The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-15 00:00:00

BANKERS.

The Imperial Bank, Lotlibury, and Victoria-street, West-
minster.
Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, Twells, and Co., Loin-
board-street, E.O.
. STANDING COUNSEL.
Frederick Prideaux,. Esq., 3, New-square, Lincoln's-inn.

somerroß.
John J. J. Sudlow, Esq., 4, 'Westminster-chambers, Vic-
toria-street, S.W.
ARCHITECTS.
S.W.
Messrs. Banks and Barry, 1) Westminster-chambers; Vic-
toria-street,SURVEYORS.
Messrs. Leifehild and Cheffins, 62, Moorgate-street, E.C.

AUDITOR. •
Charles Brown, Esq., Basinghall-street.
SECRETARY.
William Jones, Esq.
Temporary Offices-4, Queen-street-place, Cannon-street
West, E.O.

ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.
How to provide healthy and comfortable dwellings for
the population of London is the most momentous and the
most pressing social problem of our time. From the na-
tural growth of population, new dwelling-house accommo-
dation will, during the next ten years, be required for
600,000 people. During last year alone, according to the
statement of the Earl of Shaftesbury, 3,500 houses were
so destroyed, dispossessing 20,000 people of their homes.
Bills for authorising metropolitan improvement now await
the judgment of the Legislature, which will, if passed into
law, involve the demolition of 16,000 houses and the dis-
possession of their homes of not less than 100,000 people.
The condition of very much of the existing house pro-
perty (chiefly that occupied by the labouring classes) within
the metropolitan district properly so called, is so bad that
our sanitary commissioners are seeking authority from the
Legislature for the condemnation and destruction of thou-
sands of houses, which are nothing better than haunts of
misery, nests of pestilence,p and fountains of wide-spreading
.demoralisation.

Here, then, are accumulative evils to remedy, and accu-
mulative necessities to supply. The remedy for these evils,
and the supply of those necessities, will be found in the
provision, on the most extensive scale and at the most
rapid rate possible, of suitable dwelling house accommoda-
tion for all classes of the community.
To take advantage of a field of enterprise thus vast, and
to minister to requirements thus urgent, are the general
objects for which the Suburban Village and General Dwel-
lings Company (Limited) has been established.
those conditions are perfectly
however, are not less inte-
restedlt is now recognised alike by the philanthropist and the
statesman that dwellings for oven the lroiswe.erEraxnpkeris
Experience
cweohrkas-
ing men can only be secured in conformity with the estab-
phlirasaphepetdiilcycaobdnleedii.ntorriontinsestroranftiedcdod
in the objects of this company than are working
men themselves. ml
et hmealeatrsetsiheasio,
The company, in carrying out the objects contemplated,
propose to undertake the following among other special
forms of-business:-
1. The pm chase of estates, within reasonable distance of,
and having direct railway connection with, London, on
which, according to their extent and character, complete
suburban villages may be raised, laid out on picturesque
plans, with regard to harmonious design, and with due
consideration to the means and requirements of various
orders of people.
2. The purchase of plots of ground, whether within or
beyond the bounds of "London Proper," on which blocks
of buildings may, with due attention to sanitary laws, be
erected either as homes for households, or as lodging-
houses for single men and women.
3. The representation of opportunities to all classes alike,
of becoming the purchasers of their own dwellings, by
various scales of payment (which have been very y carefully
prepared), extending in the form of rent over a greater or
less number of years, at the option of the tenant.
The operations of the Company are not of a hazardous
character. A good substantial dividend, therefore, is
within the range of legitimate expectation. Several land
and building societies already in existence pay dividends
ranging front 12 to 15 per cent. per annum.
As the social exigencies alluded to in this prospectus
operate in a greater or less degree in all the large towns of
England, the Company will be prepared, as favourable op-
portunities present themselves, to extend its operations to
other great centres of industry and population.
Applications for prospectuses and shares may be made
to the solicitor, secretary, and bankers of the Company.
An Estate of upwards of ten acres, situate within three
minutes' walk of the Honor Oak Station of the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railivay, Las been secured by the
Directors as the site of the first village, on which opera-
tions will bo commenced with all possible promptitude. -

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DUBLIN, March 14.

The Earl of Dunraven was created a Knight of
St. Patrick yesterday a a Chapter held for the
purpose in St. Patrick's-hall, Dublin Castle, the
Lord-Lieutenant presiding as Grand Master. of the
Order.

Lord Dunraven is the second Catholic Knight of
St, Patrick, the Earl of Fingal being the first. It
is a proof of the growing liberality of the times in
which we live that no objection has been made by
the Protestant press to making the Order of St.
Patrick a mixed fellowship, although the new knight
is a convert to the Church of Rome; nor did he
object to repeat the words of the oath after the
Archbishop of Dublin. Lord Dunraven, however,
does not object to the mixed system, for he is a
member of the National Board of Education.

Fenianism will soon be at an end. The delusion
seems to have already spent its force, and its sources
are being rapidly dried up. Considering the exten-
sive preparations of arms and ammunition, and the
extent to which the conspiracy was ramified, it
cannot be said to have died hard. The Fenians
made and spoke pikes, but did not use them. Save
an assassination or two, the movement has been re-
markably bloodless, and the Government seems
likely to extinguish the treason completely without
the loss of a single life, without shedding a drop of
blood. When the fever of political fanaticism sub-
sides, the dupes will probably look back with
astonishment at their infatuation ; and as there is
a general feeling among the Fenians that this was
the last opportunity for Ireland—that she must be
liberated now or never, the probability is that Go-
vernment will never again be troubled with a move-
ment of the kind. There is some vague apprehen-
sion among the people here that there will be a
Fenian rising on Patrick's Day, and if not then,
never. If nexi., Saturday passes over in peace then
we may dismiss all fear, especially as the American
Fenians threaten to commence the war against
England on the Pacific Ocean.

A correspondent of the Belfast News-Letter states
that—" The recent arrests in Cookstown have
brought consternation into the Fenian camp. Some
people believe that the police have arrested the head
Centre of the Cookstown district, which embraces
the towns of Coagh, Moneymore, Magherafelt,
Cookstown, and their vicinities. In the circle it is
believed there are 800 Fenians, and it is expected
that very shortly a few of this number will be
placed out •of harm's way.' It is affirmed that
rifles have been distributed, and it is well known
that night drillings have been very common."
The subject of Fenianism was alluded to by
Baron Deasy yesterday when opening the Kilkenny
assizes. There are 11 Fenian cases on the calendar
there, and all the rest are for trifling offences. " He
said the conspiracy had inflicted great evils on the
country by causing the withdrawal of capital and
producing a sense of insecurity, which prevented
employment and materially affected trade and com-
merce. He trusted, however, that the people would
soon see the folly and criminality of the conspiracy
in which those who are sheltered on the other side
of the Atlantic urge on their dupes here to peril not
only their liberties but their lives. In Roscommon,
Mr. Justice Christian addressed the grand jury. He
would not congratulate them on the state of the
county. Nothing could look better on paper, for
the calendar was light, but those statistics lose their
value under the disturbing influence of political
offences. It might be said hereafter, " Whatvalue
is this ? We are told at the Spring Assizes, 1866,
immediately after the Legislature had thought it
necessary to adopt the most rigorous repressive
measures, and even to suspend the Constitution."
He should not therefore offer them any congratula-
tions on the social state of their county. He thought it
would be prudent in him or others to suspend their
judgment until better times arrived. The Chief
Baron remarked upon the absence of Fenian offences
in the county of Kerry. He was not surprised
that the farming class in that county kept aloof
from the conspiracy. He had known them long
and well ; they were a shrewd and quick-witted
race, and they probably felt that if these designs
had, for no matter how short a time, assumed even
the appearance of success, they themselves would be
the very first to suffer. No revolutionary attempt
of a military character, whether coming from abroad
or arising within the county, could be made with-
out the farming population being made the first
victims. The first exigencies of such a movement
would necessarily be to obtain supplies of food.
The farmer's cattle, the farmer's sheep, the farmer's
pigs, the farmer's butter, and the farmer's corn
would be seized at once to feed the revolutionary
forces, and how paid for? The farmer well knew
he would not be paid in gold or in real money, but
in Fenian bonds, and these he as well knew would
be scarcely worth the value of the paper on which
they were engraved. He was therefore not sur-
prised that no sympathy had been evoked by the
conspirators among the farmers of the country, and
he hoped it would long continue so. He was not
called on to express an opinion as to the wisdom or
propriety of the course taken, at any time, by the
Government of the country, but since the Act had
been passed by the three branches of the Legisla-
ture, conferring ample summary powers on the Ex-
ecutive, he might now express his belief that it was
a wise and beneficent measure—not a measure of
repression or of punishment, but a measure of mercy,
as a means of deterring those who might otherwise
involve themselves in a course of proceeding, of
which ruin, and ruin only, could be the only result.
It is creditable to the. Conservative journals of
Dublin that they express much gratification at the
withdrawal of the petition against the return of the
Chief Secretary. The Daily Express of this morn-
ing remarks that ;—" Owing to the number of elec-
tion petitioni presented to the House of Commons,
it was found that that against the return of Messrs.
Fortescue and Kennedy could not be disposed of
until some time in the month of June, so that for
probably three months Mr. Fortescue would have
been ineligible for election, not only for the county
of Louth, but for any other county or borough.
The amount of inconvenience which the Govern-
ment would have been put to by his exclusion for
so long a time from the House cannot be exagge-
rated ; and, in consequence, those interested in the
petition, with an abnegation of self for which they
deserve the highest praise, have consented to its
withdrawal, the effect of which will be that a writ
for a new election can issue forthwith. It was un-
fortunate that the petition could not have been
withdrawn as against Mr. Fortescue, so that it
might be tried as against his colleague."
A number of Roman Caiholic graduates of the
Queen's University have got up a memorial to Lord
Russell, protesting against the statements laid be-
fore him by the Queen's University deputation, and
contending that a man should not be refused his