The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1858.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, 4th DECEMBER, 1858.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do HEREBY GIVE NOTICE,
That a General Court of. the said Company will be held, as
above, on Monday, the 20th instant, at eleven o'clock in the
forenoon, in order to receive the Report of the Committe of
Proprietors appointed at the General Court, of 30th August
last "for the purpose of consulting with the Directors in re-
ference to the measures to be taken for the future manage-
ment of the Company's affairs," and for the discussion of the
said Report, and other general business.
Copies of the Minutes, and Report of the Cowmittee, are
laid upon the table in the. Proprietors room Coethe inspec-
tion of Proprietors.

C. CRAUFURD, Acting Secretary.

EAST AND WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
and WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY HEREBY
GIVE NOTICE, That the Transfer Books- of the said Com-
pany will be shut on Monday, the 13th December, 1858, and.
open again on Tuesday, the 4th January, 1859.
By order of the Court,
GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary.
East and West India Dock House,
Billiter-square, Dec. 3, 1858.

RED SEA AND INDIA TELEGRAPH
COMPANY (Limited).

SECOND CALL of £3, making (with deposit) £8 paid.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a CALL of Xi per
Share has been this day made on the Shares of the Company,
payable on WEDNESDAY, the 29th inst., at the Public Draw-
ing Office of the Bank of England. Interest at the rate of .f.,5
per cent. will be charged on all Calls in arrear.
Dated this 3d day of December, 1858.
By order of the Board.
C. L. PEEL, Secretary.
8, Moorgate-street.

LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAIL-
WAY.—NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,. that on and
after WEDNESDAY NEXT, the Ist December, ALTERA-
TIONS will be made in the RATES and FARES for MER-
CHANDISE, Cattle, and Passenger Traffic between London,
Manchester, Liverpool, Warrington, Huddersfield, and the
intermediate and surrounding towns and places in Lancashire
and Yorkshire. Full particulars may be obtained on applica-
tion at the Company's Offices and Stations, and also of the
Company's Agents, Messrs. Pickford and Co., Wood-street,
Cheapside, and Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, Hambro Wharf,
•shames-street.
By order, W. CAWKWELL, General Manager..
Euston Station, 29th November, 1858.

CONTRACT FOR NECESSARIES FOR THE ROYAL

MARINES,

Department of the Comptroller for Victuallin.. and
Transport Services, Somerset-place, 6th Dcc.,1868.
rrHE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED
KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on THURSDAY, the 23d
inst., .at Half-past One o'Clock, they will be ready to treat
with such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for sup-
plying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores
at Deptford, the under-mentioned Articles of Necessaries for
the Royal Marines, as shall from time to time be demanded
for 12 Months certain, and afterwards until the expiration of
three Months' warning, viz. :
TIN MESS CANS, TIN MESS CAN COVERS, BUTTON
BRUSHES, BUTTON STICKS, ORNAMENTS for FORAG-
ING CAPS, HAND TOWELS, and LINEN BAGS.
Patterns of the Articles may be seen at the Royal Marine
Office, New-street, Spring-gardens, between the hours of One
and Four,
The conditions of the revised contract may be seen at the
said office. No tender will be received after Half-past One
o'clock on the day of Treaty, nor any noticed unless made on
the printed form provided for the purpose, and which may be
obtained on application at the said Office.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, a-id bear in the left-hand corner the words " Ten-
der for ," and must also be delivered at Somerset-
place.

GEORGE HOBSON begs to call the attention
of Gentlemen to _his New Autumnal Trousers, 21s. to
255. Also his New Partridge Mixture Shooting Coats.

Excellence with Economy.
GEORGE HOBSON, 57, Lombard-street
Established 1796.

COCKS'S CELEBRATED READING SAUCE
J which is so highly esteemed with Fish, Gime, Steaks
Soups, Grills, Gravies, Hot and Cold Meats, and unrivalled
For general use, Is sold by the most respectable dealers in Fish
Sauces.—J. and C. COCKS, Reading, Sole Manufacturers.

WHO WILL PAY THE CHINESE
INDEMNITY ? Why, the English themselves. An
export duty is to be levied, and then not even the East India
Tea Company will be able, as they now are, to sell 61b. of
Black, Green, or Mixed Tea, at ls. 10d. per lb., and Coffee, in
the Berry, at 10d.—Warehouse, 9, Great St. Helen's-church-
yard, Cirr.

DECAYED TEETH and TOOTHACHE.—
HOWARD'S ENAMEL for stopping Decayed Teeth,
however large the cavity. It is placed in the tooth in a soft
state, without any pressure or pain, and immediately
HARDENS INTO ENAMEL ; it will remain in the tooth
many years, rendering extraction unnecessary, and arresting
the further progress of decay. Sold by all medicine vendors,
Price One Shilling.

18 9.
LETTS'S DIARIES, ALMANACS,
• &c., adapted to all Callings, Professions, or
Trades, in above 100 VARIETIES of Size and form, from
6 pence to 14 shillinTs each, as well as Descriptive Catalogues,
GRATIS, may be obtained at any BOOKSELLEWS in the
Kingdom._ LETTS and Co., 8, Royal Excnange.

E"Gif3 COCOA. --EPPS, homoeopathic chymist,
London.—This excellent preparation originally pro-
duced for the use specially of homeopathic patients having
been adopted by the general public, can now be had of the
principal grocers.—Each packet is labelled James Epps,
homeopathic chymist, London.

AN ACT OF GRATITUDE.-5,000 Copies of
a Medical Book for Gratuitous Circulation.—GEOßGE
THOMAS, Esq., having been effectually cured of nervous de-
bility, loss of memory, and dimness of sight, resulting from
the early errors of youth, by following the instructions given
in a Medical Work by a Physician, he considers it his duty, in
gratitude to the author, and for the benefit of nervous suf-
ferers, to publish the means used. He will therefore send
free, to any address, in a sealed_ envelope, on receipt of a
directed envelope, enclo3ing two stamps, to prepay postage,
a copy of the medical work, containing every information re-
quired. Address, G. Thomas, Esq., Craven House, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne.

APPETITE AND INDIGESTION IMPROYED.
LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE
iJ SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks,
Chops, and all Roast Meat, Gravies, Game, Soup, Cur-
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enables the stomach to perfectly digest the food.
The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the
best safeguard to health.
Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchnrch-
street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester ; also ty
Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and
other oilmen and merchants, London ; and generally by the
principal dealers in sauce.
N.B.—To guard against imitations, see that the names of
"LEA and PERRINS " are upon the label and patent cap of
the bottle.

TO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED.
CHARLES WATSON, M.D., Fellow and Honorary
Vice-President of the Imperial African Institute of France,
Corres. Member of the Medical Societies of Rouen and Peru,
National Academy of Sciences, Paris, &e., and late Resident
Physician to the Bedford Dispensary,. 27, Alfred-place, Bed-
ford-square, London, continues to issue, on receipt of six
stamps, " THE GUIDE TO SELF-CURE."
"Those about entering. the Marriage' State -should peruse
Or. Watson's invaluable little work, as the advice he gives on
health and disease reflects much credit upon him as a sound
medical philosopher."—Critic.
" The true Guide to those who desire a speedy and private
cure."—University Malazine.
" The NEW AMERICAN DISCOVERY' demonstrates
the absurdity of the English mode of treating such com-
plaints, will prove a blessing to the afflicted, who may safely
and easily regain pristine health by adopting the means pre-
sented."—Evening Sun.
For Qualification, vide " Diplomas," and the " London
Medical Directory."

THE PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOXES

Mr. Poinsot, the distinguished Member of the
Institute, and celebrated for the discovery of the
theory of couples in mechanics, has recently solved
an important problem, which has baffled the in-
genuity of mathematicians since the time of New-
ton. It is well known that the intersections of the
terrestrial equator with the ecliptic, called the
equinoxes, never occur twice at the same point, but
that every year they appear to recede by about
50.18 seconds. This retrograde motion is called
the " precession of the equinoxes." To explain this
motion by the theory of universal gravitation be-
came an important problem at the time when
Newton made that great discovery. He himself
attempted an explanation of it, but the imperfect
state of astronomy arthat period deprived him of
the advantage of certain data which were indis-
pensable to arrive at the desired solution. In 1747,
Bradley, by a series of laborious observations,
patiently continued for the space of ;20 years, at
length ascertained that the earth's axis had a pecu-
liar swinging motion, of which no astronomer
before him had even suspected 7the existence,
and this motion he called " nutation." He also
proVed that this nutation, which causes the axis of
the earth to describe in space a sort of fluted cone,
having a base of an elliptical form, but modified •by
certain minute undulations, about 1,400 in number,
was closely connected with the motion of preces-
sion. D'Alembert then took up the problem, and
in 1749 published, a solution of it, which indeed
accounts for the above motions in a general way,
but is far from sufficient to explain the cause of
those singular undulations which the pole of the
earth describes. The delicacy of the question will
be easily understood from the fact that within the
compass of the earth the axis appear' s to have no
motion at all, and that the phenomenon of nuta-
tion is only perceptible at an immeasurable dis-
tance in the heavens. We now come to Mr. Poin-
sot's admirable solution, founded on his well-known
a ti
o predecessors,n
which,
theory of couples. Neglecting all useless
useless consi-
he proves by mathematical
derations that had
embarrassed
calculations, chul l
considering the difficulty of the problem, have the

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OPENING OF THE SPANISH COJJTES.

MADRID, Dic. 1.
The Queen has just opened the Chambers. Her
Majesty spoke as

" Senors, Senators, and Deputies—l hove come
with feelings of lively satisfaction to inaugurate
your labours. Surrounded by the representatives of
the nation, who at all times have given me the
most marked proofs of their affection and loyalty,
I am strengthened. in the hope_ that, under the sha.
dow of the throne, Spain will enjoy tranquilly the
advantages of constitutional government, and will
attain the power which -once -was hers, through the
courage and science of her children-, her religious
piety, and the wise rule of her monarchs.
visiting last summer certain provinces of
the monarchy I had occasion to become acquainted
with the wants of the country, as with its progress,
which is due in great measure to the reforms
adopted, with the co-operation of the Cortes, during
my reign, I received everywhere proofs of the love
and respect which Spaniards hava ever manifested
towards their monarchs ; and I recall with delight
the enthusiastic marks of adhesior to my royal per-
son. -My august Consort and our children were the
object of similar demonstrations of loyalty; and, I
only regret that the Prince of Asturias could not,
by reason of his tender age, fix them in an indelible
manner in his heart. I hope that; recounted by me,
they will awaken in him the virtues of the magna--
nimous kings who have preceded him, and that one
day he will correspond to the love of his mother, by
devoting himself with zeal to ensure the happiness
of the nation which Providence has destined to him.

" The Supreme Pontiff continues to give me dis-
tinguished proofs of his benevolence, and in my
lively desire to end the difficulties created by the
vicissitudes of the times, I have given instructions
to my Ambassador at Rome to arrange with the
Holy See in a manner the most conducive to the
interests of the Church and the State the solution.
of all pending luestions,
" I have the satisfaction to announce to you that
our relations with friendly powers are at this nn-
ment most cordial and sincere.

" I have adopted all the means compatible with
the national dignity to prevent peace being dis-
turbed between two countries bound by fraternal
ties ; but if, contrary to my wishes and hopes, an
immediate result is not obtained by pacific negotia-
aton and temperance in
i with a vigour and
energy
tions, I will employ the resources already prepared
in u
demands,moder
the long period of the differences existing with the
Government' of Mexico. _
esgyppenqrt ualoftom they

" Some ships of the squadron, assembled at the
Havannah, are stationed in the river at Tampico,
and also in the waters of the island of Sacrificios,
with the object of protecting the interests and the
lives of my subjects.
" The Emperor of Morocco, recognising, as he
I had now done -up to the present, a principle embo-
died-in the treaties concluded with Spain, in virtue
of which he'has agreed to pay an indemnity for the
ship
_captured.:by. the Moors of the Riff more than
two years ago, I hope that he will continue to
satisfy in like manner my demands; that I may no
longer be obliged to have recourse to force to ensure
respect to the Spanish flag, and that there will be
no repetition' of the excesses committed, against our
fortresses and:our merchant ships by the. Moors of
the Riff at various periods. •
" The outrages -of which our missionaries were
the victims in Asia have obliged me to -send, in
conjunction with the Emperor of the
,French, a
military expedition to Cochin China.. Tbe land and
sea force will, not, should the occasion occur, be
below the traditions and the memory of the exploits
wittich always • distinguish the Spanish soldier•when
defending the 'interests and the hoiiour of his coun-
try and his Sovereign.
" The army which, 'by its courage and discipline,
has constantly rendered so many eminent services,
became each day more deserving of my Royal bene-
volence, and of the gratitude of the country ; as
also the navy, whose progress gave me complete
satisfaction on my visiting one of our principal
maritime establishments.

" The condition of the ultramarine provinces con -
tinue's to be most flourishing. The reform introduced
in the administration by my Government give, and
will continue to give, on a larger scale, the best re-
sults that the nation can expect from them. And
I feel great pleasure in assuring you that efficacious
measures have been adopted that our neglected pos-
sessions of the Guif of Guinea may attain the com-
mercial importance which belongs to them by their
geographical position.
" My Government, having in view the re-estab-
lishment of the empire of the law, has relieved the
whole country from the state of siege without the
profound tranquillity it enjoyed being disturbed.
" A provident policy which improves the present
without
.destroying it,.which labours to develop sure
though slow progress in all the branches of the ad-
ministration, will conciliate the public mind and
render possible the co-oneration of Spaniards in
consolidating the prosperity of the nation, and the
sincere practice of consatutional Governments.
" My Government will lay before you various
projects of law having for their object the carrying
out of this intention. The country has long required
a law on the press which shall permit, under the
protection of the jury, free discussion on the public
interests, and on the acts o: the Ministers, but -which
shall defend the rights and the prerogatives of the
Throne, the powers of the Cortes, the Catholic re-
ligion, and the honour of the citizens.
" It will be necessary also to introduce in the
laws on municipal corporations (AyanZamientos)
and provincial councils (Nnttacioneo Provineiales)
meliorations which shall facilitate the intervention
of the people in their own immediate interests with-
out embarrassing the action of the Government and
which shall give them the resources indispensable
for their requirements, without, however, placing
obstacles in the collection of the imposts and re-
venue of the Treasury. By way of complement to
these meliorations, laws on the Council of State, on
the Councils General, and Departmental Govern-
ments will be submitted to you with the view of re-
gulating the administration, facilitating its action,
and giving to public and private interests more se-
curity in their conduct and their justice.
" The estimates for 1859 will be immediately laid
before you without any new imposts. The revenue
and the public taxes will suffice to meet the ordi-
nary expenditure of administration. Other wants
for which these do not suffice require special mea-
sures which my Government will submit to you.
And with these means, carrying out their general
plan of progress and melioration, they will provide
for the repairs of the churches, for public works,
materiel for the army and navy, and the penal and
charitable establishments.

" The sale of the communal property and that of
other civil corporations being still carried on, new
bases will be proposed to you for redeeming the
long leases (Ernphyteoses) and for the better invest-
ment of the proceed of the said sales.
" A harvest, if not abundant, at least more favour-
able than for the last few years, offers an occasion
to establish regulations for the importation of grain,
and for reconciling the interests of agriculture
with those of commerce, so as to secure the subsis-
tence of the poorer classes. Countries which are
indebted to nature for a soil sa fertile as that of
Spain ought not to abandon the food of their
populations to the uncertain speculations of
trade, but rather aid the power of production by
facilitating irrigation and removing the obstacles
which, in the mortgage system and in the condi-
tions of credit, oppose the developments of prosper
rity. Projects of law on this head will in due
time be laid before you, in harmony with the pro-
gre3s of agriculture, economy, and social require-
' ments.
" The chief obstacle in the way of our agricul-
ture is the want of internal communication to
equalise production and consumption in different
provinces. With the impulse given to the con-
struction of railroads by certain companies, with
tranquillity in the country, and the assistance of
the Treasury, the day is at hand when the nation
will enjoy the advantages of rapid communication.
The Government will propose to you measures for
the formation of the most important lines, and
for, connecting them with a system of ordinary
roads over all the productive points uf our terri-
tory.
"Projects of law on mines, &c., will also be sub-
mitted to you. _ _

" You will also have to occupy yourselves with
other grave and numerous affairs, but they will
not be above your strength or your patriotism.
." By examining with attention the projects that
will be laid before you, and by aiding to re-establish
among the Spanish people unity of sentiments—
the source, one day, of their greatness and their
glory—God will bless our labours ; and, for myself,
I shall obtain that which my, heart desires most—
the wealth, the power, and the prosperity of the
Spanish nation."

CO..VSE RVATIVE 13-4 ND SOCIETY.

ANNUAL MEETING.—(THIS DAY.)
The sixth annual, and twenty-fifth quarterly,
meeting of this society was held, this day, at
Exeter Hall. Viscount RANELAGII, chairman of
the directors, presided.

The usual routine business having been disposed
of, the following report, which was agreed to
unanimously, was read :
An additional year having been added, on the
30th of September last, to the financial history of
the Conservative Land Society, it becomes the
pleasing duty of the. Executive Committee to fur-
nish their Sixth Balance Sheet and Annual Ab-
stract of Accounts. It will not have escaped the
attention of the shareholders, that the operations:of
the past year commenced under an extraordinary
pressure on the money market, which, towards the
close of the first quarter, increased to the extent of
a general commercial panic, the terrible shock of
which shook the fabric of speculation to the very
centre. In the second quarter the value of money
sensibly declined, and for the last half-year has
been at a very low rate. The blow given to credit
and confidence was, -however so severe, that no re-
turn of animation and vitality in enterprise has
been as yet exhibited. Notwithstanding the abun-
dance of money, and the low discounts, there has
been no reaction in the appetite for legitimate ad-
venture. Joint-Stock Companies and Limited Lia-
bilities Companies of all kinds, have more or less
experienced the effects of languor and inactivity.
Land Societies must be classed as safe investments,
inasmuch as a substantial security is ready at all
times for the acceptance of investors, by taking
plots of land. The Executive Committee felt that
it would be more expedient and prudent to make
no purchases during the year, to rely partly on
the allotment of such estates as were on hand, and
to depend mainly on the Reserve Fund for any de-
ficiency of income over outlay. In order to carry
out this policy, the current year's expenditure was
reduced so effectively, that the amount actually
appropriated from the Reserve Fnnd has been se-
cured entirely from the interest• that has accrued
thereon, leaving the present amount £8,097 3s. Bd.,
an excess of nearly £3OO over its original figure. In
announcing that the cash receipts for the year were
£46,393 7s. 2d., bringing up the total receipts in
six years to upwards of £312,000, whilst the total
withdrawals for the same period only reach about
£68,000, and the total sale of land is more than
£219,000, the committee feel that they are entitled
to entertain confidence in the stability and security
of the society, the more especially as in the actual
quarter an extended field of business has been
entered upon. It will depend entirely on the ex-
tent of support given by the public at large, whe-
ther as shareholders or merely as depositors, to
render the society totally independent of its land
operations at periods when it may be politic not to
increase the stock of land on hand. The new system
was set forth in the last quarterly report ; and it is
a satisfaction for the committee to record that from
every part of the country expressions of confidence
in its future successful working have been cordially
expressed. Five per cent, interest having been
raid up to Sept. 30, 1858, to the holders com-
pleted,a m e a
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the pass-books to the creditors of the holders of un-
completed shares existing in the society and. are not
is an-ear on the 7th of December, 1858, in respect
of which shares plots on estates have not been
taken.

The subjoined tabular statement shows the total
cash receipts of four quarters for the year ending
Wth September, 1858, and the grand totals since
the formation of the Conservative Land Society :

Total subsdy:
Shares Shares tions,fees,loan
Quarter ending in corn- Total. re - payments,
progres. pleted. sundries, from
- estates, &c.
£ s. d.
Dec. 25,1857 9l 37 128 9,503 17 4
March 25,1858 I in 137 259 13,922 11 2
June 25, 1858
Sept. 30,1858 I 115 55 170 11,100 19 5
Totals for the year 452 314 766 46,393 7 9
Totals to Sept. 30,
1857 11,338 2,278 13,616 312,557 8 5
Grand totals toSeut.
30, 1858

The Winchester estate was offered on the 29th
of April, and the sale of the Prestwich estate,
Manchester, was commenced on the 24th of June.
These were the only allotments of the year, the
committee not deeming the time opportune to pre-
sent, through the order of right, the remaining
portions of the Brighton and Tunbridge Wells
estates. As regards the sale of land on the Win-
Chester estate in North Hants, there is every reason
to be satisfied, and the future disposal of the whole
may be returned as a certainty, such is the un-
doubted eligibility of the site. Building, in fact,
has already begun, and the subscriptions for the
new church on the estate are progressing well, the
noble examples of the bishop of the diocese and the
Rev. Canon Carus having, it may be safely asserted,
secured the erection of the sacred edifice. The
donation of £3,000 by the rev. canon cannot be
passed over in this report without a tribute of
admiration,

The committee receive the assurances from gentle-
men of local knowledge, that after the completion,
on the Prestwich estate, of the roads and drains,
the admirable position of the land for building
purposes will secure a favourable result.
The Board has little to report as to the other
estates, many of which, however, have latterly ex-
hibited signs of advance as regards the covering of
the land by villas and houses. The consecration of
St. John's Church on the Tunbridge Wells by the
Archbishop of Canterbury on the sth of January
last, must lead to the development of that fine pro-
perty, and the promptitude with which the edifice
was erected is likely to be imitated on the Maid-
stone estate. The breaking down of builders on
the Brighton estate is one of the apparently inevi-
table episodes of speculation, in that yearly rising
and popular watering place • but as the want of
houses is on the increase, the Round Hill estate,
the salubrity of which is one of its most attractive
features, must have its turn sooner or later. The
renewal of the works for the railroad between Wor-
cester and Hereford, will lead, no doubt, to the in-
creasing attraction of the picturesque Malvern
Hills, and the estate of the society on the western
side f the range will ultimately prove of undoubted
value to the fortunate allottees. The committee
regret that the Commissioners of Woods and Forests
have not yet evinced any token of yielding to public
opinion, by granting facilities of landing on the
Surrey side of the railroad bridge at St. Margaret's.
It is lamentable that the progress of such a magni-
ficent estate should be impeded by a miserable ques-
tion of a ferry right. There are numerous persons most
anxious to build if they can but have the privilege of
crossing the river by a proposed foot passage to the ex-
isting bridge, but although the City Corporation and
the South-Western Railway have displayed every
readiness to assist the holders of the land at St.
Margaret's, the Woods and Forests still insist on
an indemnity for a ferry toll, of which the legality
is extremely doubtful, as applied to the locality
required for the landing.
The committee, in reference to the promotion of
building on estates, cannot too strongly reiterate
their advice to allottees, to attend to the cultivation
of their plots, whilst waiting for offers of ground
rent, or for an eligible opportunity to build. Every
shilling laid out for gardening purposes must im-
prove the land for the ultimate purpose it is intended
for, namely, the creation of a villa or house. There
are many holders of land who are successfully fol-
lowing up the system, and are thus realising some
interest for the investment. Another suggestion
the committee would throw out to allottees is, to
look at least to the keeping up of their boundary
pegs, if they do not go to the extent (which
would be still more advisable) of erecting
fences under the conditions of sale. It has been
remarked that some of the loudest whO cry out
against the poverty-stricken appearance of the land
are those who pay the least_attent ion to its develop-
ment. Combination amongst allottees ought not
to cease with the division of an estate—on the con-
trary it ought to continue, for the realisation must
essentially depend on the carrying out of the mutual
principle in building as well as that in the acquisi-
tion of the land. The committee will cordially co-
operate in these combinations of allottecs, so far as
the rules of the society will permit.
There was one public meeting held this year,
namely, at Winchester, on the 21st of April, prior
to the :allotment of the estate. The ordinary
quarterly meetings of the society were held at the
offices in Norfolk-street on the 13th of April, the
13th of July, and the sth of October. The auditors
elected at the last meeting, on behalf of the society,
were Messrs. Harding and Ritchie, and the Rev.
Mr. Goodchild and Mr. Winstanley, on the part of
the board. On the 18th and 19th of November
last, the four auditors met and verified the vouchers
and accounts and signed the balance sheet.
The valuable services of J. W. Huddlestcn, Esq.,
having been lost to the board, on his nomination as