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i'llE COURT of PIRECTORS of the EAST
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MR. RAREY.—Tho3e new Subscribers who
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,n June will be Instructed o & his return from Paris aboat the second
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THE REGISTRATION.---THECONSERVA-
TIVE LAND SOCIETY.— Allottees who have not yet been
registered, are reminded that Tuesday, the 20th inst., is the last day
for sending in claims for County Votes, and theyonust forwar4 forth-
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New Boswell court. Lincoln's-inn, the necessary deeds. Members
whose qualification or residence has been altdred in any respect,
should also lose no time in communicating with the legal edvisers.
It is also . equested that Die heiciera dt''slots who live at a distance
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the polling place at which it will be most convenient for them to
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CHARLES L.t.WIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary.

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nicate with the Secretary.

PERPETUAL INVESTMENT LAND AND
BUILDING SOCIETY. •

The seventh annual meeting of this society wag held
last night, at Radley's Hotel, Bridge.street, Blackiriars;
John Gover, Esq., chairman of the board of directors,
in the chair.

Mr. J. E. TaEssIDER, Secretary, read the report, of
which the following is an abstract :
"The directors referred with pleasure to the progress
of the llusiuess, as a proof of the growing confidence of
the public in the principles upon which the society is
based. The cash received during the year, 135,7021.
12s. 4d., added to the. receipts of previous years, 'made
the total amount 540,7771. 10s.
"INVESTMENT SHARES,—Two thousand one hundred
and seventy-eight new shares bad been issued, making
the total number since the commencement of the society
17,740. The sum of 53,446/. 19e. 11d. had been re-
ceived upon, investment shares, showing an increase of
11,023/ Bs. sd. upon the previous year. The sum cf
37,8081. 14s. 9d., with the accumulations of interest, had
been withdrawn from the share account, which was
13,4871. 14s. 10d. more than in the previous year ; this
increase was attributable to the heavy monetary pres-
sure through which the eountry passed in the mot t
from November to January, during which time the di-
rector for the accommodation of the investors, continued
to make prompt payment, where desired, without re-
quiring the usual notice. The subscription share ac-
counts bad been credited with the amount of interest
stated in thelables. The interest upon realised shares
and deposits had, either been paid or, at the request of
the shareholders, carried to the credit of the respective
accounts. The realised shares issued during the year
have borne interest at the rate of five per cent. per an-
num ; India consequence of the large increase in the
capital of the society the directors had dicontinued the
issue of shares at five per cent., and intended issuing
shares at four per cent. interest. As this arrangenient
would not apply to shares already issued, it would render
those shares of the society standing in the books at 5i
and five per-cent. interest increasingly valuable.
"BONUS UPON SHAREs.,--The directors, from the sur-
plus profits of the society, had been enabled to pay off
another tenth portion of the preliminary expenses, so
leaving only 485/. lie 4d. to be borne tw the business of
the next five years; also to apportion 10 pertent. of the
remaining profits to the reserve fund, and to add to the
subscription shares a bonus equal to 14 per cent. interest
on shares upon which 12 months' subscriptions or more
have been paid.
"The amount of the reserve fund had, during the year,
been invested in three per cent. consols.
"The amount received in the deposit depaitmentswas
19,8721.. 10s. 10d , of which 5,248/, fr,. was from the
savings bank branch, and- the steady increase in this
branch of business lias satisfactory. 36,451/. 14s. lid.
had been advanced, during the year, upon the mortgage
of freehold, copybold, and leasehold securitiss, making
the total amount advanced 227,0781. is. latshp.
:3,,,8811.i.271:1bry0td0d.
note,ehrsd
been advanced to shareholders during the year, upon the
andde affording
°8
obviatingitaccommodationtheirtahiteaneecct iitfiytcoaotisa ptheY withdrawal of their
shares.

"The Highgate-bill Estate has been sold for 50/. Bs.
The sale of portions of the Muewell-bill Estate, during
the year, had realised 2,4751. 10e ; and arrangements
were in progress for facilitating budding operations
upon this estate.
" The highly satisfactory position of the society was
indicated in the general balance sheet; and the directors
confidently relied upon the united co-operation of the
shareholders and agents during the ensuing year."
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoptiohef the report,
said the original promoters of the institution were
desirous that it should meet the varied wants of the pub-
lic, whether as investors or borrowers, in a more ex-
tended and effectual manner than the ordinary building
societies did. Great care bad, therefore, peen taken in
the formation of the constitution to vie. to both classes
the greatest ad vanta eetthry could I espectively require;
and the :irac:ical operation of the society during the last
seven years—in the course of which time balf-a-million
of money had been received and applie 1 in various ways
—showed that the object had in both respects been fully
attained. One peculiarity of the institution was, that
every one who had any dealings with it was in no un-
certainty as to the terms upon which he did business
with the society. These terms were laid down in printed
documents, distinct and definite. The machinery of the
society_ was workable, reasonable, and attractive ; and
the use of the last terns was justified by the large amount
of public confidence and support they had received dur-
ing the last seven years. Some portion of this success
must be attributed to the society having been always
well advertised ; but more, perhar, to the fact that,
unlike building societies in general, they had long work-
ing hours at the office, so that, from morning till even-
jug, any one having either money to pay or receive
could suit his own convenience. In addition, the
secretary gave from eight 01 nine at night every
week, to suit those who could not attend during
the, day. The business was conducted with energy
and speed. Tile presa bad spontaneously ex-
pressed its approval of the plan of the society,
and everything in its conception and practical operation
was contideotial, carefcl, and safe. The positioq they
bad attained after the lapse of only seven years showed
that the promoters bad not been disappointed in their
desire to make it a large and extensively useful institu-
tion, and be trusted that past success would lead to
infuture.
ourceof g
him-
selfThreaetregproarttifirceafetirornedtotoone
present would remember the
pressed with such severity upon
still
pt
agtho s point
monetary
nr w'dh c
ahitie
country was
r success
crisis,
wtlhrh
he All
months of November and De-
cember last year, and of Jaudary in the present year.
The directors had; of course, felt the effects of that
pressure, like all other bodies entrusted with the man-
agement of public, funds. They were protected against
undue pressure by a rule, which provided that share-
holders could only withdraw their suOscriptions by
certain
to
Ebuntotahnedy hhaaddbbeeenenenroarbeleedd
tt_
oi o n
dispense,
with the use of even that necessary and
and-after
proper safety-valve during the whole of that fearful
crisis, and while the an
to obtain an irregular dispensing power from the Secre-
tary of State, their society bad met every demand for
withdrawal promptly and readily, without delay. He be-
lieved that no institution had within the same period
. achieved such marked and substantial success. The di-
rectors had full confidence in the shareholders, and the
shareholders had confidence in, the directors—(cheers)
—and he trusted they would continue for years to come
united in their endeavours to promote the beneficial,
substantial, and meritorious objects for which the
society bad ,been formed.
The Rev. Dr. J. BUN seconded-the motion, which
was unanimously agreed to.
The Rev. Mr. GooBaLSY moved, and F. MILLER,
Esq., barrister, seconded a reso!ution expressive of gra•
tification at the past progress of the society, and calling
upon the shareholders to co-operate with the directors in
extending the business in future. The resolution was
supported by Mr. Henderson, Mr. Watson, and several
other shareholders, who all expressed their confidence
in the integrity of the directors, and their satisfaction
with the principles and the practice of the society, and
was unanimously adopted.
JAMES WICKES, Esq., of Colchester, moved, and
THOS. TURNER, Esq., seconded, a vote of thanks to the
*chairman and directore.
Mr. DANIEL PRATT moved, and Mr. M. B. SUTTON
seconded, a vote of thanks to the agents of the society,
which was responded to by Mr. COUSINS, of Abingdon.
The valuable services of the secretary were also cor-
dially acknowledged, and the meeting then adjourned.

Tin Crops IN Soups WALES. The wheat, barley,
and oat crops generally throughout South Wales are
described as being mganificent, and the ears are well out
and rapidly maturing.° This is the case in the vales, but
on the hills the crops of course are much later. The
bay harvest in the lowlands has been secured in excel-
lent condition, the (swathe being very heavy.

THE RIVER TLIA.MES AND ITS
NEGLECTED CONSEBTANGE

The following letter has been addressed to a
contemporary :

Sir,—We uturt now pass on to a private statute passed
in favbilr of the abbess and conyept of Syon, 2d of Henry
VI., where the gorge or weare near liing.ton-upon-
Thames, known as Ham Weare (or rather, in modern
times, as Teddington Weare) by a Parliamentary char-
ter granted by the king to the abbess and convent of the
nuns of Syon, with a reservation to the Mayor of Lon-
don and his successors, and all other persons of the
search and survey and correction of the water of Thames.

It is not a little remarkable'that this wear was in ex-
istence during the time of the Norman Conquest, and
then held by Walter de St. Walario, as of Isleworth, R 9
one wear, and the half of another wear, and worth
121. 8(1. ; alter all the petitions to the Legislature, and
the vesting in the Lord Mayor the office of conservator
of the waters of Thames, ,e had trusted to find no more
complaints on the subjeot of this unfortunate river,
but we much 'regret to add that if such a hope were
momentarily indulged in, we should meet with dirap-
pointmsnt, for on turning to the petitions 2d Henry VI.
we find the Londoners praying

"The honourable sages and sires, the Commons of
that present Parliament assembled, to be pleased to
certify that default in the due search and correction had
not been made in the water of Thames, beyond the
bounds of the franchise of London, in the counties of
Surrey; Kent, and Essex, and that many mischiefs were
constantly done to the destruction of the people, their
boats and merchandise, and also to the fry of the fish
by the wearers kyddels, and trysk-es, a standing nuisance
and great pity."
.The prayer of this petition is, " That sufficient' com-
missions be directed to the justices of the peace of the
counties of Surrey, Kent, and Essex, charging them to
make search and correction of all defaults of weares, Ssc.,
in the water of Thames, within the counties aforesaid."
The reply to this prayer is as follows :—" There sire
several commissioners as justices of the peace of the
counties specified in the petition to inquire into these
nuisances beyond the franchise of the city of Lon-
don," &c.
This determination of the King in his Parliamentary
council would seem to indicate that the jurisdiction of
the justices of the peace under the early statutes of
Edward 111. and Richard 11. had not been abrogated
by the statute of the 9th Henry V., and as no mention
is made of the county of Middlesex, it may be fairly
concluded that as the sherifalty of this county had been
acquired by the citizens of London, and their Lord
Mayor appointed to see to • the conservancy of the
statutes within the flow and reflux of the Thames as a
tidal river extending from Ham to Twickenham near,
now known as the Teddinßton near and lock, to the
open sea, passing down Gauntlett Ore ek, by nay of
the River Medway. The jurisdiction of the Lord
Mayor terminating on the River Thames at this creek,
immediately below which that of the lord admiral
of the north commenced, as of the (ore Tamiensis) or
mouth of the River Thames, although many attempts
were subsequently made at various times by the Admi-
ralty to push its jurisdiction higher up the stream as far
as London-bridge, quite forgetful of this circumstance,
that the guard of the surrounding high seas alone wan

their proper vosation.
It miry be a matter of surprise, notwillstauding the
tenor of Magna Cearla, how so many obstructions still
rema'ned in the river. The answer is obvious. On the
Domesday survey we find at least ten fisheries betweee
Kingston-upon Thames and Bermonteey, ail, with three
exceptions, chiefly teiog the property of she Chereh,
namely, as being the property of the Archbishop of Can-
terbury, the Bishop of Bai ••ux, the Abbot of Onertsta,
the Bitbop and Canons of London, and tne Abbot ti
Westminster, which had been the property of these eccle-
siastics from a period long anterior to the Norman Con-
quest ; and although the Legislature in general terms
ordered the destruction of wears, yet bush was the in-
fluence of Holy Mother Ciaurch, that the Lord Mayor
and citizens must have been endued with no ordinary
share of determination to have braved the threats of ex-
communication and eternal perdition hereafter, ho-wever
detrimero al to their personal interests ited the navigation
cf the river above London-bridge. These wears must
necessarily have been and were constructed for the
sole purpose of enhancing the value of the fisheries
in question ; finding that, although they themselves,
in the person of their Lord Mayor, had appointed
justices with powers of removing wears, gorges,
pales, sakes, trynkee, and all other obstructions to the
navigation of the river, and also protecting the fry of
salmon spawn and other fish from destruction, that they
were still powerless as against Mother Church, and her
fishing wears and gorges above London-bridge ; after
obtaining the certificate last quoted, that they had not
neglected (within their franchise) to perform the duties
imposed by the recent statute, they then obtain a general
statute fortes examination of the great riparne or &twice
on the banks of tidal streams, hot only in the Tnanaer,
but all other navigable rivers, and empowering the com-
missioners to be appointed under the act, not only to
lower the wears where they had been raised too high,
but a'so to make a. common passage through them for
ships and boats. This statute of the Sd Henry VI , nut
only recites the previous acts of the 25th Edward 1., the
let Henry V., but all other general enactments.
The statute of 25th Edward I. is a general enabling
statute for the passage of boats through riparus ; that of
Henry V. reserves a reasonable eta•ei of the wears, wills,
pools, pales, and kiddelis as of ancient time.
It is to be remarked that although all kiddels were to
be removed pursuant to Magna Charta, and all
riparus destroyed which were of erection during the
reigns of Stephen, Henry IL, and King John ; those
which had been in defence as early as the reign of
Henry 1., alone were excepted from this sweeping
motsure ; and the Domesday survey was, and is
to this day, the sole arbitrar of what is and is not
an ancient free fishery, or royal ripars. Auo her
general enactment was at the same time passed for
regulating stationary nets, and engines called trynk.:,
and all other manner of nett vehicO setere aneessowea to
be fixed and fast !ned day cud night in certain times cf
the year (as at the present time at Ber a ick-upori-Tweed)
to other posts, boats, and anchor', a.creos the River
Thames and other rivers of the realm, which being sta-
tionary, caused great and wanton destruction of the
brood and f•y of fish, and to the htedrance-of tee
common peesage of vessels.
This statute (Rol. Pahl., vol. iv., p. 259) enacts the
mode and time in which trenkee and other engines may
he fixsel.
In the following year is a petition (3d Henry VI.) of
ihe Commons, that a commission be granted for the
water of the Leye, as one of the great rivers which extends
from the town of Ware into the aater of the Thames.
We should have supposed that the Lord Mayor, hav-
ing at length been appointed a-conservator, in common
with the other justices of the peace in the adj scent cone-
tie?, (seer this river, the citizens of London would have
been contented ; but not so, three years later additional
claims ar, put forth, and a petition, 6th, of Henry V.,
from the mayor and commonalty of the city of London,
shows "that the good statutes ef the 25th and 45th of
Edward 111., of the 21st of Metier! II., and 4th of
Henry IV., made for the removal and correction of
wearers, gorges, mills, mill-dams, stakes, and other de-
faults and nuisances disturbing the common passage of
vessels and destruction of the young brood and fry of
fish were not regarded, not pat into execution of the
waters of Thames and Med way, nor yet the punish-
ment in those statutes levied wince the cummi--
sioners assigned within the said waters were jus
tines of the peace within the said counties, alleging also
that such conservancy belonged to the mayor or guar-
dian of the said city for the time being."
The answer of the King is, " Let the mayor and com-
monalty of London show their evidences to the King,
what are the bounds of their liberties, extending within
the aforesaid waters, and then shall be provided a remedy
such as may be reasonably demanded."
The citizens of London very prudently declined pro•
dncing their evidences, for the same reason they did on
a recent occasion, when they boldly laid claim to the
bed and soil of the River Thames—namely, although
ordered by the House of Lords to produce their char-
ters, they bad none to disclose. Finding themselves;
thus foiled in their attempt to oust the cojurisdiction of
the justices of the peace, by petition to the King in Par-
liament, as of the House of Peers—they twelve. years
afterwards addressed themselves to the credulity of the
Lower House, flattering them by the following ad-

dress :
"To the wise Commons of this present Parliament,
pray the mayor and citizens of the city of London, who
show"
That by a statute made in Westminster, 17th of
Richard 11., setting forth this statute (which bad been
subsequently repealed by the 4th of Henry IV.). and
not noticing any of the subsequent statutes which are
set forth in their petition to the King last alluded to,
but proceeding with the following gross misstate-
ment :—" And for that the waters of Thames and
Medwaye by certain metes and bounds apper-
tain to the citizens of London "—thus making
an assertion of the most unmistakeable character--" it
was ordeigned by the same statute that the mayor or
guardian of the same city for the time being has the con-
servancy of the said statutes in the said waters of Thames
and Medwaye : so far as the liberties of the same city ex-
tend in the same waters." This gross misquotation, in
which the statute of 17th of Richard 11. is male to ad-
mit that the mayor or warden of the city of London for
the time being, then had at the time of the pae,ing of
such statute jurisdiction, turns out, on reference to the
statute in question, to be a statement of a most erro-
neous character. The language of the statute is nit in
the past, nor a recognition of any existing right enjoyed
by the mayor, but a statute enabling that functionary to
become one of the conservators, amongst others who bad
been appointed by the then existing acts of Parliament.
We must refer again to the words of the statute of
17th Richard 11. :—" Our said lord the King in this pre-
sent Parliament, by the assent aforesaid (of the lords
spiritual and temporal) bath granted tbai-, the mayor or
warden of London for the time being shall have the con-
servation of the statutes aforesaid, and shall make thereof
due execution and like punishment as afore, is ordained
of the justices of the;peace in the said waters of Thamee,
t from the bridge of 6tainek to London, and from thence