The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-08 00:00:00

CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.

The quarterly meeting was held this day at the offices in
Norfolk-street, Strand—Viscount Ranelagh in the chair.
The Secretary (Mr. Gruneisen) read the advertisement
convening the meeting.

Viscount RANELAGH then read the following report :
"In submitting the this ty-ninth quarterly report, it is
with satisfaction that the executive committee can draw
the attention of the shareholders of the Conservative Land
Society to the annexed gratifying returns for the first nine
months of the current financial year, which will end on the
30th of September next

Shares
Shares Total
I
Quarters ending in Receipts.
Complete Shares
progres.
Dec. 24,1861 202 41 243 £13,529 1 4
March 25,1862 lO3 26 129 17,821 17 11
June 24,1862
431 127 558 98,377 11 4
Totals to Se t. 30 '6l, 13,766 3,780 17,546 561,588 10 9
Grand totals toI
Midsummer, 1862.114,197 . 3,907 18,104 609,966 2 1

" The receipts for the current three quarters of 1862,
compared with the corresponding nine months of the last
year, show an increase of £622 Bs. ld., and both in com-
pleted shares, and shares in progress, the Midsummer shows
a larger number than the Lady .day quarter.

The total sale of land to Midsummer, 1862, X

amounts to
Being an increase over the returns to Mid-
summer,
1861, of
The total withdrawals since the formation

of the society (Sept., 1852), to Midsum-
mer, 1862, are 175,103 8 8
" The returns of the Register of the Order of Rights are
as follow :

Completed. Drawn. Seniority. Total.
4,689 3,158 1,661 9,508
Deduct rights exercised on estates, &o. . 7,198

Unexercised Rights

. . 2,310

"The last Share Number on the Register by Seniority,
is No. 13,614, and the last share issued up to the 24th of
June 1862, was No. 18,104.

" The advantages accruing to holders of rights of choice
were never more strongly manifested than at the allotment
which took place on the 30th of April last; valuable ground
rents on the Roman Road (North Bow) and Battersea
estates, besides freehold houses on the Round Hill
Crescent, Brighton, were offered for sale, and building
land on the fourth portion of the Brighton estate, at the
end of Richmond and Princes-roads, with an additional
quantity of large plots on the Roehampton Park Estate.
The executive committee may also remark, as to this
allotment, that the Conservative Land Society is now
in a position, from its continued success, to afford
investors opportunities of acquiring land in large
or small quantities, or ground rents and houses, with a
greater variety of selection every year in different counties.
" As regards Roehampton, the works are in progress for
the completion of Alton and Bessborough Roads, and
throwing open to buyers of land on that estate commanding
views of Richmond Park, and the Surrey Hills. Impressed
with the excellence of the sites, special care has been taken
to secure the erection of first class villas, with a sufficiency
of land for garden, so that the mansion and park, as well as
the neighbourhood, have not deteriorated by the increase
of building. The executive committee have the pleasure
likewise to announce that an additional frontage to Roe-
hampton-lane has been acquired for the Putney-heath
estate, and the removal of the Squatters'-cottages in its
vicinity will materially improve not only that property, but
also the Roehampton estate. The new frontage will be
soon offered for sale.

" The works on the second Tunbridge. wells estate, the
Northgate and Beacon-hill estates at Newark, and the
Park estate at Weymouth are actively carried on by the
contractors.

" Since the last report, two most eligible estates
have been purchased in the northern and southern divi-
sions of Essex. The first property is just out of the town
of Colchester, at the south side, on the roads to Mersea and
Berechurch. The erection of additional barracks at Col-
chester will cause a demand for houses, independently of
the development which may be expected when the new
railway by the Stour Valley branch railroad of the Eastern
Union has its station near St. Botolph's church. The se-
cond South Essex property is the well-known Woodhouse
estate, Wanstead, late the residence of Money Wigram,
Esq., and in a most healthy situation on the borders of
Epping Forest, with a frontage to Wanstead Heath, and
railroad communication within a short distance of the three
stations at Forest Gate, Stratford, and Low Leyton, Wood-
house being within seven miles of St. Paul's, the property
is a valuable acquisition for the society on the north-
eastern side of the metropolis. It is intended to sell or let
the residence, with a suitable quantity of the well wooded
park, leaving the remainder of the land for division in large
or small plots, according to the building frontages, which
are excellent.

" Purchasers of land on the society's estate are reminded
that the 20th of July is the last day for sending in claims
for county votes. The allottees who have not yet been
registered .will be pleased to duly forward to the solicitor,
at the offices of the society, in Norfolk-street, the necessary
deeds, to enable him to sustain their claims before the Re-
vising Barristers. Any alteration in residence or qualifica•
tion should be intimated at once; and holders of plots of
land living at a distance from the county in which the pro-
perty is situated, should name the polling district at which
it would be most convenient for them to vote, so that the
claims, when entered at the specified polling places, may be
duly made. The allottees are at no expense for this regis-
tration, as the society bears the entire charge. The share-
holders may be assured that their electoral privileges are as
carefully attended to as their financial interests, by the exe-
cutive committee."

A LADY KILLED IN THE STRAND.—This morn-
ing, a frightful occurrence took place in the Strand, arising
from the reckless speed at which the public cabs are now
dziven through the streets of the metropolis, to a fashion-
ably-attired female, who was in the act of crossing that
thoroughfare between Coutts' Bank and Bedford-street)
when a Hansom cab (No. 4,020) came along ata rapid rate.
She was knocked down by the horse, and the wheels of the
vehicle passed over her. She was picked up by Police.
constable 89 X, and conveyed without loss of time to the
Charing-cross Hospital, where, on examination by the
surgeons, she was found to be quite dead. 'The driver of
the cab was taken to the Bow-street Police-office, where he
entered into the required sureties to meet any charge that
might be preferred against him. Some documents were
found on the unfortunate lady's person, in the name of Mrs.
Jane Langton, a return ticket from Charlton, and the ad-
dress, 2, Crescent-villas, Park-crescent, Clapham.
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