The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-07-18 00:00:00

IMPORTANT NATION AL

THE Metropolis Sewage and Essex Reclamation
Company, incorporated by special Ant of Parliament, it
now submitted to the public, as will be seen by: OUT
advertising columns. Its wiled will be £2,100,000, in
21,000 Scrip Certificates of £lOO each, to be hereafter
divided into shares of 210 each. Deposit on application
£2 per certificate, with further payments of £8 on
allotment, and £lO on 2nd October next. The
subscribers will, in exchange for their letter of allot-
ment and bankers' receipt, receive Scrip Certificates,
which, on payment of the sum of £lO (payable on 2nd
October). will be exchanged for registered shares of £lO,
and the shareholders will be credited in the books of
the Company £2 in respect of each registered share.
This large and important prefect is launched under the
auspices of a distinguished body of directors, with Lord
de Taltley at their head, and comprising, among other
leading gentlemen, two directors of the Bank of
England. The bile, national Financial &tidy are
authorised to receive subscriptions for the capital of the
Company, the object of which is to utilise the sewage
of the Northern area of the Metropolis, the concession
of which has been granted by the Metropolitan Board of
Works to Messrs. Napier and Hope, and by those
gentlemen vested in the Metropolis Sewage and Essex
Reclamation Company. The whole of the monetary
arratignmente in this great scheme appear to be very
satisfactory, and in making them the Company hes
secured the right of taking, without any payment,
during the first four years, as much of the
sewage as they can utilise. In addition it
should be stated, that Sewage will be largely
taken by farmers all along the line of the
culvert, and there are upwards of 3,000 acres of land to
wino') the Sewage can be at once supplied from the out'
fall works, even before the commencement of the
Company's works. The details of the prospectus show
the advantageous character of the scheme, which
commends itself also to the rampart of the public on
the high ground of national utility. We quote from
the memorandum accompanying the prospectus the
subjoined important extract :
" The experience of 40 years' application of 'sewage
upon pure sea sand, and other soils, near Edinburgh,
and of several years upon varione soils near Croydon,
ahews that when the Company's operations are fully
developed apd in fail working, the return from the
Company's own land should be not less than £210,080,
and this would absorb 35 millions of tons of sewage,
leaving 85 millions available for sale to the farmers
along the line of culvert, which in the same ratio of
value would produce tot lets than £510,000 a year,
making • total of £720,000; and this Ague fe singularly
borne out by the experience and opinions of those most
conversant with the subject, and is quite within the
estimates given in the evidence before the Houses of
Parliament. One farmer, Mr. Wagstaff, of South
Oxendon, who farms 1,200 acres on the line of culvert,
stated dims oath that he Would be prepared to give
twopence-I%o'ton for such quantities of the sewage salt
suited him to take—a value strongly insisted upon by
many high authorities, at which rate the yearly value
of the whole would be no less than One Million sterling."

QUBINBLAND SHIGHATION.—The *fp Queen of the
Colonies, 1,346 tone burden, belonging to hissers. T. It..
Mackay and Co., sailed on the 9th inst. from Gravesend
or Queensland,Capt. Henry Tones oommander. Surgeon-
Superintendent Dr. Undert ay, assisted by Mrs. Gammon,.
matron. The Queen of the Colonies is the 61st vaunt..
*at has railed on the land-order system of emigration,
ander the immediate direction Of the Queensland Gct-
Vernment. She contains 560 souls, divided into twyipg,r
'twisted, and free passengers, and consisting of 350 meat,
llers of families, 172 single men, 38 single women.
The FRAUDS 01.1 THB CANTIBBURY SAVING 3 BAXX.
At Canterbury, Thursday Mr. S. Grammes, late actuary
and secretary to the Canterbury Savings' Hank, was
brought before the city magistrates on a remanded
'ammo of embezzling oertain sums of money, the pro-
perty of the trustees of that institution. It was stated
*at the amount of the defalcations yet discovered
exceeds £8,500. Mr. Callaway appeared for the pror
secution ; and Mr. A. Fielding for the prisoner, The
evidencie given at the former hearing having been read.
over, Mr. Callaway handed in a cash-book kept by the,
prisoner, in which be had entered the amounts of £86,,
and £65 respectively an having been withdrawn from the
account of Sarah Perth. The liagianates, then oath-
mitted the prisoner for trial. lir. Callaway them said
here were technical difficulties in the way of proucut.
ing the charge of embezzlement. He was inatrustedio
-efer a sound charge against him under the Savings'
,nk Act, by which abstraction of money by in attorney
r.lerk is constituted a misdemeanor. The charge he
them to Prefer was for fraudulently withdrawing
_ appropriating to his own use, on the 19th May
last, the sum of 1;100 from the auoant of James Cornell.
The evidence was similar to that in the previous cue,
was again committed for trial. Bail
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