The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-02-10 00:00:00

grate anb Commerce.

Tug GMAT WESTERN RAILWAT.—The directors of
the Great Western Railway, scenting the brittle from
afar, threatened at the next meeting at Poddington,
have bent the subjoined circular to the pro-
prietors. It is signed by the Chairman. and is
follow. :—"I think that it will be desirable, in the
beet interest* of this oompany, that upon the occasion
of their next half-yearly mooting the directors should
be fortified in cue of need by the support of those
whose confidence they possess. The policy of which
they are the advocates, • policy which has been much
misrepresented, is a policy of peace, and i. to a great
extent displayed in the circulars which the Board has
recently issued, announcing the conclusion of amicable
agreements with the London and North Western, and
London and South Weotend Companleu. If, therefore,
it should be in accordant:* with your views to d 0.., I
shall be glad it you will send nie your proxy in tune for
the peat half-yearly meeting."
Tics PIIIMMATIC Dicesxcu com-
pany, which was constituted • year or two back for
experimental trials of their tubular system for the
transmission of letters and package, have now issued
their complete proopectus, the proposed capital being
£350,000, in shares of £lO. The director, state that
the mechanical stmooss of the plan having been com-
plete in their short line at Battersea, they have 1.4 •
permanent tube of 30 inches gauge between the Easton
station of the London and North Western Railway
and the north-west district post-office, Eversholt-stnet,
which is found to work efficiently. The Post-Milos
have notified their readiness to use as far as povvible
the facilities to be afforded by the company for the
transinisaioa of the mail-begs, and arrangement. have
been entered into with Use North-Western Railway,
Nemec Ilekford and Co., and Meson, Chaplin and
Horne, with • view to an early and general develop°.
meat of the system, by a 48-inch tube of Ave miles,
which will common the North-Western Railway with
Holborn, the General Post-office, Gresham-street, and
Charing Croft, at a cost of £131,250.
GBILAT Wgatzu RAILWAT Dwinsxxes.—There are
vcrions rumours afloat concerning the Great Western
dividend. It will be, we are told, at the rate of 11 per
cent,, or Its, for the six months ending June 30th ;
but this statement we do not vouch for.
Baidrith AND Eirrita RAILWAY. —The directors
have decided upon recommending the proprietoro, at
the coming general nieetiog, to declare a dividend for
the half-year at the rate of 5 per mot per annum,
carrying forward • balance of £2,279 17s. Bd.
BALISBURT atso YILOVIL RAILW•T.—Th• directors
of thee company have agreed to recommend to their
shareholders the payment of • dividend at the rate of
44 per cent, per annum on the ordinary capital of the
company forth, half-year ending the 31st of December,
leaving • balance of upwards of £2,000 to be carried
to the credit of the mensal hall-year.
Coax IMPOSTL—The accounts have now been made
up of the quantities of grain and Sour imported into
Great Britian in last year and preceding years since the .
introduction of free trade, and the neon Is remarkable
as showing an extraordinary increase in the put year.
Tithing wheat and flour alone we find that the lowest
year was 1835, when the quantity of wheat imported
Into Great Britian wao only 46430 qra and of Sour
84,684 cwt.. while in 1862 no is.. than 9,541,362 qrs. of
wheat and 7,314,317 eel. of Sour ware imported into
the various ports of the couqtry. The following is •
°memoriam of the total import, of all sort. of train and
Sour in the two peat years i-1861, wheat, 6,966,844
qrs. • barley. 1,406,501 qrs. ; oats, 1,975,574 qrs. ;
bean's, 564,477 qrs,; peas, 402,933 qua.; rye, 54,142
qrs ' • buckwheat, 714 qrs. ; maize, 3,106,595 qrs. ;
wheat, meal, and flour, 6,331,275 qrs. making • total
of 16,488,738 qrs. In (lie past year (1862) the quantity
imported warn :—Wheat. 9.542,362 qua.; barley.
1,863,683 qrs. ; oats, 1,622,919 qrs. ; beans, 479,758
qrs. ; peas, 230,132 qr..; rye, 1,698 qrs.; buckwheat,
5,143 qrs.; maize, 2,751,265 qrs.; wheat meal, and
Sour, 7,314,317 cwt.; total, 18,842,858