The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-30 00:00:00

NATIONAL FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY.

Yesterday evening the first annual meeting of this
ex. ty was held et ins London Tavern, whea 1.116 Brass
nen at that Worn mos crowded.
Oa 'Er platfoi were, besides tbe President, Sir JosasA
WsI4•LET, Bloused Cobden, K P.,Morley,
Ceer. Gilpin, W. B. Burton, C. H. lettinsore,
Mont°, E.Mlltier Clark*, Robt. &owed, Hy. &ninn-
ies. Thos. Noland, Fred. Bowtoo, end Richard Han*

WHITTINONAId (the secretary) read the follow-
Sr report,
Ihe directors, in presenting to the members the first
nem report of their proceedings, beg warmly to emigre-
ts,Au them on the great succeth which has been realised,
t.pon the hi illy prosperous condition of the society,
Up to the 31st of October last, 6,019 shares have been
3i...a by 2,b21 members, and the total amount of money
subscribed to the funds of the society was 21,2671. 16s. 10d.
r somber of completed shares was 379, producieg 11,3701.;
ail the unlimber of subscription shares was 4,640, the reesipte
es ishich thiJunted to 9,4641. 17u 2d.
lip to the end of October, fourteen estates, costing
r 1 Onid., and aituated respectively at Malden, Kingston,
(*Tolstoi' (north and south), Anerly, Tuabridne, Bromley,
Wethasurose, S•oks Newington, Chatham, Uxbridge, Man•
Id, and 0 Asinine, have been purchased for
doltObeios among the members. Five of these propertiss
base already been divided into atotments, tied t, be of
th, hill usual vales of 40.., at an average fast of about
sad of these allotments 207 have been takes by mew
ter• paying up the full amount oldies, and 175 by members
pays; on the plan of periodical subscription. It will be
via that a mach larger sum than has been contributed by
the subscribing members has been expended for their benefit
—a result metal! owing to the use of the large amount of
nt.!) mosey received from those members who have pre•
h reed to pay down the entire 'monist of their sham and at
OLte take full posseenoo if their allotments. The greatest
e,ee has been ezerc;sed in apportioning the allotted estates
laity between the paying up and the subscribing members,
so that neither time :pieta have occasion to complain.
.01refereses to the balance.abeet annexed, it will be seen
teat the noes profit made on the year's transactions has
1,2661. Se 1,1. ; and that the whole 'speediest*, in-
fliting the preliminary charges, baa been 7681.95, 7d. ;
fraying a nett surplus of 4961. 18r. 6d.—a rat* of profit
vttti will enable the directors to place at least 61. per cent.
. the andit of the members at the end of the einsoad year.
'I he director' point with gratification to the fact that so
elastic an association has been formed and condueted at
• a cost, and with such positive and immediate benefit

t ths members.
•• I in this measioe, Om following gentlemen retire from the
etre, namely, Sir Joshua Wahasley, Years. James
hArmtr. W. Chammee W. Simpson. F. Kowtow, M. M.
M 'kr', A. pt,
W. Edwards, C. It Lattimore, lii. Clarke,
J id, .1.11. 80811, U.P., W. 8. Burton, J. P. Bow.
• rc, and W. K. !leeks— all of arbors are eligible fee re-
Lon, and are welling. with the exception of Mr. Hawks,

t rte swain If rechoien.
" The diretten have every reason to believe that the rules
drawn up for the guldens of the society, have, on the
• winked extremely well, and have proved generally
ratoluton to the members; bat the experience of the past
yiar has shows these that some of the provisions tend to
rip, rate mannerably towards the members, and msy be
a.!er.,l with advantage to the interest. of the society. These,
ta,refore, they are peeping to ask the mambas to modify ;
• accordingly they reeemmend
.i.', A total abolition of all fines on unadvaneed shores ;
f • that they en better rely on the members' salt.* of
a,:tantaptee they will derive Iron keeping up their pay-
', than on any penalty inflicted upon their negligence,
or rasd, upon their imislisetenes. Secondly, The 'broom-
tot. ,1 the rule which provides that a member meet have
enrolled for three months before he tan participate in
• !Tieing for advances; proposing instead that this right
recrue New distely spa the payment of hie first sub
• • -,i sad, Thirdly, a Mustn't of the interest on
• ma. from 61 to 5 per sent., sad the calculation of the
,roe only on the banes remening due at the commence.
1... at of every year, and not oe the whole moult ad-
; the members receiving advances ceasing from that
tose to participate in the pent'', or to be liable for the
*spurn of the society.
" By the rules of the variety, these 'Pendant. ouseot be
roads until alter they hue ben submitted to the members
et two several meetings. The direcun Intend, therefore, to
call another meeting for this porous., of which due motile
aid be given ; and to cony these chasm into In II
approved by the members, as speedily as possible.
Aeons other change@ rendered essemmy by the wing
menu* of the society's nine's, the direct in have is visit
a removal to mon exteesive Alen, nod the increase ads*
'Wain staff. They believe that these arrangements ens
materially regulate wed npsdits the society's tronswiefeme,
and Firstly promote the convenience and advantaged dm
womb.
Rus'sing thus gives as account of their preeeedlase dor-
is, tLe past year. and of their paint* at the enninstect-
mud of the new one, the diremon feel called span briefly to
c noun the result ctained, with the object sescht, and to
nab.* the prevent nature and obarastet of the eseudation.
" The freehold land mevemest, as is well knows, origi
mated in a political object. Deeded a fair share is the Tepee
mutation of the country, the people wale driven bask twit
the anoint electoral right which forty-ebillizg freeholds
contented opus their ,• end Degas to ruckus Mod
at whole
priess, mutual distribution at prime grist,
sash the view of obtainiog this privilege. Is this manner
the first freehold lead societies arose; aid for a time the
extension of the rennin was their main, if not their oily,
object. But it is errteia that throe associations have far out-
grown their original limits, and have added to the intentions
of their founder', the higher and still more importaht
objects, of social and moral smelioratiou. It Lifer from the is.
Unties of the directors of the National Freehold Land
Society to depreciate in the Nast the great design of sanitise
tr mithelp the political enfranchisement which has hitherto
been denied to the people at lore,: they dent, indeed, that
eff.n a noble and important one, and keep It constantly in
view, but they have been led to see, that ia addition to
accomplishing this primary purpose, the movement achieves
the even greeter result of inducing temperate, and thrifty.
and pr.vident habits on the part of the wffeltiog man, and
thus eduates him to the proper use of the privilege which It
salty enables him to acquire. They believe that they
see nfonnieg the mut, u well as enfranchising the citizen ;
that they are sung to ioalaty guarantees of pace and osier
with every vac which they bestow; that they are
addieg inesitely to the power and virtue of the community,
while they it conferring freedom upon its Industrial orders.
" The Na:ioral Freehold Land Society, therefore, has now
grown to be, not merely a mediums through whisk the an-
emancipated edam can obtain his political freedom, not
merely a working ratite of his Moral program to but aloe
stomesercial eau rprin which be may join with peat peen-
nury
advantage. It is at once a sewn bask for
ening', end a profitable investment for his capi-
,t, and from the rapid rate at which its business
is torrents, there can be bat little doubt that within an n-'
tether', short space of time it will become one of the chief
'e' s of de
poeit to which the middle and working classes
am! resort. A safety beyond question—a larger interest thou
tin !K obtained elsewhere —a right to withdraw at any time
rsitbost deduction) the whole of the stoney sationibn,
should
unforseeo emergencies arise—a certainty of speedy,
an a poelibility of immediate, allotments of land, with the
rights and priatt-gta thereto appertainlej—and a share of all
ibss profits besides are benefits which all dames of
men mut become (Indeed sre very fest becoming) fully
sensible.
•'Upea the intrineis mundane of lie esmmeatiel
aVies, thee, and upon the importune sad sertelaty of the
socialand political advantages widen It preen, this assoeis.
tra now fonds its altrelstioal Mesmer ; and the dirensn
1,11 It doubt that ma if the freachise were (mead et
Mato emery man In the kingdom, the Mislaid Freehold
woehl esollase its tsinaphaat propos.