The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-05 00:00:00

CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.

The following is the Report of the Executive
Committee of the Conservative Land Society, at the
twenty-sixth quarterly general meeting of the
members, held at the offices, No. 33, Norfolk-street,
Strand, London, W.C., this day :
" The Executive Committee, in submitting their twenty-
sixth report, have the pleasure of laying before the mem-
bers the following cash receipts for the first two quarters of
the seventh financial year, and the total retutns of the
operations of the Conservative Land Society to Lady-day
1859.

Total Subscrip-
Shares Shares tions,fees,loan
Quarter ending in corn- Total re - payments
progres. pleted. sundries, from
estates, &c.
£ s. d.
Dec. 25, 1858 lOl 32 133 9,095 1 4
March 25,1859 62 30 92 12,769 2 11
Totals for the half-
year os 163 62 225 21 864 4 3
Totals to Sept. 30,
1858 11,790 2,592 14,382 358,950 15 7
Grand totals to Mar
25,1859

Total withdrawals, from the formation of the society on the
7th .of September, 1852, to Lady-day, 1859, £79,356
lls. 7d.; total sale of land during the above period,
£219,976 18s. 6d. The Return of the Register of Rights
is as follows :—Completed, 3,068; drawn, 2,975; se-
niority, 1,5.57 : total, 7,600. Deduct rights exercised
on estates, &c., 5,021. Unexercised rights, 2,579.
The last share number on the Register by Seniority,
after the drawing of April the sth, 1859, will be about
10,042, and the last share taken up on the 25th of
March was Nu. 14,007. The Executive Committee
are now actively engaged in the consideration of some im-
portant estates in town and country. At no period of the
society's existence have properties of greater magnitude
and importance been biroht tinder the notice of the board
than during the past qr.
":The committee have recently directed their labours
to the allotments for the present year, and the first
estate to be offered will be the valuable piece. of
land adjoining the Great Western and South Western
Railway Station at Weymouth. Since the last
report, new arrangements have been made, by which the
estate has been extended in quantity in a slight degree,
and has been materially improved in the laying out of the
plan and in the roads and approaches. It was originally
intended to have allotted the first portion in time for the
result to appear in the present report, but the opportunity
having been afforded to render the Weymouth Estate one
of the most eligible proporties that the society has been
enabled to allot, the committee deemed it expedient to wait,
and the delay has been consequently of essential benefit
in the drawing up of the altered plan. In May next, there-
fore, the first division of the land will go through the list
of rights ; and a meeting will be held in Weymouth to ex-
plain to the inhabitants of that rapidly increasing'
town the mode of obtaining plots of land. Another
announcement the committee are in a position to make
to the shareholders, will afford the highest gratification.
The inquiries into the title of the Roehampton Park Estate
are drawing to a close, to the entire satisfaction of the
society's legal advisers ; and the board has, therefore, in-
vited the attention of builders and others to this fine pro-
perty. Applications have been made for the price of
the mansion, with various quantities of land ; and
offers have been submitted for other portions of the estate for
building purposes. The Committee will deliberate on all
these propositions, but are prepared at the same time to
accept an adequate amount for the entire estate as it
stands. The Board has the gratification to announce,
that a Committee has been formed to raise the funds for
the erection of a church on the freehold site given
by the Society, on the St. Margaret's estate. The
names of the following noblemen and gentlemen :—Rear
the rate of interest for the same period on monies in-
vested in the Deposit Department, at the rate of four
per cent. per annum. In making this announcement,
the Executive Committee cannot but congratulate the
shareholders on the fact, that it has been the prudent
and pacific policy pursued by the country, in its foreign
relations, which has mainly produced the present satisfac-
tory state of commercial affairs. With the preservation of
peace and the continuance of the confidence of the share-
holders, the executive committee entertain every expecta-
tion that the business of the Conservative Land Society
will be still further developed, and its uselulness ex-
tended."
The report was unanimously agreed to.

The Seine has seldom been so low at this season
of the year as it is at present. The water only reaches
Om. 98c. at the scale at the Pont Royal.
THE MAIL SERVICE.—SOUTHAMPTON, Monday.
—The steamship Ceylon, Capt. Evans, left this day! with
the East India and China mails, 3,555 boxes of specie and
jewellery to the value of £960,883, and 69 first class afid 26
second class passengers, among whom are Major Fytche,
Col..Hitly, Captains Campbell and Munroe, Lieutenants
Bailey, Hithers, Robinson, Butler, Carey, and Lloyd, and
Ensign Watson. 1
OUR SAILORS.—The secretary to the Sailors'
Home Dubin, thus alludes to the gratitude often expressed
by sailors after the preservation of their lives from ship-
wreck :—"I have been an observer of our sailors afloat and
ashore for the past twenty years, and the conclusion I have
arrived at from my experience is, that a more deserving
class of men does not exist, and I thank God that a change
for the better is now seen by every one who takes an in-
terest in their welfare. Having had some of them as in-
mates who served in wrecked vessels on our Irish iron-
bound coast, I may truly say that no society brought
before them was more generally appreciated than the Na-
tional Lifeboat Institution. I have heard them allude to
its reports in terms that would be gratifying to its sup-
porters and to every lover of mankind."
ALLEGED BREACH OF CONTRACT.—At the Liver-
pool assizes yesterday, the case of Macdonald v. Longbot-
torn which was an action brought by Highland wool growers
against a Liverpool merchant for the non-acceptance of a
considerable quantity of wool, which occupied the court
several hours on Saturday, was resumed. The defendant
contended that the wool was not delivered within a reason-
able time, and that as it did not reach Liverpool eighty days
after the contract was made, the defendant was justified in
rejecting it. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—
damages, £825 16s. ; but the learned judge (Mr. Justice
Byles) non-suited the plaintiff, on the ground that the con-
tract was void under the statute of frauds, giving him leave,
however, to move to enter a verdict in his favour for the
damages found by the jury.
WRECK ON SIZEWELL BANK.—LIFEBOAT SER-
VICES.—ALDBORO't Suffolk, April 2.—At four o'clock this
morning a vessel was seen from the Thorpe coastguard
station, on Sizewell Bank, with a signal of distress. Im-
mediate information was given to the coxswain and crew
of the lifeboat of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution,
stationed at Thorpe, by the firing of a mortar. Although
so early in the morning, the noble fellows were soon on the
spot, and the lifeboat was instantly launched, notwith-
standing that the wind was blowing very strong and the
sea running very high. On approaching the wreck the
lifeboat had to be managed very carefully, as the sea was
breaking very heavily over the ship. Her crew of eight
men, however, were all saved ; and a short time after the
vessel was left she heeled over, and gradually sank in the
sand. In the meantime the Institution's lifeboat at Aldbro',
having heard the minute-gun, proceeded off, but her ser-
f vice§ Were not required.