The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDA

CONSERVA7IVE LAND SOCIETY.

At the ninth annual and thirty-seventh quarterly general
meeting of the members, held at the offices, 33, Norfolk-
street, Strand, this day, the following report was unani-
mously agreed to :
"The annual audit for the financial year ending the 30th
of September, 1861, having been completed, the executive
committee of the Conservative Land Society now submit
their ninth balance sheet and statement of accounts. The
four auditors, Messrs. Astbury and Winstanley, appointed
by the board, and the Rev. Mr. Goodchild and Mr. Harding,
elected by the shareholders in October last, verified the
vouchers and books on the 6th and 7th of November, and
signed the balance sheet, to which the attention of the
shareholders is referred, as showing one of the most satis-
factory years since the formation of tho society.
" The receipts for each quarter, the totals for the year,
and the grand totals since 1852, are shown in the annexed
table :

plots adjoining houses producing ground rents of £5
per annum and £4O helve rent were pronounced by
the barrister not to be vorth 40s. per year,
such monstrous decisions; being final. The annual
inspection of the estates bylthe Board has proved, on the
whole, highly satisfactory, both es to the state of the roads
and other works on the different properties, and as to the
buildings in existence and in progress. The extension of
the railroad system in and near the metropolis will tend to
develope the society's estates mare and more every year.
The increased demand fur and value of building land must
inevitably follow, as the tendency of all classes of the com-
munity is increased to abandon tie crowded streets of towns
to live in healthy localities at coavenielit distances from the
ordinary places of business or occupation. The census of
1861 shows the remarkable *ease of inhabitants within
the last 10 years, and, as a *moral rule, the tables prove
that the number of inhabited louses and of houses building
have not been in proportion to the increase of population.
Additional accommodation wiitt be required, and as the rail-
road to distant places from ',the home counties has now
brought the metropolis within the same amount of time
formerly required to reach what were termed suburban re-
sidences, the executive committee feel confidence in the
ultimate development of the society's estates, as in respect
to roads and drainage, salubrity of situation, and facilities
of communication, everything has been studied to
provide for habitations, from the first-class villa
to houses calculated for the industrious and sav-
ing operative. After the o eloquent appeals of Lord
Derby and Lord Shaftesburytto provide dwellings for the
working classes displaced by modern changes and improve-
ments in the metropolis, it is expectel that the railway
companies will make further emapessions to land societies to
increase the inducements to ',build round London. The
society's system is one which tends to remove the objections
entertained in former days *go into bricks and mortar.
An alloitco, after buying his pi4eo of land by paying off the
purchase -money in easy mouldy and other instalments,
can build his house for the precise sum he may desire to
spend in compliance with the cianditions on the plan of the
estate on which he selects his plot. The society affords un-
usual advantages in legal and surveying expenses, both to
the professional and amateur builder. The allottees can
associate themselves, if they think fit, in a joint building
operation, every facility and assistance being extended by
the society. The executive committee, in terminating their
report, beg to return their thanks to the members who have
so materially aided to secure for the Conservative Land
Society its present satisfactory position. Its stability is duo
in a great degree to the preservation of a spirit of mutual
confidence and good feeling, and the executive committee
will spare no exertions for its increased prosperity. The
gratifying results of 1861 are a powerful incentive for ad-
ditional exertions in the tenth yoar, the board relying upon
a renewal of the cordial support with which it has hitherto
been honoured.

THE CAPTURED SOUTHERN
COMMISSTNERS.
OPINIONS OF THE N4W YORK PRESS.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 2.
The Persia arrived here at 9 o'clock this man-

The American account of the Trent and San
Jacinto affair agrees mainly with that of Captain
Moir. But it is represented that all the docu-
ments of Messrs. Mason and Slidell were
seized. The indications were that Captain
Wilks acted on his own responsibility, and on
the ground that, although he may not have
acted within the strict letter of the law, the end
would justify the means in the eyes of his country-