The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-11 00:00:00

[STAMPED, ld. ADDITIONAL.]

THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETT.
(THIS DAY.)

The 14th annual meeting, Viscount RamaLsou
in the chair, was held this day for the first lime in the
new and spacious premises, being 11, Howardevreet and
33, Norfolk-street. The entrance to the building is in
Norfolk-street, and the frontage extends to nearly the
whole of the northern side of Howard-street. The lower
part is devoted to the society's offices for investment+ and
the sale of land. On the first floor is a capacious board-
room, in which the quarterly and annual meetings will be
held, and to which room the secretary's offices are at-
tached- The upper portion of the edifice is devoted to the
offices of the legal and surveying departments. The facade
of the building is simple yet imposing, having the title of
the society and the date of its formation extending along
its entire length.

It ; barely possible that a despatch, The
dated e Szcastaar (Mr. Gruneisen) having read the adver- a'
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.New York, Dec. 6, may have been received I tisere rirt convening the meeting, submitted the annual fan
nateitherViennagovenimby the Atlantic t!,cmhca,l.tdworsithinnewEsurothapte ! r The Executive Committee, in presenting to the share- otl
' holders of the Conservative land Society their annual
know anything of. Nothing is more certain than are bleduntousuanbrit for their approval audited
t re;
restateMent ofbalance
September, 1866, has been attended with the most settee a
that Maximilian had the fullest intention to em- completion of the fourteenth financ▪
ial year on 30th of of
bark on board the Austrian frigate Dandolo for , factory results, and that no cessation in the society's suc- Js
Europe. His family, friends, and personal house_ . oeu has arisen from the adverse times in the monetary eel
hold were advised by him to this effect. If it be world of the present year. It is a significant fact that,
• during the period of the greatest pressure, public confidence
true tict he went back from Orizaba to Mexico he .in the Conservative Land Society was even more strongly ric
can refer with pride and pleasure to the subjoined as
can o y Ma"- gane-fia a prisoner arliraidluelesattastei ikon previously, by increased investments. *
Bazaine. There is a story current that when board
return!, showing
prweas.the shares sussed,md ees. the toted 4h „hr
the Austrian captain of the Dandolo received receipts for the respective quarters of the year 1865-6, and s'.
the grand totals since the commenceinent of the society in '
orders to hold himself in readiness to receive Maxi- September, 1852. m
milian on board he did not understand that the i
, Shares , Shires
departure was to be a clandestine ono. He put on 1 Quarters ending I In I corn- I Total Receipts m
his uniform and paid a visit of ceremony to the '
French military commandant at Vera Cruz to take '
June 24, 1800
Dec. _1,1866 I
bus 1 E. s. d.
24 587 I a 4,181 14 8
leave. Upon this the French officer telegraphed to Marche, nee
Marshal Bazaine, who is supposed to have taken ! ON e 4 766 , 26,623 13 8
MN 41 650 1 34,2 0 11 8
Sept. 30, 1860 i 426 121 847 I 32,518 10 11 it
upon himself to prevent the Dandolo from sailing. Four
quarters ending -I- -. 01
That Maximilian is at daggers drawn with tne Michaelmas, 1806 , 2,437 312 2.749 1140,470 10 11 A
French government and does all he can to throw ' Totals 1° Sept. SO. 16" 18'9'6 4,869 12'925 1862'619 16 11 71
i Grand
a. tour to Michael-,
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. 20,063 5,011 1 25,674 19E3,620 610 re
discredit upon it seems to be beyond doubt.
The Blither lithographed correspondence says ,
'that the Vatican has been for some time secretly The last share issued up to Michaelmas, 1866, was No. t
printing the diplomatic correspondence between 2t...05,gi • Thlessre.rd
r. v esfal
eudoft4landuhfaeroini theltil:s'amounts
of a
France and the Holy See since 1849, with a view to the society to Michaelmas, 1866, 493,091!. ss. formation
The total nu
lay before the catholic world a case of betrayal and withdrawals siren the formation of the 'society to v
Michaelmas. 1806, are 286,3641. 16e. 4d. The re- g
martyrdom. turnsof the register of the order of righte(forthe nestselec- C
An election fora vacancy in the Corps Legislatif tionof plots in rotation on the order of rights)are asfollow:- 3
Completed, 6,207 ; drawn, 3,301; seniority, 1,758 ; total, t
for the Seine et Loire terminated yesterday in the 11,270 ; deduct rights exercised on estates, &c., 8,649 ; un- 5
election of the government candidate by an enor- exercised rights, 2,621. The last share number on the re- (
mous majority. The opposition candidate, M. gister by seniority of membershipls,B7s. The
ofto titiblerseziepttsy , fo
werer 805-1
206,u,
7to
th ereceti
ph
te . foofr m 1 zt.4l
,osn, ft
Nadaud, a young man of neutral opinions, whololasrg. lid. since;
came forward to get his name into notice, without fl.o,Mtf. 2s. ld.-Total increase on the year, 40,710/. Bs. 1
10d. The following was the increase ia each quarter :-
Y serious support from the democratic party, Christmas, 8,952/. ss. ; Lady-day, 9,3741. Bs. Bd. Mid- (I
obtained only 2,579 votes. The piquant feature in summer, 15,8931. 13e. ; Michaelmas, 6,4901. 2s. 941. In- a
this election is that M. Boutellier, the now crease for 1865-6, as above, 40,710/. Bs. 10d. The committee, ,
regarding the reserve fund as the safest guarantee for the ,
triumphant government candidate, is a very recent society's permanent prosperity have raised that fund to I
convert to the empire, and was not long ago de- 13,0001., being an increase of 1,000/. overthe amount of the I
year 1864-5. The general healthy features of the business of i
nounced in a proclamation by the prefect as a man the year 1865-0 are, that the actual annual income of the ,
essentially dangerous, traitorous, and hypocritical. society has risen considerably, owing to the larger sales of
General Dix, who only passed through Paris on Ipoanwd;
rttkiicavi
nhaving advances
more
thanto al loouttt,lez
iexercisingabout
wtoh ye etsr ru.
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his arrival, has been staying with his family at amount of the stock of land on hand (unsold plots on
Versailles. He had not been seen at the United estates), has been reduced from 83,0001. to 48,000/., sales
which indicate the value of the properties acquired by
States Legation this morning, but was expected to the society. The committee can also congratulate
' call there this afternoon. the shareholders on the insignificant amount of
Lord Lytton was at Mrs. Bigelow's last reception Inese;isecu fromtynerrillivan the
reference to toptruhaltaylanhceelsdheleat
in Paris yesterday evening, where he was intro- will show the increase of business in each department.
1 duced to the American poet, William Cullen The executive committee are enabled, after increasing the
reserve fund to 13,0001. to provide for the interest of 5
) Bryant. . per cent. per annum on shares (completed or paid • year
) Mgr. Coqueresu, chaplain of the fleet, and a in advance), and for the interest of 4 per cent, per
/ canon of Bt. Denis-a position conferrini,
..,
episcopal annUrn ont
deposit investments. The committee are also
enabled add to the amount; of members holding un-
rank, died in Paris yesterday. He, when Abbe completed invested shares (in respect of which no in-
Coquereau, and a popular preacher at St. Roth, per tere s ttst hrumbeenApsaired)
regards
time
aequivalenttioni to 1 perist coeri
went to St. Helena in the Belle Poole, in 1840, to per cent., to whichg the holders of completed shares
I bring back the remains of Napoleon to France. His and shares paid a year in advance will be
Li c.aronry of St. Denis dates from 1843, and he was entitled by the present declaration of bonus, the amount
will be included in the half-yearly Ladv!day interest
made chaplain of the fleet in 1850. I warrants, issued and payable on and after the Ist of May
every
, payment on the shares on the register
The Bourse was flat. Rumours of a loan as anext. Thus
at the present mimed meeting, not being in arrear, will
necessary complement of the reorganisation of the realise 6 per cent. per annum for the financial year ending
e army were alarmingly prevalent. A milliard, in the 30th September, 1866. The rate of interest on shares
(completed) and shares in progress (paid a year in advance)
e obligations repayable in sixty years, was talked of. will remain at 5 per cent, per annum, for which
Rente fell 10c. for cash, and 7ic. for account, the half-yearly warrants up to Lady-day and
namely,as will be issued at the customary periods,
closing at 69fr. 55c. and 69fr. 571,..c. There was November.
m the let of ?,/a and the Ist of y
` little business doing. The rate of interest for the deposit department, that is,
• investors who are not members of the society, will remain
. . __... _
unchanged at four per cent. per annum, payable half-
A PERILOUS ADVENTURE.--JUSt as the 7.30 p.m. yearly, at the same period as the interest warrants on shares.
A
train left the Maidstone station on the North Kent line on The next estate to be allotted, the day fixed being the
Sunday evening, a ticket collector named Baldwin found • 13th inst., is one of the most valuable building properties
Y man in a third class carriage without a ticket, and urdered ever acquired by the society in the suburban districts. It
, him to leave the train. He immediately got out of the will be called the East London Estate, a.md is close to the
u carriage, and nothing more was seen of him until the train Forest Gate station on the Great Eastern Railway. This
was leaving the station, when Baldwin saw the stranger fine property is adapted not only for villas and houses of a
standing on one of the buffers of one of the carriages in the superior class, but for dwellings for the working-classes,
middle of the train. Seeing the great peril the man was like the society's West London Estate. The allotment of
in, and knowing that there was no means of stopping the the first portion on the 13th inst. will be confined to the
train, the collector courageously jumped on to the buffer, large field fronting the road leading to Wanstead-common,
d at the same time exclaiming, " For God's sake, stand still which is within two minutes' walk of the land. As Forest-
until you get to Aylesford (the next station), or you will be gate is only five miles from the centre of the City, and
killed. The man made no reply ,• but retained his position there are '..V trains daily, at cheap fares, to and from the
d for about 150 garde, when he horrified Baldwin by Bishopegate-station, the committee anticipate that the
.0 jumping off and dashing himself against the brickwork East London Estate, bordering on Wanstead-flats and
of a dark cutting through which the traiu was then Epping-forest, will meet the wants and wishes of all classes
it passing at a rapid rate. Baldwin, whose experience enabled of the community."
r- him to jump off the train without sustaining any injury, •
walked back through the cutting, when he ran against
the man in the dark. He immediately secured him, and UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.-At a session
conveyed him back to Mr. Ragged, the station-master. of council on Saturday last appoiutmenta were made as
1- His head and face were covered with blood, which was follows :-Professor of clinical surgery (additional), Mr.
s_ flowing profusely from a severe wound in the head. The Henry Thomioson ; instructor in practical surgery, Mr.
man being insensible, Mr. Raggett ordered him to be Christopher Heath ; instructor in bandaging and the ap-
removed to Dr. Oliver's surgery, where it was found he plication of surgical apparatus, Mr. M. Berkeley Hill ; '
had sustained three severe scalp wounds. He was then professor of mental philosophy and logic, Mr. George'
removed to the Railway Hotel, where he remained in a Croom Robertson ; assistant-surgeon at the hospital, Mr.
state of insensibility for several hours. It was afterwards Christopher Heath. The resignation by Mr. De Morgan
ascertained that his name was Jas. Milligan, living at of the professorship of mathematics from the close of the
. 82, Milton-road, Gravesend. From the fact of only a few current session (in July) was accepted. The Ricardo
!I. coppers being found upon him, it is supposed that he was scholarship in political economy (2M. per annum for three
! . endeavouring to avoid the fare by getting into the train on years) was conferred by the recommendation of the exa-
' ' the opposite side, where the carnage doors were not locked, miners, Profes-or Waley and Professor Csirnes, on Mr.
and that while stepping from one buffer to the other the Frederic Green, 8.A., of Saffron Walden ; 51r. F. J.
train 'darted. Carey, 51. A., was reported second, and to have paned
PARTIES IN IRELAND.-The annual address of such an examination as would have deserved the scholar.
iS the Grand Orange Lodge is this year very violent. Refer- ship. The Longridge prize of 40!., for general proficiency
ring to the apprehensions entertained in some quarters of in medicine and surgery, was awarded on the recommend.-
a rising of the peasantry, the authors of the address, tion of the faculty of medicine to Mr. W. It.. Gowen., of
which as signed by the Earl of Enniskillen, say :-" Our Coggeshall. The desire of the council to receive applica-
W principles and our sentiments are well known. Our uniform tions on or before the 7th of January for the appointment
ar readiness to stand forward in support of constitutional of instructor in practical physiology and histology was
a_ monarchy, and of the union of these realms. has been re- ordered to be advertised. Permission was granted to the
t fleeted on by self-constituted advisers, while we cannot Geological Association to hold monthly evening meetings
expect that the enemies of such elements of order would in the library of the college.
Ido otherwise than vilify and reprobate them We, THE CATTLE TRADE IN IRELAND.-The Dublin
3/ although feeling that great injustice has been done to us by Ga:ctta contains an order by the Lord.Lieutentintand Privy
le successive governments, promise the support of our power- Council of Ireland revoking the order issued on the 7th
er ful and united body in aid of the executive." The Daily of April, 1846, for the establishment in all Irish ports of a
as i'reas hails this address the first of a series of replies to
le re-istry office for registering cattle drovers and granting
1- the Tuition asked by the Times-" Where is the loyal the •
m certificates. These offices, and the provbdon re-
population of Ireland'."' and speaks of it as `• an emi- quiring registration, are now dispensed with. Drovers
co la nently healthy ,e, and encouraging at this crisis of our Snd dealers, and cattle are, however, still to be subjected
m history," adding that, should dangers arise, "we know to the same disinfecting process as heretofore on their
whe-e to look for devoted supporters of our Queen." The arrival in Ireland, unless they shall satisfy the proper
freemin's Journal, however, speaks of this support as officer that they are not wearing or bringing into the
letting loose the " Orange bloodhounds-ruffians who, country any infected articles of clothing. The Gazette also
rs like their Cromwellien ancestors, shot down catholic contains an Order in Council permitting the importation
he women and children as if they were she wolves and their of wool from Spain and Portugal into Ireland Dorn any
n- cubs." The Evening Post is also very angry about the port in Spain, Portugal, or Great Britain, under certain
at Orange address. It is well known that to call out the restrictions. The consignor must make a declaration to
id Orangemen would be to make Fenians of nearly the whole . the effect that the wool is that of sheep shorn in Spain
as Roman catholic population.
__, •or Portugal ; that the sheep were not infected with
is BIRMINGHAM BANKING COMPANY.-Yesterday disease; and that the wool has been kept from contact
id an application was made of a peculiar character in two with anything infected. Said declaration to be pro-
-- instances, before Mr. Chinch, the chief clerk attached to duced by the consignee in Ireland to the collector of
a the court of the Master of the Rolls, in the affairs of the customs. The wool shall also undergo a disinfecting
in Birmingham Banking Company. Mr. Banks had been an process on its arrival in Ireland, the expense of which
k- accountant, and retired in 1853 with 100/. a year. Mr. Pratt shall be borne by the consignee.
lb had been clerk to the old and new firm for thirty-six • ACCIDENT TO THE STEAMER BRITANNIA.-LlVER-
years and retired in 1863 on a similar annuity. Both had lotthte.
e- been Paid up to the failure, and the question was whether POOL, Dec. •
17th10.-The
of November,C
p- they could claim on the estate for the value of the
Tue." merreintsniZe Tiliatlautter had lost her rudder, pro-
m annuities. Mr. Burton, for the official liquidator, sub- °
ller and wail helpless. She had fifteen days' provisions
n- mitted that the annuities were only payable while the Pe bo,;xd. The L. C. Owen offered to take some of the
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v. hank lasted, and that a consideration for past services, for
passengers, but the offer was declined, and she was =p-
a- which the applicants had been paid, could not prevail.
lied with fish. The Britannia left Glasgow on the 3rd
I, The chief clerk suggested that the matter should he left to E
November, bound for New York, elh 300 passengers.
id the shareholders. The debts were between one and two
id millions. The pieties had grown old in the service, and .
DESPATCH OF THE BRAZILIAN MAILS.--SOUTH-
tie no doubt needed assistance, and something should be done airrron, Dec. 10.-The Royal Mail Company's steamship
2g for them. The matter stood over with the hope that the Oneida, Captain Woolcott, sailed this afternoon with the
be aoggestiens of Mr. Church would be acted upon. A first mails for Lisbon, St. Vinoent, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de
it- instalment of Bs. in the pound to the creditors will be Janeiro, Monte Video, Buenos Ayres, Lc. She took out
payable on Friday next. 49 passengers and a general cargo, including 8,0001. in bar
Ils CRYSTAL PALACE. - ONE SHILLING DAT.- silver on account of the Minister of Fince jewellery,il Ja-
m; MONDAY, BED. 10.-Admissions on payment, 712 ; ditto neiro 13,300/. in sovereigns : English , 0/. ;
by swum tickets, 1,036. Total visitors, 1,748. and jewellery, value 6,2001.

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