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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 Winstanley,
the four auditors verified the vouchers and banks on the
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 grand totals since the commencement of the Conserva-
tive Lauri Society, in September, 1852, are shown in the
annexed table :

Qrs. ending Shares in Shares Total
progress. Complete. Shares. Receipts.
£ s. d.
Dec. 24, 1862 136 67 203 15,946 15 2
March 25, 1863 2OB 24 232 15,03 19 11
June 24, 1863 255 91 346 20,697 2 0
Sept. 30, 1863 178 67 245 23,496 8 4
Totals for the
year 1862-1863 777 249 1,026 75,754 5 5
Totals to Sept
30,1862 14,760 3,925 18,685 625,392 13 2
Grand totals to
Michaelmas,'63 15,537 4,174 19,711 701,116 18 7

e year
-ear of

The increase in the receipts of the
1862-3 over the corresponding
1861-2 is
being one of the largest cash receipts
since the formation of the society.
The total withdrawals since the formation
of the society (Sept., 1852), to Michael-
mas, 1863,.are £205,883 8 0

The returns of the register of the order of rights are as
follow :

Completed. Drawn. Seniority. Total.
5,061 3,191 1,681 9,933
Deduct rights exercised on estates, &c, .... 7,501

Unexercised rights

The last share number on the register by seniority is No.
13,853, and the last share issued up to the 50th September,
1863, was No. 19,711.
The members, on reference to the balance sheet, will see
that the subscriptions on shares during the year 1862-63
amounted to £27,193 4s 9d, and that the cash received in
the deposit department was £21,190 16s Bd. The with-
drawals on shares were £12,722 Os Bd, and on deposits
£13,610 19s ld. The total amount of subscriptions on
shares in the society was £123,592 2s lld up to the 30th of
September, 1863. The total amount of investments in the
deposit department at the close of the financial year was
£24,995 les 11d. During the past year the sum of £5,150
12s 10d was withdrawn from the share account to pay for
plots of land. The repayments of loans on land amounted
to £13,946 19s 10d. The amount advanced for the same
year to allottees, borrowing seven-eighths of the cost of
their land, was £11,342 8s 9d, The total balance of advances
to allottees on land account is £28,136 14s 4d, The balance
sheet shows a sale of land on the allotments of 1862-63 of
£4,287 lOs ld, and the sale of the stock on hand (being
land previously allotted) and by private contract wa5£11,396
5s 6d, the total sale for the year being £15,683 15s 7d,
bringing up the grand totals of the sale of land at
Michaelmas, 1863, to £330,370 8s sd. The freehold building
plots in various counties for sale amouht to £77,534 is 6d.
As regards the advances for building during the past year.
the repayments were £7,353 lOs 10d. The amount ad-
vanced for building, &c., in 1863 has been £14,316 48,
bringing up the total advances for building, &c., to
£43,165 Os 4d. The reserve fund is now £10,461 16s 10d.
After providing for the interest of 5 per cent. per annum on
shares, and 4 per cent. per annum for deposits, the balance
sheet shows an available balance out of which the execu-
tive committee are enabled, as provided by the rules, to add
to the accounts of members (in their pass-books) holding
uncompleted shares, in respect of which plots on estates
have not been taken, and for which the half-yearly interest
warrants have not been issued, a bonus, or, in other words,
Interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. 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 for the year ending the 30th of September, 1863.
As regards the interest on completed shares and shares in
progress, paid a year in 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-
spectively, 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 31st of March, the 30th of June, and
the 20th of October. Captain Jervis, M.P., has been elected
a member of the board. The following members of the
executive committee retire by rotation, but are eligible for
re-election, namely :—Viscount Rauelagh, Viscount
Ingestre, M.P. ; Col. Brownlow Knox, M.P.; Captain
Jervis, M.P. ; T. Knox Holmes, Lq. ; who offer them-
selves for re-election. The first allotment of estates took
place on the 18th of February, of the first portion of the
Wanstead estate, in South Essex ; the final portion
of the Woodbury Park estate, Tunbridge-wells, in
West R ent ; ground rents at Roman-road, Old
Ford, &c. On the Bth of July, the Stoke 'Road
estate, Ipswich, was offered with ground rents on the
Roman Road estate, besides the Castle Hill estate, Read-
ing, a re-allotment of which was rendered necessary owing
to the original site of the church having been changed. On
the 27th of August, the Renwick Road estate, West Wor-
cestershire, was allotted. Public meetings have been held
to explain the mode of allotting estates, and the general
working of the society, at Ipswich, on the Bth of July, at
which Viscount Ranelagh was the chairman, supported by
J. C. Cobbold, Esq., M.P., one of the trustees of the society,
the Hon. and Rev. W. C. Talbot, and Capt. Jervis, M.P.,
members of the board ; and at Worcester on the 17th of
August, at which Sir E. Lechmere, Bart., presided, and at
which Viscount Ranelagh, the Hon. and Rev. W. C. Tal.
bot, and the Hon. Robert Bourke, attended as a deputation
from the board. The new estates purchased for the society
during the past year were, Avenue or Bevois Mount estate,
at Southampton, Hants; the Stoke Road estate, close to the
Ipswich station; and the Henwick Road, Worcester. An-
other estate was also acquired at Ramsgate, but the agent's
sale thereof not being ratified by the owner, it was not con-
sidered expedient to Baena on the preliminary arrangement,
It was proposed to have allotted the Southampton estate in
October, but owing to delays on the part of the vendors in
the completion of the title, the executive committee have
not yet been enabled to deal with the property. The Wood-
house mansion, with about four acres of land at the extre-
mity of the estate, has been sold to a public institution.
This sale has rendered a new plan of the Wanstead estate
necessary, on which excellent building sites, in large or
small quantities, have been mapped. Owing to the exten-
sion of railroad enterprise in the direction of that popular
neighbourhood, a demand for the land at Wanstead has
sprung up. The roads on the allotted portion of the pro-
perty are now completed. The Great Eastern Railway
Company have liberally granted privileges to the occupants
of houses erected, or to be erected, on the society's estates at
Enfield and Tottenham, in Middlesex; Wanstead and Col-
chester, inEssex; and Felixstowe and Ipswich, in Suffolk, by
the issue of house tickets on very moderate terms. These reli-
eve), passes will no doubt be an incentive to building opera-
tions, in the forthcoming year, on the estates enumerated
above. Tho Bishop of Oxford has recently laid the first
stone of the new church on the Downshire-square estate,
Reading. The value of the property will be enhanced, by
the opening up of new frontages, in consequence of the
erection of the sacred edifice in the rear, instead of in
the centre, of Downshire.square, as originally intended.
The opening of the Underground Railway, and the
general extension of the metropolitan lines, have already
acted beneficially on the suburban estates of the society,
and a fresh impetus to building operations may
be expected, as the new railroads progress. The
works on the Colchester estate, and the Woodbury
Parkkstate, Tunbridge Wells, have been completed ; the
Putney Heath estate works are neatly finished ; and tenders
have been advertised for the works on the Henwick-road
estate, Worcester. It is proposed by the board to offer for
allotment the second portion of the Colchester estate in the
spring. The executive committee have under consideration
several important properties; and, as a considerable reali-
sation on the estates bought during the past year may be
looked for, there is every promise of another successful year
for 1864, especially as a very valuable town estate has just
been acouired for allotment, Owing to the railway passing
through the Kentish-town estate,a new plan has been issued.
The registration returns from nearly all the localities
have been quite successful as regards the claims of allottees

who have purchased land from the society. In Brighton,
the revising barristerLdespite of the overwhelming evi-
dence of increased development and value of the Road Ilill-
park estate, evidence which he totally disregarded—adhered
to his original decision, notwithstanding that other claims
auslo:,ous 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 communi•y 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
which has hitherto proved so satisfactory to the share-
holders.

(Signed)

RANELAGII, Chairman.

(Countersigned) CHA RES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, See.
Offices of the Conservative Land Society,
33, Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C.
London, Dec. 8, 186

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TlMES.—Should the chief States interested in the
question of the Danish Succession continue to act
with prudence and moderation, there is reason to
hope that the dangers of the present crisis will pass
away. It would, indeed, be a reproach to modern
statesmanship, and to the good sense of nations,
if so artificial a dispute were to end in war. At a
time when the whole European system is threatened
with disruption, when the ambition of one man or
people, the restlessness of great armies, and the
vague aspirations of democratic masses and their
leaders may at any time efface the frontiers which
have been held sacred for fifty years, it would be a
scandal beyond example if the two Powers which
are most interested in the peace of Central Europe
should make a beginning of strife on strictly legi-
timist grounds, and in opposition to their own
recorded promises. Wars come often enough,
even when they are entered into only on
strict necessity. The conflicts of interest, the
irremovable misunderstandings, the struggles for
geographical positions, which are often struggles
for existence, are quite enough to keep the world
in disquiet, without crusades in favour of petty
Princes and doubtful hereditary claims. Both the
Prussian and Austrian Governments seem now to
be convinced that justice and prudence require a,
moderate policy. No little firmness has been re-
quired from them to uphold even a modified respect
for the Treaty of 1852. M. von Bismark and Count
Rechberg have both explained the policy of their
Governments to murmuring Assemblies. At Berlin
a hostile vote, going to the extreme of deposing
the Dauish King in Schleswig as well as Holstein,
was recorded against the Government by an
immense majority, and in Vienna the cautious
and variously composed Reichsrath might easily
be brought to a similar expression of opinion.
But with all this the two Governments, unwil-
ling to add another element • of disturbance
to Europe, and influenced, perhaps, to a high
degree by the prompt action of England, have
practically acquiesced in the succession of Christian
IX. They'have declared that the Treaty of 1852
must be accepted as a basis, however much it may
want the sanction of the Diet, and however much
it may disappoint the hopes of Germans. When it is
recollected that for the last fifteen years the ultra-
national party in Germany have been looking for-
ward to the extinction of the Danish family, and
promising themselves that when that event occurred
all disputes with Denmark would be brought to an
end by the summary expulsion of the Danes from

the two Duchies; when we reflect that men like the
Duke of Saxe-Coburg have thought little of such
matters as rescripts and patents, from being possessed
with the idea that the Union was a thing destined to
come shortly to an end, we may imagine how much
the patriots feel the disappointment of the present
hour. The carefully prepared protests, the sum-
mary action, the appeal to the Diet, the vote of
that Assembly rejecting the Danish representa-
tive of Holstein, the pretensions of the Augusten-
burg Prince, his proclamations, and his paper money
are likely to go for nanght when opposed to the
combined action of PrusAia and Austria. Count
Rechberg's speech is not unlike in character to that
of the Prussian Minister. The Count felt, or thought
it best to assume, a kind of regret that a treaty
bound Austria to acquiesce in the rights of a foreign
Sovereign over German soil. Ho declared that the
claim of the King depended on the fulfilment by
Denmark of the conditions on which the assent of
Austria to the treaty was given, Federal Execu-
tion would at once take place, and Austria would
march her troops as soon as the Frankfort Diet
gave the signal. There is nothing more than
might be expected in this. But the meaning of
Count Rechberg when he enters into the question
of the succession is not so clear. He says the
point of right is not clearly and plainly visible ;
that the matter needs legal investigation • and that
the result must depend on a formal judicial deci-
sion. If he really expected 010 the Diet would
assume the right to dethrone the King, and to put
the pretender in his place, he would hardly express
such a conformity beforehand with their decision,
inasmuch as the Austrian Government is aware
that any such decision must be totally ineffectual
unless supported by itself and Prussia, and against
this they are bound by the treaty. As the Mini-
ster went on to speak rather disparagingly of the
plungingAu
Germanyrg e l claims, mi s and
o, t
oa Esuereomp
ee d a to deprecate n
war
ar
simply
that an Augustenburg
might reign instead of a
Glucksburg, we must presume that the Diet will
not go to such an extreme of folly as to admit
the Augstenburg deputy, Ef the Frankfort repre-
sentatives can be kept quiet for the next few weeks
there is reason to believe that matters will be
settled. Prussia and Austria have already voted
against the motion for refusing to receive King
Cnristian's representative for
mtoberreesdtriasitnillthe more fanatical mem-
tHheoelsxtepirne,ssainodh,
ofth their
In the meantime what is called
place. There is no posi-
otEh they
Federal
ei
owro
afnelriEes
the
x°l iDuel ect
ulleltyut
ion
will
take
tive danger in this, except that when an army has
once occupied a country it is often a difficult matter
to get it out. At the time of the insurrection at the
beginning of the late King's reign there was such
an Execution, and, according to the Federal law,
very much on the
there can be no doubt of the strict right of the
German troops to enter Holstein. How long they
will
stateof remainthe
German
the anti-Danish
cry continues, it is not likely the Governments will
be strong enough to recall them for some months,
theremust
temper; depend
for,
r if
while, if the Danish concessions cause
the abate
ment of the present fever, there is no reason that
the matter should not be ended at once. We may
also presume that the state of Europe.anu the re-
presentations of this country will have
the effect
of disposing both parties to a compromise.
aPyo powers.
From
the news we have published it will be seen that
thex Danish
foisr.
every
ea
While he expresses in a proclemation his intention
excuse
hthe King,
hostileon his
action side, id 3
o'f s
to maintain order in Holstein, although conceding
the taping
e German vu
its due .constitutional rights, the King removes the
great grievance of the Germans by withdrawing the
Royal Patent of the 30th of March. By doing this
the King acknowledges that his predecessortrenched
upon the rights of the Diet when he thus regulated
the position of Holstein independently of the con-
sent of Frankfort. It would be of little use for
us to enter again into any details of the intermin-
able disputes of the late reign. They have been
discussed over and over again in these columns,
and our readers will retain a sufficient idea of the
question when they remember that the great
difficulty is to combine provincial independence
with central claims—to make a Holstein with its
minister, its legislature, its budget, and its con-
nexion with Germany work harmoniously with the
Danish monarchy. The Germans are always fearing
that a part of their country will be denationalised,
and speak of the Danes as if they Were the boldest
and most unscrupulous of aggressors. But the fact
is that Denmark is equally afraid of losing its in-
dependence, and with much better reason. The
claims made for Holstein would, in the opinion of
the Danes, subject the whole monarchy to the direct
influence of Frankfort, inasmuch as the Holstein
Estates, not content with discussing their own local
affairs, demanded that national matters, including
finance, should be submitted to them. Such ques-
tions of divided jurisdiction are, no doubt, difficult
I to settle; but, now that Europe is fully couYinced

that further dcloy
is dangerous, we may hope tbst
the relations of the Duchies to the Kingdom will be
regulated once and for ever.
PosT.—The speech of
Colonel M Murdo at the
tpur
ti
izesi
yata
meeting
momento rh ow tnh t
heMiddlesex
country
is b
conies
e g
npnr
ion rg-
a,
to inquire want it has got for the morley which was
so liberally voted 1 tst session. A nniforas grant of
one
pound per man, to be increased under certain
circumstances
represent no
v
tfodurttiyayshfriollmintgisle,
publicmy 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
rrey extravagantstarie to
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
'it cost price. In this way the sum gradually mounts
up, we will not say to a formidable item in the
estimates of the Minister for War, but to a figure
which may well make us carefully scrutinise the
return which we are likely to get fors 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 cre 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 second represents
the bone and sinew of the movement; while 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, Durham, 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 :ocal knowledge, either to an
advancing or a retreating army, They would par-
tially garrison many of our most extensive fortified
P• laces 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 Parliamentary
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
its efficiency.

EXETER HALL.—The Christmas performance of
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 number 700 performers. Conductor,
Mr. G. W. Martin. Organist, Mr John Gr. Boardman.

THE PYRAMID TOMB OF CAIUS 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 inscriptions which
proved it to have pertained to the Jews of Rome. The
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 found in the lan-
guage of that nation, but all appears in Greek or Latin.
Even the seven-branched candlestick is no decisive sign of
Hebrew origin, nor are such the palm, lemon-fruit, birds,
baskets of fruit, hens and chickens, the cow and calf, Bco.,
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 Archz-synagobrusr
which occurs more than once, are tolerably sure evidences
of the Jewish origin of the tombs. In this cemetery werewit.
found two vaulted chambers, painted with a Victory,
on
palm and crown, winged, and bestowing a
youth who kneels at her feet; the pea-
cornucopia ; the genii of the seasons ;
Pegg's:l:indicate the
a female figure bearing
a
cock ; and other symbols, which would sector.
accidental juxtaposition of a Pagan place interment with
that of the Jews.—..6lthenteunt.
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 ey Hunslet-lane, when
attending to her ordinary duties, fancied she heard someen- •
thing upstairs. Without speaking to any one she went up
to one of the bed-rooms, and there found two men, who
had i'tie, been ransacking the drawers. She boldly seized
one of them, and he called out to his companion, who made
an unsuccessful attempt to rescue. He pulled him a por-
tion of the way downstairs, 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 a 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,—Loas Mercury,