The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-01-17 00:00:00

faistrUanotto.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
An extraordinary meeting of thia company was held
on Tuesday at the Paddington station, for the purpose of
taking into consideration the expnliency of exercising
the option given to the co,:iiiany by tie West London
Extension Railway Act, Mill, of contributing the sum
of I:100,000 towards the capital of the company thereby
lllCOlporated in lieu of the net revenue to be guaranteed
by the Great Western Company under the provisions
of the same Act. The Earl of Shelburne, the chairman,
presided.
Mr. Saunders, the secretary, read the notice convening
the meeting.
The Chairman said, as the position of the Great
Western Company under the West London Extension
Act had been already approved by the proprietors, it
was not necessary for hie, to enter into any explanation
in that respect. It would be sufficient to state that the
Great Westeni had a certain option given them under the
Act of guaranteeing a certain meant of traffic, instead
of subscribing towards the capital of the extension line.
The share capital was E:3110,006, of which it was agreed
the London and North• Western should subscribe
1300,000, the Great Western I:100,000, the South-
Western 00,000, and the Brighton E 50,000. But at
the time of passing the Act the directors did not see
their way to subscribe the capital ; they were therefore
allowed the option in lieu thereof of colitributing a
certain amount of traffic in the shape of tolls which
should yield to the Extension Company a net sum of
1:4.101 Alcor, being 4 per cent, on one third on the
capital. tinder this arrangement the Great Western
would not derive the 811111 C benefits as the other coin-

Her Majesty will arrive in town on the 23rd instant,
we believe, and open Parliament in person on the 24th,
an.l on the same afternoon return to Winisor Castle.
The Queen has appointed a suite of apartments in
Hampton Court Palace to Mrs. Hodson, widow of the
famous commander of " Hodson'. Horst."
Emperor Napoleon 111. him sent a goli medal to the
ladies of Brescia as an acknowledgment of their atten-
tions to the wounded.
Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte has been made grand
officer of the Legion of Honour. less (says the Mon itearl
on A ccount of his near relationship to the Emperor than
for his distinction as • philologist and his general literary
sAtainmenta.
A new approach is to be made to the Temple Church
from Fleet-street, opposite Chancery-lane. A part o
Inner Temple-lane is to be demolished, as also Church!'
yard-court.
The fAbserrer publishes • rumour to the effect that the
directors of the Great Ship Company have resigned, and
states that Mr. Lever has renewed his offer to charter
the vessel.
The Government intends to appoint an Inspector-
amend of Volunteers, who will be assisted by six sub-
, inspectors of the rank of brigade-major. Each of the
sub-inspectors will be assigned a district for his particu-
lar supervision, the Inspector-General controlling the
whole arrangements.
Three young men of Watchet went out fishing. when
the boat was capsized, and they all met • watery

ponies upon any future profits that might arise from the grave.
developinent of the traffic. Time Act soecified that the Professor Owen announces that he possesses a .op yof
option of subscribing £lOO,OOO to the capital of the es • those manuscript works of the illustrious John Hunter
tension line should be exercised within six months of the originals of which were destroyed by Sir Everazd
the passing of the Act, on the Lith of August teat, in Home. Professor Os en is about to publish the collects
lieu of the tolls mentioned. He concluded by moving than.
• formal resolution, authorising the directors to exercise The late Mr. W. Moodie, wine-merchant, of Leith,
the option of contributing the sum of £lOO,OOO to the left £4,000 towards the erection of an Episcopalian church
capital of the West London Extension Railway, and to in Leith, and two members of the Leith congregation
to take all such steps as may be necessary to give effect I hare placed a like sum at the disposal of the managers
to the resolution, for the erection of the church and parsonage.
Dr. Sinith seconded the motion. The religious revival in Wolverhampton prognosis_
Mr. Saker wished to know whether the directors had On one evening last week at least 1,600 people assembled
made up their minds as to the gauge into London. at a " united prayer meeting" held in the Exchange, and
There Was HO doubt that in the course of time several if there had beeen room at least 9,000 would have con-
extensions would be made into different parts of London gregated to beseech the outpouring of the Spirit upon
by narrow gauge line*, zed lie thought they should be in that tisten•
a position to take advantage of any facilities that might Englidt tradesmen should be mule aware that the
offer. They had the narrow gauge up to Reading, and numb-r of persons mho avail theinaelves of the Scotch
the question was, whether they should continue it seuilestration comirts to evade their creditors in this
from Reading into London, or insist on carrying out the 000nttY is "il the iiieee'ise•
broad gauge in the London extensions. He thought if The solot l'ol.tie,,f Lyons says," A petition addressed
they carried out the narrow gauge at those points they to the Senate i% now being aigned by the female opera-
would be brought more effectually into communication tives in this city, in which the petitionein pray that at)
with other lines, men who attain the age of forty without marrying may
A Proprietor said he would vote against any further be compelled to pay a tax al unproductive members
increase of capital. He did not attend the Wilanicliffe of society."
meetings last year, because he thought 110 more capital N"ries. the black doctor and cancer-curer, is on his
was intended to be subscribed ; lie therefore was taken trial in Paris for illegally practising medicine sad oh-
by surprise when he was asked to vote £lOO,OOO for ex- taining mummy under false pretences. The examination
tension capital, particularly when they had agreed to of the doctor Imas afforded amusing illustrations of his
subscribe 5.375,000 to the Metropolitan Railway, which, shifty genius and the inquisitorial method of Fresch
in his opinion, was a much better scheme in every procedure.
respect. He was anxious to cast the whole responsi- Mr. Herbert notifies that be is willing to unction the
bility of that measure on the board, in order to prevent eatablishinent of cadet companies of volunteers comporerL
then, on a future occasion from taunting the proprietors of youths in their teens. It is the first atep towards
with having urged them on to new schemes. juvenile military training, which, carried out in our
Mr. Saintsbury had been a shareholder in the cow' 'thou's, would prove of great value.
pany for 20 years, and certainly was not taken by stir. Baron Buol, formerly Austrian Minister for Foreign
prise as to the proposed measure. The subject had Affairs, has arrived with his family at Route, and will
been before the shareholders a considerable time, had remain there during the winter.
been approved by them, hail passed the Legislature five William Sudworth, of Whaplode, in Lincolnshire,
months ago, and could therefore be no muter of sur- drowned himself last week early on the mourning 'miter
prise to any shareholder in the Great Western Cone his marriage.
fumy. If lie (Mr. Saintshury) understood the matter, it A piece of plate has been presented to the seven mesa-
was that they were inked to subscribe £lOO,OOO to the hers of the executive committee of the Manchester
capital of a useful extension, instead of having to pay A Exhibition.
net sum of £4,000 a year in tlae shape of tolls. He An association for suppressing the practice of falsely
wished to know how theu tolls would be assessed, and marking or labelling goods for sale has been formed.
whether the 1111111 was gems or net. An inquest was lately held at Brandon. in Norfolk,
Mr. Saunders explained that the £4,000 a year they on the body of an infant who had been suffocated by a.
were to subscribe was the net amount of tolls. The cat (which had crept into the cradle) lying on its face
charges of maintenance anal working might swell the and mouth.
gross Amount of toile to £6,0110 or I:7.01$). By not Sir 51. Berkeley has recovered from the accident he
exercising the option of laying the £lOO,OOO in lieu of met with about a fortnight since whilst hunting in the
toll, the three other comimanies would have different • neighbourhood of Thornbury. He was panting under a
interests from their company, probably demand high . tree, when his head came into collision with a large
tolls, and, whatever the receipts might be. the Great „ bough.
Western would llid participate in the profits, hematite . A boiler explosion took place at a foundry at Middle-
they would not he alluelmolders. It would he the wich on Wednesday week ; one of the SOBS of the
interest of the other parties to keep up the tolls as high , tenant, Mr. Heath, was killed, another dangerously
as possible, while it would I,e the interest I.f the Great 1 wounded. and Mr. Heath himself Was dreadfully
Western to hen low tolls mei cheap fares, so as to , mutilated, so that there is little hope of his recovery.
enable them to develope their local traffic. The ex. ! An old man, eightrsix. years 01 age, has just died at
tension line would enable them to run to the Victoria i the Moor of Durdie, in the Corse of Gowrie, leaving
station, by which many gentlemen connected with ; .£6OO or L'7oo. For forty years be Was • common
Parliament and the law courts would have convenient I Ploughman, and during that period contrived to save
access to their line. Ily subscribing, the eliasonsi in j this very considerable sum.
lieu of tolls, they would secure all the advantages uf i The traffic returns of the railways in the United
the extension to the Victoria station. ' Kingdom for the week ending Ifecember 31 amounted
Mr. Saimitabury remarked that by means of the ex. to £465,110 and for the corresponding week of 1858 to
tension line they would have access to another city,. £425,000, showing an increase of £40,030.
Westminster; they could raise the money on debenture, I A number of anatomical models, forming part of a
they would be placed on an equality with the mile ; museum, were lately seized by the Leeds police, as
companin, and the interests of the four companies would : having an immoral tendency, and the proprietors were
become identical. I prosecuted under Lord Campbell's Act.
The Chainuan, in reply to observations, said the pro. Norway bas taken a significant step. Its Diet at
prietors could, of course, attend meetings of the coin- Christiania Imam carried a vote for the abolition of the
!
mammy or not, just as they pleased. The director% were Swedish Lonl-Lieutenancy, and for the complete fusion
glad to see the proprietors at the meetings, but it was of the two countries under the Scandinavian crown of
; most unfair for gentlemen not to attend the meetings ; King Oscar.
and then turn mund on the directors and tell them the I A correspondent of the Boulder suggest* that an effort
meetitigs were thinly attended, when it WAS their own I should be made to reclaim the Goodwin Sands, and to
act to stay away. The directors did not think they - erect a substantial lighthouse thereon.
were infallible, and were glad of any useful suggestions l Mr. Stmence, author of " The Introduction to Ento-
the proprietor. had tam make with • view to benefit the I leity. and other scientific works, died on Friday
company. Time question with respect to the " ...Inge had I week, aged seventy-seven.
not escaped the attention of the Hoard, but h., WAS not 1 Works of defence are to be erected on the harbour of
prepared to give an answer at present. Sligo.
Mr. Saunders read the clause ill the Act which ex- The liberal electors of the county of Londonderry
plainest that if the Great Western did uut subscribe the
. have peesented a purse of nearly 1.1.000 to their late
ElOO,OOO, the difference would be made up by the ,„ °member. Mr. S. M. Greer, as a proof of "their high
London and North-Westeni subscribing £175,000. the ' sense of his services whilst their representative."
Brighton £75.0110, and the South-Western 1:50,01.10; • Mrs. Smith Bannerman, who eloped with the Rev. F.
making the total 1:3t10,000. , Green a week or two since, is said to have sailed for
The motion was then carried. Australia, with her lover, in the Blervie Castle, which
Mr. :taker wished to know whether it Was intended was subsopiently limit in the Channel—all drowned.
to run passenger trains on the Brentford line. The parish church of St. Andrew's, called the Round
Mr. Saundera said it was intended Gm run passenger Church, one of the finest of the old historic perish
trains on it as soon as arrangements could be made. It churches of Dublin, was completely burned on Sunday
would probably be satisfactory to state that the Brent- miming.
ford line Was opened on the 15th of September last for M. Home. a Dutch astronomer, hu published a
goods and mineral traffic . under their agreement with pamphlet to announce that the famous comet .4 Charles
that company, and lie had great pleasure in atating that V., which was seen in 1554 will reappear in the month
in the month of November they were carrying their full of August next.
quota of the 100.000 tons per annum they bad agreed to The total value of metals. tnetalliferous ininerals, and
carry over it under the lease. coals produced in Ittret was £51,2116.932. This enormous
The meeting then separated. ; sum is, it must be remembered, the representative at
! real wealth, added to our national income.
-- _
LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN. IRu ~,,, ur says that the Emperor of the French is the
, actual proprietor.
The report of the directors of this company states, , A handsome drinking-fountain is in course of erection
with reference to the Act for sanctioning time ainalga- on the- south side of Blackfriars-bridge. It will be
maim' of the l'urbunouth Railway with their system, opened in the coiner of a few days. The Lambeth
that the original arrangement with the Portsmouth Waterworks Company will supply the water.
t' pany was for a lease of that undertaking for • Lonl Macaulay biays the Morning Poe) has left be-
virtual perpetuity, at a rental of 1:18,000 a year, subject hind him the materials for another volume, the public-
to such conditions aim the directors, in exercise of the ation of which may, for private and family reasons, be
discretionary powers delegated to them, might consider ; some time delayed.
just and proper. Although the measure now about to , Au antiquary at Venice is said to have discovered an
he submitted was one of absolute amalgamation instead ; oli parchment on labial' the Doge Marino Faliero had
of lease, the directors believed that the alteration was • written that lie had buried a million of sequins under
one which, while it made no appreciable addition to the time portico of the Church of St. Mark. The letter add*
pecuniary liabilities of the company, would operate that a commission has been appointed to search for the
beneficially to the interest of both companies. The treasure.
main feature of the bargain being the absolute ebaorp- I A proposal for the conversion of the public debt of
tion of the Portsmouth ouinpany's undertaking into that Canada has been officially promulgated. The total
of thin company at the price of £lB,OOO • year, it had amount of the liabilities of the colony is stated at 111
been a first duty with the Board to take care that the : millions sterling, and the holders are presented with
Portsmouth l'ompany should have satixfied, or that , the option of converting theui into one consolidated 5
this company should retain out of the agreed considers- • per cent steak irredeemable for twenty-five years.
tion sufficient IlleAlla of satisfying, the liabilities of the i -.•
Portsmouth Company : which liabilities had now been •
brought within • narrow comp..* This company • THE LATE MARCHIONESS or Bur.—About three
entered into posaeasion of the Portsmouth Railway in years ago the Marchioness of Bute WAS made the execs-
January, 1859, at A rent of £1.4,000 a year, commencing trix and residuary legatee; of her uncle, the late Captain
f the 15t1m of that month, and an exact year's rent Hamilton Fitzgerald, R.N. That benevolent officer
would, therefore, fall clue tam the Portsmouth C panY emilificently bit a legacy of £lO,OOO to the Royal Na'
on
byis,
: tional I.ifeboat Institution, and time like sum to the Ste-
en the 15th inst. The share capital of time Portommouth
arsiteens.ofkiitigAat e,aueffill: „
bmuetiChsisHoe.pliitial.d.
beeTtepgreavlliaoniitslyeaep.taiecnuteddiedinini..l3.
mue-,:rtiwiYaswaast fiirs".Ta.titrrNskiigie,nl it7Cart4ll),
cient reserve out of the EISJ•10 a year to meet the i Messrs. Clayton, of Laneaster.place. The Belgian Go--
annual intemest on that company's debenture debt (which i vernuient made, we believe, a claim of £l5 per cent, or
this company was to adopt from time 15th of July, 185(1, ; more of legacy duty on time whole of the captain's pro'
at All agreed rate of 4f per cent. per annum), the yearly ! perty-.
amounting to about £60,000. The Lnglisti Go-
balance of the 1:18,01.10 should be divided hit° 17,500 vernment made also a demand of £lO per cent, on the
portions, and that the proprietors in the Portsmouth same, so that between the two Govennuents the legacies
Company should, on surrendering their respective of the two benevolent societies would be reduced one-
almares, be severally regiatered as annuitants of this fourth. However, the Marchioness of Bute resolutely
company. More recently anal finally it had been disputes' the deign of the alien Uovemument, and her
agreed between the two Board,' (subject to confirmation litigation continued for nearly two years with it. In the
by a majority of threediftlis of the proprietors in each meantime her ladyship, meet considerately, had den,
company, at meeting% of each convened for the 14th sited the MOW at the London and Westminster Bank.
inst.), that instead of annuitica a prefenntial 4 per During a portion of the period of its lodgment there the
cent. stock should he created by this oompany, the aggre- money actually bore an interest of Di per cent., and ax
gate of it bearing the mane amount of preferential in- average of than £5 per cent, on the whole term.
terest as the 1111UllitiCS %mild in the aggregate have At last the Marchioness succeeded in completely frustra-
a ~,,, unted to, and that such preferential stock should tin; time Belgian Government, and in having the satia-
te, divided rateably among the shareholders in tlie faction to pay the legacies nearly in full to both institme
Portsmouth Company. 'rime debenture debt of the Ilona, exclusive of legacy duty. At that period the Ns-
Portsmouth Company was £92,000, and interest at 41 tional Lifeboat Institution was struggling 'bard to pursue
per cent. per annum thereon la rate of which WWI its course of usefulness in the cause of humanity, and
somewhat less then the rate which a part of the debt its 'Bee decided at once to impend, if necessary,
was for a short period hearing, but which must be con- the whole amount of the legacy in placing additional
sidered more than enough to indemnify this conspeny its idebout„„,, the e,„„„a einee then the bouts bare been
the number of years), would annually occupy I.:1,910 of built, and have often been instrumental in rescuing
the 1:13,000, and would annually leave £14,0111 to be scores of lives from a watery grave.
paid as OW illterCiii upon £3.12,'250 4 per Cent. Per-
petual Preferential Stock. Of timid aliment of stock —....-
r 290,000 aas to be forthwith distributed by this com-
pany among the Portsmouth proprietors on surrender
of their %bares, and thus each such proprietor would
receive I:16 such stock in exchange forsach surrendered
Portainouth share. Of the retied ~ i,, g £72,250 stack 'a
part was to be immediately applied, with the year's
sent mum.' due, in liquidatiou of certain liabilities of the
Portsmouth Company, and the final balance, after
~very unadopted claim on the Portsmouth Company
had been discharged, would be distributed among the
proprietors of that company. The directors trust that
the arrangement would be entirely satisfactory to the
proprietors.

Mr. Robert Bourke and Mr. Gruneisen, of the Conser-
vative Land Society, have just returned from a novel
mission to Ireland. Their object was " introduce
the freehold lAnd system, as yet unknown in that
countly, and alno to ascertain whether the plan of
noslel lodging-houses could not be advantageously ex-
tended to Ireland."

P.D. groTCII nersrla limit—The hod of even -thing may be
hail in 6,1111011. but it neverthek. requires wine experiened
and knos Wee to obtain It; amid thowe ale, arc slot willing to
explore the moirren if supply are Ir.... Wroth content val.km at
inisleratel) good artiek alien • better might he had for the
no
-kin,. These oniark• are addressed Iss 'articular to the
purchasers if Irldsks, and their application is requested b-
those sho are witislicil aitim Irish Whisky at proont. aud bare
not tried LED. Semis Whisky. The peculLsritlem which re-
commend this Spirit are its creamy and pleasant flavour. great
stresq.7th, undeniable wholesomeness. and cheapness. in isitn•
'orison with other Whiskies hitherto known in London. D.Ds
%Milky hi.m not been long introduced Into England. though ity
fame 1.. well tatablished In Scotland; yet it is already largeln
sold in the Metrossilis. and has super.. ii Irish Whisky le
numerous private families. A sample is supplied to "wose the
isousidne. of these remarks. for Ir.eire el""gr 'Auull`. A
• containing twelve bottles. or • 2-gallon jar of the LID.
Whisky. foraarded for lii.. The raw firm supptim the Royal
Bahnotal, • very due mild and mellow spirit, at Iss. per gallon,
and the Prince's Usquebaugh, a Issuch.sdmired and delicious
spirit, at las. per gallon. Two gallons sad upwards
of the above sent to any part. Orders from the country
, must contain a post-office order, made payable to Donald
Duncan, 5, Burlvnib•tuset, Strand, London,