The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENINO., NOVEMBER 20, 1864,

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CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.

THIS DAY.

The annual meeting of the members was held in Exeter
Hall this day—Viscount Itanelagh presiding.
Mr GRUNBISEN, the secretary, having real the adver-
tisement convening tho meeting, the noble chairman read
the following report :

The twelfth financial year of the Conservative Land
Society having been completed on the 30th of September,
186 I, it is now the pleasing duty of the executive committee
to report to the shareholders a summary of the year's suc-
cessful operations, and to lay before them the balance-sheet
and statement of accounts. At the last quarterly meeting
on the 4th of October, the members elected the Rev. W. G.
Goodchild, rector of East Tilbury, and Mr Clemow, secre-
tary of the English and Swedish Bank, as their auditors,
and the board having nominated Messrs W. q. Astbury
and N. Winstanley, the four auditors on the 2d, 3d, and 4th
of November, met and verified the vouchers and books, and
signed the balance sheet.
The sul jAned table will
cash receipts for the reepei
and the grand totals since
in September, IS52:

show the shares issued, and total
;five quarters of the year 1803-1,
the commencement of the soviet)

Qrs. ending* Shares in Shares l Total Receipts.
progress. Complete. Shares.
Dec. 24, 18 '3 lB5 63 252 15,323' 11 7
March 25, 18E34 llB 67 1i,5 17,371 511
June '..4, 1.61 432 81 513 20,880 9 5
Sept. 30, 5i!..... 417 120 557 27,6 7 8 4
...._____
Totals for the —l
year 1361-4.... 1,186 331 ' 1,517 81,21: 15 3
Totals to Sept
30,1613 15,537 4,174 i 15,711 701,116 18 7
—_.
Grand totals to
111ichaelmasA4, 16,723 4,505 i 21,228 782,389 13 10

last year's receipts, the
show an increase 0f.... £5,483 910
[and to Michaelmas, 1861,

Compared with
present return
The total sale of
was
The total withdrawals since the formation
of the Society (7th September, 1852) to
Michaelmas, 1861, are
The returns of the register of the order of rights are as
P follow :

Completed. Drawn. Seniority. Total,
5,432 • 3,234 1,706 10,372
Deduct rights exercised on estates, &c, .... 7,787

Unexercised rights 2,585

The last share No. on the register by seniority is No.
14,813, and the last share issued up to Michaelmas, 1864,
was No. 21,228. After the routine business of the annual
meeting (this day), there will bo a drawing of 100 share
numbers, to be placed on the register of rights, to select
plots on the society's estates, at the option of the holders
thereof, and 50 share numbers will be taken from the Beni-
mity list (date of membership), and be also added to the
order of rights. On reference to the balance sheet, it will
seen by the members that the subscriptions on shares dur-
ing the year 1863-4 amounted to £35,155 13s, and that the
cash received in the deposit department amounted to £13,609
9s 10d. The withdrawals on shares were £12,130 Ils 3d,
and on deposits £13,473 2s 4d. The total balance of sub-
scriptions on shares was £128,946 12s Id, and the balance
_ _

of deposits at the close of the financial y,ar was £21,415
15s 2d. During the last year the sum of £15,562 10s 7d

was•withdrawn from the share account to pay for plots of
land, being an increase of £10,411 17s 9d compared with
last year. The repayments of loans on land amounted to
£11,907 6s 4d. The amount advanced for the same year to

allottees, towards the purchase mouLy of their plots, was

£19,912 16s 2d. The total balance of advance to allottecs on
land account was £36,142 4s 2d. As regards the sale of
land in the allotments of 1863-4, the balance sheet shows
an amount of £15,087 Os 81 being an increase of £10,799
16s 7d compared with last year's sales. The sale of the
stock in hand (being land previously allotted), and by pri-
vate contract, was £22,342 18s 9d, the total sale for the year
being £38,430 5s sd, bringing up the grand totals of the sale
of land to Michaelmas, 1864, to £368,800 13s 106. The
freehold building plots in various counties now for sale
amount to £71,118 13s 03. As regards the advances for
building during the past year, the repayments were £10,909
8s 2d, an increase of £3,555 17s 41 The amount advanced

for Luilding, &c., in 1864, has been £13,569 13s 4d, leaving
the total balance of advances for buil ing, Ste., £15,825 5s
6d. The reserve fund has been brought up to £ll,OOO.
After providing for the interest of 5 per cent, per annum on
shares, and 4 per cent. per annum on deposits, the balance
sheet shows an available balance out of which the execu •
tive committee ar© enabled, as provided by the rules, to add
to the accounts of members (in their pass-books) holding
uncompleted invested shares in respect of which no interest
has been paid, a bonus, or, in other words, interest at the
rate of 51 per cent. per annum, and on those shares on which
interest warrants have been issued, an additional half per
cent, per annum, which lje included in the half yearly

interest warrants payible on the Ist of May next. Thus
every payment into the society on shares not in arrear, and
on the register at the annual meeting, will realise 5 per
cent, per annum fur the year ending the 'ooth of Sept ,1861,

ale 1,5,41. Lay r...vvr5,,,, vu ~v1.11./10Vell Oiiu.vu r.uu c; uni 1.:13
progress, paid a year iu advance and upwards, for which
the half yearly warrants up to Lady-day and Michaelmas
are issued on the Ist of May and the Ist of November re.•
spectiyely, the rate will remain at 5 per cent, per annum,
and at 4 per cent, per annum on investments in the deposit
department, under rule 45, until further notice. The ordi-
nary quarterly meetings were duly held at the offices in
Norfolk-street, on the 12th of April, the sth of July, and
the 4th of October. The following members of the execu-
tive committee retire by rotation, but are eligible for re-
election, viz., the Earl of Bective, M.P., the Hon. Robert
Bourke, Col. Augustus Meyriek, Sir Lawrence Palk, Bart.,
M.P., Newnham Winstanley, Esq. The new estates al.
lotted this year were the Colchester (final portion) and the
Bishop Stortferd, on the 16th of March; the Plough-lane,
Battersea (first and second portions), on the 10th of April
and the 224 of Juno; and the Avenue estate, Smithampton,
on the 20th of July, In addition to the highly successful
sale of land on the new properties, re-allotments have taken
place of estates purchased at former periods, namely, the
Kentish Town estate, on account of the railway of the
Tottenham and Kentish Town Company now in progress
through the society's property; the Ipswich estate, close
to the station, offering additional land to the intending
purchasers, and the Wens teed estat owing to the sale of
the mansion. An agreement has been entered into with
South-coast and Brighton Railway Company, for the new
line, to be carried on to Kemp Town, to pass through the
Round Hill Park estate, whereby the society's property will
be greatly improved, During the past year the holders of
rights had the opportunity of investing in house property,
villas and houses being offered for silo on the St Margaret's
estate, Isleworth , the IfiLy road, Oxford; the Round Hill
Park estate, Brighton; Enfield estate, close to the station;
"Wandsworth-lane ; Old Ford; Roman-road,
Putney
Hackney, estate,
/o.
class villas and convenient houses, either for letting or for
On the estates just enumerated some first
sale, are now for disposal to the general public. Notices of
applications for bills in the next Parliament for new rail-
road schemes have been published, which will tend mate-
rially to develop come of the
society's estates. Three new
estates have been recently acquired by the society; namely,
the Admiralty Navy Yard at Deal, in East Kent, the
Southgate-road estate, wood-geen, in Middlesex, and the
Sunnyside estate, Sandown, in the Isle of Wight. These
highly eligible properties will be submitted for sale in due
course, all the three localities being particularly well
adapted for building purposes. The opening of the new
Iron Pier on the Bth November last, with a pier-head where
steamers can be moored alongside in any state of the tide,
and other great local improvements,"have already caused a
demand for building sites; and the esplanade of the Navy
Yard, together with a fine frontage on the Dover-road, will
present opportunities for the erection of large hotels, man-
sions and houses, now so
much in requisition in Deal. The
Isle of Wight estate, from its commanding situation and the
inci easing growth of Sand own as a bathing place, especially
since the opening of the. New Eastern Section Railway
from Hyde. which will, eventually communicate with Cowes,
will prove to be a most eligible building property. The
Wood Green estate being close to the station, and to the
Alexandra Park, as well as to the Green Lanes of Hornsey,
and being within a quarter of an hour's railway ride from
the metropolis, bids lair to be in great demand for building.
The board will allot on Wednesday, the 11th of January,
1865, the Wood Green estate No. 2, Southgate-road, and on
the same day the remaining portion of the Felixtowe estate.
The proposed formation of a railway to this last-mentioned
registration returns have been
fast rising watering place, together with the sales pre
v y effected,
property.
promise The a
speedy disposal of this
eligible
generally satisfactory, and the freehold franchise through
the society's instrumentality has been much extended.
iousl
The past year has been remarkable for the sale of land on
the early
estates acquired by the society, which has thus
been enabled to close the acoounts of some of these proper-
ties. In addition to this development, the new allotments
having sold so well, the executive committee have been
enable to bring the financial year of 1863-4 to a successful
termination, and the thirteenth year has been entered upon
with very encouraging prospects.
The executive committee, in recording that the Conserva-
tive Land Society has acquired 55 estates in 21 counties—
that the sale of land has been nearly £369,ooo—that 21,228
.650 shares have been issued, representing £1,061,400, and
that the reserve fund new amounts to £ll,OOO, will, they
trust, have supplied sufficient evidence, that no exertions
have been spared to secure the prosperiey of the society, and
it will be their endeavour to extend its political, social, and
commercial advantages.
(The meeting had not concluded when we went to press.).

ihotcntituy of the Emperor uf Mexico
Lintz del Rio, had &an GREICE AND 17X!0_—Tiro Envoy Extraordi-
ntoariy,u7kdeyMailniistGerr,P„..leeen,
audi-
ence of the King of lho 111 tlen y at Athens, on ths 20th
in:A., to present his credentials. In reply to the Minister's
speech the young King, after some complimentary phrases,
said :—"Myself. the head of a new dynasty, and charged
with the destinies of a people for their regeneration, I can •
not but have great sympathy for a new sovereign and foe a
nation which, like the Greek nation, have had to pass
through painful ciises in order to conquer the place they
should rightfully occupy among civilised nations. It is
therefore with perfect sincerity that I express my wish for
the happiness of his Imperial Majesty and for that of his
august family, for the prosperity of his reign, and for the
progress of his people,"

Scene at an Irish Petty- Sessions

The following highly humorous description of a
genuine Irish shindy or akrimmage we transfer to
our columns from those of our cheap pictorial con-
temporary, the Penny Illustrated. The hand that
wrote it, or we are marvellously in error, is surely
no other than that of Ralph Neville. For the life-
like truth and racy fun of the sketch—lightly, even
carelessly, pencilled though it is—it seems to us
not unworthy in both particulars, that is, in the fan
and in the truth of it, as a literary photograph of
Irish life, it seems to as, we say, not unworthy of
the author of "Lloyd Pennant ":
Arriving at the village of ---, some two hours before
Bianconi's car passed through on its route for Clonmel, I
sauntered about in search of amusement during the interval.
A crowd assembled round a modest-looking house, at the
end of the main street, attracted my attention ; a policeman
told me it was "Petty Sessions" day, and invited me to
enter the court. Being anxious to witness the local admi-
nistration of justice in Ireland, of which I had beard and
read much, I availed myself or the invitation, and took my
seat amongst the spectators. The chair was filled by a
portly, rubicund personage, and with him sat a " stipen-
diary'' (who used an ear- tr umpet), and two others. As I
entered, the clerk, having recorded the judgment pronounced
in a previous case, cried, "Timothy Nolan against Barney
Brannan." There was a buzz of excitement in the court,
which subsided into a dead silence as the parties pro -
c,:eded from their respective positions to the front of
the judicial seat. Tim Nowlan (the complainant), his
head enveloped in bandages, rose slowly, and, leaning
on the arm of his spouse. advanced with difficulty, as Whit,
injuries were even more serious than they appeared to be;
and they were followed by Paddy Phelan, their witness, an
old, peaceable looking farmer, who, as a mark of respect,
was accommodated with a chair. Barney Brannan, or
"Boulteen,"* as he was nicknamed, casting a half-smile,
half-grin on the auditory, as if to say, "Now I'm in for it;
also came to the post, and he was attended by a small wiry
looking cur dog, which all his threats and all his wife's
efforts could not restrain from sharing the fortunes of his
master. The little brute buret from the rasp of Mrs Bran-
nan (who did not accompany her liege lord to the tribunal)
and ensconced himself at Barney's feet, plainly indicating,
by the expression of his physiognomy, that he was ready to
take a turn with any adversary in his owner's defence. Both
parties made a profound obeisance when they came in front
of the Bench, and then, Barney Brannan, placing his shil-
lelagh under his left arm, stood proudly erect, with his
hands behind his back, an attitude which he rigorously
maintained until called upon for his defence. He responded
to the accusations of his adversary occasionally by a bland
smile, and sometimes by a knowing wink at their worships.
"State your complaint, sir," said the chairman to the
wounded man.
" Ah, thin it's myself that's not able to say anything,
yer honours," replied Tim (delivering his answer with ex-
treme difficulty, and gasping for breath between every
word): "I'm fairly ruined by that villain ; he didn't lave
as much blood in my body—saving your honours' presence
as id feed a hungry midge."
Wdl, come, how did it happen, sir ?"
"How did it happen ? By gorra, it happened no how at
all, barring ' The Boulteen' eomin' roarin' drunk into my
house whin I was quiet with my pipe, and kissin' my wife
and murtherin' myself, when I tould him to behave decent
av he could, That's all, Nelly can tell yer the rest better
nor I can ; for I'm not able to say any more." And Tim
threw himself on Nelly's shoulder, as if completely ex-
hausted.
" Well, Mr Brannan," observed the chairman, with great
dignity, " I'm sorry to see you here again so soon, sir."
" Thank yer Honour, I know'd that, long life to yru."
" What have you to say in answer to this charge, sir P"

Barney planted one end of his sapling on the floor, and
leaning with both hands on the other, he bent forward with
great gravity and decorum before he answered—" Ye all
know me, gintlemin, egg and bird, man and boy, for gene-
rations, except the stipendiary; and sure my uncle's son is
his Honour's right hand man; an' I defy ihe world to say
I iver did anything mean, ye see, or my fathers afore me."
" Well, toll us all you know about the matter," cried the
deaf magistrate, who appeared nervously attentive to the
proceedings, and occasionally blew into the ear-piece
of a gutta percha trumpet. "It is very extraordinary," he
remarked to the chairman, "it's very extraordinary,
I had this trumpet from town yesterday, could hear
perfectly with it last night, and find it quite useless to, day.
It must have been left too near the fire: it really does me
more harm than good.
" Well, yer Honours, it's an ould story."
" We have nothing to do with old stories," interrupted
the justice. " Tell us, sir, why you beat the complainant."
" Five years agone, come Michaelmas next," resumed
Barney, " Tim Nowlan and myself had a piece of Conacre
oats in co., and when the reaping time came wo cast lots;
I got the tight-hand side, and becourse Tim got the left.
Then, ye sec, we agreed to reap in co., and I won the toss
r the nrst curt', It war uouseu

same day ; it was the fair eve of Buulaby ; but I had no
more notion of goin' there the -next day than the child
unborn. I was Biala' quiet at home, when in comes a boy
of the Feencys, to say that they were to beat the Sullivans
and take the town from them to-morror, and that they'd
want the 20 swap men they lent us (the Brannans) to beat
the Mullanys at the fair of Ballyhawnish. I cant go, sis I,
for I have Tim Nowlan'd oats to reap, and the wind's getting
strong and it'll be shed. No faction has a right to borrow
men, says he, if they dont intend to pay them back; but
I'm thinkin', sis he, that ye're afeard to meet The Whang
that's to lead the Sullivans (The Whang, yer honours, is
Nelly Nowlan's own brother). Well, sis I, to the devil with
the oats ; no one ever had it to say that I didnt pay men or
,money when I could, and I dont care a thraneen for any
Sullivan that ever stepped in shoe leather."

"Oh I d'ye hear him ?" ej waisted Nelly. " It's little
business three like ye id have to stand before ' The Whang,'
av he got fair play. '

" Well, I whit," continued Barney, " to the fair, an d
' The Whang,' an I met—and the world knows that I
didn't get the worst iv id. From that day to this Nelly
Nowlan's against me; an it's not bekese the oats was de-
stroyed by the storm, but bekese I bet her brother. Well,
ye see, I went into the election the other day with Father
Mick—and well treated we were, no doubt; and comin'
home does I meet his Itiverence. ' Well,' says he, Boni-
teen, I forgive ye all ye ever did to me, ye behaved so well
today. Ye're a real patriot. Here's a shilling to drink
my health'"--.

" Oh, ye villain I" interposed Nelly ; " Father Mick
wouldn't look the side iv the road ye travelled. Didn't ho
give ye the curse iv God last Sunday, for yer tricks ? And
didn't he promise the congregation that if that wasn't able
for you, he'd give you his own curse nest Sunday? And
in troth, av he does, ye'll be trotting about the Moat of
Mallow in a little black dog to the day iv Judgment 1"
" Hould yer tongue woman I" cried Barney, not at all
relishing the threat. " Father Mick 'll do me no harm, I
tell yes. Well, ye see, gintlemin, 1 was in great humour,
seein' I had the priest on my side, and says I to myself, as
I passed Tim Nowlan's house, " I'll go in, an' make up with
them, and be at pace with the world.' In I goes in, au' bid
them the time of day, and sat on the bed, beside Nelly, and
lit me pipe. Well, ' Batty,' this little animal (pointing to
the dog), the best bit of flesh on earth, Master Charley (ad-
dressing the youngest justice); yer Honour recollects the
day he buckled the big water-day ? (Well, yer Honour
needn't laugh, now; for, on my sowl, ye might put him to
sleep in a partridge's nest, and the divil an egg he'd touch)
—well, ye see, by course, Butty followed me in, an' wint to
warm himself at the fire; and whatever came between him-
self and the pig in the corner I don't know, but they up and
at 'other in the middle iv the floor, and there was a rigular
ruction. I lifted my legs out iv the way, and laid my baud
on Nally's shoulders to hinder myself from fallin into the
bed, when she gives me a rap on the lug. I jumped up
Tim made a whack at Butty, and knocked him down. I
made a blow at the pig, and Tim's head came between my
stick and her back. 'Whooh 1' says he, spitting on the
handle of his stick. Whooh 1' says I, doin the same. We
at 'other ; and I wasn't gettin the worst iv id, when that
decent man (pointing to Paddy Phelan) came in and sun-
dered us."

"Now, sir," said the stipcndiary, "what did Batty say
when he was knocked down ?"

" The divil a word, yer Honour," roared Tim, at the top
of his voice.

"What did he do, then ?"
"The poor fellow found Nowlan's heel in his mouth, and
he bit it."

"A most barbarous method of fighting," rejoined the
stipendiary, addressing Phelan, the witness. "You ought
to be ashamed of yourself."
" I had nothing to do with it," replied Paddy, mildly.

"Then where is Butty P hasn't he been summoned P"
" He's there, yer Honour," shouted Nelly (pointing to
the dog and his master)"—" but 'twas Boulteen did all the
harm,"

"Oh I I see," said the stipendiary, again addressing
Phelan; "he's Bully, and you're Boulteen. You should
have been the defendant instead of Brannan."
"I saved Nowlan, yer Honour."
"I was able to save myself," cried Tim (now completely
recovered from his exhaustion) ; " there never was a Bran-
nan able to handle me. I'll fight Boulteen for the whole
matter this minute, ye see, if their Honours 'ill let me."
"A bargain, by gorra I" exclaimed Barney; and the two
men shook each other's hands most violently, in token of
agreement, while the court rung with laughter.
"There's no knowing how to decide on such contradic-
tory evidence," remarked the stipendiary magistrate; "and

as the men seem disposed to make it up. and have shaken
hands, let there be peace, and an end of it."
" Shall .it
.be settled as Mr - suggests ?'' asked the
chairman of his colleague.
"I have no objection," was the reply.

"Now, Mr Brannan," remarked the chairman, with great
severity of manner, " you were chiefly drunk, and I'll fine
you five shillings. You're of an honest family, but you're

* "Boaneon" is the Irish name of the light staff of the
flail which strikes the corn in threshing.
f " Whangi, is the leather thong used to do the brogues
of the peasantry,