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CONSERVATIVE LAND' ASOCIBTE

At the thirtieth quarterly general meeting of
the members, held at the offices, 33, Norfelk-street,
Strand, London, this day, the following report was
unanimously agreed to :
The• executive committee, in presenting their
thirtieth report to the shareholders, congratulate
them on the cheerful and encouraging returns as
annexed, for the first six months, ending at Lady•
Day, of the financial year :

Shares
Quarters ending in Shares Total Receipts.
progres. Complete Shares.
s. d.
Dec. 25,1859
101. 66 167 17,012 13 2
March 25,1860 l3l 127 258 17,883 13 9
Totals for half year 232 , 193 42 34,890 611
Totals to _Sept. 30,
1859 - 12,435 2,658 15,093 407,973 14 5
Grand totalsto Lady
day, 1860 112,667 2,851 15,518 442,870 1 4

The increase in the receipts of the last Christmas
quarter over that of 1858, is £7,917 11s. 10d. The
increase in the receipts of the present Lady-day
quarter over that of 1839, is £5,114 10s. 10d. The
increase in the receipts of the half-year of 1860
over that of 1859, is L 113,032 2s. Bd. Total with-
drawals from the formation of the society (Sept. 7,
1852) to Lady-day, 1860, £103,904 4s. sd. Total
sale of land during the above period, £237,173 18s.
lid. The returns of the register of order of rights
are as follows :—Completed, 3,566 ; drawn, 3,058 ;
seniority, 1,606 ; total, 8,231. Deduct rights exer-
-- cised on estates, &c., 5,728 ; unexercised rights,
2,503. The last share number on the register by
seniority is No. 11,090, and the last share taken up
to the 25th of March inclusive, was No. 15,518.
The executive committee have the pleasure to re-
port the sale of all the highest priced plots on the
Roman-road estate, North Bow, offered through the
register of rights on the 18th of last January, leav-
ing only lots at £36 11s. 6d. each (including con-
veyance) for disposal, some of which have been subse-
quently sold. The remainder will be in demand
when the New Usher and Armagh Roads (the con-
tinuation of the first Old Ford estate) are made. As
soon as the approval 'of the surveyor's plan and
' specifications be obtained from the local board,
tenders will be advertised for. In the meanwhile,
building has already commenced on the estate, and
plots in the Roman-road (which will be widened for
the public accommodation) have been resold by the
purchasers since allotment at a premium. At the
public meeting held by the society at Old Ford on
the 10th of January, the attention of the deputa-
tion from the executive committee was called to
the question of securing additional railway accom-
modation for the increasing population of North
Bow, Old Ford, &c.; and at a subsequent meeting
on the 9th of February, of the North Bow Improve-
ment Association, two members of the board
attended, and were added to the local committee, to
memorialise the Eastern Counties Railway Com-
pany for a new station at or near Addington-road,
Bow. If not, successful, it may be expedient to
apply to the North London Company. The Roe-
hampton Park estate has. now passed into the pos-
session of the society, and the executive committee
have the satisfaction to st.ite that sales have already
been effected of portions of the Putney Heath
frontage, which will secure forthwith the erection
of first-class villas. No adequate offers have
as yet been made for the mansion and pleasure-
grounds, with the addition of as !melt park-land
as a purchaser may desire. Independently of its
undeniable attractions as a residence for any noble-
man or gentleman desirous of being within half an
hour's drive from the west end, and one hour from
the City, combining therefore the double advantage
of a town and country residence, the Roehampton
Park mansion and land might be easily turned to
account for various public purposes and institutions.
The executive committee will deal with this pro-
perty as with the St. Margaret's estate, waiting a
reasonable period for an offer for the mansion, and
the whole or portion of the land; and if not disposed
of, it will be entirely converted into plots for build-
ing, 'which will be allotted in due course. In the
meanwhile the sale of the land, the furthest re-
' moved from the mansion, will be continued at the
offices of the society, in plots of one acre and up-
wards, at prices ranging from £320 to £640 per
acre. The Southwark and Vauxhall Water Com-
pany have promised to carry on the pipes now laid
on the roads of the estate fronting Putney Heath
to
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estate, being its first purchase in Oxfordshire. The
land is situated close to the cricket ground at Oxford,
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eiettse fortiethT The h
Iffley Road, within a mile of the city, on the Henley
and London road, and forms the extreme south-east
point of the New Cowley district, within the juris-
diction of the new local government act. The estate
is well adapted for villas and houses, being the highest
land in the whole district of the valley of the Tkames.
Borlase Hill Adams, Esq., has resigned% his place at
the board, being unable to continue his valuable
services, for which the thanks of the executive
committee have been given., It has not been neces-
sary to fill up the vacancy, as the present number
of members of the board is in conformity with the
rules. A committee of allottees on the St. Mar-
garet's estate having entered into negotiations with
the Office of the Woods and Forests to purchase
the ferry at Isleworth, the moment has been consi-
dered opportune by the board to convene an evening
meeting at Richmond on the 29th inst., and ask for
the co-operation of the inhabitants, and those of
Twickenham, Isleworth, St. Margaret's, &c., to
raise the necessary fundi to erect a foot-bridge as
an appendage to the railway-bridge across the
Thames at Richmond. The executive committee
trust that a work of such general utility will meet
with every support from the localities interested in
its success, both on the Surrey and Middlesex sides
of the Thames. Before the next quarterly meeting
the board entertain the expectation to offer through
the Register of Rights some eligible investments in
ground-rents and houses, as well as in building
land.

RANELAGH, Chairman.
C. L. GRUNEISEN, Secretary.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS--(YESTERDAY.)

Lord REDESDALE, as Deputy-Speaker of the Houve of
Lords, owing to the absence of the Lord Chancellor, took
his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock.
THE INCOME TAX IN INDIA.

The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH wished to put a ques-
tion to the noble duke as to a statement that had appeared in
the newspapers with respect to the financial scheme about
to be introduced into India. He wished to ask whether the
Government would be enabled to place the details of
the plan on the table of the house, and also
whether the Government had given their sanction mid
approval to the same. 'He was extremely anxious about
the subject, because there was some mistake among private
soldiers as to whether they would become subject to the pro-
posed income-tax.
The Duke of ARGYLL said if such a scheme had been
proposed his noble friend the Secretary of State for India
was not aware of it when he had last seen him. The noble
earl had given no notice of his question, therefore he was
unprepared to give him any answer in an official manner ;
but he would beg noble lords to abstain from all observa-
tions prejudicial to the scheme till the Government had
given an accurate account of the subject.
PUBLIC BUSINESS. _ _

The Duke of NEWCASTLE said it would be no doubt
acceptable if he stated the names of the bills he had alluded
to when he-made that statement relative to the Easter re-
cess. The, bills alluded to were the Income-tax Bill and
the Stamp Bill; both of which it was desirable should re-
ceive the Royal assent previous to the recess. With re-
spect to three other bills—viz., the Customs' Bill,the Paper
Duty Bill, and the Wine Licenses Bill, they would not be
gone on with until after the holidays.
The Earl of DERBY said he was glad it was not in-
tended to proceed with the repeal of the paper duty before
Easter.

putting an end to, or at least of materially mitigating, the
' hardships now entailed on Irish born poor, by their removal
to Ireland by the parochial authorities of England, Wales,
and Scotland ?
Mr. CARDWELL said that the evils of the present sys-
tem were universally admitted, and the Poor-law Board
had taken steps to redress them, but without success. It
was unnecessary for him to state what these steps were, but
he begged to inform the hon. member that the Poor-law
Board intended to appoint a committee to inquire into this
subject, and would adopt the necessary measures as soon as
they were in possession of the report of that committee.
MAGISTERIAL APPOINTMENT IN AUSTRALIA.
Mr. HOPE asked the Secretary for the Colonies whether
he was in possession of any information bearing on a state-
ment which had been made that an electioneering agent
had been appointed a justice of peace in one of the Austra-
lian colonies, he being at the time, and having continued
after his appointment, to be a hired servant in the employ-
ment of a resident in the district for which he had been
appointed such justice.
Mr. C. FORTESCUE said he heard nothing on the
subject officially.
DIPLOMATIC ESTABLISHMENTS IN
FLORENCE.
Lord H. LENNOX asked the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs what steps it was his intention to take with
regard to breaking up the
.diplomatic establishments now
existing in. Florence? also, whether he intended any, and
what, change in the position of the Queen's representative
at the Sardinian Court in consequence of the recent aggran-
disement of that State ?
Lord J. RUSSELL said with respect to the first part of
the question he had advised her Majesty's Government to
abolish tae diplomatic establishment at Florence altoge-
ther, and measures were being adopted for that purpose.
With regard to the next question, on the annexation of
Piedmont, he had raised the mission at Sardinia to the
first class, and he did not know that any other step was
necessary in reference to this matter.
CONSOLIDATED FUND (£850,000) BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
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WAYS- AND ME ANa —AMP ORT
THE ANNEXATION OF SAVOY.
Mr. LAING brought up the report of the Committee of
Ways and Means.
Upon the first resolution,
Mr. HO.RSMAN said,—l wish to avail myself of this
opportunity to make some remarks upon the foreign policy
of the country, especially as to the position in which this
house stands in discussing our relations with other Powers,
both towards our Ministry at home and foreign Powers
abroad. In doing this I shall not go prospectively into ques-
tions which are now the subject of negotiation, but shall
endeavour rather to vindicate the rights and pri-
vileges of the house as to the present than revive
unnecessarily questions of the past. When Parlia-
ment met at the beginning of the session it was
well known that various questions, not of nego-
tiation only but of diplomatic controversy, were pending
between the Governments of England and France—ques-
tions respecting Egypt, respecting Spain and Morocco, and
respecting China. No one can say that the Government
has been hampered by any interference on the part of this
house in connexion with any of those matters. It was well
known that there had been a controversy of so serious a
nature on the subject of the Suez Canal that at one time.
judging from the information given by the authorised
French journals, it had given rise to very considerable em-
barrassment on the part of the English Cabinet. But it
was stated that the Emreror of the French, wishing to put
an end to this state of things, had postponed the question to
a more convenient time. Although, however, we knew that
such a postponement must sow the seeds of future embar-
rassment to this country, not one word of information has
been laid upon the table by her Majesty's Ministers as to
the correspondence between the two Governments, and not
one question has been asked in this house concerning it.
After that the war between Spain and Morocco excited at-
tention. We know that in the first instance the English
Cabinet took a very high tone with Spain. The French
Cabinet took an equally high tone on the other side in sup-
port of Spain, and we were again told by the official organs
of the French Emperor that there had been what in diplo •
matic language is called an animated conversation between
the First Minister of England and the French Ambassador
upon this subject, which ended in the French Ambassador
politely informing the English Minister that the Emperor
was not to be diverted by the representations of this
Government from the course on which he had already
determined. Then we were informed by her Majesty
in the Speech from the Throne that efforts had been made
to mediate between Spain and Mbrocco, and papers on the
subject were promised, but that promise has not yet been
fulfilled, and not one question has been asked. (Hear.)
Again, various difficulties occurred with the French
Government; as to the joint expedition to China. The
official organs of the French Government stated that it was
the determination of France not to assist England in China
unless England would assist France out of her difficulties
in Italy. The joint expedition, however, was finally ar-
ranged, and many persons believe it to be a great error and
a source of much difficulty in the future. (Hear, hear.)
Not a line of the correspondence on this subject, again, has
been laid upon the table, ner has a question been asked of
the Government. I state these facts to show that there has
been no desire on the part of the house to embarrass the
Government, or in any way to fetter their free action.
(Hear, hear.) When, therefore, upon the question of Savoy
greater anxiety was displayed, we had a right to expect
credit from the Government and from the public for inter-
fering there only because it was a matter of great urgency,
in which we thought that the functions of diplomacy were
about being exhausted, and that the interposition of Par-
liament was absolutely necessary in order to avert conse-
quences which the diplomacy of the Government had been
too weak to prevent. (Hear, hear.) As to Savoy, I wish to
call the attention of the house to the points which have
been brought more immediately before us in the course of
the present session. At the close of the last session it may
be remembered the Foreign Secretary stated that the Em-
peror of the French in making peace had voluntarily ab-
jured all ideas of anything like territorial aggrandisement
—(cheers) —and he remarked very frankly and in a very fair
spirit towards the Emperor that he thought it right to make
the statement, because rumours of an entirely opposite cha-
racter had been propagated. The house separated with that
assurance. At the beginning of the present sessi ese
rumours were again revived, questions were as - to
their truth, and the answer given was that no o _5ll in-
formation had been received on the subject. ' e then
appeared no belief on the part of the GovermAlint in the
existence of such a report, and for the moment the Incise
was satisfied ; but immediately afterwards the organs
of the French Government published an open and
avowed declaration of the determination of France to annex
Savoy. Again were the Government interrogated, and
again the answer was that, no doubt, France had indicated a
desire to annex Savoy, but that Sardinia had determined
not to assent. The house was again satisfied for the mo-
ment ; but shortly afterwards the hon. member (Mr. King-
lake), supported by the hon. baronet (Sir. R. Peel), showed
that they were in possession of precise and accurate infor-
mation that Sardinia had agreed to cede Savoy, and asked
whether the Government had any information. The answer
was, that that information had been received, but it was
coupled with the agreeable assurance from the Emperor that
nothing would be done without asking the consent of the
population, and abiding entirely by their decision. (Cheers.)
On a subsequent occasion the hon. member and the hon.
baronet said they bad reason to believe that a treaty be-
tween Sardiniaand France was on the point of being signed
by which Savoy was to be ceded without the consent of the
population. Again they received for answer that this was
quite true, but there was comfort still, because the Govern-
ment had obtained from the Emperor the gratifying assur-
ance that the question should be submitted to the Powers
of Europe, and Lhat nothing should be done without their
assent—(cheers) ;—and it was added that if the house,
which had so far shown forbeaiance to the Ministry, would
oily continue to exhibit that forbearance, and would place
in them the same confidence which the Government re-
posed in the Emperor, Savoy might still be saved. (Cheers.)
This was received with greater pleasure and gratification,
and with more cheering from the benchesbehinchhe Minis-
try than were bestowed on any previous announcement,
whereupon the First Minister was so elated by the enthu-
siasm displayed that he relapsed into high encomiums upon
the Emperor, reminding the house of his Majesty's first de-
claration that the Empire was Peace, going out of his way
to assert that nothing which had occurred in the invasion
of Italy was at variance with this declaration,
and expressing also his opinion that the invasion
of Italy was a noble enterprise. The house rested
upon that assurance ; but a few days afterwards the hon.
member (Mr. Kinglake) got information of a still more
precise and alarming character, which was, that not only
was the annexation determined on, but that Savoy
deputies were actually on their way to Paris to do homage
to the Emperor. (Hear, and laughter.) The hon. gen-
tleman showed me his telegram, and did me the honour to
consult me whether, considering the impatience—and, I may
say, the intolerance—which had been shown by a part of
the house, he should be justified in again intruding himself
upon its attention. My opinion was, that the statement which
he had to make was so serious a one that it was his duty
again to bring it under the notice of the Government. He
accordingly did so, and with what result ? A despatch was
gravely read, announcing, not only that the annexation of
Savoy was determined on, but that the assent of the great
Powers of Europe was not to be required—(cheers)—and the
noble lord, on the impulse of the moment, speaking as he
did under great emotion, told us that as soon as he had
written an answer to that despatch, and her Majesty's ap-
proval had been obtained thereto, it would be laid on the
table. That despatch has been written—it has been trans-
mitted—but when we ask the noble lord to let us see it, we
are told that the Cabinet does concur in the fulfilment of the
pledge which he gave,
and that despatch has not been pro-
duced. I must say, that this is to me only another indica-
tion that the spirit of the noble lord is not the spirit that
guides the councils and rules the foreign policy of this coun-
try. (Hear.) What 18 the reason that 18 now given for the

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