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

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort, accompanied by the Princess Alice and
Helena, took a drive in an open carriage and four yesterday
afternoon. Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood and Captain Du
Plat attended on horseback. The Prince Consort rode en
horseback in the forenoon, attended by his Equerry in
Waiting.
The Queen and Prince Consorthonoured theperformance
at the Adelphi Theatre with their presence last evening.
The Royal suite consisted of Lady Macdonald, Hon. Caro-
line Cavendish, Hon. Flora Macdonald, Viscount Strath-
allan, Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, and Captain Du Plat.
The Duke de Nemours visited her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent yesterday at Clarence-house, St. James's.

ADELPIII THEATRE.—The performances at this
theatre was last evening honoured by the presence of her
Majesty, the Prince Consort, Lady Macdonald, Hon. Miss
Macdonald, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Lord Strathallan, Col.
Hood, and Capt. Du Platt.
HALIFAX.--We understand that in anticipation
of Mr. Frank Crossley being brought forward for the
West Riding, Mr. Appleyad,
of Halifax, has been named
as his successor in the representation of that borough.
THE NEW JUDGE OF THE LANDED ESTATES
COURT.—DUBLIN, MONDAY.-Mr. J. Carey Dobbs, M.P.
for Carrickfergus, is appointed Judge of the Landed Estates
Court, vacant by the death of Mr. Hartley.

Total Subserlp-
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 ~,,, 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, 18.59

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, 1,557: 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 bo about
10,042, and the last share taken up on the 25th of
March was No. 14,607. 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 brought under the notice of the board
than during the past quarter.
".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 quantitiei 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
Admiral Sir Henry L. Baker, Bart., the Lord Henry
Cholmondeley, Rear-Admiral C. R. D. Bethune, Major
Ditmas, Captain C. Egerton, R.N., Rev. J. D. Hales,
Capt. Heaslop, R.N., Rev. T. G. Hough, F. A. M'Geachy,
Esq., Capt. the Hon. F. Maude, R.N., Henry Pownall,
Esq., Gen. Powney, J. M. Strachan, Esq , Rear-Admiral
H. D. Trotter, and Morgan Yeatman, Esq., who are acting
on the Committee—are a guarantee that no time will be
lost, and no exertions spared to insure the building
of the edifice. Fresh attempts have been made to
induce the Government to allow the landing on
the Crown Land of the Surrey side of the Railroad
Bridge at St. Margaret's, in order to erect the foot bridge,
which has obtained the- assent and approval of the
South-Western Railway Company and the Thames Con-
servancy. A trial which has recently taken place in the
Court of Common Pleas, in the case of the Isle of Dogs
Ferry, having opened the question how far ferry rights can be
allowed to stand in the way of great public improvements,
the committee have resolved, before taking any other
steps, to wait for the decision of the Superior Court as to
the principle. The Board cannot but congratulate the
allottees that the Richmond Bridge is now toll free,
the gates having been removed, on the 25th
ult., by the Commissioners. In the annual report of De-
cemer last, the Committee announced that the legal and
surveying-business would at Christmas be exclusively trans-
acted at the Offices in Norfolk-street. The consolida-
tion of the departments under one roof has already
been attended with the most favourable results.
The Executive Committee in their report of the sth October
last, reduced the quarterage fees 50 per cent., and taking into
consideration the existing state of business and price of
money, fixed the interest on completed shares, and shares paid
a year in advance at four per cent., at the same time open-
ing a new branch of business in the deposit department at a
minimum rate of interest of three per cent. The board
is now enabled, taking into consideration the present
position and prospects of the society, to raise the rate
of interest from Lady-day to the end of the
Financial year at Michaelmas 1859, on completed
shares, and shares paid a year in advance, to
the rate of five per cent. per annum, and to fix
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.

wilV RECK ON SIZEWELL BANK.—LIFEBOAT SER-
VICES.—ALDBORO', 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-
vices were not required.