The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-08-08 00:00:00

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE WEYMOUTH AND
CHANNU ISLANDS STEAM-PACKET COM-
PANY (LIMITED.)

The ninth annual meeting of this oompsny was held
on Wednesday, at Marshal's Royal Yacht Club Hotel,
Guernsey, under the presidency of A. Bishop, F.sq.;
chairman, supoorted by Thomas Priaulx, Esq., of
Guernsey; Captain Prowse, R.N., Mayor of Wey.
mouth; Elias Neil, Esq. ; F. Carrell, Esq., and George
Orange, Esq., of Jersey, directors of the company.
The CHAIHMAN commenced the proceedings by
ro-
questing the secretary to read the notice convening the
meeting, and said—Four years ago, when the annual
meeting was last held in this island, the position of the
company was anything but encouraging. During the
past seven Nears the ott incre•se in the annual returns
amounted to ma less than £11,500. The company were
now making a handsome profit yearly, and had there
been no d.bt, could pay a dividend to their share-
hodlers. During the pitA four years, they had reduced
the debt by a,OOO. He hoped to be able to make a
considerable reduction this year also, but was sorry to
find the company's expenses in Guernsey sr, re to he
greater for the future, in consequence of the increased
harbour dues. Ho thought it • most injudicious and
impolitic proceeding to levy the whole increased dues
on steam vessels only. (Expressions of dissent.) If the
shareholders thought differently, of course it wit. all righ
but his opinion was the more steamers came to the
island the lottter ; and supposing the States could afford
to remit the liarbqur dues altogether on steamers
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which. of course could not be), the more advs.-114g- eous

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it would be for the island. He greatly feared the result
of the recent law would be a diminution in the number
of steamers. At the else of this year the pre,ent agree-
ment with the Great Western Railway Comp my would
expire. He was happy to say that they still met with
most honourable treatment from the Great Western
Railway Board, and he bad no doubt an exten-
sion of the present agreement would be carried out as
being for the mutual benefit-of both companies.
Mr. Nam. said he had not COMO to Guernsey for the
express purpose of finding fault with their Guernsey
friends. They had also the ,cineation of the due. at
Weymouth and Jenny before then; and hat thegmeeting
been held at ether of the above places, the chairman
would doubtless have reforred to -the question imme-
diately affectng the particular place.
The Cfialeficv, ceiling upon the secretary to read the
report of the directors and auditors, the consulting en•
gineer's report, and the balance sheet, which having
been done, he moved that the report, Ate, now read be
adopted, ,v hi h was seconded hi Mr. Caret 1, of. Jeisey.

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Captain Paowea, R.N., said that so far am the We;

mouth dues were concern, d, he should most certain-iv
1.14 P his influence with the Corporation on hia return,
with the vier to a reduction, and he Ult certain he w.a
justified in promi.ing the shareholders that a new tatiff
would be establi,leo.
Mr. DREW and Mr. AMU, both members of the Cor-
poration of Weymouth, promised their support to the
Mayor.
. .

The CHAIRMAN having put the motion to the vote,
it was carrh.cl
The Directms retiring by rotation, Robert Brooks,
Esq., M. P., Ca..tain Bulkeley, G. C. Welsford,
and Thomas Prisulx, Esq , were re-eleored unanimously,
so were also the auditors, Mr. W. Talbot and Mr. E.
Neel, Jon.
Mr. NEEL proposed a vote of thanks to their chair-
man.
Mr. DREW, of Weymouth, had mtich pleasure in
seconding the propee.ition, but thought the whole of the
directory should be included in the vote.
Mr. JAMES LE LIEVRE supported the resolution,
which, having been put to the vote, sae carried unani-
mously, . . .

The CHAIRMLN, in thanking the shareholders for the
exert:melon of their confidence, btated that if thanks were
.‘ne to him, they were most cert.inly due to his col-
league., and also to their excellent manager, Mr,
Maunders.

A vote of thanks to the directors was carried unani-
mously ; also a vote of thanks to Mr. Maunders, the
manager and .ecretary to the company, and to Mr.
Jones. the agent in Guernsey, Mr. Wituble, the agent
in Jeney, and also to C.ptains Falle, Brache, and
Filcher. . .

Mr. JONES, having briefly expressed his acknow-
ledgment, and Mr. Winthle having also thanked the
mee log on behalf of himself and the captains, the
proceedings terminated.

IMPORTANT TO MOTHERS.—Mrs. Winslow' Soothing
Syrup for children teething, which has been so long in
use in the Unite i States, is now sold in this country, at
Is. 1 id. per bottle. —Sec Advertisement.
CoUGHS, II GAMIN IBS. ASTHMA, or any irritation of
the Throat or Bronchial Tubes, relieved bv allowing ,-
01"BY'orgo's Browei ial ejes" to dissolve slowly
tba month. Vrice, le. 14,1. pot bos.-•ftec " •

BLACKWOOD FOR AUGUST.
Tx choice pieces in this month's Black-
woo are perhaps the fictions, including
o'Di wd, which greatly resembles one of
them; but there are good articles on Miss
Meteyard's "Wedgwood," Eteamish on" The
Hand," "The London Art. Season," and
"The Late Elections," and abjuring, as we
do, the pernicious range of what is called
"light reading," we shall confine our atten-
tion to the more useful and interesting
matter. As a matter of taste, however, we
may be permitted to premise that it is long
since we have seen,even in Blackwood, poetry
of so high an order as the lyric" Cleopatra.
When first Miss Meteyard started in literary
life, it was as a writer of fairy tales, under the
designation of "Silver pen." We knew her
to be an industrious as well as a fascinating
writer; but little could we have expected
from her this copious history of the life of
1 which
ti theeiahhmoWnolsye Wedgwood,
asgtrfist:t sustained ewd
volumehieffort ch
hasifo fwa
se hery
e mistaketp n anot,
do
appeared.f
Blackwood does ample justice not only to the
book but to the biography, and the review
reminds us of one of those old-fashioned ones,
that by dint of extracts usetl to save you the
trouble of reading, to use a vulgar expression,
which we know will shock Miss bfeteyard.
"on your own hook." We should, however,
be sorry if such were the result in this
instance, when Mudie and the library com-
panies pervading the world, would supply you
anywhere with any newly-published work
for perusal by the next mail. We should
be sorry, not so much on Messrs. Hurst
' and Blackett's account,- is On- the reader's
' OWII, for we do assure him that whatever
graces of style and graceful modes of pic-
turing life and matiners this authoress ever
possessed, she has put them one and all into
the romance of real life—for such, and nothing
less, is the story of Josiah Wedgwood. In
the review of the London Art Season, the
Academy pictures are admirably grouped and
discussed. High art, as any of our readers
who have been visiting town may know, has
to boast of Herbert's- "Sower ef-the Good
Seed," Armitage's "Queen Esther's Ban-
quet," Leighton's "Helen of Troy," and
Ward's "Night of Rizzio's Nuitlet.." Mr.
Sandys' "Gentle Spring" is censured as
unreal in opposition to the realistic treat.
ment complained of in the historical pictures.
Mr. Poole, on the other hand, is praised for
the sentimentalism of his "Parting Moment,"
and for the terror-striking tragedy of his
"Plague of London ;" so also Mr. Poynter's
"Faithful unto Death." O'Neil's "King
Canute" receives both praise and blame, its
technical qualities being defective. Elmore's
"Gambling Table of Homburg" is too mere-
tricious, but we are glad to find Goodall's
"Panorama of the Nile" described as imbued
with rare and subtle beauty. The five pic-
tures of Mr. Millais receive a paragraph to
themselves, and, although the recognised
master of the pre-Raphaelite school, Millais
productions are assuredly unlike any other.
Yet we perfectly concur in the observation
that he at length takes rank as onelirthe most
remarkable Artists of our times. Phillips's
'Early Career of Murillo" is described as
his masterpiece, Murillo himself being made
a centre round which to congregate the forms,
picturesque and noble, which even unto this
day render Seville the place of the painter's
birth, brilliant beyond compare among the
sister cities of the 'south. Frith's "Royal
Marriage" is acknowledged as a dazzling
work of art. Amongst the ladies Miss M. E,
Edwards places herself at the head by that
beauteous and refined picture, "The Last
Kiss." We are thus indebted to Blackwood
for enabling us to offer our readers some idea
,of the leading pictures. Two water-colour
exhibitions—the French Gallery, and likewise
the permanent collections in the National
Gallery, the British Museum, and South
Kensington Museum—are, however, criticised
besides in this article, the object of whichlis
# prove that England is rushing "into an
art epoch," the result of national wealth,
the exigencies of commerce, and the growth
of luxury. The politician will be naturally
solicitous to know what Blackwood says
now about "the late elections." It opens
candidly with the avowal of their having
resulted less favourably to their cause than
they had hoped or anticipated. There is
indeed a singular mixture of generous admis-
sions, with political denunciations, throughout
the article. Lord Palmerston comes in for a
large share of kind treatment, whilst Lord
Westbury is the victim of some caustic
severity. Much allowance is made for Mr.
Gladstone, of which the following citation
will, perchance, furnish a smack :

MR. GIADSTONIeI3 InFRAT.

"He is grieved, but not angry; wounded, but not
infuriated. He believes what he says—for of all men
living he is the most entirely carried away by false im-
pressions—that from fl tto last he has, as member for
Oxford, laboured to promote the best interests of the
Church and of the University. He suffers because the
Oxford electors cannot be brought to see that what was
white eighteen v• ars ago has become black now, and
wheat was black become white. That he will with
mal cc prepense agitate in the House and out of it to
daina4e the University for the sake of damaging it, we
reject is a most unworthy assumption. It may suit
the purpose of the Times to insinuate as much, because
it would probably fall in with the writer's disposition
himself to do what he predicates of Mr. Gladstone.
But Mr. Gladstone is incapable of being guided by
motives so base. No ! He will go on sapping and
mining—affirming and believing all the while that he is
adding strength to the bulwarks, both of the Church
and of the University. And if both fall, he will even then
argue that it was good for them and for the nation that
such results should follow; because nothing is so
corrupting to a clergy as even moderate wealth, and to
a University am exclusive opinions and exclusive teach-
ing; and that both will best do their work when the
privileges to which they now cling are taken from them,
and toe Church freed from the shackles of a state oon-
neciion shall make laws for itself and support its
members by the voluntary contributions of the laity."
Such are the contents of a tolerable read-
able number of our best periodical. But to
many, of course, by far the most interesting
portion will be precisely what we have
omitted; and we must say that however
clever, the sketcLig a religious meeting in
" Picadilly" is too i'ere and exaggerated to
do good even by ridiculing false professors,
since the falsity may well be doubted where
there is such lack exhibited of any apprecia-
tion of possible sincerity.

IMPORTANT TO Morfillts.—" Are you disturbed at
nisht and broken of your rest by a sick child suffering
.nd crying with the excruciating pain of cutting teeth?
I, so, go at once and get a bottle of Mrs. Window's
Soothing Syrup. It will rt have the poor little sufferer
nom dist.ly—depend upon it, there is no mistake about
it. There is not a mother on earth who has ever used
it who will not tell you at once that it will regulate the
bowels, and give rest to the mother, and relief and
health to th.. child, opera, ing like magic. It is perfectly
safe to use in all cages, and pleasant to the taste, and is
the prescription of one of the oldest and best female
ohysimans ant nurses in the United States—New York
San. See Advertisement in another column. Price,
b. lid. per bottle.
MPOSTANT commodities for domestic consumption,
that command a large sale from their distinctive advan-
tages being valued by the public, frequently attract a
host of imitators. Some to pass off inferior articles,
closely copy the trade-mark, tables, packets, Ise. of
Messrs. Dominion, the well-known original importers
of the pure tea ; therefore purchasers should not fail
to notion that their signature is on each packet.
Hornimap and Co.'s tea, from its reliable good quality,
has for a quarter of a century been in great favour
throughout the kingdom, proving that all &asses value
good tea possessing lasting strength, and prefer sterling
quality to were appearance; it is now sold eight-pence
per pound cheaper, as the duty is reduced. Dominion's
agents number about two thousand; thefts in this
locality are advertised in our columns.
The following is an extract from the &mond Edition
(page 188) of the Translation of the Pharmacopoeia of
the Royal College of Physicians, of London, by Dr. Cl.
F. Collier, published by Longman and Co. :—" It is no
small defect in this compilation (speaking of the
Pharmacopteia) that we have no purgative mass but
what contains aloes; yet we know that hcemorrhnidal
persons cannot beer aloes, exo pi, it be in the form of
COCKLE'S PILLS, which chiefly consists of aloes,
scarnmony, and ooloeynth, which I thisk are forme.,
into a sort of compound extract, the acridity of which
is obviated, I suspect, by an alkaline process, and by
fourth ingredient (unknown to me) of an aromatic tonic,
nature. I think no better and no worse of it for its
being • patent medicine. I look at it as an article of
oommeroe and domeatie convenience, and do not hest-
tete to shy it is the best slide pill hi thekingdem ;
it, a mums purge, sad a hydlogogne
I. and their °Mate properly controlled by
'ent. That it does not oommoulp
like moat aloetic pills, I attribute
soluble, so that no undismilveril
sooi,ifneettinieSs