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nto the wrought-iron trough, is discharged through
brick culverts into the reservoir, or, in case of need,
'provision is made for its discharge through other
culverts directly into the river.
Such is a brief outline of the chief features of the
Main Drainage works which the Prince of Wales will
to-day open. From first to last they have been solely
designed by Mr. Bazalgette, and executed under the
immediate superintendence of the assistant-engi-
neers, Messrs. Lovick, Grant, and Cooper. The
principal contractors have been Messrs. Brassey,
Ogilvie, and ifarrison, Mr. Webster, Mr. Furness,
Messrs. Aird and Sons, Mr. Moxon, Messrs. James
Watt and Co., Messrs. Slaughter, and Messrs.
Rothwell and Co.—Times.

THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.

(THIS DAY.)
The fiftieth quarterly Report of the. Executive Com-
mittee was laid "'afore the shareholders at the meeting at
the offices, Norfolk-street, Strand.
Mr. GRUNEISEN, the secretary, having read the advertise-
ment convening the meeting, Viscount RANELAGH sub-
mitted the report as follows :
The returns for the two first quarters of the financial
year ending September 30th, 1865, are as follows:-
------Qrs. ending 'Shares in; - laorteal.
Share Receipts.
progress.

Qrs. endinc, Shares in Shares Tot Receipts.
progress. Complete. Shard.
Dec. 24, 1864 s. d.
262 15 277 19,229 9 8
March 25, 18C5 297 60 357 16,%4J 5 0
Half year ending
Lany Day, 1865 559 75 634 35,478 14 8
Totals to Sept
30, 1864 16,723 4,5'.)5 21,223 782,389 13 10
Grand totals to
Lady Day, 1165 17,282 4,580 21,862 817.863 8 6

21,862

1817,863 8 6

The half-yearly receipts for the present financial year,
compared with the corresponding period of last year, show
an increase of £2,783 17s. 2d. ; the total sale of land to
Lady Day, 1865, amounts to £385,001 10s. ld. ; tho total
withdrawals since the formation of the society
(September, 1852) to Lady Day,'lB6s, are £244,687175. 6d.
The returns of the Register of the Order of Rights areas
follows :—Completed, 5,565 ; drawn, 3,305 ; seniority,
1,758; total, 10,628. Deduct rights exercised on estates,
&c., 8,023 ; unexercised rights, 2,605. The last share
number on the register of seniority (date of membership)
is No. 15,875. The last share issued up to Lady Day,
1865, is No. 21,862. The allotments for the first half year
were : the Southgate-road estate, Wood Green, No. 2,
Tottenham, Middlesex, and the remaining portion of the
Felixstowe estate, East Suffolk, with the exception of a
piece of landat the junction of the Cobbold and Montague
Roads. These two eligible building properties were offered
on the 11th of January. The executive committee have the
satisfaction of reporting that the whole of the Felixstowe
plots have been sold. The sale of the Southgate-road estate,
which is within a quarter of an hour's walk of Wood
Green Station, on the Great Northern lino, bids fair to be
equally successful before the end of the year, and to prove
as remunerative to the allottees as the first Wood Green
property, numerous plots on which have been sold at con-
siderable premiums. The roads and drainage on the
Southgate-road property will bo completed as speedily as
possible. The allotment of the Sunnyside estate,
.Sandown,
Isle of Wight, will be commenced on the 6th of April, on
which day the new plans of the Roehampton, East Surrey,
and Seven Sisters (Tottenham)estates will be issued. Tho
demand for additional accommodation in the fast-rising
bathing-place of Sandown was the inducement to make
the society's first purchase in the Isle of Wight. The
opening of the new railway—which line will be soon ex-
tended to Ventnor—must tend to develope Sandown, with
its unrivalled sands, rapidly, trains running from Ryde in
fourteen minutes, at cheap fares. The SunnysiO estate
is on the summit of a picturesque chain of hills, with
frontage to the bay ; two new roads communicating-with
the High Road to Shanklin. Superb views of the
sea and of the interior can be had from various por-
tions of the estate, which has been laid out for
first and second class sea-side residences. The villa
at the end of Talbot-road, with a piece of land, will be sold
with the privilege to any purchaser to convert the building
into a hotel, or to erect eight houses on the plot. The
railroad projects in contemplation at Roehampton and
Tottenham have rendered it expedient to prepare modified
plans of allotment of the unsold portions of the society's
estates in those localities. Since the last report nearly all
the plots on the Plough-lane, Battersea estate, No. 2, have
been disposed of. The plan for the allotment of the Deal
navy-yard on the 17th of May will shortly be issued. The
new railways through the Kentish Town and Brighton
estates are in active progress. The Earl of Bectivo, M.P.,
having resigned, the executive committee have the plea-
sure to report that, under rule 32, they have elected James
Goodson, Esq., chairman of the Great Eastern Railway
Company, a member of the board. The executive com-
mittee, in conclusion, have the satisfaction to announce to
the shareholders that they have just entered into arrange-
ments whereby two properties have been secured in
Cheshire and Cornwall, being the first purchases in those
counties for the Conservative Land Society.
The report was adopted, and a vote of thanks passed .to
the Board.

THE CASE OF Da. PRITCHARD.—The Scotsman of
yesterday says :—" The particular stage at which
the investigation in this complicated and excited case has
arrived renders it impossible that any definite statement of
results can be published for a few days. The chemical ex-
amination of Mrs. Pritchard's body is proceeding, and will
probably be completed in the course of this week ; but
very special precautions have been taken to prevent any
exposure of the first results obtained, and, as some time
must elapse before any report will be made oven to the au-
thorities, it is not expected that public curiosity will be
gratified for some days to come. We have grounds, how-
ever, for stating that the case against the prisoner has as-
sumed a grave aspect frem the result of the post-mortent ex-
amination alone of Mrs. Taylor's body. The condition and
appearance of the organs denoted no serious or fatal illness
of a natural character." The Glasgow Morning Journal of
Saturday says :—" In the course of our inquiries yesterday
a fact or two came to our knowledge, the importance of
which in a painful investigation like the present it would
be difficult to over-estimate. Hitherto little or no direct
proof has been brought forward of the accused being in
possession of autimonial preparations in any considerable
quantity, or of having them at all. The sale-books of the drug-
gists with whom he was in the habit of dealing throw, it is
understood, but little light on the matter ; and if the police
officials have found the drug in any form in his surgery,
this information has, of course, been studiously kept secret.
There can be no doubt, however, after what we have learnt,
that for several weeks past Dr. Pritchard was really in pos-
session of tartarized antimony, and this, moreover, in un-
usually large quantities, purchased by himself at the esta-
blishment of a respectable wholesale druggist in town.
We believe we are within the mark in stating that not less
than two ounces of this medicine was thus procured by
him within the space of two months. Another somewhat
striking circumstance is that a few days before the death
of Mrs. Taylor he was supplied from the same warehouse
with a goodly quantity of " Fleming's" tincture of aconite,
a medicine, we understand, possessed of virulently poison-
ous qualities when administered incautiously. It is quite
true that both of the drugs mentioned are largely used in
the healing art, but it is not easy to guess at first sight
what need any surgeon in private practice could have
for great quantities of them, more especially of the tartar
emetic. A very free use of antimony as an outward appli-
cation might, perhaps, partially explain the necessity for
purchases so unusually large, but we are led to understand
that any such practice has been of late years almost com-
pletely laid aside by medical practitioners who keep pace
with the pharmaceutical improvements of the day as we
may assume [Dr. Pritchard to have done. A grave
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article,
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rule. Mr. Sala tells you that this courtesy—t mks—is
not common here, except among those who have travelled
in Europe. I tell you, having been brought up among
people who had not been in Europe for seven generations,
that any Yankee who is brought up at all is taught to say
'lf you please' and 'Thank you' even to a servant. Mr.
Sala tells you that he 'never saw a lady thank a gentleman' for
handing her fare and returning her change in an omnibus. I
tell you that for the sake of observation I have ridden up
and down in all sorts of omibuses throughout this week,
placing myself in a position in which this service would
fall upon me, so that in one ride I have performed it for
six female fellow-passengers, and never for less than
two, and in every case except one it was acknowledged
either with an audible ' Thank you,' or with a bow and a
smile. The exception was a woman in a dirty gown, with
nails in full mourning, who took her money out of a greasy
purse and illsmelling. But the purse was full, and her
daughter will probably flaunt in silk, and inherit not only
her mother's money but her manners, which were not
learned in this country. I admit that there are mall
such women to be found as that daughter will beth. a
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his trunks.
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