The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-11-30 00:00:00

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PLYMOUTH, Thursday.—The French brig Jenne
Charism, of Cherbourg, Dupuis, muter, from Dublin
for Rouen, put into the Sound on Theodor, having
on board Captain Olen and the crew of the Norvito
gian schooner Omens, which left Port Talbot with a
cargo of railway iron, and was overtaken in the
Bristol Ohunnel, by the recent heavy weathet . Her
bulwarks mid longboat were weehed moy and deck'
swept, and for live dive she made f feet pet hour.
The crew were nearly erhausted when the Frenoh
brig hove in sight, and three of her hands, hiking
her boat, most courageously rammed the Norweglins
and conveyed them to the brig, where they were
treated with great humanity by Captain
Dupuis, who refined any remuneration on arrival
her.. Among the large fleet of merchant ships
sheltered in the Sound are several from Norway,
which have received tho unfortunate crew of the
Oseona for conveyanoe home.

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Friday a numerous and an influential meeting of
ahipowners was held at the Cort•exchange,
mouth, the object of whioh, as stated in a nines.
rously signed reqaisition, was to promote a redraw
of grievances which at present attach to the mar.
Qantas marine. Mr. TfioMis Resteriok was in the
()hair, and at hie request a letter was read from the
General Shipowner's Society, London, intiinating
that the society had convened a general meeting of
shipowners and all interested in British shipping,
on the 15th of December, at the London Tavern, to
take into oonaideration the present ruinous condition
of the shipping interest. Mr. Thomas Stevens, who
proporied the first resolution, alluded to various hots
tending to prove that the shipping intermit was one
of great national iniportenee. The shipowners did
not object to free trade, but he contended that it
ought to be reciprocated by foreign countries, which
wits not the case. He did not wish it to be said
that the shipowners wanted protection and nothing
else Ho wanted free trade, but fair trade. Mr.
Stevens then read the resolution, as follows 1—" That
this meet considering the present distressed state
of British shipping arises in a great merman from
the went of reciprocity by foreign states, and that
foreign veasels are placed in British ports in much
better position than are British yawls in foreign
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