The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-19 00:00:00

THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.

The fourth annual and seventeenth quarterly
reeetiet of this scalety was held at Eseter.bell yesterday,
the iftssouat Itawarraz V the dui!.

—TiotiOil•Caussuirorballit4 the mutual report of the
ezetutive committee. The sport Wowed that is vegeta of
subscriptions oa'shares, N d with those of 1865,
then was a decrease of USK
va tis t killo Per contra
aide exhibited a dimiaattea Was extent of
1,61210. Id., aid of atilt psalm isepeateasa, as Wawa of
sabseriptioas appropriated N tits of pie* am the
estates to the latest of I,OBM The seam sow
pared with these of the yaw showed Is Immo of
172 shun is proems, 6= sa tee autplated Awn, befog a
total increase of 224, whilst the total reestple from all
wanes are larger thin thaw of 1866 to the extent of
3,3261.95. 7d. The fuel reaction kw the few* year were
67,8611.4.. Ild.; toe 1863_, 1814, 1856, 196,11881. 12s. 101.;
totals, 266,60 M 17e. lid. TI.S reserve laud ea the 29th of
Smassaten last was Ilearkeed to 111,9031. 19s. !IL The total
lead sail la UN wee 18,83319.. 641" malting a real Weal
of lasi sell of MASK 11.. 201. The balsam ken tie
of estates serried to the Mono amouto to
riftgirlind., learn( a Set helmet dod=
espouses, la avow of the eadety of Tube
tbuisim, arida* wpm of 6 pot mat far
the 19,18 M, ea all se
paid as Warr mairci=elharea la respect of larals
es snake have sot bus takes. Every paymeat Mao tie
waft OS messing abuts set Is anew would this ranee
six per out fee the fourth year, u fa tie Sad wad third
years, the Wave in the esesad_year, 1864, pd., to the um,
haviag bees sena pm seat The total assaat of welt
divided ameaget the lanuore is the fur yaw was 12,7931.
165.14. TM osamaittee added that, until nether wain, the
rate of interest an sompleted shares aad dews laprogress
paid a year in ulnae, and upwards, win siMase at five
per nat., payable half-yearly, one math after Lady-day
and Michaelmaz The musical et St. Margaret and a por-
tion of Si. roseeisiag land had been add to the Royal
Naval Female School, aid the following estates would
be offered be the wane of the must financial
year : Leatkhattant its be Mega ea *plied el Jean.
are), Mai
Tanen,,
Preanekk, Nemakestor, Bt.
Margaret% alag perks. Brien= dine, ekl Wood-
bury•park. Teabeidge-wells, ditto. The report eleadeeed
that the essulttee were walks hews by way of eipat-
kw es tie (Weeds (keep asks et We/bid/v. SIM le
the flokeldeekee_ kkiseleg km mdse. withea nark 1
Ike kaki be semi is Si. Let betook le the hides of
rights al skin le maths.
Ater as Memo from the noble chairman, be whisk it
imitated that purdtasse of bun at Epsom, is Surrey, sad
Mikes sear Bristol, wets sosteapiated, the report yes
esectiandy adopted.
The maned tauten, the Bail of Beetle, 11. P., Lord
Alfred Charehill, E. B. Adams, Laureate Palk, M.P.,
Hew, Powaall, sad H. W. Menials,. Eat., wen re.
Muted, and One the samenary votes of Steaks to the
directors and °Saab a drawing took Sue fee one hundred
rights of choice, and fifty were added by seniority.

DRAMA.

OLYMPIC.

A sew fate was produced at this theatre last Bight,
salled Crimean*. Mr. Coobiddy (Babson) Is a pones
urged in the Massehester Vida the travelling pertaat
is his firm, sad is &begat from hem sin mouths la
the year. He has a ymiag and piny wife, and a s►aming
aims, and his meet ptosaisest prisciple is ea abhorrent* of
metastases' Maeda" pattisoste, whist& he desanases in the
face of the female pen of his family in samessiared terms. Oa
the point of starting for Maisehatter, he is stepped from
seeklag ►is railway wrapper in • canals room by his wits,
and also la a certain cupboard by his smut, Nancy
Bitters (a pest wet grotaramely ands up and played by
Mr. J. Rogan), bet priming his design on the cupboard,
bas dimmers cossealed there the plighasd Polka.= of
Nam. la revenge ter her adenine's spbraniags, end her
pereraptery discharge, she take ea ("Fortuity of ►fisting
to Coobiddy that daring his abseaco his house Is besieged,
or rather oeimapied, by lovers of his wife, military, asval,
and medical. The moused husband bunts into the roost
forbiddea him by his wife, sad dada there • letter
fall et the most approved Beven•dialn ortho-
graphy, and dined " Grimes," stating that he has
got It," and will bring " it" to tits street door at seven
that even*, the signal of his preemie being the whistling
of a popular air. Nunn gads no diMeulty in persuading
Coobiddy that this is the military lover, the bad spelling
being taken rather as a proof of kis ladividaslity than not.
There is • m►litary lone, Captain Le Brows (Yr. 0.
Vinisg), bather the lover of the aim ; sad se he eases
secretly late the home, the ordinary minas ensues. The
hasbaad rages, the yeses laity is wrentied, and the young
man mystified almost to frenzy by being called Orimnis and
the stator of any other perm than his own isamorsts.
The deficit' (litres' is cleared up by the punctual advent a
the real Grimes, who Is simply a workbag ironmonger,
furtively employed by Mrs. Coobiddy to make for
her to of those weaderfal machines formed of hoops and
tapes which one sue fa the windows of modistes,
sad which, it is whimpered, are astaally won by ladies.
The idtastioas bass suMMatly absurd, all the performaen
entirely at home in their parts, and, above an, as the Some
was esseuy of the right nag* f..r the kind of thing,
It created iiiiimited taught.,, and was annenaeed for
repetition amidst a assainoss verdict of approval.