The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBIWARY 4, 1865.

Metropolitan Board of Works.

This board held its usual weekly meeting yester-
day at the offices in Spring-gardens. The President,
J. Thwaites, Esq., took the chair at 12 o'clock.

;DUNCE.

The cash statement for the current week shows a
total general balance of £719,137 Os. 10d.

STATE OF TEE METROPOLITAN ROADS.

The Board received a deputation from the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, to present
a memorial on the subject of forming and repairing
the roads of the metropolis. The memorialists par-
ticularly specified the sufferings which cattle had to
endure from passipg over the roads where the gra-
nite was loose.

The PRESIDENT informed the deputation that this
was a matter over which the Board, at present, had
no jurisdiction.

The deputation then withdrew.
THE WIMBLEDON PARK BILL.

Mr. DOULTON, M.P., called attention to the Wim-
bledon-park Bill, and moved that the Bill should be
referred to the Streets Committee for consideration
and report. He said he took this step in order that
the members of the Board might make themselves
acquainted with the contents of this Bill ; but if he
had adopted his own views he should have moved a
resolution entirely condemning the measure brought
forward under this title. It might be said that this
Bill affected a district in which the Board had no
jurisdiction, as Wimbledon-common was outside the
metropolitan area ; but this was not altogether cor-
rect, as a portion of the common was in Wands-
worth, and so was in the jurisdiction of the Board.
Supposing, however, that the whole of the common
was outside the area under the Board's jurisdiction,
the common had been of special advantage to the
metropolis in giving an open space where the
people could have recreation and healthful enjoy-
ment; and on that ground alone it would
be advisable for the Board to consider the ques-
tion. (Hear.) Among the many duties of the
Board it had to form parks ; and it would have to
pay something like £50,000 for Finsbury-park, and
a like sum for a Southwark Park; and when these
two parks were formed he ventured to say no more
parks would be needed for the metropolis, as, in
addition to these two, there would be Battersea
Park, Regent's Park, St. James's Park, and Vic-
toria Park. The Board's attention ought, then, to
be turned to the preservation of the natural parks—
the open spaces round the metropolis ; and powers
should be sought for placing those open spaces
under the jurisdiction of the Board, or of some other
body, for the use and enjoyment of the public.
(Hear, hear.) The object of the Wimbledon-com-
mon bill was, he should show, to give powers for the
enclosure of Wimbledon-common ; to sanction part
of the common being built upon, and to form the
portion which remained into a fashionable park like
St. James's, where certainly the inhabitants could
walk, but not where they were able to enjoy them-
selves with the freedom which they now possessed
on the open spaces. The preamble of the bill showed
that this was the intention, for it said, " Wimble-
dom-common is the resort of numerous gipsies and
other wanderers, whence nuisances and annoyances
result, and so large a tract of land open and unpro-
tected in the neighbourhood of London is liable to
other annoyances and abuses." He took exception
to this, and held that the common was not liable to
annoyances and abuses. The third clause proposed
to give power for driv6 to be made, trees planted,
lakes and ponds to be formed, and, in fact, to form
the common into a fashionable park, and it was pro-
posed to place over it a " protector"—a term he did
liked
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tary. This " purpose of practical utility" doubtless
referred to the volunteer gatherings on the common,
and he would take occasion to say that he fully ap-
preciated all that Earl Spencer had done for the
volunteer movement, and the noble earl had done a
very great deal for that patriotic organisation ; but
this fact must be looked at—that it would be com-
petent for Earl Spencer to retract his permission to
the volunteers to have the use of the common, and
no one had power over him if he did so ; or the next
Earl Spencer might not have the same views as the
present noble earl, and might put into force all the
exclusive powers which the bill proposed to give
him ; or the noble earl might sell his rights in the
park when formed ; and as the protectorship would
go with the purchase, the use of the park by the
public could be stopped altogether by the purchaser.
The fifth clause gave power to the protector to close
the park and claim money for entrance, which no
doubt related to the National Rifle Association
meetings there, and then went on to say, " but the
park shall not be used for the purposes of political
meetings, nor for open-air preaching, nor for any
meetings of clubs or benefit societies." This last
exclusion he could only characterise as snobbish.
The clause further gave the protector power to
" permit the park to be used for all such games and
pastimes, and at such times and in such places, and
under such conditions and restrictions as he shall
think proper ;" and he was to have power to make
by-laws for the government of the park—by-laws
which he was to be able to put into force without
any intervening power, and to repeal when he
thought proper ; and he might under the bill sanc-
tion a proceeding one day and countermand that
sanction the next clay.
Another proposal of the bill
' was that the protector should be empowered to build
a mansion on the most beautiful part of the com-
mon—namely, that part known as the " Windmill-
side," and he was to appropriate two acres of the sur-
rounding land as pleasure grounds to his mansion.
It was, under the provisions of the bill, quite
competent for Earl
Spencer to say to the public,
" You cannot enter the park only at certain periods
of the day," and he might enclose any portion of it
for his own pleasure. There was a notion abroad
that Earl Spencer was giving up a great deal in
offering to deal with the common in the manner in
which by this Bill it was proposed to deal with it.
But this was not so. If it was assumed that Earl
Spencer had power to build over the common he
would be giving up a great deal by the passing of
this Bill ; but he had no such power, He had rights
to sell the gravel, and he had pasturage rights; and
this Bill not only proposed to give him these, but it
proposed to give him the right to sell such portions
as would cover the whole expense of forming the re-
maining portion into an ornamental park round his
own mansion, and maintaining the park when it was
formed, so that land now worth only 30s. an acre
would be made worth £4 or £5 an acre. At present
Earl Spencer had no power to build over the com-
mon ; and there were other rights besides his—those
of the copyholders and commoners ; and this very
fact brought-him before Parliament, for these other

rights took the land out of the catagory of freehold
property. He (Mr. Doulton) had been told not to
oppose a measure which proposed to give the rate-
payers a park for nothing, and in answer to this
he said that the Board ought to have powers to
maintain these spaces in their present state, which
could be done without costing the ratepayers a
shilling. He had learned something from the pro-
posals contained in this Bill, and that was—the
powers which were sought to be vested in the "pro-
tector " ought to be vested in the Board, or some
other body,lhe cared not which, and that body ought
to have compulsory powers to acquire these open
spaces, and having sold a portion of each to pay the
costs, maintain the other portions in their natural
state for the use of the people. (Hear.) He considered
that Earl Spencer was wise in his generation in mov-
ing in this matter thus early; but he was only antici-
pating the action which Parliament was pledged to
take by the decision on the motion of Mr. William
Cox in the sesion before last, and on his own last
session. If the board agreed to his motion the sub-
ject could be fully gone into, and such steps taken
as might be thought advisable. (Applause.)
Mr. CAEPMAEL seconded the motion, and said
that legislation with respect to the common lands
had been most unfair, inasmuch as the rights of the
people had not been at all considered.
. Mr. NEWTON asked if anything was to be done
with regard to the open spaces at the east of London
—namely, in the Epping Forest question.
The CHAIRMAN replied that this matter was now
before the Government.

Mr. LOWMAN TAYLOR spoke in favour of the mo-
tion, which was carried unanimously.

THE COMPLETION OF THE MAIN DRAINAGE WORKS.

The Chief Engineer reported that he was now en-
abled to state that the whole of the main drainage
works of the metropolis would be completed and in
operation by the 29th of March next, with the ex-
ception of the Northern Low-level Sewer, which is
being constructed in conjunction with the Thames
Embankment, which sewer drained only about one-
seventh of the metropolis.
Mr. FREEMAN moved that the report should be
printed, and that the Main Drainage Committee
should be empowered to make arrangements for the
opening of the works.

The motion was carried nem. con.
THE THAMES EMBANKMENT.

The Thames Embankment Committee reported
that this undertaking was now proceeding very satis-
factorily, with the exception that the supply of
granite was not equal to the demand, and recom-
mended that the committee should have power to
make arrangements for the better supply of this
material.

The report was approved.
THE WESTMINSTER ACCIDENT.

The Superintending Architect reported upon the
Roman Catholic Free Schools, in which the terrible
accident last week happened. He stated that the
building was 70 feet long by 20 wide, with an upper
story constructed with timber girders 13 inches by
121, bedded 9 inches at each end in an 18-inch wall,
and spanning 20 feet, and in which joints of 21 were
tennoned. The floor from the north to the south
was divided into seven bays by six similar girders.
On the day of the accident a platform was erected
at the extreme north end of the upper room for the
purpose of drawing a lottery, and the rest of the floor
was crowded with spectators—between, it was said,
400 and 500. No doubt the part nearest the platform
was the most crowded, and this was the portion which
gave way, over an area of 400 superficial feet, and,
supposing there were 120 persons on that space, with
a weight of 71 tons. The report then went on to
say that wooden girders of the thickness of those
in the building ought to take a pressure
of 40 tons before breaking, whereas this one had
broken with a weight of about four tons, part of the
weight being on the other girders, He thought the
wood was American pine, a wood which should only
be used for joiner's work. If the best Baltic timber
had been used, as it ought to have been, a pressure
of 20 tons could have been put on without danger.
The report was referred to the Building Act Com-
mittee, and after the disposal of other business the
Board adjourned,

sruur OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

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TimEs.—The argument in the case of 64 Veather
v. The Queen," and the elaborate judgment which
the Court of Queen's Bench yesterday delivered
may fairly be regarded as the coup de grace of the
Patent Law. The successful argument to which the
Attorney-General lent .the weight of his authority
can only be taken as an expression of opinion on
the part of the first law officer of the Crown and the
head of the English Bar, that our Law of Patents
ought to be immediately abolished as a hindrance
to the development of national wealth and an ob-
stacle to the progress of improvement of our manu-
factures. It is true that no such opinion can be
found explicitly stated in the speech of Sir Roundell
Palmer before the Judges at Westminster; but it
is impossible to suppose that he would use the argu-
ment which has proved so successful if he were not
convinced that the Patent Law ought to be re-
moved from our Statute-book. Mr. Feather is the
patentee of an invention for making ships impreg-
nable by constructing them partly of iron and partly
of wood ; and it was assumed as a basis of argu-
inent, and may now be taken for granted, that his
invention was at once novel and useful. Such being
the case, he complained that the Lords of the Ad-
miralty, in the construction of the Enterprise, had
pirated his invention, and he filed a Petition of
Right for redress of his grievance. We may at
once dismiss the answer that he had taken the
wrong method for asserting his claims. At best,
this would be only a dilatory plea, and, in fact, the
judgment yesterday given was against Mr. Feather
on the merits of his claim, and would have been the
same whatever form of procedure he had followed.
On the merits of the case the Attorney-General
advanced two novel and highly ingenious reasons
why Mr. Feather should not succeed in his action.
The first was that, allowing patents in general to
bind the Crown, and to debar it from using the
inventions specified in them without the consent
of the respective patentees, yet this particular
patent referred to an invention which concerned
the defence of the realm, and the Crown under
its prerogative was justified in disregarding it.
It is . conceded that the exclusive use of an
invention is a proper subject of proprietary
rights, and the argument, therefore, amounts to
this, that the rights of ownership of private
persons must, without any satisfaction by way of
compensation, give way to the necessities of the State,
No distinction can be drawn on this part of the case
between the exclusive right to occupy a field and the
exclusive right to work an invention, and the Attor-
ney-General did indeed, in support of his position,
cite the authority of Coke, that the Crown might
seize for the purposes of defence all the eialtpetre in
the realm. The Court of Queen's bench were dis-
posed to pay very little attention to an argument
which rested on no well-considered authority, and
which, if sound, made such an Act as the recent
Defence Act unnecessary and wasteful, That Act
empowered the Secretary-at-War to compel the
sale of certain plots of ground along the coast to
serve as sites of fortifications i but if the Attorney-
General were correct, the Crown—without any con-
sideration or
.any- formality of sale—might have en-
tered an seded upon these lands for such a pur-
pose, in virtue of its prerogative, It is, of course,
possible that the Act was a blunder, but its machinery
serves to answer the sole reason advanced by Sir
Roundell Palmer in support of this branch of his
argument. He is reported to have said that unless
the Crown could appropriate to its use inventions of
service m war, they might be communicated to our
enemies and kept back from our own Government.
No such consequence necessarily follows. The prin-
ciple embodied in the Defence Act and in every Rail-
way Act refutes it. Whenever the public service re-
quires a private owner to sell his property to the State,
the Legislature can properly intervene to compel him
to sell it at the valuation of his neighbours, and
there is no necessity why it should be taken in any
other way. Had Mr. Feather's claim been impeached
on the simple ground that his invention concerned
the defence of the realm, the answer could not have
been admitted. The second argument of Sir Roun-
dell Palmer against Mr. Feather's claim was irresis-
tible. He denied that the Crown was bound by its
Letters Patent. It could scarcely be asserted that
letters patent, such as those granted by Queen Eliza-
beth to Sir Walter Raleigh for the importation of
sweet wines, were anything more than privileges
conferred by the Sovereign on one subject, in dero-
gation of the rights of other subjects, and of them.
alone ; but it would probably be a mistake to con-
fuse such grants with the Patents conceded since
the Statute of Monopolies. This statute is, in fact,
the Magna Charts of the rights of the people against
patentees. The Commons, in the reign of James 1.,
clamoured against the profuse grants of monopolies,
and at length obtained the Act in question for their
own protection. It recites the great grievance and
inconvenience suffered by his Majesty's subjects,

and enacts, at their suit, that all monopolies are
contrary to the law and void, with the sole exception
of Letters Patent granted to the inventors for the
working or making of new manufactures. This
is the statute which to this day determines the posi-
tion of patentees, all later acts dealing only with
matters of detail. In form and in substance it is
concerned with no more than the rights which one
subject can acquire as against another, and the re-
lations between the Crown and a patentee are left
untouched by it. Even if the ordinary canon of
construction of Acts of Parliament, that the Crown
is not bound, unless specially named, were set aside,
it could not be successfully argued that the rights
which, whatever they might be, remained in the
Crown upon the grant of a Patent before the Sta-
tute of Monopolies, were affected by that statute.
The effect of the Statute was, indeed, no more than
this, that the Crown was thereby appointed a
minister, to confer, under certain conditions, a pri-
vilegium to one or more of its subjects, in derogation
of the rights of the rest ; and it is this function
which the Attorney-General, as the officer of the
Crown, has discharged from the time of the statute,
and still discharges. Whether we regard the Patents
which has been granted since the Statute of Mono-
polies as concessions of the same character as-those
previously granted, or whether we look on them as
privileges of an entirely different order, resting on
the authority of the Statute, the short conclusion is
that a patentee has no rights against the Crown, and
the privileges conceded to him do not therefore pre-
vent the Crown from using his invention. The
argument of Sir Roundell Palmer was ingenions
and successful ; but when we consider it apart
from all technicality, it is seen to be so destitute
of solid foundation. that no Attorney-General
would venture to use it who had not persuaded
himself that the Patent Law ought to be
abolished. Sir Roundell Palmer has succeeded in
showing that the Crown is not bound by Letters
Patent. But what is the Crown in this matter ?
When it is said that the Crown can assume the use
of any patented invention without compensating the
Patentee, the meaning is that the whole body of
taxpayers are relieved from a liability to which each
one of them singly is subject, and the conclusion of
the Attorney-General, sanctioned by the Court of
Queen's Bench, is that, though a patent binds each
subject individually, it does not bind them collec-
tively. Mr. Feather may prevent any private ship-
builder any firm or company of shipbuilders, from
using his invention, but he cannot interfere with its
use by the Lords of the Admiralty, who are the
agents of the nation. No show of reason or of
justice can be advanced in support of this anomaly.
If any one subject is rightly debarred from the use
of Mr. Feather's invention without paying him for
permission to use it, the whole body of subjects
ought to be put under a similar disability ; and if
the whole body can properly be allowed to use the
invention without compensating the inventor, the
same freedom ought to be conceded to every member
of it. If any difference could be permitted between
the rights of a single subject and the nation, it
ought to be in favour of the subject, for the nation
can compel an inventor to sell his privilege, a power
which the subject cannot put in action. Sir Roun-
dell Palmer, in using the line of defence adopted in
" Feather v. the Queen," must be held to express
his opinion that there is no reason why Mr. Feather
should be allowed to demand compensation from an
individual. The substance of the transaction on
the granting of a patent is that the inventor pub-
lishes his secret to his countrymen, and gets in
exchange a limited monopoly of its use. The form
in which this substance is embodied is that the
Crown, acting as the Minister of the nation, grants
a monopoly. The Judges of the Queen's Bench
have deemed themselves bound by the form of the
transaction, but the Attorney-General could not
have raised this novel defence, producing in the
opinion of the Court some retrospective injustice,
unless he was convinced that the transaction was sub-
stantially impolitic. It would, of course, be improper
in ordinary cases to identify the private opinion of
the advocate with the arguments advanced by him
on behalf of his client ; but when the argument is
one of novelty, urged by the Attorney-General on
behalf of the Crown, we are warranted in conclud-
ing that the advocate approves the defence as a
matter of good conscience as well as of law. We
shall not quarrel with the Attorney-General's con-
clusion. We are satisfied to welcome him not
merely as an opponent of a system which works the
despair of inventors and represses the improvement
of manufactures, which does not stimulate in-
vention but which does binder progress, and
which adds to the cost of production, but as one,
who, after the fullest experience, has convinced him-
self that public convenience can be met by nothing
short of the abolition of patents.

Pose .—The Southern States are confessedly
anxious to make peace • and it is not unnatural
that they should cast about in order to discover the
means by which this most desirable end is to be
attained. However persons may differ in opinion
respecting the precise objects with which the two
sections of the once united American Republic have
taken up arms, no doubt can exist respecting the
willingness of one of these sections to desist from
strife on the earliest opportunity. Whether the
South is fighting, as some suppose, for political in-
dependence or for the perpetuation of slavery, it is
at all events not fighting for conquest. It claims
the right of separating itself from that league of
which it once formed an unimportant part, and, if
its claims are recognised, it is perfectly indifferent
to the course which may be taken by those States
with which it was formerly politically united. With
the North it is different. The Federal Government
still assert that they are the true and lawful repre-
sentatives of that entirety of States which consti-
tuted the American Union ; and they deny to any
of those States the right of forming themselves
into a Republic independent of the authority which
they profess to exercise. In plain language,
the South simply asks to be let alone ; the North
requires that it shall submit to its jurisdiction.
It may be said that the South is the aggres-
sor, because by its secession, or, as some will
have it, by its rebellion, it rendered aggres-
sion necessary on the part of the North; but assum-
ing the legitimacy of its demands, it is content to
lay down its arms if those demands are acceded to.
From the commencement of the war the South have
been ever ready to enter into negotiations for the
re-establishment of peace, and, being the weaker of
the two belligerents, its anxiety to bring hostilities
to a
.close has not diminishedi as the war proceeded.
Sanguine of speedy
and complete success, the North
in the first instance underrated the vigour of its
adversary, and the results of the first three years of
the war only served to whet the animosity of those
representing the established Government, whilst
they failed to furnish any indication of the approach
of that consummation which they so much desired.
But, as the war proceeded, the disparity of strength
between the opponents began to tell against the
weaker one, and without flinching in the resolve by
which it was actuated when the struggle began, it
became still more anxious than before to arrange, if
possible, on satisfactory terms the dispute which had
already cost it so much. The Central Government
of the Southern Confederacy failed to open nego-
tiations for peace, and some of the States of which
that Confederacy is composed conceived the idea of
effecting by separate action that which the united
Governments were unable to accomplish. The
scheme having been mooted, the opinion of the
Southern President was sought in respect to its
feasibility, and we publish elsewhere the reply of
Mr. Davis to a communication on the subject made
,by some of the members of the Legislature of the
State of Georgia. Since his election to the responsible
position of President of the infant republic, it cannot
be denied that Mr. Davis has shown himself to be a
very able statesman. His qualifications as a stra-
tegist have recently been called in question ; but in
all matters relating to the government of the
Confederacy he has evinced a sagacity which will
entitle blm to the esteem and admiration of his
'fellow citizens. It was, it would seem, suggested
that Mr. Davis approved of independent State action
in endeavouring to open negotiations for peace ;
and, in consequence of these suggestions, an expres-
sion of his opinion was sought as to the advisability
of the Georgian Legislature taking the initiative in
adopting such a course. His answer, as might have
been anticipated, is one of complete disapproval.
Indeed, it is not easy to understand how anything
save a conviction that the Confederacy was unable
to protract the struggle, and that the Federal Go-
vernment were determined in any event on refusing
to acknowledge the competence of the Government
at Richmond to open negotiations for peace, could
have given rise to the idea that by separate action
the Southern States could succeed in obtaining from
the North that recognition of their independence for
which they have hitherto contended with so much
obstinacy. Mr. Davis had so little trouble in de-
monstrating the inutility, not to say absurdity, of
the proposed scheme, that he excused himself for
discussing the subject simply on the ground that his
correspondents desired a full exposition of his views.
The Confederacy must stand or fall as a whole,
and unless
,the various States composing it were
unanimous in the opinions which they entertained
in respect to the conditions on which peace should
be concluded, in which case the Central Government
would be the most appropriate organ for the expres-
sion of their wishes, independent State action could
only lead to discord. " The immediate and inevit-
able tendency of such distinct action by each State
is to create discordant instead of united counsels, to
suggest to our enemies the possibility of the dissolu-
tion of the Confederacy, and to encourage them by
the spectacle of our divisions to more determined and
united action against us." It is certainly difficult to
understand how the Federal Government could arrive
at any other conclusions if the several members of

the
the Confederacy thus ostentatiously ignoreu
authority of the Government which they
recently established. But it is not alone on :Ise
ground of its being impolitic that Mr. Davis u
protested against independent State action as an
endeavour to re-establish peace. If, as the Seutiiied..
President observes, a convention of States, in_lfbe
ing those both of the North and South, show; re-
have
.so_
agreed upon, either each separate State wont
serve the right of being unfettered by the deoisie
of the majority of the members of the convention,
or the reverse. But in the former case that vol.));
right for which :the South has combated would it
expressly acknowledged, and such an adnilis.L-teg,
would be idle to expect from the Northern Pv",,Ae,
and in the latter case the members of the Coin of
racy would, of necessity, be outvoted by ht ose be
the rival Federation, and :,.their fate would thus
-
decided by a vote the issue of which could not oi"..
uncertain. It is one of the evils of democratietti
verninent that when matiers do not proc4d silleeuoge
the fault is invariably imputed to those in,,
hands the supreme authority is for the time rePe,..ve
The local Legislatures of the Southern States ce
become impatient in consequence of the continnan
of the war, and are fain to suppose that if
portunities for negotiating with the eneturv•At
afforded to them, all subsisting differences ilca.''ug
speedily be arranged. The fallacy of such notio
er
is, however, exposed by Mr. Davis in a illanitihe
which, we are sure, must carry conviction to
minds of all whose common sense and patriotism
eliii`t
not altogether stifled by mistrust of a Governill+hor
which cannot perform impossibilities. u The all‘ter
of these resolutions," says Mr. Davis in his I,entrue'
" and those who concur in his views, appear the
to commit the radical error of supposing -Ana; ire
obstacle to obtaining the peace which we all desire
the clePr;
consists in the difficulty of finding proper ageileso.
for negotiating, so that the whole scope of thearetbe
lutions ends in nothing but suggesting tha,_"gtste
enemy will treat, the best agency would II; "old
delegates to a convention, whereas the whole
only obstacle is that the enemy will not treat at We
or entertain any other proposition than thatbat
should submit to their yoke, acknowledge 'for
we are criminals, and appeal to their 101.1
pardon."

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DIRECTORS.
)3h, j__Behburner, Esq., Hyde Park-place, CumberlansdGat.
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park wood Ti;4rein Davies, Esq , Ridgeway, Pemhroke i
I)proi,,„'''Yr_e Poakes, Eiq., New-square, Lincoln's Inn, and
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Greaquar, "ilHara Lydiard, Bentinek-street, Manchester.
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buildings.
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SECRETARY ;PRO TEM.)
Henry C. Darlington, Esq.

No. 22,659.

This PROSPECTUS.
litatent:'4llY has been estabiished for the purpose of
beder tcg the Registration of Titles to Landed Estates,
also jot!ie. provisions of the " Land Registratilm Act ;' and
lbwe b t'le Purchase of Freehold Land, the titles to which
Within already registered, or are capable of being brought
14,eute operation of the Act.
trool I/ronts have within the last few years been derived
;'reeholeaJudielous purchase of Landed Estates and block s of
e•Side i Property in the vicinity of the Metropolis, and their
et the_ a lots for building and other purposes. The success
exTruridertak in.'s is, in a great measure, attributable to
n'irge to,a.circhnarY rise in the value of land in the suburbs of
-i NI, -es, an the constautly increasing demand for sites
're'vgii,roefs!,_aenoes -a demand which must keep pace with the
PriThe eb. nat onal prosperity and population.
ssy h"let obstBcle hitherto to these most legitimate enter-
,httend as been found in the difficulties, delays, and expense
aidi4VPon the transfer of land, and a',l subsequent deal-
„"i of LY theft; While cumbrous titles, and the continual neces-
'l la"e ,r re-examination, all tend to depreciate the value
To „`4
DasEed`taPedYropert thisy
'evil the "Land Registration Act" was
111,1 4 a,fer of Real Estate is simplified,
b,('"11,111,.;,,, et Parchment`deeds is condensed into a clear,
caeitest—, Parlldrnentary title; but, notwithstanding the
hiti advantages conferred by this
toymeasre, the public
telt, iti,arto availed themselves of it only a limited ex-e
I`topt4nlY front ignoiance of the mode of procedur.e to p.
.I,Prtrtly from difficulties beyond the control of indievirl.
‘4lt (>171114 from. the nature of the encumbrances and
fThe 4a e!larges already existing on the property. _
ropen Peentl object of this Company is to assist owners of
Y,Who, fish want of funds or other cans. s, have
13frered° ueeu unable to avail themselves of the advantages
tbititationbY the Act The company will undertake the exa-
ijovide ~aud regis.tration of titles to Landed Estates ; it will
;'Bellar,:u.e,fun dm for the necessary preliminary expenditure ;
:• tate b^eQ Lue various incumbrances. where the value of the
atld -al.' a. just proporti n to the amount chargedrso upon
airo„ also facilitate the arrangements of pens de-
hir„°to the ng b ig on landed security. yVhilst,
the c "a‘are ofrthorrow nrations and the securities held
c°nBide °tinkly it iiieb:pe
th r,bie , w der against all risk of loss,
iieir ,c 1 Profit must beived, and owners o.f land will
Erjr" COI), Vantage in the increased value of their property.
b 'tales —PanY ill urchase Registered and other Landed
;11tteige and re-sell them in lots or otherwise, where the ad-
.ertilB °I a d P rliamentary title enable them to
ad-
s -e distributieotr and re-salea without de!ay and without
Th
),4417neediaitreetors have received from various quarters offers of
Cady e and profitable business, and the negotiations
the
0 into with influential parties will insure for
,PC4 a lucrative and widely-extended bushiess.
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'"%etiett, of the Bankers. Brokers, Solicitors, and at the
he°i`,,the Company, where the Articles of the Association
issq th.
creto' event of no allotment being made, the deposits will
;otted ped in full. Should a less number of shares be al-
f`he p•,"ah Is applied for, the deposit will be retained towards
"0 th.'reent onnt. allotment, and the balance (if any) returned
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14°1q0ON AND COUNTY BANKING
COMPANY.
Established .1836
libed Capita, Xl,B7,°°'
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;TORS.
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Frederick Harrison. Esq.
Edward Huggins, Esq.
William Champion Jones,
Esq.
Willis n Lee. Esq., M.P.
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minx' ACCOUNTANT.
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SECRETARY.
P. Clappison, Esq.
At th
thy e Atli F. Office-21, Lombard-street.
kit, ' the 2.i -nal )4eeting of the Proprietors, held on Thurs-
-41-'treel r4,oruary, 1865, at the London Tavern,nß_ltinhgops-
'l4 "oe folowin Report for the year edi the
Daher 186 t W/T ,Wasgread by the Secretary.
t? 1, -4u1431 NICOL, ESQ.,
'n I) M.P., in the chair.
id 'reel REPORT.
1114 r, tl,„ °rB have the pleasure to submit tlottheeaSrheinrs.-
i.,!st 1) balance-sheet of the bank for the ha -y
tall ttey 'eetnber last
hite satisfa, •tton in reporting that, after payment of
ite (14,15etil...inleret to customers,,mak rg
2!,;1,,,t T r"ol4,ciebtB, and presentin, a r provision for bari
Ott 4,,c616g. L(18 amount to £126,431g 17s. 4d.,
at nit 7 t o eac
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ti g ~,biteer44B,l 8 138. 6d. for appr
Art ver ce,,,ori recommend the payment of the usual dividend
ketiet'ilt. ~)%11, for the half-year. together with a bonus of 12
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Wilraking 18 per cent for the six months !le!e j.41...v,-
e earn absorb zt29,529 Is. 3d , and leave 3 nu'
Nle birecifOnvard to Profit and Loss New Account.
haverliel red
regret to announce the decease o their late
,ltro!Pleet!alleatiue James Laming, Esq., and report. that they
fi,`,, t,r..athaniel Alexander, Esq., of Great Winchester-
-4 bfiLladia iNierchant, to fill the vacancy thus created.
t",ors retiring by rotation are—
John William Burmester, Esq.,
I'llt, , John Fleming, Esq., and
t t William Champion Jot es, Esq.,
,Wiiihe ttitiplieliZible, offer themselves for re-election.
the bennie t "Id and Bonus (together £3 128. per share) free
"taalgh,sax, Will be payable at the Head Office, or at any of
ta, -"i on or after Monday, the 13th inst.
4.40 e
kf,'„grlEßT OF THE LONDON AND COUNTY
To N ."-NBING COMPANY, DEC. 31, 1861.
peitattltal .
tt of final ......... £750,000 0 0
Is, h instalment due
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ilabiZers' balances, Sze. 9,779,754 0 0
To el on acceptances 2 431,599 15 5
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for after for the ball-
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Z 13,566,485 3 9
pleo ktberue4 tittOPIT AN]) LOSS ACCOUNT.
£95,011 16 11
ogekelititilatad to customers
78,31 S 11 5
I,?yeteuit e, taaobrer
11,?22 8 6
1,577 0 0
,tuset4e4l3titipetenletleitiipig eltehsAugust, 1864
ZiaTo di ... 8 not due, carried to new ac-
39328 18
videt;i'n';.• .• • • .. ......
43 176 7 1
4 0 1,4413 of i,6 Per cent. for the halt-year
86,352 14 2
14116, ' Per cent
18,629 12 3
Carried forward..
~‘
eC
£373,781 8 4
bil 4.
44ce brought forvaard
year last account £21,726 16 2
and doubtful debts .
oil:i'' tornilt for the half after making
352,054 12 2
'' bad
eliN, the
a £,373,-81 8 4
end ji 8
nder
ay iued, have examined the fotegoing balance
(signed)d)
e found the same to be correct.
WILLIAM NORMAN,I
Auditors.
I.
WRIGHT.
otlcio..
JOHN WRIGHT.
, "' and COLIIIty Bank, 26th January, 1865.
Secretory,
1114111leekeil'e.eIng Report having been read by the
LIN: n Resolutions ware proposed, and unanimously
14 tthat th
printed
z.
1,1.,‘ u.,.e
of
tithepo,rt be received and adopted, and
12p,,' nat a di he p5l
Yt,i-r cent both vidend ot 6 per cent., together wittoar
d I the half-
tiky Nat,;:
, lid
of incOtne tax, be declare
and
a,,._ mon_
ben, the 13,;•,:iist December. !M. payable on l.,n
.s. 3d.
a'arried 1-4 Inst,int, and that the balance of £ 18,6 z,, "
bonus of
it
chat
irward to Profit and It
oss New Account.
lent
a
1.,,,eict,,,
of ohn William Burmester, Esq.„ be re-elected
be
t]lialeetet a‘ilts. Company ; that John Fleming',
t:4lPion
ty Director Lf this Company ;
.that William
11;14
heat!al3,,, "es, Esti ,be re-die cd a director of this
5 ,pl' illlant Norman, Richard Hinds Swaine, and John
of Vhat'tZB.. be elected Auditors for the current year.
duct: a thanks of this meeting be given to t_lieveßooo.n.
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-'' oat tt lahintousiy•--.
In tarn e cordial thanks of the meeting be presented to
ihe chig 'l' 1-43%, M.P., for his able andcou.teous conduct
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Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS,
MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly
facilitate the interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON-
UROLOGY, Lad GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas
each.

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PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY And MINE.
RA.LOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, at 149, Strand. W.C.

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.--The greatest and
most useful invention of the day, A GUA AMA RICLL A.
Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., 3, Kinr-court, Lombard-
street, London, Pertumoa4 to her Majesty, respectfully offer
to the public this truly marvellous fluid. which gradually
restores the human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at
what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the properties of
dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and
when the hair is once restored one application per month will
keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in
half bottles, les. 61. Testimonials from arl istes of the highest
order, and from Individuals of undoubted respectability, may
be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell and Co. have
been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princess
of Wales.

AMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.-AN
1.1 EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels
or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad-
mitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving
coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con-
sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty
pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which
provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption
effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or
even lying down for tear of suffocation, may depend on relief
in few minute after taking it. Prepared omad sold by
W.a LAMBERT s , Chemist, S. King-Wiliam--street, Charing-
cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, Ind., and
three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular. and ask
for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam, The name and address are
engraved on the stamp.