The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-12-10 00:00:00

PORTLAND.

POWMAND STOSI COmPANY.—We havo bees favoured
with the following particulars of "The Portland Stone
Cloinpany, Limibil," whisk we insert for the information
of our numerous reader.: -Nominal capital, £50,000,
divided into 2,500 shares of £2O cash. 254 of
of surds shares only have been taken, producing a real
'capital of £5,000. Of thwe 254 paid up shares. the
International Financial Society hold l 5; three priests
tenth-own re-i ling in London, 15 shame wilh, 75; four
gentlemen, also residues In London, one share each, 4;
total, 254. Tim company thorefore is justly entitled
to the title of " for it is so. not only in the
number of its shareholders, but also in the 1111101101 for
wish such shareholders aro liable.

GILLINGHAM AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
The exhibition of stock held on Monday, in wooer..
tion with this society, was of :. highly creditable character,
the entries of besets tieing more num ruts than on any
former coseasion, whist the attendance of formers spot
others was al-o chive the average. The competition
we, gaol in marly every c'a.s. and most of the animals
were of exeellont go .lity, with tho exception of the
bull.. There were as many as eleven pair of dairy cows,
the first and etiennd prise for whmb were taken by Mr.
Allen, of Tiahnry. end Mr. Rosetter, of Marnhull. The
•buillcias, was comanehded Iv the judges. In the two
pm: old heifer clam there were al-o remarkably good
bands. A eimllu rem irk will apply to the fat stook.
Of papro.ed Hampshire Down sheep there was a large
show. Tis firat prise for both ewes and lambs went In
Ile. White, of Zimls, Mr. Allen running second in each
clam. Pigs were in stong form, and some of them
were of large sisa and good quality. The prise for the
beat breding sow was awarded to Mr. A 11... There
was • large entry of cheese and butter.
I The annual dinner took piece at the Flotth Western
Hotel. The Roo. W. Ff. B. Portman, UP., wa, in
chair, and the eonipany included Lord H. Thynne,
M.P.. Mr. T. P. Grove, U P., Mr. George Whieldon,
Mr. K. S. Eastman, Mr. G. Troyte Bullock, Rev. H.
Deane, Rev. E. H. Stapleton, and others, making a full
company.
After the loyal and patriotic touts, Captain I/enemata
responding for the yeomanry, Mr. Whieldon proposed
"tlie County Members." _ _

_ The Hon., W. 11. B. Portostn, M.P. responded, and
alter referring to the Reform Act, and several
other topics, which h. dwElt upon at Illuminator,
he made more remarks on the legislation of the
future. They were told, he said, that several
important matters were to be dealt with by the
Refonnal Parliament. The army was to be better, and
the navy lees expensively managed; the poor were to
be educated more highly than at present; the Irish
Church was to be abolished ; and the game laws, the law
of entail, and the lavr of primogeniture were to be
laltered or swept away. If he were to live for 10 or 15
year., he believed he should find many of these difficult
tasks still unatroompliehed—(hear, beer). As regarded
education. the compulsory education of the poor—he
thought it a most difficult question to deal with. They
mass all recollect one thing. It was delicate, difficult,
and be might say impossible to interfere between mallet
and servant in the matter of engem—thou, hear). And
they must recollect this—that the better they educated
Its poor—the inner they educated their workmen,
lii. higher would be the sages they would naturally
upon. The beet educated, sod the cleverest among
them, if they could not get what they believed they
were worth, would go elsewhere, either abro.d or to
other parts of Boated, where their services would be
, better remunerated. Then ae to cottages. That was
I, another matter in which • Reforrred Parliament we.
to make Immense impronnesenta It was all very Ike—
as. he took the liberty of saying in the House of
Commons the other day—for newspaper writers to say
that landlords must do this awl do that. They most
boar in mind that cottage building was not a remunera-
tive outlay for money, Unquestionably, it wee the
duty of the landlord to do the best he Gould for those in
his employ—to give his tenants the means if
housing their labourers a. well, and as near their work
as they portably eoul I.—(hear, hear). At the game
time, all &hie anld not be done in a day or
in • year. It required time, but he thought that
even if it wag not the ease some years ago, every
: landlord was now Wive to the desirability, not to say
, the necessity, of straining every nerve to afford good
cottage accommodation to his labourers and thvir
, imiiiijeg—(npplause). The question of lessee was ooe
on which writers in the public P.P.= nth also mid •
great deal lately. It was perfectly impossible, it was
I said, for farmers to do withont leases. Now, in big
, small experience in many parts of the oonntry:—he did
not say so muth in the South, but in the North - •
farmer would not thank him for a lease. The farmers
there, having occupied Lipari, tenante, generation after
generation, did not care for a lease. "We are per-
fectly sati.ded," they said, " with the treatment of our
landlord and his family, and as long as they deal
honourably with US we will deal honourably with
him. We do not with to have • base, or any more
1 bindieg eastern than at precent" —(mar, hew).
After a few .dditional observation., in the warns
of which be expressed his belief that some of the French
and Swiss horses might advantageously he oroared
with the cut horses of this country, Mr. Portman
concluded by hoping that the time was far distant
when the "happy trio" of memben who sow represented
the county would be disturbed in their seats—
(applauers).
fieveral other toads of • complimentary character
followed.