The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-21 00:00:00

WESTMIIVSTER FREEHOLD LAND
SOCIETY.

The second annual meeting was held last evening
at the Parthenium-rooms, St. Martin's-lane • P. E.
Barnes, Esq., in the choir. A letter was read from
George Thompson, Esq., M.P. (one of the trustees),
regretting his inability to attend. Mr. G. Huggett,
the secretary, read the annual report of the committee,
of which the following is an extract :
" The committee submit to the members a report
of the society, and in so doing they have much plea-
sure in being again enabled to present a favourable
account of its condition. Its progress is best marked
by the increase of its members. The number of shares
row held is 1,340, inclusive cf these taken up on the
Moulsey estate, and the total receipts of the society
since its formation amount to 7,9681. ls. 6d. Itn-
pressed with the magnitude of the interests committed
to their care the committee hate persevered in the
course which received the approbation of the mem-
bcra at their first annual meeting, they ,have ac-
cordingly bent their efforts, not to merely nume-
rous ana rapid purchases of estates, but to the
acquisition of unquestionable good ones, such
as should sustain the credit of the society,
by the undoubted value of each of the particular
allotments. Of the many offers made, the committee
have thought it expedient to accept only one, namely,
for the purchase of 24 acres at Reigate (where there
are a large number of members), at the price of
3,6001. This estate will be allotted in the course of
the present autumn. Your committee are now in
treaty for an estate in Middlesex, in a locality suited
to the requirements of many of their members. As
to the estate at East Moulsey, the committee have to
report that the division of it has been completed in
the most satisfactory manner, and several houses are
in course of erection, the restrictions which they in-
troduced into the conveyances have met with entire
approbation, and have most materially enhanced the
value of the property, and the committee have the
gratification of pointing to this purchase as an ample
testimony of the correctness of the principles adopted
by the society. The land was bought for the sum of
4,7251., and it has been distributed to the allottees
at 5,5821., or about 17 per cent., inclusive of all
expenses, while in some other societies the increase
on the original cost had been nearly 100 per cent.,
or at the same rate at which estates of such other so-
cieties had been allotted. The Moulsey property
would have cost the allottees nearly 12,0001., instead
of .5,800/. No charge has.been made to the mortgag-
ing members for interest on the money advanced to
them, except the very trifling amount of interest on
any sum temporarily borrowed to complete a pur-
chase, while being put into immediate possession of
their allotments they are placed in a position of reap-
ing the earliest advantages of which their freeholds
are capable. The committee feel it incumbent to re-
cord their deep sense of the invaluable services ren-
dered to the society by the Land Committee, to
whose practical experience may be attributed the
advantageous purchases already made, and
their acknowledgments are specially due to
Messrs. Vine and Pemberton, the purchasers on be-
half of the society, for the gratuitous superin-
tendence and indefatigable attention given by them
to the society ; and through their aid the expense of
allotting the Moulsey estate is less by some 2001. than
it would otherwise have been. With regard to the
constitutional and political results of the East Moul-
sey and Reigate estates, the committee may observe
that 140 additional freeholders will have votes for the
western division, and about 130 for the eastern divi-
sion. Already the names of 50 new freeholders ap•
pear on the list of voters for the former electoral dis-
trict, and the Reigate purchase, in addition to its
being one of the most eligible building sites in the
county, is within the boundary of the borough, which
comprises about 200 votes, occupying houses chit fly
in the hands of one landlord, while the occupiers of
the allotments of the members will be independent
of similar influence. The committee recommend
the following alteration in the rules—' That of
the number of allotments in every future purchase, a
portion, not exceeding one-half, shall be offered to
members (according to seniority of membership) who
shall agree to pay up the whole cost of their allot-
ments, together with a charge of five per cent. on the
amount of such cost to be applied towards the defrayal
of the general expenses of this society ; and the re-
maining allotments shall be exclusively devoted to the
other members in rotation, all parties jointly balloting
for priority of choice.'—The effect of this alteration
will be to enable the society to purchase whenever
desirable opportunity offers, and consequently to expe-
dite the subscribing members obtaining their allotment.
In advising this step the committee have sought to
avoid what they conceive to be a most objection-
able element, namely, the practice of ballotting for
allotments, the tendency of which is to induce re-
liance upon chance and not upon the prudence and
forethought of the members. The committee cannot
conclude their report without adding their own
testimony to that already borne by the members in
their re-election of the solicitor and the secretary at
the last meeting to the untiring zeal and very great
ability with which Mr. G. E. Dennes and Mr. G.
Huggett, the gentlemen who respectively fill these
offices, have discharged their highly important
duties."

The report was unanimously adopted, the altera-
tion in the rules agreed to, and a vote of thanks to
the chairman closed the proceedings.

THE AMERICAN PRINTER.—" I pity the printer,"
said my uncle, Toby. "He's a poor creature," rejoined
Trim. "How so?" said my uncle. "Because, in the first
place," continued the corporal, looking full upon my uncle,
he must endeavour to please everybody. In the negli-
gence of a moment, perhaps, a small paragraph pops upon
him. He hastily throws it to the compositor; it is inserted, and
he is ruined to all intents and purposes." "Too much
the case Trim," said my uncle, with a deep sigh ; " too much
the case." " And please your honour," continued Trim,
elevating his voice, and striking into an imploring attitude,
" this is not the whole." "Go on, Trim," said my uncle,
feelingly. "The printer sometimes," pursued the cerpor-
ral, " hits upon a piece that pleases mightily, and he
thinks that it cannot but go down with his subscribers.
But, alas I Sir, who can calculate the human mind? He
inserts it, and it is all over with him. They forgive others,
but they cannot forgive a printer. He has a host to print
for, and every one sets up for a critic. The pretty Miss
exclaims, ' Why don't he give us more poetry, marriages,
and boa mots?—away with these stale pieces. The poll.
tician claps his specs on nose, and reads it over in search
of a violent invective; he finds none, takes his specs off,
folds them, sticks them in his pocket, declaring the paper
good for nothing but to burn. So it goes. Every one
thinks it ought to be printed expressly for him as a sub-
scriber ; and yet, after all this complaining, would you be-
lieve it, Sir," said the corporal, clasping his hands beseech-
ingly, " would you believe it, Sir, there are some sub-
scribers who do not hesitate to cheat the printer out of his
pay ?"—Anzerican. Paper.

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Invaluable preserving spectacle lenses. The
vibrator and all kinds of acoustic instruments,
alolyr roppeitsit
A very
extreme deafness.
horse, oc..the York Hotel.
THE HORSE THAT
remarkable case of the effects
sime since. A horse belong.
curred in Franklin a short tim_e grazing in the yard, near the
b;arsdta.rtsetododbafeokr in
a,
was
to the menagerie tae
fence, ASi lewr 121;1 es
frighttErer::up;;
ing to Mr. Joseph Palmer
fence, when the elephantsosing
along. The horse did not
cently in this city were passing
quite close to him ; when,
yleyhe
observe them till
He was lite-
laoofkriignhgt fright, and
teiri
ethe. seeing
droppedusgi huge
side noi fmdtael animals,
.
moment quiwedr-t--death. The extreme aversion of ,
but horses
rally. g
fri-hteare er than he selves is nothing new this
t„nirnab instance ms
we ever knew of such a remarkable re.
is the first ice Aurora.
salt.—No z
Esonsfous TURNIP.—There was handed into the
shop 9 °four cot, rres
apondep nt at Glenluce, upon Saturday last,
of
clear th
eof yellow bullock
species, AsbhearAd-e,e1131 lbs. 1 oz, and
measured , inches
round the middle. The Shaw had been
tpheeeacsewinhsitiachn weighed,u
torn otr, as well as a good part of the fore rind, otherwise it
would have weighed two or three ounces more. It grew
upon a field of Mr. Bl`Kenzie's, King's Arms Inn, Glenluce,
and his servant said it was pulled ahnost at random ,• at
least he could produce a number more from the same field of
as good weight ; indeed, to say the least of it, the whole crop
in the field is a very fine one. We may hope that such
specimens so early in the season, the turnip crop will not
prove a great failure after all.— Wifitown Free Press.
MONSTER SAL.Mos.—Last, Monslay morning there
was taken in the bag net at Tarlair, near Dlacduff, about a
mile and a half to the east of the river Deveron, a Ealoinon.?t
a size larger than has ever been known to be caught
h n n lst
coast. The fish, a male, weighed not less t 531bs. I
th
measured in girth 2 feet 4 inches across thetahicketsaitiwas
part,
of the
and in length 4 feet 3 inches. The breadth
have been caught
largest of the salmon kind ever known to
131,1 inches. The salmon fishers declare the fish to be the
on this coast. —BanPhire Journal.
A. 'sF AIR" CONTROVERSIALIST.—The Carlisle
, tripped up' in a
Deinncruf says : " We were handsomely
discussion the other day,
changewith a pretty young miss of our be•
rough, on the proposed in ladies dresses. After put-
tins our 'biggest licks,: ~e
, thought, against the contem-
plated innovation, the young
lady very naively knocked the
noise out of us by
) Ilg ' Ah, it you men would only permit
us ladies to adopt tThe
sa 'I
Turkish ,
allow you to adopt the urkish custom of having as many
wives as you please.' We incontinently threw up our caps
.
in favour of the short skirts end trousers.''