The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-04 00:00:00

Mr. KILsHAw seconded the resolution, which was carried

by acclamation

The CHAIRMAN said, it was scarcely necessary to intro-
duce his friend, Mr. Ingram, to them, but he ought perhaps
to have done so. His honest face showed, that he was a tory.
He belonged to a knot of individuals whom tht.y denominated
the Harrington Rangers, who had done good service. He
need not say, after what they had heard fromlMr. Ingram,
that they were a most loyal body.

Mr. TINNE proposed the committee for the current year,
and read over a list of their names.
Mr. W H A.TH XII seconded the resolution, which was put
and carried.

Mr. RICHARD DAWSON said a resolution had been put
into his hand, and on moving it he would take the opportu-
nity to state that the town was much indebted to the exer-
tions made by that association. That they had not recently
been called together so often as at first was owing to their
having had numerous ward and other meetings, which ren-
dered the more frequent meeting of that association unneces-
sary. But a most important year was before them. It was
absolutely necessary that they should be up and stirring ; they
should have their eyes open to the machinations of the enemy,
and be prepared at all points to meet them. (Cheers.) He
therefore proposed quarterly meetings, and he hoped they
would be fully attended. The resolution he had to move
was in these terms :

" That it be recommended to this meeting to continue
their quarterly meetings, to take place in January, April,
July, and October; the committee, or seven members there-
of, having the power to call special meetings, by giving the
secretary three days notice."

The motion was seconded by Mr. LEnsoN.
Mr. HOPE, with many compliments on the zeal and ability
of Mr. Robert Harrison, proposed the appointment of that
gentleman as secretary to the association. Seconded by Mr.
SINGLETON COOPER, and carried unanimously.
On the motion of Mr. TROALPSON, a vote of thanks was
passed to the conservative press.
Mr. DUNLEVIE regretted that their mutual friend Mr.
Gladstone, who would have done greater justice to the reso-
lution he had to propose than himself, had been obliged to
leave the room. But he had great pleasure in moving the
resolution which, conveyed an acknowledgment their late
chairman, in his opinion, was eminently entitled to. (Hear,
hear, and cheers.) It was " that the thanks of this meeting
be presented to Samuel Hahne, Esq., for his services as
chairman of this association." It was a short and simple,
but a pithy resolution, and he was perfectly satisfied that it
required no comment from any man, when they remembered
that it was in favour of one who had rocked their Conserva-
tive Association in its cradle, and who left it in full health,
vigour and maturity. (Loud cheers.) In proposing it they
would agree with him that it was but a just tribute to a man
who did honour to all the relations of public and private life.
(Ckeers.)

Mr. GEORGE WRIGHT had great pleasure in seconding the
resolution. In doing so he alluded to the practices of the
radicals at the recent election for North Tosteth Ward. He
had been employed in canvassing amongst the alehouse-
keepers, but in every house that he went toile found that he
was dead-beat, Mr. Rathbone's party having been round be-
fore him promising licenses to every one who would vote for
them. Was this justice, he would ask, to the licensed vic-
tuallers, who had a great stake in the town ? How many had
got licenses in this way, he could not tell., In secondng the
motion, he need not say anything in praise of Mr. Holme.
They all knew him as a tradesman, a man of talent, and a
gentleman.
The motion was passed with three cheers for Mr. Holme.
On the motion of Mr. LEDSON, thanks were voted to Mr.
Smith, and the meeting separated.

Some imp of mischief, the other day, contrived to affix
against the portico of the principal railway-station one of
those interesting panel sketches of domestic felicity, entitled,
" Mangling done here on the shortest notice."

PHRENOLOGY.—A clinching argument, proving the truth
of the science, is, that a professor of the art recently fought a
duel down south, and had his entire organ of combativeness
shot off. Since then he has never wanted to fight again.—
American Paper.

The new refreshment and waiting rooms at Woolverton,
the line of the London and Birmingham railway, which are
fitted up with great taste and elegance, were opened on Mon-
day week under the superintendence of Messrs. Dethier and
Co. of the Euston hotel, Euston-square, London.
The tradesmen of Darlington, at a numerous meeting
lately held in the Town-hall, decided on shortening their
term of credit to their customers, from twelve to six months,
in consequence of the general curtailment of credit by the
wholesale houses.

LORD EGREMONT'S IMPORTANT SALE IN WILTS.—
Early in the spring Lord Wenlock's estate, called Beilby
Grange, near to Wetherby, in Yorkshire, was sold for 60,000
guineas. The lands were principally unlet, but the calcula-
tion made proved it to amount to about 31 years' purchase ;
in July the Kilnwick Percy estate, near York, was sold for
81,000 guineas, to Captain Duncombe, the son of Lord
Faversham. This was at least 32 years' purchase. During
the progress of Lord Egremont's sales on Thursday last Mr.
Robins observed that he was just old enough to remember
the three per cents at 474, and with the warlike feeling
lately exhibited in France it was not drawing very largely on
the imaginative powers to believe that the funds might again
be down to 60 ; while the very cause which should knock
down the funds will raise land in the same proportion.
Lord Egremont's sales are a sure criterion to go by ; it was
known that they were not experimental sales, but bonii fide :
—Wick Down Farm, let at £5OO a year, land-tax deducted,
£3l lOs 6d, leaving a clear net rental of £468 9s Gd, sold for
12,700 guineas; 29 years purchase. Broom Manor Farm,
let at £750, land-tax deducted, £6l 15s, leaving a clear net
rental of £685 ss, sold for £23,300 ; 35 years' purchase and
upwards. Lyddington Warrent Farm, let at £4OO, land-tax
deducted, £25 3s Gd, leaving a clear net rental of £274 16s
Gd, sold for 7,450 guineas ; 29 years' purchase. Allington
Manor Farm, let at £620, land-tax deducted, £25 12s,
leaving a clear net rental of £594 Bs, sold for 19,150 guineas ;
33 years' purchase. Slaughterford Farm, let for £315, land-
tax deducted, £22 7s 6d, leaving a clear net rental of £302
2s 6d, sold for 10,460 guineas ; 37 years' purchase. Total
—73,060 guineas. It should be remarked that in the first
and third farms a deduction of SO per cent: has been occasi-
onally conceded to the two tenants. After this plain state-
ment of facts, it will not be doubted that land is rising in the
market, because the soil throughout these farms, although
convertible, does not pretend to be of first-rate quality. The
tenantry are, however, unexceptionable. Joseph Neeld,
Esq., M.P. for Chippenham, purchased two of the farms for
29,610 guineas ; the rental £896 a year, which is 36 years'
purchase.