The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-01-12 00:00:00

WEYMOUTH.

PENNI Wing—Not long ago a gentleman of great
scientific acquirements .a research determined to
deliver a lecture, in a town in the south of Dorset, on •
very interesting and novel subject, rather out of the
wares of ordinary lectures. The intention, too, was to
raise funds for an °Nerd which many Isdies and gentle.
men would Lave been glad to help had they been
made acquainted with the intention, and everything
promised a great success. However, after certain
expensed had been incurred, it was decided (not, we
should think, by the gentleman himself) to save the
petty expense of advertising in the proper newspapers,
and so small was the number of tickets sold that the
affair was postponed, and, we have reason to fear, rim
die. Thus probably a good object hu mimed some
pecuniary asgstanee, and the public • great treat.

The treasurer's statement of aoiounts wits next pre-
sented, and Mr. BINGLIAX said it was very gratifying to
find that since last year, when there wart such a deficit,
and the committee began to think they had almost
exhausted the Fenerority cube county, they had ree
calved largely increased subscriptions. Although the
number of patiente had been more than usual, the
quantity of meat oonsumed was less than in the pre.
ceeding year; bet he presumed that must have arisen
from exceptional moose. The cost of brud was rather
in exam of the previous year; but • large saving had
been effected in the whole of the surgical department",
the chief items upon which the amounts were rednek
being lint, bottles, and tow— (latighter). Gas has been
Introduced into the wards since last year, yet • saving
had also been effected in that amount. Perbaps a
more important example of ecodenny was found in the
saving ot £ll6 In the domestic, expenditure, in spite
of the Increased number of patients. That, he cion•
sidered, was very utisfactory—(applause). The receipts
for the year were u follows :—To dividends on capital
Invested lE-355 12e. 541.• congregational collections,
1.19 se. Id.; donations, /736 12s. GJ.; subscriptions,
£1,158 15s. 64.; household servants' payments as
patients, £7 12a.; chaplain's board, E2O; dripping, £l2;
coal uhea, El 2,. 61.• bottle money, £2 10s.; charity
boxes, II Ils.—total, £42.,694 16a lid. To this is added
the legacy by Mr. W. Stevens of £5OO, and • balance
due to the treasurer of £5 16s. 191, making the gross
receipt. £t,200 13s. 9. In the expenditure account it
was satisfactory to see £l,OOO invested in the new 3
per cents.
The Rev. C. W. Breatiam moved that the rep rt be
eseelved, adopted, and printed as usual, under the
direction of the committee. • Before doing so, however,
be should like to congratulate the noble lord in the chair
and the committee, upon what he conceived to be the
highly satisfactory position in which the hospital Wag at
the present moment—(applause). He received a letter
the other day from a geniteman, and he then iaformed
his colleagues on the committee that he should submit
it to this meeting, in order to usertain whether the
opinion laid down by the writer was that generally held
by the public. Etiolated in the letter was an order for
1:3 Ills. which the writer had collected for the hospital,
and he "1 hope to see your institution with a
constantly increasing income and always in debt."—
(laughter). "It is the only sale and philosophic position
for • hospital, according to the rule, 'These who sure
sick people should themselves be sick.'" Ho could
hardly subscribe to that theory, however, for he found
in his own experience, he chairman of the committee,
that he could always held up his head much more
comfortably when he could announce, as he did at
present, a more satisfactory state of thing, than in the
preceding year, when he was obliged to confess to • large
deficit. He did not approve of that gentleman's theory,
neither did be think the governors or the pubdc
generally would approve of it. file own feeling had
always been the same with regard to the hospital an to his
private affairs, he liked to have a " constantly increas-
ing income," and, if possible, never to be in debt—
(laughter and applause).
Mr. J. FLOTTS, Ml'., had great pleasure in seconding
the adoption of the report. As their excellent chairman
of the committee had said, it was very gratifying to find
that public interest in the hospital was unabated and it
was partienlarly gratifying to see that a saving bad been
effroted on several items of expenditure, which indicated
that the conduct of the officers and servants in the
hospital must have been directed carefully to economy.
Upon the care taken by the servants and officer' in
respect to the different items of expenditure under their
charge depended, in • great measure, the pecuniary
position of the institution. The report showed that
they bad been careful in the put year, and to that must
be attributed, in a great measure, the happy Poeitlen in
which the hospital was now found—(hear' hear). He
hoped, however, this would he no ground for a relaxa-
tion of their diligence, beaus" sometimes they knew
that, even in private affairs, when peepie got • little full
of money, they launched into extravagances the other
way; and perhaps the advantage of their being • little
over full of cash turned out not to be of real advantage,
because their followed • little carelessness in the outlay.
Therefore he hoped the present prosperity of the lull-
tetion would not be any cause of relaxation, but that
they would continue to exercise that diligence and cars
over the property entrusted into their hands during
the coming year which had been manifested in the past—
(applause).
The motion was carried unanimously.
The Rev. B. HIADLAND moved that the following
gentlemen be requested to act on the 00111Mile00 during
the ensuing year :—The Rev. T. A. Falkner, Rev. H. J.
Green, Rev. E. Ludlow, Rev. G. L. Nash, Rev. T. W.
Knipe, K. W. Williams, Req., R. Burnett, Seq., J.
Mayo, Esq., J. G. filymee Req. J. Johnson, Req., IL
Gang*, Eat., and R. Davis, RP. He felt quite sure
those gentlemen would diearge their duties In • most
utidatto ry manner, and if they discharged the functions
of their offices in the same admirable way an they bad late Wilisisatc and walk, jaieu were also *wired
done in years Past, the governors and the public would with assaulting the captain. It appeared that the
have every r••••• to be rattrae°l with th••,--t(:PPlairre), captain saw John Williams smoking on the quarter
nilt Mr. J. Fio. ALP secondedseconded-, ndod the rho which deck, and Galling on him to come near, he immediately
was carried unanimously. went forward without answering. The captain followed
The Rev. H. J. GRZWI, livsnaatcl • vote of limbs to him, sod asked him why he did not come whoa called
the medical officers of the hospital, of whoae konorary on, when he began to abuse bins, took his pipe from his
and valuable services the committee had spoken,
•• so_. month and dashed it on the deck at the captain's feet,
1414 in their report. In this acknowledgment a. end swore at him in • very threatening manner. The
services rendered he would include not only thee. who captain got the assistance of the mate and boatswain;
bail been for many years connected with the institution, but Williams rushed away mod got into his sleeping
but throe also who had recently been added to their berth. On getting him out he again abused the captain,
numbee—(applause). To their frequent attendance, and called the men to his uristones William James,
and the skill with which they Performed their &Wee: who was the ringleader, took hold of the captain to pull
was certainly to' be litribui•d 18° "ma"of the h 11" him off from James ; but finding he meld not, he
and the high mtlozation in which it was held throughout struck him in the face, and knocked him down, and
the county—(applusee). Williams, although In irons, struck him, and said,
The Rev. E. LUDLOW seconded the motion, which was "Come on, boys, if you are Englishmen you won't see
Marled by acclamation. this." The captain denied giving them any canes for
Mr. J. FLOTEII, M.P., then proposed a vote of thanks the await. Afterwards on reading the official log book
to the committee, and in doing so he said it was only a to the prisoners, Williams rushed at him, and said for
compliment which they richly deserved. He believed two pins he would knock his bead off ; but the mate
he was a member of the committee, though not • very prevented him from striking him.—The mate also
active one he was afraid—flangbeer). He attended corroborated the captain in this owe, and said that be
when be wen wanted on may partimakv occasion; still himself was 'truth several times,and there was a reviler
be felt in making this proposition he was not tbsnki4 souffle. The boatswain and an apprentice on beard the
himself, Wawa* he wee not entitled to any of theme ship also corroborated.—Williama denied smoking on
He hoped he might as an impartial person propose th . the 'Pular "car and said that the captain "rusk
the thusly, a the smoothie he given to the acting Do.. him first, but Janda did MA deny the
mitts* foe the very uselleat *revises they bad rendered Howard Pronsaa for • ••••W• PlgailkW•att as the captain
daring the past year—(appinase), bad been pat to parkas ineoaveskree, and even in den.

A WICYIdOUTIIIAN IN. PARAGUAY.

Surgeon-Major John Fox, son of our respected towns-
man and borough magistrate, Dr. Fox, has jest returned
borne after 11 you,' residence in Paraguay, South
America. Surgeon-Major Fox had been engaged on the
medical staff in the Pang service, and made
application to leave the country early in 1•67, his
eontrut having terminated in the end of the previous
year. He was, however, refused by Lopez, and although
an Roglish gunboat came up in the latter part of
September, end the most strenuous efforts were mode
by his friends and the British authorities, to procure
him permission to leave, the president motioned to
refuse, offering him all kinds of reward, to induce him
to remain in the servioo. lie was, therefore, kept in •
kind of honourable detention. during which his health
suffered and his strength declined, from the amount of
work he had to perform, out the almorit total absence
of every kind of food, excepting beef, which was of very
inferior quality. The only thing to vary this diet was
a very little Indian corn occasionally; and the common
drink was the yerba, or Paraguayan tea, an infusion of
which is made by pouring boiling water ea the dried
and powdered leaf. The services rendered by Mr. Fax
must have been of the greatest value, as there were
only three English surgeons, with the assistance of a
few natives who had been taught by them during their
previous residence in the country, to render medical
assistanee to the whole of the Paraguayan army. Some-
thing like 27,000 wounded men passed thmugh the!r
hands, and 3,000 cases of cholera were attended to. More
than a donee amputations were sometimea performed
in • day. Yet we bane mi doubt that the object of Mr.
Fox's detention was not so much to mecum his medical
services, priceless as these must have been under the
circumstanees, as to prevent any accurate intelligence
respecting the condition and romancer of the country,
and concerning the President's treatment of the
prisoners and foreign reridents, being mule known to
his enemies and the outside world. All of the foreigners
had been kept in a state of imprisonment from the time
the president first left his minuet to take up his position
at the bead of his army in the field. At length, how-
ever, in the month of November last, the British gun-
boat Beacon was up the river Paraguay, and Mr. Fox
and fourteen of his fellow-countrymen having received
permimion from Lopez to quit the country at any hour
they pleased, they gladly took the first opportunity of
going on board. A French gunboat also succeeded to
getting out two Frenchwomen and ten Frenchmen
detained by Lopee ; but it Is said that the secretary of
the French legation, Mr. Mosel has been prevented from
departing, on charge of complicity in • onnsnkranyr and
others of our countrymen and countrywomen desired to
leave, but to them the presenee of the gunboat Beacon
was not made known. Among them are two civil
engineers named Valpy and Iturrell, and the widows and
families of Englishmen who have fallen in the
Paraguayan service. The English Government are
taking measures to procure their release, and it is
expected that they will be permitted shortly to embark
on board the gunboat Cracker which isup the Parognay.
We understand that the deliverance of Surgeon-Major
Fox end his companions was effected by the strenuous
efforts of M. Gould, charge d' alfaires of H. Id M.
Legation at Buenos Ayres. The party GUM down the
rivers Parsee and Foregoer on board the Beacon ; the
captain of which was bound by conditions to Lopez not
to land any of them at either of the enemy's ports.
They were therefore transferred ot Monte Video to the
Liverpool stemn-boatfiewton, and arrived home last
week.

Comm Prm BESSIOIIs, Satorday.—Refore R. El.
ElwaMeld, Esq., R. ff. Eliot, Esq., arol Major Swatßold.

Join Williams, *Vika era SUS, Peter Haver, S. P.
Sriersion, Thomas Lowy, Marks !slated, H. Donoraw,
11. Ozenbetry, and Andrew ROadroAce, were brought
up charged with emettitiog Mr. R. F. Seale, captain of
the .hip Millwall, on the 6th January. Mr. Howard
prosecuted. It appeared that the Miliwell put into
Portland Roads on the 6th. through stress of weather,
end on the third day after the ship wee there, the men
refused to obey the mate's orders to tare to. Shortly
after they came aft to see the taptaln, and he mown.
strutted with them, and shekel them why they would not
work. They answered they would not proceed In the
oltiP =len the novring ultfaratos was done something
to, as it was very hard to steer. Witness considered
the steering apparatas quite good enough for all pur-
poses. It was a patent screw; but in a heavy sea the
ship is apt to kick, but this is nothing uncommon.—
William mate, corroborated the statement of
the oPtain•—The men, in defence, complained of the
steering apparatas, and Island created some laughter by
exclaim* "I was ghee* ; I expect to die in von
reek."