln of £1 per Share on • . Shares in Plat „„,eornpany I hereby request that you will allot me 0 3 , tc-dtioer, a n d I ' agree (according to the form prescribed lee, he A rticles of Association), to accept such shares, or any y of Aoligninber You may allot me, and to execute the tic t i . 4 3'b e ° , a "cn „ when required ; and I request that my name v'aeed on the Register of Shareholders for the Shares a °gee], Name in full Residence Profession of Business Date tt°YAL FREE HOSPITAL FOR THE Urke 4t pRSTITUTE SICK, Gray's-inn-road—FUNDS are laB. r . Y REQUIRED. IZstrer and Banker —Edward Blasterman, Esq., Niche- By order, STANFORD S. SMITH, Sec. 0S TE 0 EID 0 NI, What is it? See Patent, March 1, 1862 No MO.— Sell-adhesive Patent Indestructible *MINE- IpinTEEM and FLEXIBLE GUMS, without palat e., g, or wires, and without operation. One setlast l etime, and WARRANTED FOR MASTICATION da ItTICULATION. Purest materials only, at hall theirs i - id v olt. Messrs. GABRIEL, the old-established Dmitists,. rm, Ti A PT,EY-STREET, CAVENDISH-SQ/JARE 31, LUDGATE-HILL, LUINDON; 65, NEW-STREET, BIRMINGHAM; and LIVERPOOL. 134, DTTEE-STBEET, INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, CLASS 17. /,. ti l)e cal Treatis visit only re g ratquir is ed from country patients. Gabriel's ace . Consultations free. 4 13 , 0 0 N TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS.— ;No ~ s r • SMITH has Justpublished a FREE EDITION of AL 'Mee of his valuable p work, THE PRPTATE MEDI '" i; ebill'''lTEND (118 pages), on the Self-cure of Nervous !esui t lY, Loss of Memory, Dimness of Sight Lassitude, (to., tree b.ng from the secret sins of youth. Copies may be had 4 etici e ,, 'endig a stamped directed envelope to the Author's nos, 8, Burton -crescent, London, W.C. . D r Consultation by Letter without Fee. of aro • NM/T ' l lNy n will, for the BENEFIT of persons suffering • heir'AVOIJS DEBILITY, dtc., on receiving a description f h Y), e e 4ase (enclosing a stamped directed envelope for re roe,,t nig written opinion, with advice and directions for 'l3rtousnecess ece ful treatment and cure.—Address, Dr. Smith, London, W.C. I,.I\TAIPPECTUAL REMEDY.-LAMBERT'S 1-0141,--.I•RMATIC BALSAM, without confining the .8 ad -•°'. af recting the he d truly' efficacious and pleasant, toudlinttecl to be the best medicine for immediately relieving 1) " ,2 41 140 °°, ,, I ds, confirmeei cases of asthma, and incipient con ,' „ s ' s ;_lij n , - - e • Jet fequentl; cures persons whom the faculty t i r '' , 8 b re ` la urab.e. admirably allays the ticklin.• which pro lytctB 4r: l : le nt coughing,. In approaching consUmption s ya ' 3 4 . (10 LrillY beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep o even i ew 4 1 1 for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief n cross 411 1 h u t,es after taking it. Prepared only and soldby thr e e Lo ad -p111" Chemist, B, Ki n , William-street, Char ng .181.-r'e quantities ' bynd l d druggists, in bottles, 130., and .. tolltititi es a i n 0 a r d.' each Be particular, and -N4 13 ,;,14.„arebert' .A n t e ' m 2a. 1 9 Balsam . . The name and ad -.graved o a n tahelistaatmcp. I :4 ,II I P R ou V R I GOPR OF YOUTH RESTORED IN o z aht f. 0,,,, WEEKS by Dr. RICORD'S ESSENCE OF 1 , -ersil -- arful agent will restore manhood to the most tetlese"--oice_nptituti,whether arising from self-pollution, es4 4 ase a. 71,11rnal emissions, the effects of climate, or natu kr.. la lou r w ee tirae required to cure__ the most inveterate iTtletta ( whisks ; and, if used accordingtothe printed in- NI ids titealeh are very simple), failure is impossible. th tr Y , as it s "t orillg remedy should be taken about byall b t y o min., effects are permanent. It is ac kn owledged tqlloc,e ers 'l' , Press to be the greatest discovery ev er made. D a r !' 4 every ease is as certain as that w ater quenches il truttPleord , (4 R ai ld ~,00. 0 tor osiemence of Life is sold in cases, with fallgn -01, reo viirb e 8 ,, ,1t to , at ll s., kilq u n e , ilit of remittannille or four quantities in one for 8., part of th e w o o r r d l e d r , p car ay e a f b u l l e ly to p ac pr k o e x l i •.v , 1.1444 x ecuctle ciw e to us fil e 7 229, strand Loon, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE GREEN BUSHES. Messr4. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Billingt on, Sefton, Stephenson, Eburne, Romer, Hitehenson, Aldridge; Miss Avonia Jones. Miss Woolgar Mrs. Billington, Mrs. IT. Lewis, and Mrs. Stoker. To cone..ude with A TICKET OF LEAVE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stephenson, and Mrs. Billington. Commence at 7.! ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manager. Mr Lindu'. 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 conclude with THE HONEYMODN. Mr. IT. Vezin, Mr. R. Roxby ; Miss Constance Aylmer, Miss M. Oliver, and Miss M. Jones. I) OYAL So 1A Lessee and b YC tana!r ij M i‘i r Edmond THEATRE. FaIconer _ _ 828th Night of the Pontinuous run of "Peep o'Day." Tills 14, VENING. 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. M essrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, , nd Edmund Falconer : Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. •- --- To coy elude with the Last View of KILLARNEY, intro dudng the Ballet. CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY. NJ NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVE N,That the Fifteenth Ordi nary 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 trancacting the ordinary business of the Company, as prescribed by the Deed of Settlement and ('hatter. _The Books kept will the Comnany for the registration of ~.:itia.netere or Stock to CLOSED from the 3d to the 17th ...Taut, both days inclusive. By order, {'Crystal Palace, Dec. 1,1861.31" a 13 (311°V.E' Secretary- THE GAME LICENCES. 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 in ormations for penalties against all persons found in pursuit of or dealing in Game without licence.DthouotßsoN, Stcrets ry. Inland Revenue, Somerset House, London, 21st November, 1862. TO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED. DR. CURTIS ON MARRIAGE, NERVOUS DEBILITY, EWER.. MATORRHCEA, &C., WITH PLATES. Post free by the Author, 12 stamps ; sealed ends, 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 Nediral 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 Diseases without Mercury, and their Pre vention by the A uthor's Prescription of his infallible Lotion, the result of 25 years' successful practice. By Dr. J. L. CURTIS, 15, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, London. REVIEWS OF THE WORK. and old. The pro es and should be in the hands of youn g he author, combined with his extensive " CIIRTDI ON MANHOOD. -This is truly a valuable wok, f r sional reputation of t bility, fully accounts for the immense treatise has obtained." experience as medical referee in the treatme nt medical this popular and a bl written Sunday Times, Mar y- ch 23, 1856. c o u f l a n t e i r v o u w s h d i c e l; those "Dr. Curti s h as conferred a great b oon b y publishing this little work, in w hi c h is described the source se ture old age."—Daily Telegraph, March 27,1856. 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 class have a perfect guarantee that the utmost skill and experience will be made available in the treatment of their cases. The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting cases, to which is added the Author's receipt of the above Infallible Preventive Lotion. Published and sold by J. Allen, 20, Warwick:lane, Pater noster-row ; Mann, 39, Cornhill, London and all Booksellers in lawn and Cowa'. N°. 21,973. PUBLICATIONS. NOTICE. A THIRD EDITION of FEMALE LIFE IN I. PRISON, by a PRISON MATRON, Revised, with Ad ditions, wilt be ready on Frid a y, D ec . in 2 vols., price 21s. Hurst and Blackett, publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Second Edition, Now Ready, Complete in 3 vols., 3 1s. ed., 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, auc. CHAPLIN'S HOTEL, AND SPREAD EAGLE TAVERN, 84, GRACECHURCH-STREET,;. LONDON. omfort, combined with moderate charges, will be found al this Establishment. PRIVATE APARTMENTS FOR FAMILIES. Sitting Room, 35. per Day. Bed Rooms, Is. 6d. and 2s. per Night. A Night Porter in attendance. No INCREASE OF CHARGES. INDIA AND THE COLONIES. PASSENGERS Embarking or Disembarking will find superior accommodation and moderate barges at CBAPLIN'S CLARENDON HOTEL, GRAVESEND, Adjoining the Terrace Pier. A Lawn in front, extending to the River. AMUSEMENTS. CANTERBURY HALL. GRAND SELECTIONS from VERDI'S " SIMON BOCCANEGRA," MACFARREN'S CANTATA " MAY DAY," LOCKE'S MUSIC of " MACBETH," and Mr. BENNETT GILBERT'S NEW OPERETTA, "A NIGHT IN FAIRY LAND." Conducted by Mr. JONGHMANS. Full Band and Chorus. PRINCIPAL ARTISTES. Miss RUSSELL, Miss TOWNLEY. Sig. Tivoli, Mr. Green, Mr. Raynor, and Mr. Russell Grover. Ths Comic by UNSWORTH (the Original Stump Orator, " OR ANY OTHER MAN"), in conjunction with Eugene, Du'ey, and Little Bob, forming the greatest Comic Quartet in London. Also, the following Comic Favourites :—Miss Georgina Smithson, Messrs. E. Marshall, Hollingsworth. and Arthur Lloyd, and the surprising Performance of " THE ETOILE FAMILY." T H 0 X F OR I), t!, OXFORD STREET. Re-appearance of MIP worth (the original of "Or any other man. The Colleen Bawn, by Miss Caroline Parkes.— Eugene, 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.—C omit Pas Seul, by Henri—ln addition to varied high-class musical attractions, consisting of Selections from Verdi's "Nabuco" and "Il Corsaro," Donizetti's "Don Sebastien, " Auber's "La Circassienne," and Choruses, Glees, Duets, &c., &c., by Miss Russell, Miss Townley ; Messrs. Bernardi, Greene, Huish, and Albert, with Full Band and Chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonahmantg. Admission, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes. 10s. od. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE AND AMPHITHEATRE. OLMAR EVERY EVENING. Les Freres Conrade on the Low Rope (without balancing pole). —Les ►'etitea Monstres.—The Olympic Wonders—Pas Seul by Lord Dromedary. - Mrs. Bryan, Wieland, Woodman, dm —Grand Musical Entertainment of Sixty Performers. First appearance of the celebrated Talliotts on Monday next, Bth December. ARGYLL ROOMS. Great Windmill-street, Eaymarket.—GßAND CASINO FRANCAISE.— Open every Evening for Promenade and Dancin, with the elebrated Band of 50 perform e r s . C onductor an d Principal P ornet-a-Piston, M. BOULCOMIhe new Imperial Qua irille, Valse Cotillion, and L. Mosca's Peep o'DayValse will be played nightly. A new Conversation Salon has been added to the above Establishment for Reading, Coffee, and Refreshments. — Admission ls.—Manager, M. Grenet. OYAL ENGLISH oPRRA, covßNT GAnntic Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING Wallace's new Opera of LOVE'S TRIUMPH Miss Louisa Pyne, and Mdme. Laura Baxter; Messrs. George Perren, W. U. Weiss, H. Corri, A. Cooke, and W. Harrison. Conductor—Mr. A. Mellon. Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at 8. THEATRE -ROYAL. HAY MARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. B. Bnekstone. THIS EVENING. at 7, A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. Messrs. Farren, Rogers, Clark, and Miss E. Romer. Alter which, at a quarter to 8, will be performed (295th time) 'IJIt AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by a new Farce, entitied DUCK HUNTING: Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, Mr. W. Farren, Mrs. Wilkins, and Miss C. Bill. To conclude with JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. ' - 7 c ~~ G al; r;.rr - , • 44ti i4r, t rt l i s 211 411111 : 1 X !..., \ 1 :51' . 70 „..L. t 4S "1 111 . 416 ' • , • * I • • sr: . • ‘,'.- :7 1 ? 4 . ,....41 1 • ^ • ."; 1.119114 . I 4"-). - t K i M •..04 14 44, - 11 V, , \ ' Ce-- - Y > W l 0 1. ‘ ce.;4 4111' frln t s, 171 . . ,; • - 4 . - • ------ -- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEIVIBER 2, 1861 0. Papillon, Esq., M.P., in the chair, at which C. E. New comes, Esq., and H. Pownall, Esq., attended as a depute ' tiou 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, M.P., Hon. and Rev. W. C. Talbot, and Col. Knox, M.P., attended as a deputation for the Board. The new roads and sewerage have been completed, and building operations have already commenced on both estates, Beaconville being for first .class villas, and Not thgate adapted for the working classes. Both properties are so advantageously situated as to secure a steady development, should Newark continue to progress as satisfactorily as it has done of late years. The increase of tenants and the ad vanced rents on the Brighton estate, with sales of some of the freehold houses and plots during the year, proves that the property-is progressing. 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 adverse 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 be sought, when it is found 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 building operations are in active progress. The Executive Committee have the pleasure to report, that the Tottenham and Hampstead :unction Railway Bills having passed during the 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 d rainage 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 come 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 not far from the Low Leyton and Forest Gate stations. The estate has a frontage to Wanstead Flats, and is close to Epping Forest. xv-saford, and other popular localities. Such a property, within six miles from th e c it y , must 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 consiste n t on their part, as a d voca t es 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 come 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 vs- . casion. So lon g as the board enjoys the kind support it has met with, its operativ e energy and anxious desire to - promote the prosp er it y of the Conservative Land Society will remain unimpaired. S'PEECII 014 3101 WINI IN 7'HE 1 7AL1AN PARLIAIIIEIV T. 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 fae 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, end of the present state of feeling in Italy, by presenting them with the substance of this speech. The historical facts recalled are important; while 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. lam certain that, at a time when in Europe the tendency of govern ments is shows 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 generated, and is 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 tionaries, 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 goes on : "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 Out the now generation ohnnla ha hrnnght up in the love of, and respect for, 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 selftbahys askin g the good fortunendd a Adriatic at few ic tdoef denied di w l t e bo r oh s a i on tms, Ron theg m from ag land. o the e Hecoastssea sailedt hoef 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 Alphonse Lamarmora administered public affairs as Commisi_oner Extraordinary. On 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 Broff er i o comman d e d a tt en ti on as usual; and the honourable Lanza, and the honourable Rattazz i, and Depretis. And the honourable T noble representative of so ardently desi re d chvioec , the e,nf closing our worthy President, had the honour o f the day, which memorable discussion with an o rder o ec i which faithfully expressed theliberal the Sub-Alpine Chamber; an order was adopted by a great maj or it y, and which, with your permission, I shall rea d • " Th e Chamber, declaring that the arrest of oft h ef dayee feelings of ich e Piedmont, are violations o f f the e natf I feeling, national and by the Constitution, and of order of the day.' f Italian glory, passes to the o " An assembly which thus speaks, and thus votes, Gen. Garibaldi, and the threa t t h of r h i is h e ts xp n u o l n si s o e n cr fr t om d n s e t c h u e r e h i t s h t a o t ry i its memorythenatiown remain imperishable is gentlemen, Let us now return to our days, to 1862. li Three members of the Parliament aro ar- 4/ ( z- - 2 c y 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 Nuovo, up till the time when the amnesty was pro claimed, as to which my honourable friends Fubrizzi, Calvibo and myself, declare that it does not concern us in any way." Mordini goes fully into the facts attending and following the arrest; the 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 war► but little familiar with the science of law, has com mitted an act unknown in the annals of free nations; and if we try to seek precedents, we must go back to coups d'etat. 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 arrest of the three deputies_ " Gentlemen, with such precedents, 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 tomorrow to you. 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 a : 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 Cassation 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 laws 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 royal prPriva. tive, the whole question was,—' Can the King, 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 ever; 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 bath 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 Ministers from 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 t he State , this gives, according to some, the excuse of a ne cessity for the state of siege. "But I deny, most em phatically, such a necessity. political empiricism. The It is nothing else but executive is more sufficiently provided with legal means for facing any extraordinary stat e o f ac t i h ng an things in Italy, wi thout violating the c onstituti on, to unavoidable ruin. an d recurring to th ose exce p tional me asures 'which, sooner or later, lead u M a chiavelli,_,m as w e ho ukrnees taken wen in an extraordinary something of the affairs o f state, sa id . wa y, and not in the regular course of the law, do h a rm to the commonwealth.' And again It is a l wa ys wrong to govern by exc eptional laws, even if they should succeed for the time, since the ex ample itself does harm, and when people become accustomed to break the law, under pretence of good ends, the pretext gets a colour when it is wanted to break them for bad ends.' " And since Nicolo 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 proclahning 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 SCOTTISH HOSPITAL. Last evening the St. Andrew's-day anniversary festival of this excellent charity was celebrated at the Freemasons' Tavern ; Sir John Heron Max well, Bart., in the chair. There was a large com pany present, amongst whom were Sir W. Stirling, Dr. Cumming, Professor Kerr, Dr. Thomson, Dr. Webster, Dr. Alison, Professor Donaldson, David Roberts, R.A., &c. The room was tastefully de corated with the banners of the different Scottish 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 good w althoughis to he those d t havingt o b S e c o tct knownhh the First, and since that time it rendered great the n resident in London. Hospi tal,sametha object b t the tin Scottish view as the C.,ledonian Asylum, offered assistance to quite a 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, &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 that they had just drunk a bumper to the prospe rity of the Scottish Hospital in London. (Cheers.) He hoped, therefore, they would agree with him in sending back an immediate answer to their friends in Glasgow, stating that 120 Scotchmen in London were to at their tha br e thren in e t moment drinking Glasgow—(cheers) —and prosperity and suc cesss g 0 w_ (cheers)—and wou ld also join with him in drinki ng " P ros p er it y to the Scottish Hospital of London 2, (Cheers.) The toast was drunk with much en th us i asm . The other toasts of the evening were—" The Ca ledonian Asylum," " The Highland and Caledonian Societies," " The Duke of Sutherland, the President of the Institution," "The V ice - Presidents," " The Chaplains and Officers of the Corporation," &c. The subscriptions amounted to near £650. The musical arrangements were conducted by Mr. Ransford, in addition to which Pipe-Major Henderson, of the Scotch Fusiliers, and Mr. Wil- Asylum,performed pipes. s o o n n ih t e h i e r p n i a p t e iv r e to the Caledonian Importing tea without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese p as sing off inferi or l eaves as in the usua l kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore always ge a p f , Seld in packets by 2,2Bo_agents. CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. MEETING THIS PAY. 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 Rev. W. G. Goodchild, vicar of Tilbury, awl Mr. Harding (public accountant), elected by the shareholders in October last, having verified the vouchers and books on the sth and 6th of November, and signed the balance sheet, it 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 : Shares in Shares Total Qrs. ending progress. Complete. Shares. Receipts. s. d. Dec. 24, 1861 202 41 243 13,529 1 4 March 25, 1862 lO3 26 129 17,521 17 11 June 24, 1862 126 60 186 17,026 12 1 Sept. 30, 1862 563 18 581 15,426 11 1 991 145 1,139 63,804 2 5 Totals to Sept 30, 1801 13,766 3,780 17,516 561,588 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 tho formation of tin society. The total withdrawals from September, 1852, to Michaelmas, 1862, are £179,641 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 .. 2310 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 3s. Bd., and total deposits £18,043 Ils. 2d. During the past year the sum of £7,062 15s. 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 Feven-eighths of the cost of their land, was £9,485 2s. 11d. The total balance of advances to allottees on land account is £30,741 ss. sd. The sale of land on the allotment of 1861-62, as per balance sheet, was £6,085 3s. The sale of the stock on band (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 £14,792 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 Os. 10d. Th e t o t a l 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 cent, 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 6 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 =meat, vu tslustaa. rue quarterly meetings were held on the Bth of April, Bth of July, and 14th of October. At the last-mentioned meeting at Exeter 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 let 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 :- I. 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 Reman 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 additisnal 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 ju dicious clearance of the ground, fine views of Richmond-park and the Surrey Hills have been obtained. Taking into consideration the great importance of this property, and the large increase of population, which will result from the greater development of building operations, the executive committee have set apart, on the junction of Besaborough 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' co ttages, so long a disfigurement at the corner of Back-street an d 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, the loc a lity genera lly w ill b e i n every res p e ct amelio rated, and th e o bj ect o f l oca l i mprovement, w hi c h it h as always been the aim of the executive commitee to attain in cleayminragenoucetdt,he society's estates, will have been effected. It eaddefrodem,mtuhißbatueoseiheneamcme communicationestablishedmay yd d with ai tat t.et in L o n o t a n e d t f e hr n oe mh existing s w been h ieh the estate is within an easy walking distance. The Queen's Road estate, Tunbridge Wells, has been a most successful t me f s o atutnahrtt therein, allotment. All the Gothic been erected thereon, in a most substantial style, havewh roads, a e wn n doielw s : o tt l au d ktea with pa elaec t t h teu e ign exception tthheespe r is t an spring. e e t w i h n e , re are one plot, theand aarl f opr sewerage lka The town of Tunbridge Weplelsp nearly finished. Of the five Woo dburywit with acres t li ° population, s tt been so much increased of years the i society extent of and th e only remains some five Woodbury that the early pur chase Park he ha s r co e hf m alas a te r e kably in value and importancurYparish improved autho rities of St. John's have lately acknowledged e, the society's gift of the freehold site for church and parsonage by th e in sertion of a tablet in the edifice recording the fact. The executive committee entertain great expectations that the Mersea-road estate at Colchest er will prove of considerable advantage to the town, as well as to the society. pro perty, the subsoil of which is gravel and sand, adjTehien the site of the barracks in course of erection; and the establish ment of a vast military station, similar to Ald ershot, m ren d e r necessary the erection of a numb er o f fine houseust both for business and habitable purposes. The 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 moth* was held lu Colchester, ou the 30t11 of July, Philip "?'t (7-;- -- ~ - argued to the titer, teetoro the thrareher, Miir i tte; thus closes his very able speech : " Gentlemen," you who have been in the pro- , vinces among your electors, you know that the flood of discontent with the present Ministry is rising daily higher and higher. What shall I say of Lombardy, that rich, populous, patriotic, heroic province, where the Ministry could not find one single friend ? What of Tuscany, that most noble and refined province, which has become the key stone of Italy, and which now cannot refrain from openly expressing her indignation and grief P What of the Southern provinces, where arbitrary m,:a sures and endless illegalities have destroyed indivi dual liberty—where Bourbonites of the worst kind rewarded, nod emp l oye d b y are listened to, coaxed, the Ministry, whilst, on the other hand, people are arrested - and shot without a shadow of legal pro ceedings? Is it, in such a wily that Italy is to he made one ? It seems as if an evil genius had spread its wings over those unhappy provinces. " Gentlemen, the disapprobation of the Cabinet is universal throughout Italy. The Ministry has altogether lost its authority. The country is dis heartened. Anarchy is spreading. The nation has lost hope. Let us speak of things as they are; and I appeal to all my colleagues who have been in the provinces. " I have perhaps too hastily said that the nation has lost all hope. One hope remains—the trust in Parliament. But the nation expects from Parlia ment a great deed—to redeem its authority. She expects that Parliamant will be the asserter of jus tice, the fulfiller of law. It is from Parliament that the country waits anxiously for the word of life or death." The speech was listened to throughout with the meat marked attention, and warm applause greeted the speaker from all parts of the Chamber when he sat down. AMERICAN FINANCE. (From Money Market Retnew.) If the experience the of the past did not teach us that war can be carried on by a nation despite an embarrassed condi tion of its finances, the world might look for a speedy ter mination of the strife in America. We last week gave 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 ono of borrowing much and taxing little. We do not know what the taxes to be laid will produce; we can see what taxation has hitherto produced. The Federal jaccounts are made up to June, 1862. The receipts from taxation are composed of four items Customs 49,811,279 Direct Tax Sale ofl Public Lands 30,441 Incidental 186,358 Total £10,387,141 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 War tax Miscellaneous £2790,415 Raised by loans of various descriptions 57,,720,623 Total .. £60,511,038 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 £8,043,553. So far, then, as the accounts show, the Confederate finances were in a more desperate state than those of the Federala, although the expenditure of the latter is nearly double that of the former, the one being stated at £114,168,310, 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 interests will themselves require hard money in order 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 coat. 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 i s sat i sfactory to know that England declined t o j o i n i n 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. RED RIVER. roofivi;sibonsirrahfnbd --..------ We have received an account of tho 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 16 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 with that they getting snyeg arrived btwhaeec ryke Chippewai were encamped, waiting for the long -expected treaty with the American Government respecting certain tracts of land ; and fa number of half-breeds from the neighbourhood of the boundary line were assembled. When epdalefeoot plea was rtngacontent getting Indians wttiinht the party from Georgetown approached they stopped for the coolly drove off all the cattle. Mr. R.ittson followed and a tg d ht de t m hr a ee nd m ed iles p oinebeflsciegssary for the waggons. But a de tataer appe aledatl,e and d abso l ut ely thh he w as a c s h de mand then arose for goods from the waggons. Mr. Kittson. explained that they were not his to give, but belonged to Red River merchants, with whom the Indians were wont year by year to do business in the most friendly way. The chiefs complained that they had been invited down by the Governmc nt and kept waiting with no result ; their provi sions were gone, and they had lost time in which they should have provided for 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 ho should hand over the goods to them, and their necessities compelled them to insist upon it. lie replied that he could not give them the goods, but 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,. eluded 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 th e fi ne st scarlet cloths rent into pieces and tossed about. A few half-breeds, being Roman Catholics, exclaimed against taking so me p r i es t s ' ro b es and holy vestments, but the Red Lakers cried, " W e d on ' t care for priests, bring the things here." When they had helped themselves, Mr. Kittson found himself proceeding on his way, plundered to l inos: wh ich i t r e will fall half-breedshea -1 the extent of above 20,000 dols.—a vily on the traders of Selkirk. So the Red River settle.. some distance in the rear, and se were from parishes actually within . men t. The barge was fiudlitYo b stole past afterwards in the dead o f th e night, It t m and the chi e ef trader of the the Hudson's Bay Co to pahat Mr. Yn'lttse y who i e s es s s a considered in settlement was with him, acted with discretion, and tlat the lose could not have been avert e d b y any other course, l 7