The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-17 00:00:00

THAMES.

A NEGLECTED STEP-SON.—Mr. Pelham, the solicitor,
called the attention of Mr. Selfe to a poor deaf and dumb
boy, who he stated was 17 years and 5 months old, but
who did not look more than 12. The boy was son of
Captai❑ Gill, master of a ship, the name of which he
could not ascertain, and apprenticed to a tailor, named
Adshead, of No. DI, York-street, Commercial-road,
East. The boy's step-mother, Amelia Gill, was residing
at No. 14, St. George's-place, Back-road, St. George's-
in•the-east, and although in possession of an ample allow-
ance from her husband refused to acknowledge the step-
son or do anything for him.

Mr. Selfe said the boy appeared to be very ill, and
hat either his master or step-mother ought to provide
for him.

Mr, Pelham believed the step-mother received as
much AB 61. per month from her husband, upon an al-
lotment note, and which would be paid until the hus-
band's return.

Mr. Selfe said the boy was very ill and pale, and must
not be neglected. He thought it was a matter for parish
interference.

Maria Torodi, the aunt of the boy, said she had main-
tained him some time, and was about to return to Liver-
pool. Mr. Adshead, the tailor, had received an appren-
tice fee of 101. from the committee of a charity school
for the deaf and dumb in the Old Kent-row). The boy
was apprenticed in November, 1853, for a term of seven
years. Mr. Adshead could not keep the boy any longer,
and had sent a letter to his stepmother stating that the
lad was in a bad state of health and required nourishing
food. This letter brought forth the following reply :
"Air. Gill his now on his way to the Coliny's, and
will not be home till next April at the soonest. He told
his son to come and see him before he sailed last May
12 months, but he did not think proper to do so, i can
say nothing to it myself."

Mr. Selfe said that the step-mother, master, and
aunt of the afflicted boy, whose appearance was truly
pitiable, all appeared desirous of relieving themselves of
the burthen of supporting him. The son of a man who
was in the position of captain of a ship in the Austra-
lian trade ought to be well provided for. If the step-
mother would not support the poor helpless creature,
who was deprived of speech and hearing, the parish
must interfere. He directed Howland, a police con-
stable, No. 89 11, attached to the court, to wait on
Mrs. Gill, the step-mother, immediately, and call her
attention to the sickly and weakly condition of her step
son, and if she would not provide him with a mainten •
ance the parish officers must take charge of the boy.

MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

A very limited supply of English wheat was on sale in
to-day's market. The amount of business doing in all
kinds was small ; nevertheless, the trade was firm, and
Monday's advance in the quotations was well suppoi Led.
The imports of foreign wheat are only 6,270 quarters,
and tho show of samples was moderate. Most kinds sold
to a fair extent, at full prices.

There was very little inquiry for either barley or malt,
at barely late rates.
We were very scantily supplied with fresh oats, which
changed hands freely, at very full prices.
Beans, peas, and flour were firm, but not dearer. The
imports of the latter are 6,830 barrels from the United
States.

ARRIVALS THIS Willi.

Wheat. Barley. Malt. I Oats. I Flour.
English .. 610 . 650 890 I 450
Irish •... 1,160 1 —6,820
Foreign i 1 6,270 1,320 ( 5,430 brls.

CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.

QUARTERLY MEETING (THIS DAY.)

The sixteenth quarterly meeting of the members of
this society was held this day at Exeter-hall, Strand.
Amongst the directors present were observed :—Vis-
count Ingestre, Hon. R. Bourke, Borlax Hill Adarup,
Esq., Newnham Winstanley, Esq., Robert Steven, Esq.,
and the Rev. Dr. Worthington.

The chair was taken by Col. Brownlow Knox, M.P.

The following is the quarterly report of the directors:—

" The Executive Committee, in submitting the Six-
teenth Quarterly Report, have much pleasure in reminding
the members that the fourth anniversary of the Conser-
vative Land Society was on Sunday, the seventh of Sep-
tember, at which date the quarterly meetings wore held
on the previous throe years. The financial returns for the
current Michaelmas quarter are brought up to the week
ending Saturday, the 13th inst., and the total cash receipts
to that date amount to the large sum of ... £254,752 17 10

Whilst the total withdrawals from Sep-
tember, 1852, to September 13, 1856,
have only amounted to

The cash receipts for the current quarter
from Juno 24, to September 13, are
Ditto for corresponding period in 1855 11,770 1 5

The increase therefore is ...

£1,820 1 7

The total number of shares in progress, or uncom-
pleted up to September 13, 1856, wore • 10,313
Ditto completed to same date 2,169

The total number of shares to September 13, 1856 12,452
The returns up to Sept. 13th, 1856, :of the R^gister of
the Order of Rights, are as follows :
Completed. Drawn. Seniority. Total.
2,169 2,443 1,256 5,868
Deduct Rights exercised on Estates, &c.

Unexercised Rights ... 2,563

The last number to be placed on the list of rights by
seniority or date of membership, after the drawing of the
17th of Sept. (this day), will be about share No. 4,014.
The sale of land during the current
quarter up to Sept. 13, is £14,224 S G

The total amount of land sold from the
formation of the society up to Sept. 13,
1856, is £191,762 12 8

" There are yet a fortnight's receipts to complete the re-
turns for the Michaelmas quarter, ending the 29th inst.,
but the Executive Committee cannot refrain from adding,
that gratifying as the quarter has proved up to this date,
the annual accounts closing the financial operations of the
fourth year, which will be brought under the notice of the
members at the annual meeting next December, will still
further prove the permanent prosperity of the Conserva-
tive Land Society.
"The consmitteehave the pleasure testate that they have
re-elected Robert Steven, Esq., and Benjamin L. Sowell,
Esq., as their two auditors, under rule 30 (late 31), and
the members will now have to elect two auditors under the
same rule, to audit the accounts of the society for the
current year, ending the 29th inst.
" According to Rule 22 (late 23) one-third of the execu-
tive committee will retire by rotation at the annual gene-
ral meeting in December, the retiring members of the
board, however, being eligible for re-election.
" Colonel Taylor, M.P., having been unable to attend
the weekly meetings of the Board, has resigned his office
under Rule 31 (late 32), but remains a member of the
general committee.

" As on former occasions, the claims of allottees on some
of the estates bought for the society have been objected to,
but the committee entertain no doubt that they will be as
successful as in previous years, in supporting the rights of
the members who have selected plots of undeniable value,
to entitle thorn to the freehold franchise. Due notice will
be forwarded by the solicitors of the days appointed for
the meetings of the Registration Courts, and the claims
will be sustained free of all charge to the allottees.
" Oa the 7th August nineteen leased plots on the Brigk-
ton Estate were offered to the holders of rights, and were
all taken within the first 120 numbers on the register.
" Since the last report, the whole of the Maldon Estate,
in South Essex, has been disposed of, additional railroad
accommodation to that town being contemplated. The
committee can also congratulate the holders of plots on the
West Malvern Estate, that the Worcester and Hereford
line will now be completed.
" Ever anxious to promote building operations, the com-
mittee have turned their attention to the estates on which
no houses have hitherto been erected, although eligibly
situated, and as an experiment have resolved to call for
tenders for the construction of a pair of villas and houses
on the Oatlands Grange Estate, Weybridge, in West Sur-
rey, and the Enfield tate, in Middlesex. The commit-
tee propose, on the completion of these buildings, to offer
them, in the first instance, to the holders of Rights of
Choice, in rotation. Many applications being made by
persons who are not members of the society, for houses,
the committee have been induced to take this course.
Should this plan meet with success, the committee will be
emboldened to extend the system to other estates.
" The allotment of the Kentish Town Estate will take
place as speedily as possible. The committee have acquired
an excellent estate at Maidstone, in West Kent, and no
time will be lost in offering it, in plots, to the members.
" The executive committee, in conclusion, are enabled
to make a most satisfactory announcement, not only to the
holders of plots on the St. Margaret's estate, but to the
members generally. The magnificent mansion will remain
as a permanent ornament to this fine property, an inspec-
tion of which, now that the ornamental gardens and roads
aro nearly completed, will afford an idea of the advantages
which a society constituted as the Conservative Land So-
ciety is, can accomplish by heightening the natural beauties
of a picturesque neighbourhood. The negotiations with
the Royal Naval Female School have come to a conclusion,
and that admirable institution has purchased the noble
edifice, with a poition of the unallotted land. The disposal
of the mansion has induced the committee to renewed ex-
ertions to develop° the St. Margaret's estate, which, for
beauty of scenery and for eligible sites for villas, is not to
bo surpassed by any other situation on the banks of the
Thames.

"The executive committee heartily congratulate the
members on the happy auspices under which the fifth year
of the Conservative Land Society has cornmenzed.

" RANELIGH, Chairman.

" CHARLEd LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary."
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report,
congratulated the assembled members on the continued
prosperity of the society. The accounts, closing the
financial operations of the fourth year of this society,
would be submitted to the members at the annual meet-
ing, to be held in December next, and he was happy to
say they would still further prove the permanent pro-
sperity of the Conservative Land Society. The chair-
man having congratulated the meeting on the happy
auspices under which they commenced the fifth year of
the existence of the society, resumed kis seat.
The motion having been seconded, it was put to the
meeting and carried unanimously.
After the election of the auditors a drawing for fifty
rights of choice on the society's estates book, and 25
members were added by seniority.
The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to
the chairman.

LETTERS TO AND FROM BRITISH NAVAL
AND MILITARY FORCES.

General Post Office, 13th Sept., 1856.

The Lords of her Majesty's Treasury have, by war-
rant, repealed the reduced rates of postage to which the
correspondence of commissioned, non-comm.ssioned
or warrant officers, soldiers, seamen, and other persons
in the service of her Majesty, engaged in the late war,
as well as the correspondence of officers, soldiers, and
seamen serving in Greece or in the foreign legion at
Heligoland, were liable during the war ; and all letters
addressed to, or forwarded by, the several classes of
persons in whose favours those reduced rates of postage
were established, will hereafter be chargeable with full
postage as ordinary letters.
In like manner, the arrangement made in October,
1855, under which the privileges of the book post were
extended to the British forces serving in Turkey, Greece
the Black Sea, the Baltic, or the White Sea, to the
foreign legion stationed at Heligoland, as well as to
seamen serving in the transport service in Turkey and
the Black Sea is now repealed.
The privilege which seamen and soldiers employed in
her Majesty's service, and seamen and soldiers em•
played in the service of the East India Company enjoy
of sending and receiving by the post letters not exceed-
ing half an-ounce in weight, subject to certain rules and
restrictions, will, however, remain unchanged.
By command of the Post
NDmaster-General,
ROWLI HILL, Secretary.

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