The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-13 00:00:00

--COIVSERVATIPE LAND SOCIETY.

The twenty-third quarterly meeting of the share-
holders in this society was held this day, at the officeo,
33, Norfolk-street, Strand.
Lord RANELA.GH, chairman of the board of directors,
presided.

The following report was agreed to unanimously :
" The Executive Committee, in presenting their
Twenty-third Quarterly Report, have the pleasure to
draw the attention of the Members of the Conservative
Land Society to the following satisfactory returns up to
the Midsummer quarter :

Sharesin
Shares
pr ----ess. completed
----- --- --,. Total. Receipts.
Grand totals to Sept. £ s. d.
30th, 1857 .... • • 11,338 2,278 13,516 312,557 8 5
Quarters ending—
Dee. 25, 1857 .. .. .. 91 37 128 9,503 17 4
March 25, 1858 ~ • . 122 137 259 13,922 11 2
June 24, 1858 .. ..
--- 124 85 209 11,8E5 19 3
Grand---
totalsto Mid-
summer, 1858 .. 11,675 2,537 14,212 347,849 16 2

•e , •
Total withdrawals, from the formation of the society on
the 7th of September, 1852, to Midsummer, 1858,
63,6721. 14s. 10d. Total sale of land during the above
period, 214,8921. Bs. sd. The returns of the register of
order of rights are as follow :—Completed, 2,892; drawn,
. 2,894; seniority, 1,507 ; total, 7,293 ; deduct rights
exercised on estates, budding advances, &a., 4,521 ;
unexercised rights, 2,772. The last share number on
the register by seniority, after the drawing on Tuesday,
July 13, 1858, will be about 8,685 ; and the last share
taken up to the 24th of June was No. 14,212. The
new estates offered to the holders of rights of choice
were, the Winchester, on the 29th of April ; the Prest-
wich Property, near Manchester, and seven choice plots
on the second portion of the St. Margaret's estate, on
the 24th of June. Although the amount of land die=
posed of during the quarter has been a fair average on
the whole, the committee were disappointed in their
expectations as to the result of these allotments, inas-
much as more attractive sites and eligible for building
purposes than those at Prestwich and Winchester, have
not been submitted to the shareholders. The register of
rights having been gone through, the unta.ken plots
have been tendered in the usual manner to the public at
large ; and latterly, owing to the zeal and activity of the
local agents, a demand has sprung up for the Winchester
estate quite justified by its intrinsic value and attrac-
tions, but which has doubtless been increased by the
appropriation of four plots •to the erection of a new
church, and the taking of the adjoining plot for a
parsonage house. It is to the Rev. Canon Carus
of Winchester Cathedral, that the highest credit
is due for this proposed addition to the
sacred edifices in the arish of St. Faith ; the
Bishop having kindly sanctioned and aided the good
work by assigning a district. A public meeting Wafs
held at Winchester on April 21, which was well attended,
and the explanations at which contributed to the suc-
cessful results now attending the sale of the estate. The
committee having resolved not to convene a meeting al
Manchester until the holders of rights of choice on the
register bad the opportunity of exercising their privilege,
have been requested to send down a deputation, to ex-
plain the general working of Land Societies, and the
mode of allotment of the Prestwich estate. An agree-
ment has been entered into by which the committee
hope to be enabled to offer for allotment a valuabh
piece of building land, adjoining Park terrace and th,
terminus of the Great Western and South-Western Rail-
ways at Weymouth. The opening of the two lines to
this favourite watering-place ~f George 111. has not only
greatly increased its popularity, but has developed im-
portant commercial and shipping advantages through
the direct intercourse with the Ceannel Islands. The
demand for house accommodation is so much on the
increase, that every available locality for building pur
poses within the town limits has become of extra-
ordinary value ; and the committee have reason to
anticipate that the plots to be presented in due coulee
for allotment, will be in demand, especially as Wey
mouth has become a naval and military station—larei
works being now in progress for the Government. A ce•
sire having be -n expressed that some of the unsold plot:
on various estate?, should be disposed of in larger quantl
ties than those specified in the original plans, so the
builders and other persons desirous of erecting houses on
an extensive scale, might be afforded the opportunity of
acquiring good-sized tracts of land, the committee,
in order to carry out this wish, have resolved to
offer, in larger portions, the remainder of the Kentish-
town, Battersea, Reading, and Redhill properties, sub-
ject to such alterations in the existing conditions as tin
cases may require. In their report to the members ot
September, 1857, the executive committee stated they
had come to the conclusion that the time was approacie-
ing for a further extension and develolitnent of the busi-
ness of the society, by making general advances on
building, and loans on approved security ; and is order
to afford the committee the necessary power, certain
alterations were made in the rules, at the annual meeting
last December. The committee having deemed it to ea
both prudent and expedient to contract the purchase and
allotment of land this year, have not yet undertaken
the enlargement of business in other directions ; but
unless some decided improvement in the building trades'
should manifest itself, the committee feel that they must
not trust for the future to land only as a permanent
source ot profit. The capital of the members can
be adequately turned to advances on every description
of security ; but to transact this new business to any
extent, it may be found requisite, in addition to the tak-
ing of money on the general share system, to receive
money on deposit accounts, allowing fixed rates of inte-
rest thereon. The committee have come to the resolution,
notwithstanding the low rate of money, of cuntinutng
the rate of interest, payable half-yearly on completed
shares, and shares in progress paid a year in advance and
upwards, at 5 per cent. until the close of the financial
year. Members who have taken plots of land on the
society's estates must bear in mind that Tuesday, the
20th of Jul
is the last day for sending claims fur county
votes ; and it is requested that those allottees who have
not yet been registered will duly forward to the solicitors
the necessary deeds to enable them to sustain their claims
at the registration courts. It is desirable that the holders of
plots who live at a distance from the county in which their
property is situated, should name the polling district at
which it will be most convenient for them to vote, and
the claims to be entered at the specified polling places
will then duly be made by the solicitors. Members
whose qualification or residence has been altered in any
respect, should lose no time in communica-ing with the
society's legal advisers, whose services are effected with-
out any expense to the individual holder of the plots,
the entire charge being borne by the society. The
executive committee, in their former reports, have
constantly urged the expediency of every Conservative,
not possessed of the freehold franchise, qualifying
through the speedy and cheap instrumentality of the
society, and have never ceased to call attention
to the neglected state of the registration in
various counties. Now that the Conservative Ad
ministration has been installed, and its tenure of
office insured for some time to come, the committee
cannot but emphatic ally repeat their warning to the
general body of Conv.rvatives throughout the country
not to neglect the registration, and to urge them to in-
crease their numbers in the county constituencies. It
the Conservative Land Society had received the proper
amount of political support since its formation, and the
registration bad been properly attended to, several
counties might have been saved to the cause, experience
having fully proved the good laith of the adottees on the
society's estates, nine-tenths of whom have voted, when
called upon to exercise the franchise, for the Conserve-
five candidates."

The drawing of shares was then proceeded with, and
;he proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the

cbarman.

THE GOVERNAENT BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY
BlLL.—Owing to the advanced state of the session the
Lord Chancellor is unable to introduce the new measure
of bankruptcy reform promised in the House of Lords a
few evenings since. He has, however, determined that
some altirxtion shall be mnde forthwith, and, availing
himself of the powers possessed under the present Act, he
has prepared a new series of rules and orders, by which
the present fees payable to solicitors, official assignee,,
accountants, messengers, and brokers in bankruptcy
will be greatly reduced. It is expected that these new
regulations will be promulgated during the course:of the '
present week.
THE POLICE FORCE IN LONDON.-13 inspectors, 19
sergeants, and 23 constables of the Metropolitan Police
rgeForce"gatre' employed on special duty, 28 policemen have
been allowed a sum of money (as detectives) in lieu of
the usual police uniform : 7 of these 28 men are em-
ployed fer the detection of criminals, 1 at the Queen's
Palace, 2 at the Peet-office, and 17 in checking the duty
on metropolitan stage carriages for the Inland Revenue
Department ; 11 constables are'euiployed in the Louden
docks, and 120 in Deptford and Woolwich dockyards,
at the expense of the Dock Company and the Admiralty
and the War Departments. 149 are employed at various
public buildings, 12 at museums, 12 at institutions, and
9 at the theatres, all at the cost of the respective de-
partments, institutions, and proprietors. Only 2 officers
are engaged at the Royal Italian Opera, 2 at Astlere,
and 1 at each of the metropolitan theatres, ciseontine
and tranepontine. Her Majesty's Theatre is guarded
by soldiers. 1 policeman suffices to keep order in Kew
gardens and Bushy-park, whereas thaAational Gallery
employs 5. That disorderly assembly, the House of
Commons, requires the services of 31 policemen, while
the graver and more sober House of Peers is content
with 19. The Tower and Greenwich Hospital employs
13 and 14 respectively.

SCENE AT SHEERNESS, —" You will hardly credit the
following fact," writes a correspondent :—" I was a pat.
sender by the Elfin steam-beat from hence to Sheerness,
and lauding at Sheerness-pier I noticed a man lying
with his face in the mud, I remarked to my wife who
was with me what a curious place for that man to be in.
She toll me ho was dead, having just been told of it,
and on pursuing my inquirir's I found that he was.
Now, will you actually btlteve it, but 'here was this poor
fellow tied by the. leg to a piece of timber, with a rope
about 30 feet long, and would remain there some days
waiting a coroner's inquest, so that the body was float-
ing at high water at.d lying on the mud at low. This
was within 30 yards of Sheerness-pier, a small distance
off a dozen rcen.of-war, close to a garAison, and I pre-
sume near a police station. The reason given for the
body not being picked up was that no one bad come
forward to claim it, and there is no dead house in Sheer-
ness. I never saw, except in China, so sickening a
sight, and such a one as this to t xist in England is a dis-
grace to any authority."

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

COURT OF PROBATE.
(Before Sir C. Cresswell, Judge Ordinary.)
IN THE MATTER OF CAROLINE ANN LINDSAY, DECEASED,

ONE OF THE CAWNYORE VICTIMS.
Dr. Robertson said this was an application for letters
of administration to the next of kin of Caroline Ann
Lindsay, formerly of Blackheath, but last of Cawnpore,
who died intestate on the 15th July last, one of the
victims of the massacre at Cawnpore by the Indian
rebels on that lamentable day. It appeared that she
was one of the children of the late Major George Lind-
say and his wife, Catherine Jemima, who, with their
other children, also fell victims to the foul massacre.
The father and mother, with some brothers and sisters, were
massacred on the 12th, and the deceased in question,with
r younger sister, were not killed till the general onslaught
on the 15th. The death of those parties in the manner
described, by the general onslaught and massacre of
women and children that took place on the 15th July,
was shown by a pencil writing, spotted with blood,
found amongst the clothes of the unfortunate victims,
as they lay dead upon the floor. The bodies, when dis-
,l covered, could not be identified, but there was no doubt
they were the parties, and a publication in the supple-
ment to the Gazette of the massacre of Major Lindsay
and his family, left no doubt of the fact. The admitted
finding, and contents of the memorandum referred to,
was also some evidence of the fact. Major Lindsay, by
his will, dated in November, 1849, bequeathed his per-
Arne' estate to trustees, to pay the dividend to his wife
for life, and after her death in trust for her children,
tenants in common, till the sons and daughters ar-
rived at the age of twenty-one, or in the event
of the marriage of the latter, and in the
event of death, to the survivors. Catherine
Ann Lindsay was the eldest child, and attained the age
of 21 in February, 1855, and after the massacre of the
father and mother and the other children on the 12th
July, the personalty was vested in her at the time of her
simultaneous massacre with her younger sister, sixteen
years and a half old, on the 15th July. The personalty
was valued at 11,0001., and distribution of the same
vested in Martin Lindsay, her uncle, applicant, and eight
other uncles and aunts, who concurred in the issue of
letters of administration to the applicant.
His Lordship said there was no reason to believe that
the youngest sister had survived Catherine Ann Lindsay,
and he would grant the application.
Or. Robertson said that unfortunately was the case.
Application granted.

ROLLS' COURT.
(Before Sir John Romilly.)
THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY
V. THE BIRMINGHAM, WARRINGTON, AND STOOKEORT
RAILWAY COMPANY.

His Honour the Master of the Rolls considered that
the plaintiffs had not made out an exclusive right to nee
the Chester station ; that this was a right required to be
establisned at law ; and, until this was done, they were
not entitled to an injunction against the defendants to
restrain them from using the Chester station.
His Honour stayed further proceedings in this suit
until the exclusive right at law to the Chester station
was determined ; counsel for the parties consenting to
take short notice of trial, and to try the question of legal
right at the first Cheshire Assizes on 3d August next,
with liberty to apply.

The Manchester and Sheffield Company withdrew
with costs.

HUGHES V. JONES.

His Honour the Master of the Rolls observed that this
was one of those cases where a person, being proprietor
of adjoining property, was desirous to purchase the ad-
joining property without having the means ready to pay
for it, in the hope that the delays of the law, which was
too often the else, would give hitu time to pay it. He
could not coincide iu these views. He was satisfied that
the only question here—if it could be called a question
—was one of title ; and directed the usual re-
ference to the Master as to the title, and reserved the
costs of the plaintiff, but gave no costa to the defendant.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET,
STEALING A PURSE FROM THE DOWAGER COUNTESS
SPENCER'S CARRIAGE.—Jarnes Withers, a brushmaker,
residing in Drummond-place, Somers-town, was charged
by Henry Joy, 338 A, with stealing a purse containing
41., the property of the Dowager Countess Spencer,
from her carriage.
Henry Joy, 338 A, said he was in Regent-street on
the previous afternoon, when he observed the prisoner
looking into the different carriages at the shop doors.
He then saw the prisoner go up to the carriage opposite
178, Piccadilly, and ihaving reconnoitred to see Whether
the coachman or footman on the box were looking, the
prisoner took from a small basket in the carriage the
purse in question. He (the prisoner) then ran off, he
pursuing him, and on coming up with the prisoner at
the corner of Beak-street, he asked him for the purse he
bad taken from the carriage. The prisoner said
he had thrown it away, but feeling certain he had not,
he put his hand into his breast coat pocket and took the
purse, which contained four sovereigns, one half sove-
reign, and some smaller coins, therefrom.
Wm. Baxter, footman to the Countess Dowager
Spencer, of 27, St. James's-place, said the purse pro-
duced belonged to the countess. It was in the marriage
sate a few minutes previously, and was taken while the
countess had gone into a shop. Ile was certain as to
the purse, though not to the contents.
In answer to Mr. Beadon, the prisoner said he would
plead guilty to the charge.
Joy said he knew nothing of him, but he might find
out if he was remanded.
Mr. Beadon said he should send him for six monthe,
with hard labour.