The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-10 00:00:00

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CSohmaaes
Qrs. ending te jaorteasl. Receipts.
Sphroae
£ s. d.
Dec. 24,1864 262 15 277 19,229 9 8
March 25, 1885 297 60 357 16,249 5 0
June 24, 1865 219 64 493 18,352 18 8
Sept. LO, 1865 515 55 570 26,428 8 9
Totals for the
year ending 30
Sept., 1865 1,503 194 1,697 80,260 2 1
Totals to Sept
30, 1864 16,723 4,5C5 21,223 782,389 13 10
Grand totals to
Michaelmas, 165 18,226 4,699 22,925 ,862,'49 15 11

The Reserve Fund to Michaelmas amounts

to ... £11,471 6 4
The total sale of land to Michaelmas, 1865,
is ~. ...£415,550 16 4
The total withdrawals since the formation
of the society (Sept. 7, 1852) to Michael-
mas, 1865, aro ... £256,906 14 4
The returns of the register of rights are as follows:
Completed. Drawn. Seniority. Total.
5,743 3,305 1,758 10,806
Deduct rights unexorcisod on estates, 8,154
Unexercisod rights 2,652

Tho last share number on the register of seniority (date
of membership) is No. 14,813.

The last share issued up to Michaelmas, 1865, is No.
22,925.

The balance-sheet for 1864-65 and the annual report of
the executive committee will be presented at the usual
yearly meeting, to be held at Exeter Hall, on Tuesday, the
sth of December.

The candidates for the two auditors to be elected by the
shareholders at this quarterly meeting, advertised under
rule 30, are—Mr. W. A. Clemow and Mr. James Goad.
The Rev. William George Goodchild had also given notice
of his intention to become a candidate, but subsequently
withdrew his name, owing to his departure from this coun-
try for two years. On his return, he will again solicit the
suffrage of the shareholders. Tho committee have re-
elected W. Copeland Astbury, Esq., and Newnham Win-
stanley, Esq., as their two auditors. After this day's nomi-
nation by the shareholders, the accounts of the past year
will be examined and audited in due course.

The executive committee have the pleasure to report
that two eligible estates have been just acquired for the
society, viz., a property in Stafford, in South Stafford..
shire, and another at Hereford, in Herefordshire, both
being essentially building land, within a short distance of
important railway stations.
The third allotment of the Woodhouse estate, at Wan-
stead, took place on the 19th of July last ; and such has
been the rapid demand for plots on this suburban property,
that the entire estate, including the mansion, is now dis-
posed of, and many buyers of the land from the society
have realised considerable premiums on their investments.
Plots on the Sandown estate, Isle of Wight, as might
have been expected from such a rising place, have also
been in such request that but two plots remain unsold.
The Plough J4ano Estate, Battersea, has been closed, the
whole of the plots having been sold, and building opera-
tions thereon aro going on with activity. Many of the
purchasers have obtained either good ground-rents or have
re-sold at a profit. _

The Fourth Putney Estate, close to the station, will be
allotted on Friday, October 27. The value of this eligible
property has been increased by an arrangemennt securing
an additional right of way into Wandsworth-lane through
College-street, situate on the society's second purchase in
Putney. The approaches to both estates will be consider-
ably improved by the new roads.
The allotment of the St. Austell Estate, Cornwall, and
the New Ferry Estate, Cheshire (opposite Liverpool), will
bo proceeded with as soon as the purchases have been
completed, the titles having been approved by counsel.
The claims of the allotteos for the freehold franchise in
the several counties in which the society has obtained
land, have been supported, free of expense, by the
solicitor.

The Executive Committee beg to draw attention to the
late general election, to show the influence exercised by
land societies, especially in the home counties, owing to
the increasing tendency of the metropolitan population to
reside in suburban districts, or in more distant localities,
where railroad facilities bring mon of business to their
occupation with such rapidity. Conservatives wishing to
qualify themselves for the 26 counties in which the society
has purchased 60 estates, can secure for themselves, at the
same time, a good intestmeut.

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The Conservative Land Society is now in its fourteenth
year—the encouraging prospects of which it is gratifying
for the committee to announce to the shareholders.
(Signed) RA.NELAoI, Chairman.
LEWIS,GnEisEN, sec.
Office of the Conservative Land Society,
33, Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C.,
London, October 10, 1865.
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(Countersigned) CHARLES
The two auditors having been duly elected, thanks were
voted to the executive committee, and the meeting separated.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.--The Rev. Robt.
Sparke Hutchings, M.A., perpetual curate of Monkton
Wyld, Dosset, has been presented and instituted by the
Lord Bishop of Salisbury to the vicarage of Alderbury,
near Salisbury, with the chapels of Pitton and Farley, vice
the Rev. Newton Smart. His lordship has appointed the
Rev. Edward Luard, rector of Winterslow, Wilts, and the
Rev. Francis Goddard, vicar of Hillmarton, Wilts, to be
rural deans, in the room of the Rev. M. Smart and the
Rev. H. IL Fletcher; and licensed the Rev. James Henry
Ghownes, M.A., to the curacy of Notherbury, in the county
of Dorset.

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the instruction to be derived from the display of objects
of art. As the exhibition is set on foot principally for the
working classes, the now superadded entertainments are
at eminently popular pries, and the result is that the vast
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begin dialoguesatal.; heard. The afternoon performances
are resumed again at seven, the earlier
being permitted to remain throughout the oven-
audiences
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ing to inspect the various productions and visit the pic-
ture gallery. It is certainly a bold experiment to give the
masses a cheap entertainment. The admission to the fetes
is 3d. only and the stalls Gd. On the occasion of our visit
on Saturday afternoon we found the stalls occupied by a
highly-respectable class of persons. There was also a large
sprinll:l„, kl' ir of children, a family of whom can be admitted
for a sum not exceeding what an individual would have to
pay at other places of amusement. In the evening the
attendance was enormous. Islington seemed to have
drained itself of its population. But the immense crowd,
which completely filled the building, although of a motley
class, on account of the extreme lowness of the admis-
sion money, was perfectly orderly. We were informed that
no cases cf damage to the works exhibited have occurred.
Police, of course, are scattered over the building, just as
they are at other crowded entertainments, but their inter-
ference is not required. It would seem, indeed, that the
people are anxious to testify by their orderly conduct to the
boon of an entertainment brought thoroughly within their
means. The committee are now to some extent reimburs-
ing themselves for the losses they have sustained during
the earlier period that the exhibition has been open. The
hall will be required for the cattle show in December.
Whether the present series of fetes will be the forerunners
of other entertainments on the sante plan we do not know,
but there can be no question that the experiment of a popu-
lar entertainment at prices within the reach of the hum-
blest classes is quite successful.