The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, Z UESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1863,

-no NOT FORGET YOUR APPOINTMENT.
--We Sup at EVANS', Covent-garden, after Jullien's

who have purchased land from the society. In Brightota,
the revising barrister—despite of the overwhelming evi-
dence of increased development and value of the Road Hill-
park estate, evidence which he totally disregarded—adhered
to his original decision, notwithstanding that other claims
analogous to those of the allottees of the society have been
allowed. The Conservative Land Society is now in its
12th year. It was commenced at a period when great and
important interests intimately connected with the just pri-
vileges of all classes were imperilled, and it became the duty
of all true patriots to protect them. The original political
object of the society has been completely successful it has
prevented the counties from being swamped with fictitious
votes, and it has offered to all classes of the community not
possessed of the freehold franchise the opportunity of
acquiring it on the basis of property in land, which, sooner
or later, must become profitable. The combination of
political and pecuniary advantages has in both instances
been a prosperous movement; and if the former incentive
to action has of late years, owing to the increase of the
Conservative tendencies in the country, not been so urgent,
the social and commercial principles of the Conservative
Land Society have become still more marked and more de-
veloped. The executive committee feel deeply the import-
ance of the duties devolving on them; they will endeavour
to secure the continued success of the society by exercising
the greatest caution in the acquisition of eligible estates for
allotment, and by maintaining a system of management
Iwhich has hitherto proved so satisfactory to the share-
holders.

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CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.

MEETING THIS DAY.

The eleventh annual meeting was held this day at Exeter
Hall.

The SECRETARY (Mr. Gruneisen) read the advertise-
ment convening the meeting.
The NOBLE CHAIRMAN (Viscount Ranelagh) read the
following report of the Executive Committee :
The Executive Committee, in presenting their eleventh
annual report, have the pleasure to submit therewith the
balance sheet and statement of accounts for the financial
year ending the 30th of September, 1863. The members,
at the quarterly meeting on the 20th October last, having
elected Mr. Harding and the Rev W. Goodchild, and the
board having appointed Messrs. Astbury and Winatanley,
the four auditors verified the vouchers and banks on the

(Signed) BANELA.GH, Chairman.
(Countersigned) CHAREs lzwis GRUNEISEN, Sec.
Offices of the Conservative Land Society,
33, Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C.
London, Deo. 8, 1863.

11th and 12th of November, and signed the balance sheet.
The shares issued and total cash receipts for the respective
quarters of the year 1862-3, the totals for the year, and the
the grepd totals since the commencement at-the Canservo,
tive Land Society, in September, 1852, are shown in the
annexed table :

SPIRIT OF THE- PUBLIC JOITENALS.

annexed table :. TIMES.-Should the chief States interested in the be rall
Qrs. ending Shares in Shares Total msceipts.
progress. Complete. Shares. ",, question of the Danish Succession continue to act actual
with prudence and moderation, there is reason to
Z hope the th
Dec. 24, 18C2 .... 136 67 203 15,946 18.
5 2d.
that the dangers of the present crisis will pass the boi
marroi
March 25, 1863 .. 208 24 232 15,113 19 11 away. It would, indeed, be a reproach to modern
among
June 21, 1863.... 255 91 346 20,697 2 0
Sept. 30, 1863.... 178 67 215 23,496 8 4 statesmanship, and to the good sense of nations, sergeal
Totals for the if so artificial a dispute were to end in war. At a the m(]
year 1862-1863.. 777 249 1,026 75,754 6 5 time when the whole European system is threatened ever i ver
Totals to Sept
30, 1862 14,760 3,925 18,685 625,392 13 2 with disruption, when the
ambition of one man or means
M'Mu
Grand totals to
people, the restlessness of great armies, and the confide
Michaelmas,'63 15,537 4,174 19,711 701,146 18 7
vague aspirations of democratic masses and their efficier
The increase in the receipts of the year ' leaders may at any time efface the frontiers which
These,
1862-3 over the corresponding year of have been held sacred for fifty years, it would be a satisfa
1861-2 is
being one of the largest cash receipts are most interested in the peace of Central Europe force i,
since the formation of the society.
The total withdrawals since the formation should make a beginning of strife on strictly legs- dieted
of the society (Sept., 1852), to Michael- timist grounds, and in opposition to their own
mas, 1863, are £205,883 8 0 recorded promises. Wars come often enough, voluni
----- even when they are entered into only on time s
The returns of the register of the order of rights are as strict necessity. The conflicts of interest, the the j,
follow :- irremovable misunderstandings, the struggles for matrii
Completed. Drawn. Seniority. Total. geographical positions, which are often struggles strong
5,061 3,191 1,681 9,933 for existence, are quite enough to keep the world nally
of cot
Deduct rights exercised on estates, Ste, .... 7,501
in disquiet, without crusades in favour of petty howel
Unexercised rights 2,432 Princes and doubtful hereditary claims. Both the
The last share number on the register by seniority is No. Prussian and Austrian Governments seem now to of or
13,853, and the last share issued up to the 50th September, be convinced that justice and prudence require a that E
1863, was No. 19,711. moderate policy. No little firmness has been re- bers I
The members, on reference to the balance sheet, will see quired from them to uphold even a modified respect recru
that the subscriptions on shares during the year 1862-63 has m
amounted to £27,193 4s 9d, and that the cash received in for the Treaty of 1852. M. von Bismark and Count tion,
the deposit department was £21,190 16s Bd. The with- Rechberg have both explained the policy of their when
Goveinments to murmuring Assemblies. At Berlin memo
drawals on shares were £12,722 Os Bd, and 'on deposits
a hostile vote, going to the extreme of deposing point
the Dauish King
£13,610 193 ld. The total amount of subscriptions on
shares in the society was £123,592 2s lid up to the 30th of was recorded in Schleswig as well as Holstein, evade
September, 1863. The total amount of investments in the against the Government by an He h
deposit department at the close of the financial year was immense majority, and in Vienna the cautious oppo
124,995 lOs lid. During the past year the sum of £5,150 and variously composed R. Viers might easily the
brought to a. similar expression of opinion.
. volui
be
12s 10d was withdrawn from the share account to pay for But with all this the two Governments, unwil- in E
plots of land. The repayments of loans on land amounted ling to add anther element of disturbance casli
to £13,946 19s 10d. The amount advanced for the same The
to Europe, and influenced, perhaps, to a high
able
year to allottees, borrowing seven-eighths of the cost of
degree by the prompt action of England, have
their land, was £11,342 8s 9d. The total balance of advances practically acquiesced
in the succession of Christian'
IX. They have declared that the Treaty of 1852 und(
to allottees on land account is £28,13614s 4d, The balance , •
must be accepted as a oasis, however much it may haft
sheet shows a sale of land on the allotments of 1862-63 of
£4,287 lOs Id, and the sale of the stock on hand (being the sanction of the Diet, and however much
want . . When it . the
it may disappoint the hopes of Germans. stets
ft is arm,
land previously allotted) and by private contract wasX 11,396
recollected that for the last fifteen years the ultra-
-5s 6d, the total sale for the year being £15,683 15s 73,,.the
national party in
. Germany
. have been. looking. for-
bringing up the grand totals of the sale of land at
Michaelmas, 1863, to 1330,370 8s sd. The freehold building ward to the extinction of the Danish family, and COW
To a
promising themselves that when that event occurred wou
plots in various counties for sale amount to £77,534 is 6d.
all disputes with Denmark would be brought to an The
As regards the advances for building during the past year.
the repayments were 17,353 lOs 10d. The amount ad- end by the summary expulsion of the Danes from in tl
the two Duchies; when we reflect that men like the all
vanced for building, &c., in 1863 has been £14,316 4s,
Duke of Saxe-Coburg have thought little of such w„
bringing up the total advances for building, &c., to
- matters as rescri pts and patents, from being possessed tent
£43,165 Os 4d. The reserve fund is now £10,461 16s 10de with the idea that the Union was a thing destined to and
After providing for the interest of 5 per cent. per annum on
come shortly to an end, we may imagine how much eval
shares, and 4 per cent, per annum for deposits, the balance
the patriots feel the disappointment of the present dril
sheet shows an available balance out of which the execu -
hour. The carefully prepared protests, the sum- alto
. tive committee are enabled, as provided by the rules, to add mail. action, the appeal to the Diet, the vote of safe
to the accounts of members (in their pass-books) holding
uncompleted shares, in respect of which plots on estates that Assembly rejecting the Danish representa-
trai
tive of Holstein, the pretensions of the Augusten- pre,
- have not been taken, and for which the half-yearly interest
. burg Prince, his proclamations, and his paper money sixi
- warrants have not been issued, a bonus, or, in other words, are likely to go for naught when opposed to the of r
Interest at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum. Thus, every
I:. payment
tpAheser
regards
eenggnai
annum
register
ens r
ftt into therte tt
ee
interesthhs oycei
aert
annualyo n o
completed
ending
meeting,shares
t he3o twshares not
will
aloirfnes a
ar
n September,r
realiseed asr
shares
eaarnr
eld
2.8 6 Gent.oi3 n
n. combined action of Prussia and Austria. Count wh
Rechberg's speech is not unlike in character to that tim
of the Prussian Minister. The Count felt, or thought the
it best to assume, a kind of regret that a treaty bes
bound Austria to acquiesce in the rights of a foreign firs
y progress, paid a year in advance and upwards, for which Sovereign over German soil. Ho declared that the feel
tr the half-yearly warrants up to Lady-day and Michaelmas claim of the King depended on the fulfilment by our
are issued on the Ist of May and the let of November re-
Denmark of the conditions on which the assent of val
- spectively, the rate will remain at 5 per cent. per annum, Austria to the treaty was given. Federal Execu- adl
and at 4 per cent per annum on investments in the deposit tion would at once take place, and Austria would hia]
,ed department, under rule 45, until further notice. The ordi- march her troops as soon as the Frankfort Diet phi
a- nary quarterly meetings were duly held at the offices in gave the signal. There is nothing more than eve
B Norfolk-street, on the 31st of March, the 30th of June, and might be expected in this. But the meaning of up,
_ the 20th of October. Captain Jervis, M.P., has been elected Count Rechberg when he enters into the question wit
a member of the board. The following members of the of the succession is not so clear. He says the to ,
_
,t, executive committee retire by rotation, but are eligible for point of right is not clearly and plainly visible ; an,
E re-election, namely :-Viscount Ranelagh, Viscount that the matter needs legal investigation ; and that in/
Y.' Ingestre, M.P. ; Col. Brownlow Knox, M.P.; Captain the result must depend on a formal judicial deci- set
a-
Jervis, M.P.; T. Knox Holmes, Esq.; who offer them- sion. If he really expected that the Diet would gri
s. selves for re-election. The first allotment of estates took assume the right to dethrone the King, and to put eh
K
place on the 18th of February, of the first portion of the the pretender iu his place, he would hardly express eff
- Wanstead estate, in South Essex ; the final portion such a conformity beforehand with their decision, fit
Y 9 of the Woodbury Park estate, Tunbridge-wells, in inasmuch as the Austrian Government is aware th
rt- West Rent; ground rents at Roman-road, old that any such decision must be totally ineffectual m,
k- Ford, &e. On the Bth of July, the Stoke Road unless supported by itself and Prussia, and against m,
re: estate, Ipswich, was offered with ground rents on the this they are bound by the treaty. As the Mini- va
le- Roman Road estate, besides the Castle Hill estate, Read- star went on to speak rather disparagingly of the ou
ing, a re-allotment of which was rendered necessary owing Augustenburg claims, and seemed to deprecate sh
tie to the original site of the church having been changed. On plunging Germany into a European war simply of
N- the 27th of August, the Henwick Road estate, West Wor- that an Augustenburg might reign instead of a re
eas cestershire, was allotted. Public meetings have been held Glucksburg, we must presume that the Diet will pi
lt to explain the mode of allotting estates and the general not go to such an extreme of folly as to admit be
'-'' the An[f the Frankfort repro- hE
C. working of the society, at Ipswich, on the Bth of July, at gstenburg deput,
sentatives can q
uiet for the next few weeks pi
- which Viscount Ranelfigh was the chairman, supported by be kept q
k.L J. C. Cobbold, Esq., M.P., one of the trustees of the society,there is that matters will be ,
reason to believe
settled. Prussia and Austria have already voted it,
the Hon. and Rev. W. C. Talbot, and Capt. Jervis, MY.,
" members of the board; and at Worcester on the 17th of i.ntsitant,hseremotion for refuiirg
tto. reacen
though
August, at which Sir E. Lechmere, Bart., presided, and at Cur
theyiswere outnumbered,presentative
.for ols ein, . d
their
which Viscount Ranelagh, the Hon. and Rev. W. C. Tal. . . •
162, likely
still the expression of
opinion is to restrain the more fanatical mem- B
3.10 hot, and the Hon. Robert Bourke, attended as a deputation hers of era the Diet. In the meantime what is called
from the board. The new estates purchased for the society '-'
Lets Federal Execution will take place. There is no posi- S
during the past year were, Avenue or Bevels Mount estate,
tive danger in this, except that when an army has 11
Ls, at Southampton, Hants; the Stoke Road estate, close to the once occupied a country it is often a difficult matter N
Ipswich station ; and the Henwick Road, Worcester. An-
to get it out. At the time of the insurrection at the
ion other estate was also acquired at Ramsgate, but the agent's
beginning of the late King's reign there was such k
'a" sale thereof not being ratified by the owner, it was not con- an Execution, and, according to the Federal law, n
sidered expedient to stand on the preliminary arrangement, r
lb. there can be no doubt of the strict right of the e,
! lb. It was proposed to have allotted the Southampton estate in
German troops to enter Holstein.
How long they h
October, but owing to delays on the part of the vendors in
will remain there must depend very mach on the p
r lb. the completion of the title, the executive committee have
b state of the German temper; for, if the anti-Danish b
rl. not yet been enabled to deal with the property. The Wood-
cry continues, it is not likely the Governments will ,
lue. house mansion, with about four acres of land at the extra- •
be
strong enough to recall them for some months„
mitt' of the estate, has been sold to a public institution.
while, if the Danish concessions cause the abate- ,
7- This sale has rendered a new plan of the Wanstead estate
went of the present fever, there is no reason that :
necessary, on which excellent building sites, in large or
tore the matter should not be ended at once. We may i
small quantities, have been mapped. Owing to the eaten- also presume that the state of Europe and the re- 1
- sion of railroad enterprise in the direction of that popular presentations of this country will have the effect
in neighbourhood, a demand for the land at Wanstead has of disposing both parties to a compromise. From
the sprung up. The roads on the allotted portion of the pro- the news we have published it will be seen that i
ork- party are now completed. The Great Eastern Railway the Danish King, on his side, is taking away every ,
i the
hout Company have liberally granted privileges to the occupants excuse for the hostile action of the German Powers. 1
losest of houses erected, or to be erected, on Um society's estates at While he expresses in a proclamation his intention 1
Enfield and Tottenham, in Middlesex ; Wanstead and Col-
o the to maintain order in Holstein, although conceding
?tion cheater, in Essex; and Felixstowe and Ipswich, in Suffolk, by its due constitutional rights, the King removes the i
a ad- the issue of house tickets onvery moderate terms. These rail- great grievance of the Germans by withdrawing the
t the
way passes will no doubt be an incentive to building opera- $o al Patent of the 30th of March. By doing this
ways
Vrea- lions, in the forthcoming year, on the estates enumerated nched
the King acknowledges that his predecessortre _
'Ps. above, The Bishop of Oxford has recently laid the first upon the rights of the Diet when he thus regulated
suer-
Bir- stone of the WAY church on the Downshire-square estate, the position of Holstein independently of the cofn-
Reading. The value of the property will be enhanced, by sent of Frankfort. It would be of little use
.or
-....
the opening UP of the
of new frontages, in consequence . us to enter , again into any details of the intermin-
.
the sacral edifice in the roar, instead of in able disputes of the 1 have been
ate reign. They
uss erection of
hire-square, as originally intended. discussed over and over again in these columns,
imu, the tentrej of Downs
r the Underground Railway, and the and our readers will retain a sufficient idea of the
de of The opening trot .
votive general extension of the etropobtan lines, have already question .
when they remember that the great
TI A. ' burtall estates of the society, difficulty is to combine provincial independence
fleets, acted beneficially on the su
building,
I the and a fresh impetus to operations may with central claims-'to make a Holstein 'n with its
y the I, The • ister its legislature, its budget, and its con-
progress. min • .
-a expected, as the new railroaa:
r ease• Woodbury nexion with Germany work harmoniously with the
worn works on the Colchester estate, and the
1 ; the Danish monarchy. The Germans are always fearing
id the Park estate, Tunbridge Wells, have been complete-
re car- ' that a part of
their country will be denationalised,
being Putney Heath estate works are nearly finished ; and tender,. , eneak of the Danes an if they were the boldest
have been advertised for the works on the Henwick-road ante .._ • unscrupulous of aggressors. But the fact
estate, Worcester. It is proposed by the board to offer for and most. -k is equally afraid of losing its in-
ge, le.
is 81
allotment the second portion of the Colchester estate in the ;is that Denmae -,ith much better reason. The
spring. The executive committee have under consideration dependence, ands, s, 1 'TI would in the opinion of
Ro stet.. . ,
Post- several important properties; and, as a considerable man- claims made for
the whoi. inonarchy to the direct
sation on the estates bought during the past year may be the Danes, subject as the Holstein
Frankfort, inasmuei;
looked for, there is every promise of another successful year influence of discussing their own local
G S, for 1864, especially as a very valuable town estate has just
Estates, not content with . including
met; of d that national matters,
ay passin
been acquired for allotment. Owing to the railvi g affairs, demande
et' aresubmitted to them. Such ques-
wn on through the Kentish-town estate,a new plan has been issued, finance, should
.doubt, difficult
be
• cl. Con are no
to 14° The registration returns from nearly all the localities tions of divided
juris lc 1 , .
E el 3 fully covvincod
that urop
have been quite successful as regards the claims of allottees ~, to settle; but, uoW . ,

that further delay is dangerous, we may hope that
the relations of the Duchies to the Kingdom will be
regulated once and for ever.
POST.—The speech of Colonel M.Murdo at the
prize meeting of the 37th Middlesex comes oppor-
tunely at a moment when the country is beginning
to inquire what it has got for the money which was
so liberally voted last session. A uniform grant of
one pound per man, to be increased under certain
circumstances to thirty shillings, may represent no
very extravagant outlay from the public purse. But,
in the first place, it must be remembered that this
capitation grant is supplemental to the expense en-
tailed by the maintenance of a competent number of
inspectors, of a staff of adjutants, and of a sufficient
quota of drill instructors to allow of each detached
corps being furnished with one. Then, too, there is
the issue of arms, and of a certain amount of ammu-
nition gratis, and of an additional number of rounds
up, we will not say to a formidable item in the
easttchnosattpersicoef.
tlhneth way the sum gradually mounts
Ministeris for War, but to a figure
which may well make us carefully scrutinise the
return which we are likely to get for our expendi-
ture. By the fourteenth of the present month
all accounts will be made up, and we shall know to a '
fraction how many effectives the volunteer force
musters. Indeed, so minute are the forms which
have been issued that there will be no difficulty in
ascertaining at a glance—first, how many each corps
possesses in the shape of affiliated members, effec•
tives and non-effectives included ; secondly, how
many have qualified themselves by attendance at
drill to receive the Government grant ; and thirdly,
what proportion of the latter have passed through
the prescribed course of ball firing in addition to the
ordinary routine of attendance at position drill, or
musketry instruction, required of all effectives. The
first category may be said to include all who could
be rallied in the course of a fortnight, in the case of
actual need of their services ; the seconds epresents
the bone and sinew of the movement ; wle among
the third are generally to be found the pith and
marrow of each individual corps, the enthusiastic
among the commissioned officers, the best of the
sergeants and corporals, and the "old soldiers" of
the movement among the privates. Enough, how-
ever is already known, by those who have such
means of information at their command as Colonel
M'Murdo, to warrant their expressing a tolerably
confident opinion as to the numbers and state of
efficiency at which the whole force has arrived.
These, we are glad to learn, may be regarded as
satisfactory. The Inspector-General has every rea-
son to believe that, under the new regulations, the
force is maintaining its former strength. The pre-
dicted eventual lukewarmness of those who origi-
nally composed it has always been the bugbear of
volunteer organisation. It was asserted that, as
time went on, the ranks would be decimated by
the joint effects of satiety, of indolence, and of
matrimony, until brigades dwindled away to the
strength of single regiments, regiments to that
of companies, and companies to sections. This,
however, if we are to believe Colonel M'Murdo,
has not been the result. Nay more, in the case
of one distinguished corps, we happen to know
that any defalcations on the part of original mem-
bers have been amply made up for by the influx of
recruits, and that the battalion parades for inspec-
tion, or upon any special occasion, just as strong as
when it appeared for the first time in public at the
memorable review in Hyde-park. There is another
point, however, upon which Colonel M'Murdo's
evidence may be regarded as still more conclusive.
He has, in the course of the year, not only had full
opportunity, as Inspector-General, of scrutinising
the proficiency attained by the metropolitan
volunteers, but he has attended county musters
in Essex, Suffolk, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Lan-
cashire, Darham, Worcestershire, and elsewhere.
The result of his experience is in every way favour-
able to the working of the present system, and the
state of efficiency which has been generally attained
under it. He is " gratified to find that in
battalion, in brigade, and in divisions of brigade,
the volunteers work together efficiently, as
armed and disciplined men should do ;" in
other words, that they are doing that which the
country means and expects that they should do.
To say that they are the equals of troops of the Line
would be to flatter them at the expense of truth.
They are not, and never can be, their equals, even
in the movements of an ordinary field-day, and for
all the purposes of a campaign they have their
work still to learn. But then they were never in-
tended for it. What the nation requires is a rough-
and-ready force, costing comparatively little, but
available at a moment's notice, and sufficiently
drilled and disciplined, in the event of any sudden
attack, while the militia—the old constitutional
safeguard of the country—is being mustered and
trained. And this, if Colonel M'Murdo is right, is
precisely what we have got. The one hundred and
sixty thousand odd men who compose the effectives
of our Volunteer army are of a class and calibre
which could not be subtracted for any length of
time without serious inconvenience from the rest of
the community. But they could and would do their
best to stem the tide of an invasion, and, after the
first burst was over, to lighten the task of those pro-
fessional soldiers upon whom the main burden of
our defence must ultimately fall. They would be in-
valuable, from their local knowledge, either to an
advancing or a retreating army, They would par-
tially garrison many of our most extensive fortified
places. Above all, their presence would operate,
even in their disembodied state, as a salutary check
upon those " dangerous classes" who would seize
with avidity the occasion of any national disaster
to set the police, their hereditary enemies, at defi-
ance. The nation has a cheap bargain of the Vo-
lunteers upon such terms. As Colonel M'Murdo
sensibly observes, the acceptance of a Psrliamentary
grant does not deprive the force of its volunteer
character, for the unpaid services and time of the
officers and men are still given for the public bene-
fit. What it does do, and ought to do, is to secure
that the country gets a substantial return for the
money which has been already spent upon the
movement. If the professional inspection of the
various corps is honestly and thoroughly carried
out it is next to impossible that the public money
should be squandered. Col. M'Murdo is evidently
of opinion that it is not so, and that every year
renders the volunteer force more efficient for the
purposes for which it was originally designed. We
believe that his views are shared by others who
have had the opportunity of watching its rise and
progress, and that, with due vigilance, there is no
prospect of any falling off either in its numbers or
• I its efficiency.
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EXETER HALL.—The Christmas performance o
Handel's Oratorio, " The Messiah," will be given by the
National Choral Society on Wednesday, the 16th. Mr.
Sims Reeves and Mr. Santley are already engaged. The
band and chorus will dumber 700 performers. Conductor,
Mr. G. W. Martin. Organist, Mr John O. Boardman.
Tun PYRAMID TOMB OF CARTS CESTICUS, so well
known to all visitors to Rome, has recently been
restored, by order of the Pontifical Government, Some ex-
cavations made in a cemetery near San Sebastian° resulted
in the discovery of many symbols and inecriptio which
proved it to have pertained to the Jews of Rome. The
ns
burial place was in the form of a long gallery on one level,
not, as with the ordinary Catacombs, on different floors, one
above another. In the sides of this gallery the graves Were
placed in tiers. Some doubts were raised, and may be still
entertained, as to the Hebrew
.character of these interments,
from the fact that no inscriptions were feund in the lan-
guage of that nation, but all appears. in Greek or Latin.
lemon-fruit, birds,
th cow and calf, grel
Even the seven-branched candlestick is no decisive sign of
palm,nhoernsaraessdul.ethkeens,
which appear to have been found. The cylinder, probably
indicating the Book of the Law, the oil-jar, the ark within
the circlet, and, above all, the inscription dirchi-synage9us)
which occurs more than once, are tolerably sure evidences
baskets Hebrewoforigin,
fruit,
of the Jewish origin of the tombs. In this cemetery were
found two vaulted chambers, painted with a VictcrY' with
palm and crown, winged, and bestowing a reward
.on a
youth who kneels at her feet ; a fewoe figure bearing a
cornucopia ; the genii of the seasons ; Pegasus ; the pea-
cock ; and other symbols, which would seem to indicate the
accidental juxtaposition of a rag= i place of interment with
that of the Jews.—Athenceum.
CAPTURE OF A BURGLAR BY A PUBLICAN'S
DAUGHTER.—COURAGEOUS CONDUCT.—About half
past ten on Saturday night, the daughter of Mr. Samuel
Brown, landlord of the Cross K eys, Hunslet-lane, when
attending to her ordinary duties, fancied she heard some-
thing upstairs. Without speaking to any one she went up
to one of the bed-rooms, and there found two men, who
had just been ransacking the drawers. She boldly seized
one of them, and he called out to his companion, who made
an unsuccessful attempt to rescue. lle pulled him a por-
tion of the way down stairs, but the young woman gallantly
held him by the hair of the Lead until assistance came,
The other man got away, carrying with him about £8 in
silver. ,The man apprehended, whose name is James Wal-
lace, no doubt a travelling thief, though describing himself
as a "French polisher, Bradford," had in his possession a
complete set of very superior skeleton keys, a dark pocket-
lantern, picklocks, and other housebreaking implements.
He had also in his pocket, and which he had taken from
the. drawers, £5O in money, and a gold locket, brooch, and
a ring, worth £lo,—Leeds Atercury,