THE

JOURNAL OF AUCTIONS AND SALES,

AND

PROPERTY AND INVESTMENT REPORTER:

Collecting every kind of useful intelligence relating to Property and Investments, and providing a medium for communication between Sellers and Buyers throughout the country, where those who want to sell may be sure to be found by those who want to buy. Its contents are thus arranged:

1. DIARY of SALES BY AUCTION during the ensuing week.

2. LEADING ARTICLES on subjects connected with Property and its value; the rights and remedies of Sellers and Buyers; the different kinds of Investments; and such like.

3. INVESTMENT ADVISER.

4. PROPERTY REPORTER; comprising the Money Market; Stocks and Funds; state of the Property Market; a complete Share List, with latest prices, &c.

5. AUCTION INTELLIGENCE.

6. PROPERTY INTELLIGENCE.

7. JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES' CHRONICLE.

8. FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETIES JOURNAL.

9. HEIRS-AT-LAW and NEXT-OF-KIN wanted, collected from all sources, and comprising all that have been advertised for during the last 20 years.

10. ADVERTISEMENTS, classified thus:

Money, wanted and to lend;
Advowsons;

Shares;

Houses, to let and wanted;

Land and Estates, to let and
wanted;

Sales by Private Contract;

Sales by Auction; classified under the various counties.

Miscellaneous, Books, Tradesmen, &c. Property (Goods, Furniture, &c.), wanted to purchase or for sale.

An extensive circulation in the best quarters is thus secured1. THE JOURNAL OF AUCTIONS is presented as a Supplement to the Subscribers of The Law Times at the cost of the paper and press-work only, namely two pence per week, and no charge is made if advertisements to the amount of 20s. are inserted during the half-year; it is thus brought under the notice of all the Solicitors and their Clients throughout the United Kingdom and the Colonies.

2. It is sent gratuitously to all the principal Reading-rooms, Commercialrooms, &c., in the United Kingdom.

3. It is sold at the cost of stamp and paper only; viz., 3d. plain; 4d. stamped; or 4s. per quarter, paid in advance; and if the Subscriber advertises in it to the extent of 20s. in the half-year, no charge is made for the Journal.

The charge for Advertisements is very moderate. It is as follows:
FOR AUCTIONS AND SALES. FOR OTHER ADVERTISEMENTS.

For 4 lines..

s. d.
2 0

For 3 lines..

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2 6

0 6

For every additional 3 lines 1 0 For every additional line ILLUSTRATED ADVERTISEMENTS. It has introduced the novel feature of wood-cut views of houses and Plans of Estates, the charges for which are moderate.

All the Advertisements of Property for Sale either by Private Contract or by Auction, will, it is hoped, be inserted for the future in this JOURNAL OF AUCTIONS, where it will be brought more directly under the notice of the persons likely to be purchasers than by any other existing medium.

Advertisements, Orders, Results of Sales, Intelligence relating to Property, and other Correspondence, to be addressed to the Publisher, at the Office of THE LAW TIMES, 29, Essex-Street, Strand.

This work is designed to form a collection of the choicest Poetry in the English language. Nothing but what is really good will be admitted. No original poetry will find a place.

London:

JOHN CROCKFORD, 29, ESSEX STREET,
STRAND.

To Correspondents.

The following will have a place: "Gaston," "E. W.,” “R. G. L.,” "R. (Cambridge)," "N. (York.)"

The following are not quite up to our standard of excellence: "W. J. (Cashel)," "Job," "Juvenis," "X. (Swansea.)"

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FRENCH LITERATURE (translated), with Memoirs, complete in one part, price 1s. 6d. only.

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AS BEAUTIFUL POETRY is a good medium for Advertisements, and as only a few can be inserted, the following will be the Scale of Charges.

THE HOUSEHOLD DARLING.

By JOHN CRITCHLEY PRINCE, a working man—a weaver.

LITTLE Ella, fairest, dearest,
Unto me and unto mine-
Earthly cherub, coming nearest
To my dreams of shapes divine!
Her brief absence frets and pains me,
Her bright presence solace brings,
Her spontaneous love restrains me
From a hundred selfish things.

Little Ella moveth lightly,

Like a graceful fawn at play,
Like a brooklet running brightly
In the genial smile of May;
Like a breeze upon the meadows,
All besprent with early flowers;
Like a bird 'mid sylvan shadows,
In the golden summer hours.

You should see her, when with nature
She goes forth to think or play,
Every limb and every feature
Drinking in the joy of day;
Stooping oft mid floral splendour,
Snatching colours and perfumes.
She doth seem so fair and tender,
'Kin to the ambrosial blooms.

Sweet thought sitteth like a garland
On her placid brows and eyes,
Eyes which seem to see a far land
Through the intervening skies;
And she seems to listen often

To some voice above the spheres,
Whilst her earnest features soften
Into calmness, 'kin to tears.

Not all mirthful is her manner,

Though no laugh so blithe as hers;
Grave demeanour comes upon her
When her inmost nature stirs.

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When a gentle lip reproves her,
All her gladsome graces flee;

But the word, "forgiveness" moves her
With new joy, and sets her free.

Should a shade of sickness near me,
Then she takes a holier grace;
Comes to strengthen and to cheer me
With her angel light of face.
Up the stair I hear her coming,
Duly at the morning hour,
Sweetly singing, softly humming,
Like a bee about a flower.

Good books wake extatic feelings
In her undeveloped mind;
Holy thoughts, whose high revealings
Teach her love for humankind.
Music thrills her with a fervour,
Like the songs of seraphim;
May bright spirits teach and nerve her
To partake the perfect hymn.

God of Heaven! in thy good seeing
Spare this darling child to me,-
Spare me this unsullied being,

Till she bring me close to thee.
Unseen angels, bless her, mould her
Into goodness, clothed in grace,
That on high I may behold her
Talking with ye, face to face.

THE HUMAN SEASONS.

A Sonnet by KEATS.

FOUR seasons fill the measure of the year;
There are four seasons in the mind of man:
He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear
Takes in all beauty with an easy span :
He has his Summer, when luxuriously
Springs honied cud of youthful thought he loves
To ruminate, and by such dreaming nigh