The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-07 00:00:00

The total withdi
society (1852)
The total sale of

'ttwals since the formation of the
to Lady-day, 1868, aro £316,162 1 2
land for the same period

is ... M 5,777 7 6
The reserve fund to Lady-day, 1868, is 12,054 7 7
The register of rights, fixing the rotation far the selec-
tion of plots on the society's estates, when offered for al-
lotment, stands as follows
Completed. Drawn. Senioritly. Total.
7,188 3,356 1,808 12,332
Deduct rights exercised on estates, &c., ... 9,504

lUnexercised rights ... „. ... ... 2,818
The last share number on the register of rights by
seniority of membership is No. 18,968.
The last share number issued to Lady-day, 1868, was
Nu. '29,142.
The estates allotted since the last report were:—
Finchley Estate, Middlesex, 2d poi tion.....March 26, 1868.
Ipswich Estate, Suffolk (East), 2d portion ditto.
Sandown Estate, Isle of Wight, 2d portion ditto.
As might have been expected from a popular locality in
North London like Finchley, the sales of the land on the
society's estate have been large, and the few remaining
plots on this eligible building property are not likely to re-
main long on hand, especially as the new station on the
Edg ware, Highgate, and London Rail way at Finchley is
now open.
Of the future of Sandown little doubt can be entertained.
This rising watering-place, since the opening of the rail-
way from Hyde to Ventnor, with a station at Sandown, is
making considerable progress. The visitors to Ryde are
attracted to Sandown with its long beach of sand (which
for bathing has no equal in the island), the railway from
Ryde being within a quarter of au hour of the estate.
Sandown will soon be connected with Newport, as a bill
for the Isle of Wight Central Railway is now before Parlia-
ment, with every prospect of the project being carried
through. The Ipswich estate, from its proximity to
the Stoke station, is essentially building land, and as
the prices of the plots are adapted to meet the de-
mand for either largo or small houses to suit all classes of
the community, there are grounds to anticipate that the
building which has already commenced at each extremity
Of the estate will in due course be extended. The next
allotment of land will bo on Wednesday, the 29th of April,
on which day the sale will be commenced of the first por-
tion of the Clapham Junction Estate, well known as
Bolingbroke Park, with fine frontages to Battersea Rise
and Wandsworth Common. The proximity of this pro-
perty to two stations, and the increasing demand tor
house property in tho southern district of the metropolis,
justify the anticipations of the committee that the Clap-
ham Junction Estate will prove one of the most valuable
building properties hitherto acquired for the society. Three
new purchases of estates have been recently made the first
at Northampton ; the second at Holloway (York-road, Ken-
tish-town); and the third at Red Hill, Surrey (the Water-
slade Estate). So soon as the legal formalities have been
completed, these three valuable properties will be allotted.
The various contracts for the works on the Putney Estate,
No. 5 (close to the Cedars), on the East London Estate,
Forest Gate, Nos. 1 and 2, and Sandown Estate, No. 2,
are in progress. The roads on the Finchley Estate No. '2
will be forthwith commenced, and the advertisements fur
the tenders to complete the roads cn the fourth portion of
the Round Hill Estate, Brighton, and for the first portion of
the Clapham Junction Estate will soon be issued. The
indications of active building operations this spring on the
various estates (in 27 counties) are very satisfactory.
At the annual meeting last December the members present
unanimously passed a resolution fully " approving of the
formation of a Land Company, Limited, to co-operate with
the Conservative Land Society, thereby inaugurating a
new system of combined action, whereby the operations in
land may be considerably extended, and thus prove mutu-
ally beneficial." The executive committee therefore issued
a circular to the shareholders, accompanied with the pro-
posed prospectus to be issued by the directors of the
United Land Company (Limited), enclosing forms of
application for shares, thereby carrying out the pledge
that the members of the society should in the first
instance bo offered the shares of the new company.
It is with much satisfaction that the executive committee
are enabled to announce that the responses to their circular
have been quite satisfactory, and the applications for
shares in the United Land Company (Limited) up to the
present period have been so numerous as to justify the
first directors thereof in signing the memorandum, and
register the same together with the articles of association
framed under the advice of counsel. The United Land
Company (Limited) is now incorporated under the Com-
panies Act of 1862 and 1867, and to co-operate with the
Conservative Land Society, enrolled under 6 and 7 Will. IV.
cap. 32, as the Conservative Benefit Building Society. The
executive committee congratulate the shareholders of the
Conservative Land Society on the prospects and position
of the new undertaking, as an adjunct to the parent insti-
tution. The action and working of society and company
on thoroughly sound commercial principles, combined with
economical and energetic management, will, there is
every reason to anticipate, open a new field for safe and
legitimate investment. The executive committee, in con-
clusion, beg to remind the shareholders that it is entirely
at their option to take shares in the United Land Com-
pany (Limited); they may be investors in both society
and company if they think fit, and in both cases the
liability is limited to the amount of the shares taken.

The meeting was proceeding when we went to
press.

CORA PEARL AND THE FAN-FURNISHER TO THE OPERA.
—The Civil Tribunal has just had to decide a disputed
bill between " Mdlle." Cora, Pearl (a dense-monde cele-
brity) and a tradesman named Denugent, who styles
himself fan-furnisher to the Opera. The latter had sup-
plied, among other things, one to be used at the races,
made of white silk, with an equestrian portrait of the
lady on one side, and on the other these lines of Alfred
de Musset

"—Et la riche Angleterre,
Plus d'une fois dans l'eau jettera son filet
Avant d'y retrouver une perle aussi there."
The bill subsequently sent in was as follows :

Sept. 2, 1867. A miniature for a cigar caso
„ 4, „ A racing fan soof.
„ 4, „ Photographic portrait for the same loof.
„ 19, „ Repair of a parasol 2Ol.
„ 22, „ Seven small miniatures for a bracelet 1000 f.

2020 f.

"Mdlle." Cora Pearl immediately wrote to protest
against the above charges; she had only paid 250 f. for a
similar miniature before, and would not give more than
300 f. for the present one ; the charge for the fan was ex-
orbitant, and must bo reduced by 100 f. ; and, as for seven
small heads, she had never ordered them, but had merely
asked the price, and consequently would not take them.
These latter, as well as the likeness for the cigar case,
had bean executed for Mine. Denugent, and represented
" Mdlle." Cora, the Empress Josephine, Queen Hortense,
Mine. Recamier, Mine. Tallien, Mdllo. Georges, and Diana
do Poitiers. M. Denugent appeared to accept those condi-
tions, and on the 19th October sent in a fresh bill amount-
ing to 820 f. only, and even received 200 f. on account. He,
however, subsequently renewed his pretension to compel
her to take the seven heads, and on her again refusing,
brought the present action. The court, however, only
admitted his claim for the balance of 620 f., which the
defendant was ordered to pay with interest and costs.
A MusicAL NOTE.—We are glad to observe that certain
distinguished personages are, like the rest of the British
nation, being educated to appreciate good music. The
Orchestra states that on the occasion of a recant banquet
the Duke of Sutherland engaged the singers at " Evans's "
to give a selection of glees, &c. This is a decided im-
provement on the style of musical entertainment his grace
has been giving lately—a decided improvement, if not an
add- l ituce.—Fun.

LADVERTISEMENT.]-11oliocmy's Pills.—Dyspepsia., In-
digestion, Flatulency, heartburn, Biliousness, Nausea,
Want of Appetite.—French philosophers trace the moral
feelings of the mind to the state of thm stomach, and there
is much wisdom in the speculation. The stomach to the
human body is more than the kitchen to the domestic estab-
lishment ; be it ever so slightly disordered the whole in-
ternal economy is deranged. The young may smile at the
simile, and disbelieve the tremendous sat:Hike indigestion
exacts from its victims. The day will come when they
will lament over their dyspepsia as thousands stronger
than themselves have done, when it will be for their com-
fort and happiness if they will remember these prophetic
words, and hold in readiness Holloway's pills, a certain
safeguard.