The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-10 00:00:00

LONDON LABOURERS' DWELLINGS (LIMITED)._

The 14th Report of the directors of this society
stated that they had purchased for £1,550 28 t,tnali
leasehold houses in and near Prospect-place, Rother-
hithe, by which the company's tenements were
increased to 243. They had also commenced the
erection of a block of buildings to contain 18
tenements of two ranns each at Vauxhall. The
contract price was £1,613. Between the Ist of
January and the 30th of June last 19 additional
shares were allotted, thus raising the share capital
of the society to £33,400, divided into 334 shares
of £lOO each. The total amount of rent for the
half-year would, if all were let, have been £1,875, to
which must be added £66 due for previous arrears,
making £1,941. Of this sum £1,796, or nearly
92i per cent., had been received from the tenants,
which was about the usu 1 proportion. During the
past six months the loss from tunpty houses had
been,lBB, and from bad debts £l6. making a mai
of £lO4, which was about £24 less than iu the cor-
responding six months last year. The present ar-
rears of rent amounted to £4l, which was about the
same as last year, and probably about one halt
would nil eventually received. The cost of repairs
had been gradually increasing up to the present
time, but had probably now reached its fall average
amount. The directors continued to allow one
week's rent in the half-year to those telants who.
paid quite regularly, and also kept their houses in
good order. The amount of bonus for the half-
year was £25, which was, of course, an additional
item of expense. The total net rents amounted to
£BB2, and the net profit of the half year to £Bll,
which was sufficient to pay the usual dividend at
the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, tree of income-
tax, the surplus £7 being carried to the reserve
fund. The sinking fund for leases amounted to
£1,026. The reserve fund now amounted to £3,995
The total payments on capital account amounted to
the 30th of June last to £33,710.

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The bridge across the Missouri River at Omaha
May now be looked upon as a sure thing, and will
soon be begun. The people of Omaha and Coun-
cil Bluffs have both decided by their ballots to aid
he Union Pacific Railroad Company in accom-
plishing the work, the former city to contribute
$250,000, and the latter, pcmooo.
Steel rails have been laid on the Hudson River
Railroad as far north as Cold Spring.
The London Stack Exchange Committee have
appointed 'Wednesday, 9th inst., a special settling
day in the new shares of the Illinois Central Rail-
road Company. Fractions of new shares to be set-
tled at £2O ss. per new share.
It is bard times, says the Cheyenne Star, for
water in the vicinity of Bitter Creek, on the Union
Pacific Railroad. The workmen on the railroad
there have no water but what is brought from the
mountain streams, between thirty and forty miles
from where they are at work. Men and animeals
have to be supplied in this manner, and the latter
frequently suffer greatly when the supply fails, as
lit does sometimes before they are able to replenish
it."

The annual meeting of the stockholders of the
New Haven and Northampton Railroad Company
was held at New Haven on Wednesday, Aug. 19,
and the following officers el-cted for the ensuing
year :—President, Joseph E. Sheffield ; vice-presi-
dentxteeandi e superintendent,
C. N.,Yearnans ; treasurer,
Stephen secretary, A. L. Kidston ;
o
essrs. Sheffield, Kidst on, and
epe uhtenvD. Pardeera itt,; l
M. G-. Elliot ; and directors, Messrs. Sheffield,
Pardee, Kinston, and Elliot. and William W.
Boardman and William Johnson of New Haven,
yW. atl Vae
PWeshei New York, and Charles N.
WpS of
Westfield.
The
newly-elected directors of the Vermont
eNIor
Valley Railroad are Hugh H. Henry, Governo.
Morris, Alex. Hamilton, G. R. I. Bowdoin, Chas
Joel Paget J. H. Williams. The presi-
dent is H. H. Henry.
ulhoarrpiisn,,
The Hartford and New Haven Railroad are re-
laying portions of their rod with steel-headed
rails, which are fastened with screws and rubber-
washers in such a way that the destructive jar of
the trains is almost entirely obviated.

IRISH CHURCH INQUIRY IN 1834
AND 1868.

" Conatni:sion of Inquiry into ,he
Irish Church " has already had
it Lordvnut
uses.
sue of
.11s elrtbsyt 'he s
report—which, with the evidence in
so many former Blue-books lying before it, need
°weeks necessary for the
labours
nawnd transcr ption—is s, ill
"i
Yhare
of
occupiedoajp l
i, a
iu the state of `tdummy." No mortal eye s
s.
perused it. The world knows as much about it
possible contents as WaS known on the 241 of
e sheio few
June, 1867, when the addriss praying that the
Commission might issue wai carried, and when
Earl Russell's attempt to give it a useful form, by
the addition of an instruction to inquire as to
" the more equitable application" of those reve-
nues " for the benefit of the Irish people," was
negatived by a majority of ninety to thirty-two.
All that we know of the report is that it will con,
twin s me information—which we have already

concerning the nature and amount of the pro-
perty and revenues of the Established Church in
lrel .nd, with a view to their more producdve
management."
Nevertheless, the report has already hail it: uses.
In the first place, the expectation of it has furnished
Ministers for about fifteen months past with a
e
pretext for saying nothing about the policy, if
they have any, which thy mean to reeimmend.
In the next place, they are able to instruct their
support, rs to te 1 the courtituencies that, until the
report comes in, they cannot pledge themselves one
way or the other : beyond this, that they will
abolish anomalies, even while they withstand spo-
liation ; but what are " anomalies," and what
" abolition," and what " 40liation," will be seen
when the report is presented. Meanwhile,
" Magherafelt" and " Achonry," and many
another benefice, are to hold their breath as they
may in a state of suspended animation ;
" Liberal Conservativ,
s"— whether their Libe-
ralism makes them to wish for abolition of anoma-
lies, or their Conservatism to wish for the
repression of the yet unseen danger of spoliation
—will unite cheerfull at the polls, and vote for the
same " Constitutionalist" candidate.
No man of sense will be deceived by all this.
Of what consequence is it to the question of
establishment or disestablishment whether the
revenues of the English Church in Ireland are now
productively or unproductively managed? or
whether the endowments and tithe rentseharges of
sinecure benefices might or might not be more
suitably appropriated to the augmentation of the
" valor ecclestasticus" of benefices a little less
sinecure ? of whether in that case the incumbents
of tue last would or would not cease to thunder
against saci liege, and to take up their testimony
iig-iiest spoliation? rlhe Irish poop e are to all
such questioi s profoiind.y in tilierent ; being
aware that their solution iu no wiaa assists that
of the real question—Shall the Establishment exist
at ail?

It is curious to sso how Lord Derby's utoce-