The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-02-18 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY Expßess AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1878.

over, bet sash be felt sum would not be the case, an
they too would have their reel opened ere long. In
emselation, he would exhort them to mead firm, and
saottly they would be enabled to sow "The bettle's
fought, the victory's wen"--(applause).
Kr. ALLOrolOst maid he did not expect to bare been
paled on to address them ; still, be felt pleased in
trying to do what good he could for the datums they
were met that day to advmate. Their purpose was to
instruct the working men bow to study their own
interests, and when they conk! get then to do that it
would be better for the masters, the labourers, and
everybody else. He thought a labourer ought to be
, enabled to sell his labour, as well se a farmer *Gold his
produce. What they wished to do was to bring lafiour
sad capital tosp.ther on friendly terms. AU the gan•
tlemen in the money might come and advise the
labourers what to do, but uhtil they (the labourers)
showed their manhood, all the advice In the world
would be useless. A. great MOT protruded to be in
favour of the Union, but they did not come forward
and support it. The men must help themselves, must
pia the Heim, and than they would willingly pay their
Yd. a week, without giving the Secretary 110 much
trouble. No doubt some of them bad • diffioulty in
raising the 2.1. • week, but they mut make any sitori-
fios rather than neglect to do that which would
enable them to stand forth independent. He hoped
the note would onus when the labourers would have •
fund of their own to fall back upon In times of sickness
and distress. Labourers ought to he enabled to put
something br for • rainy day, as well as anybody eke.
(A Voice: How can we do It on 81. a week?l The
labourers did not suppose that the Union would let
men work for Be. • wee No, they must agitate until
they got sufficient to keep them. and something to put
by as well. Some people would say the labourers did
not know how to spend their 'orange—that they were
drunkards and improvident, bet he knew that the
wive, must do the best they could with the little they
bad, or they could not live at aIL Others said they
did not know how to cook, but he w.e riertain there
was not one present that day bat could manage to gook •
red-herring, which was the principal thing they had to
eook—(laughter). He urged them to stand firms and to
be true to each other; let nothing separate them; united
they had power, but divided they would fall. He hoped
the day would come when the labourer and the farmer
would clasp each other's hands hi friendship, but before
that could come to pace they must lift the labourers
out of their present state of degradation and depend.
thee—(spplaros).
Mr. mica. who was received with voeiferens cheering,
said that afternoon he wanted to soy • few weeds to
the ferment, end if those present would come • little
nearer they would be able to hear him better. They
must remember the tenant farmer had his grierasess
as well a. the laboining ells., aud from what ho toted
see, the legislAtora of this country bed adopted wrong
uteesarea to rem.dy three eel'. It was useless for •
man to begin to bull I without hayleg • firm founda-
tion, and lin,:land, with her leg.idation, her poor laws,
and her union workhouse* had a Yee taken the prin."(
OMITOO to make this country tl .1 I ride of the earth,
and the gem cf the era," as she was often Galled. Could
there be • right state of things when the labourers of
the country were starving, whlst the t: ',out farmer
could go to market upon • hundred-guine• Looter, with
• five.,guines saddle under him. Time was when the
tenant-farmer went to the market-town in a smock-
frock, and surely. BOUM will say, the country must have
prospered to bring about snob • state of things. But
the quotation was, had the labourer 'advanced with the
times—hat he gone up in proportion with otheri during
the last 50 year'? No: he wits where he was 100 years
ago -• serf on the soil, and without Ineuenoo in the
country to better his position. 'fake the labourers out
of England. and what would she become in the apace of
giL MOOtbl? What would beoomo of her army, navy,
and commerce? The agricultural labourer was the
Foundation of this country's wealth—if there were no
working bees there wouli be no honey to be gathered.
The question therefore was—were the agricultural
labourers elleYing their fair share of this country's
wealth? Farmers would say they could not elf trd to
pay higher wages, in oonsequenoe of their high rent
and heavy rates. This was as, objection which must be
answered. There was one clue getting either day by
day, whilst another was growing poorer. Let them
try arid find out where the rateable! lay. Whoae fault
was it they had t, pay such heavy rents f They were
told that it was a landlord's guano°, but it was
not entirely se. Say a landlord owned an estate
on which were five farms. Originally these
farms were let to five individuals, and five sets of
labourers were engaged. In source of time those five
farms were all taken by one tenant—that meant
an increase of rent, is • tenant often paid more
money in order to get all the farms to himself.
' It was in this way the labourers were made to suffer.
Tenant framers should have considered their labourers'
wages, and not given increased rent, and then ground
down the tillers of the soil in order to meet the extra
expense. Suppose be had • house to be built. The
architect would calculate as to the cost of material and
the wages he ebould have to pay, ant then give him an
estimate. He would not give an estimate, and then
grind down the wages to meet the.oese. It woo by this
means that tenant-farmers bad suffered, and the land-
lords bad played with them for a considerable time—
ha4 danced a merry j;g rotted them. He had been •
labourer since be was nine years of ale, and he hadn't
kept his eyes shut, so that be was in • position to
judge of these things ; and, be said, a farmer was
obliged to take land at • disadvantage, or he could not
get it at all. Not only this, but the right of 'bootleg
was reserved, and men came on the farms, broke the
/canoes destroyed the drops, shot the rabbite and barn
they had made fat, took them off, and then grinned at
the farmers-Ought/O. He also deprecated the manner
In which the load wee treated. The farmer catered
I into • lease of say 14 year.; for the lint few years he
.did sUbs could to improve the land, and for the rest of
the time took all be °sold out of ir. This was one of
the tenants' grievances. Suppose he did all he could
duriug the time of his oecopiatioa to enrich the land—
at the end of the le.se, the landlord would step in, re-
assess the property,fiad it of much more value, demand
extra rent, aud this not beim( paid grab the whole. He
maintained that nothing but the Union would heap the
farmers' rents from being raised, and, in fact, mos
farmer had told him that the establishment of the
Veleta had been £5OO in his pockets They must bear
in mind that they had a great landlord Parliament, and
this would account for many of their grievances.
Where handler is a hundred years ago paid about wo-
ken of the rates, they now paid only shout one-sixtieth
port, and the rest came on the farmers directly cud the
labourers Indirectly ; hut he pun say the poet labourers
were the greatest sufferers. Some said the landlord
sod the tenant most go to Parliament together, which
would serve to redress these evils. But how shout
thee° leoal goveromecti,the Farmers' Clubs? Did •
tenant dare to open his mouth or say anything if his
, landlord was in the chair? And then look at the non-
sensical subjects disowned—whether paupers should
have thick or thin thilly for is:lateral—(laughter) If •
discussion did arise in anything Important, the
poor tenant dared not expros his viewr. He
had triads this assertion at Warwick a few weeks
ago, and the chairmen of one of the elate had
taken him up, and said that any tenant could stile
his grievances at their meeting.. Bat up rose one
tenact and etronted "Query." Another maid "Eighteen
months ago I spoke my mind, and had to leave my
farm." Therefore, to be softest/10. the tenants must
go to Parliament, and take their labourers with them.
They must go hand-in-hood, and when the boor of
dancer Game the labourers would fight their bottles,
and would come eff victorious. The tenants must Rot
be as .awed of the amuck-frocks of the labourers—they
were not ashamed to eat the mutton and the beef they
produced ; let the labourers have a little more of that,
and In time they would be able to don a superior dress.
They must have the extension of the franchise to the
labourer, and now they had the ballot, labourers as
well as tenants would ha able to vote as thy
For himself he poneesed the franchise, and could .it
with his old wife in the chimney corner at home, and
soy "I am monarch of all I survey." Is time past
framers had bad no political power—it had rather been
political slavery. Farmers had been obliged to niy,
"You know bow our landlord is, and if we went and
voted against hive, we should have to leave oar few."
When he (the speaker) went to the poll, he took his
conscience with him, and plumped for his man like a
hero—(applausaL How many to Dorset bad dazed to
do that in tiOtOO that were past? LO • men act up to
his coordenee' and be would say he was • =au. They
must agitate tooth and nail till they had the franchise,
and wouldn't it be jolly to the the farmer and his men
going to the poll together I The labourers must have
• voles in the choice of rowdier's, and know how tho
rates were spent. All the agitators wanted was to live
and let live, and tho time tenet moue when the farmer
would look upon the labourer es his brother. Was it
justice, to bind a man for • year, like they would •
Wave, put him In a cottage worse than • dog kennel,
and then ray "you must be contented with yourlot '
No I They would not have it any longer—they must
stand as one compact body, and by that means would
remove the evds which beset the farmers sod the men.
Farmer. could not do without men, and men Gould cot
do without the farmers, but the farmers must pay the
men so thee they mightily*. Mr. —, of Keynotes*,
had said he oonsidered 8,. or its, a week enough fry any
man ; all he could say was let Mr. try it for 12
months, and then he would have • difforsot opinion.
Sines he (the apesker) had eommenoed his exertions on
behalf of the Union, 100,000 poor slaves had found
their liberty, and he would travel from ens end p 1
England to the other again and again, and spend the
last drop of his lit.', blood till the serfs of England
were free—(applause).
Mr. Seam said he was certain of one thing, and that
was thst the meetings of that day wossid he profitable
to all who had taken part in them. He was more and
more convinced that it was the will of heaven they
should crier, the good things soot. " Bread, bread,
and no cheese," was not the diet for • labouring man.
It took some time to convince, and • longer thee to
convert ; he had been eonvertel to tho good souse
they Lai in hind, and w.rild atiok to it through thick
and thin. For Nemo time the labourers had seen
their way through the evils which eatiompassed thorn,
bet they could cot get through. God alone knew how
they lived on Sror 94. • week. Last night • man had
said to him "I'm • carter for Mr. —, and have
only 8.. • week." One of the local papers had said of
chair m-elleg hold In the owe place • abort time shoe
that there were only a lot of women and children
peesent, and that it was • very cheerless affair, which
he most any was utterly false, and on the present
oeossion he was pleased to see such a goodly number
premet. They know that many families had been
turned out of their homes become they were Unionists,
which was a raying shame. The majority of clerical
gentleman said they were in favour of the movement,
but where were they that day? How did the clergy
often 101 in regard to the poor. A minister vein's
widow who has just lost her husband. Ile talks about
the children, says they are tidy and clean, but what a
loss her husband most be to her, He asks her
if she attends the Sacrament ; she gay& no ;
he tells her the must, hears her repeat passages
of Scripture, and reminds her of the heavenly
promise, "I'll ben hied:end to the widow, and • father
to the falberiess." Ati lit', easy to preach, but hard to
modes. He says" tastier, you are in the right way,
I you are all right, good morning." He goes away, he
has been rumbas as to her spiritual welfare, but not as
to her bodily wants. Jeans Christ eared for the bodies
es well as the seals of men—be did not send the
multitude away henry. A man in London was woe
met bye gentleman who had known him is beieerdaya.
Two =au ma selling Ole. "I pity you," said the
gentleman, " Bother you. Win 'do you want on/
pies?" was the retort of the mom, They mud feed the

khan= N ‘Oll es Sty hin. Surely the farmers of ten
Ailed their laboutere NM asked them if they bad
to sat (Velem : Never.) What? Then don't
let farmer, ferment say they pity, unless they sometimes
Sim their labourers pies—(leheats, and applause.)
Mr. MAYOR said they were come to snob a pgill
the present time, that he believed people bed got
where the devil had placed them, for God Almighty
had never sent mouths without the food to fill them.
Mr. J. Cox, addressing those present as fellow-
men, said he stood before them main wording to
protein, to make some reference to what had fondly
been ,publiahed In the Telegram% as being said at the
meetings of Farmers' Clubs in the neighbourhood. The
lint point was that which Mr. Shandies had said in
&arena* to migration at the Winfrith meeting. That
gentleman had said that the migration of labourers
to the north of England bad been • great mistake, and
the result had been to ictlict much misery upon them
It was true they mill Dig take up a nowspap-r without
seeing letkrs or socounte of privation said to have been
endured by those who had migrated. He maintained,
and his knowledge on the subject wag SW, great.
that where they found one out of fifty who had
migrated discontented, they found the other 49 well
pleased with the change, Ile could produce, letters
which had paned through his hands enough to fill the
pages of the Telegram, all la praise of the result&
which had followed migration. The editor of the
Telegram had always given them fair play, and Mr.
Mayor would publish in that paper as many letters a•
he Gould, it, order that persons might know the fail of
the ease. The Labourers' Chroaide had published •
statement by • D.D., declaring that • short time sines
be had visited many homes In the North, and thoo
who had migrated were perfeetly eattillyi. He
bad found one net of labourers earning from
181. to 20 per week, and one young man
who bad been working at 2a. • day now
earned from 61. to 7m. All were constantly em-
ployed, and had comfortable lodgings. The only
complaint he tonna was one youth who was deka:dog
for his mother. Mr. Saunders had made nothing bat
Vague amertiona Mr. Saunders bad met a men who
knew some ono that had been told that 20 man were
sent to Lincoln, and had bees obliged to mese bask
again. He (the epeaker) knew the neighbourhood of
Lincoln, where he had spoken very recently. The
Labourers' Union were not such fools as to seed men to
Lincoln, as the labourers already at Lincoln were ta:-
greting to the north, in conseqnenoe of the Ilene.. of
Woffil. At Chesterfield at the present time BO men
were waited at 3s. tit • day. and the employers would
advances the travelling expeaaa, to be remota by easy
ladabsesta At Carlisle 109 men were wasted at
roily liberal tanne—tbey already had some Dorset
there, who were well eatiefied. He would go
on einumessaing hasteness, bat f rem letters which se
desist wesdA appear in the Telegram they would be
able to judge for themselves. There wagons thing they
comet bear In mind. h . end that was if • IWO was
• bad and hey lebourer to Dorset ho would to themes'
when be w. nt to th. North, and his word was not to be
trueted. At the Wlnfrith meeting, slip, the bee. Mr.
Philippa had made some statements quito contrary to
the fads. Mr. Tmlsr had me& Apollo dime, with two
others, to Mr. Philidps for the 13,13 of the rohredroom
at Winfrlth to hold . meeting elf lemurs,. The. get •
Memo° had said he sympathised with the movement,
but his fear of the farmers wend not allow him to let
them have the school. Mr. Taylor bad published
that statement In the Labourers' Chronicle • abort
time afterwards, and Mr. Philippe best let it go
on quietly for two months, and then had denied It; in
the meantime he (the speaker) supposed the farmer@
had bullied him for what he said. Mr. Taylor', whom
they all knew to
who asnompanied him, were ready to subetentiatie what
had been published. He (the speaker) was very tarry
the clergy had not rallied round them. Only one he
knew who had come forward, and that was the Rev. Mr.
Paull, of Sturminieter, who had assisted them with Ids
might—mob ,mon ash, had saved the Church of Eng-
land. It was a noteworthy feet that whenever any
measure had been brought forward to benefit the
labouring classes, the clergy bad ooposed it, and he felt
from their opposition to the present movement that it wad
all the more likely to noosed. With regard to the
question of perquisites, wherever he had been and
enquired, he Ind invariably Nord the men opposed to
the system, and that they would peeler the coin
of the realm. A farmer had told him he spent .C6O •
year in ale for bis labourer*, and that, sari hp, all goes
for nothing. Be (the speaker) was • teetotaller and
thought that es true a speech an he had heard for some
time. blind, he did not say, men did not require ale or
eider—what be said was—let them have the money and
then they could do what they liked. ble. Damon had
grated et the Winfrith meeting thet he bed aeon a scheme
proposed In the Labourer's aroottele, by which the
lend was to be divided amongst. the labourers on
Communistic, principles. Now be (the speaker) was
oertaicr such • thing had never 'appeared in the
paper; what they advocated wan that the land should
gradually get bask into the hand' of the many
ori not be monopolised by the few. There were 10
million acres of useful land at the present time in beg-
lend uncultivated, and what they wanted was for
Government to step in and rake the land, or compel
the owners to cultivate it. Engl end was dependent on
foreign supplies for one-half of her food, but If this land
wee properly cultivate she could be ledependent alto.
gether of foreign countries. In • paper on the price of
meat, mad at the Dorchester Farmers' Club it bad
been stated that wages had risen 20 per isnot.
daring the past 35 years, bun he (the speaker)
would remind them that other things hod risen 30
per cent. In the same time, therefore wagss were
smaller In proportion. Lord Portman had mid that
agitators cane into this county, and took away money;
such was not the ease, but more than £lOO had
been tent into Dorset by the Labourers' Union. If be
bad • vote for Dorset, alrhourb be was • Liberal, he
should certainly support Mr. Start, who had acted
most fairly by the labourers. The speaker then real
the resolution to Parliament, praying for the extension
of the fraochisi to labourers, and it was unanimous'y
adopted. In &never to a question respecting Brasil.
put by Mr Hawker, the speaker ssi.l the Labourer.'
Union had nothing whatever to do with Brasil—they
did sot advocate valuation, believing there was plenty
of work in England for all. No doubt ,CIIIIO of the
statements as to Brasil were true, and others were false,
but he knew nothing respecting them. All be could
say was that out of every 100 who bad migrated, 99
were perfectly satisfied.
Three cheers having been given for the Uoion, the
meeting broke up.
In the evening there were a few of the labourers about
the streets' more merry than wise, but there wag no
disturbance, and the poliee—who sated admirably—
had not occasion to arrest • single person of the lehour-
log elms for either drunkenneee or anything else. Not-
withstanding the 'ergs numbers who attended this
fair, no 11th February has pared off to quietly.

the oeheense Berrie, of Barrow, and her captain and
orew proved themselves really goo! Samaritan& A
roaring lire was made, the shipwrecked min were esp.
plied with doting, for they had saved little or nothing '
from the ship, and what they had was wet through. I
their own berths were gins up to the shiperreeked
ekes, and though lunch pressed for want of room, they
made them as oonifortahle u they could. Tome were
taken on he Lisbon, whom they arrived next day. Sot
then, under the axiom that they had coma from the
Brasil& the shipwreeted crew were seat to thelassnatto,
and actually pit the schooner is qesrutlne. After
remaining in the Laurette four days, they were liberated,
and then the English salmi pet them in a boarding
house, and on the lst r.b. meet them by the Charles
Howard to Bullied. They were on landing taken to
the Sailors' Home, their wants oared for, and next day
sent to L:verpool by Yr. W. al Damon, Low agent to
the Shipwrecked Fishermen ant Triarinera' Aectisty.
LIOTORS "THI PUBLIO.II4UIIe THAT JACK I3UILT."
—oo Thursday evening the Rev. 13. Olasebrook gave
for the Viird time, his popular lecture on tho above
sobJecit In the Temperances Rooms, W,ymoutb. The
Rev. S. Nash presided; and a good company was in
atteodenos.—after the chairman's opening remarks,
the Lecturer referred to the well known nursory.rheme
the " House that Jack built." He traold ita origin to
a Chaldaic source, among the Jews, and quoted a
similar prodnallon said to have been of a seini-uored
character. H. then goes Orn.kahank's famous parody
on the napery rhyme; and based his remark* thereon.
Numerous quotations, chiefly postio, were iotrodueed
and greatly added to the interest of ilia 1-etore, which
was Ritual to attentfvely thraughoot. The pithy and
forcible utterance.' 'blob so freqoutly °marred, added
to the quaintness and minus of the quotations, made
the lecture one of peed at interest, sad evoked
repeated appiense. Ah. arty vote of thanks was given
to the lecturer, who in acknowledging it, proposed thanks
to the 1t... S. HALM both as chairman and as serving
temperance by his recant sermon on the Cans miracle;
; a proposal which was osrdially railroaded to. At the
I close several signed the pledge.

CONSOMMES' GAS COMPANY.

The half-yearly meeting was held on TLuraday
morning, prevent—The Mayor, Mews Thomas, Mason,
D. Collett, J. K. Reboot, J. J. Boles, T. Berle, J. W.
Board, 0. Carter, C Beale. & Leaning, tL D.mon,
135ard, sod Copt 80b..., with Mr. J. Stone, manager
avid Secretary.
The Muer.' waa called to the chair, In the absence of
Mr. J. A. Talbot, chairman of the Board of Direotore,
and submitted the report and Wane* 'hoot as
folio.:—

•• The directors, In ag tin matins th 3 aharehelders,
that In eines of the great advances mule In the 17rIY:
nod the Id quality of mei, they cannot, 51 on Kermao
occsalone, declare a divide, lof Ave per cent. It will be
elamerveal the oat of this artle e Is it, exam+ of that of the
correep.ndinir plied of lest year by £1 0001 IS.. id. Notwith-
st.ndier thu cult. cl.mtnic movement awl the operation of the
neW Li.neitiZ Hill the go. rental Is bat CTO W.. 0.1. lea than
the correeponting halt of lan year. The beaus* available for
dividend Is VAS Ilk 71 , and the director. recaninsend that a
dividend .t the rate of £3 per cent. Per =flirt be dream.' free
of Income Tu, which will absorb CASO, and-the balance to IN
I earned forward to the next halty inv. TM, auditor who retires
by rotation.i. Mr. W. T. Hallett. —Jous A. Tuner, chairman.

ACCOOST —ftessepts.—By ewes me deed on accrutt
of 'harm, £10; shore espital, the whole of wheb I. paid up,
£30,000 ; lams account, £7,so3—total, a 7,400. lispendifure
—To balance as per Ims sheet, ,ClO.
Tam Accourr —expenditure—To cools etrbeibisd. 1,742
tons IS cwt., £1,957 110. 91; wages, gm malefactors,
£I9O 6.. OH.; Office and cleaning, a la; solaria : assuager,
secretary, collector, and auditors, £lO3 16i.; half-year's
story lata secretary, £2O; repairs sod malntenaece. £ll3 181;
mains and services. £23 lei. Id.; nes and mums, LIII 7s. 81.;
public lunpe, lighting, he.. 174 7s. 4d.; i meters, £6O 19.. 21. ;
limo for purllleatlou, 6.. 11(1.; stationery, printing, and
stamps, £8 9.. 116,I.; Do I debta and allowances, La its. 110.;
Interest on loan, £lBl 7s. 61; banker's Interest and commie
I ann. ETS llt ed.; law chuireq, £l3 10s. 31; ineiJentale,
ei. 31; balance available for dividends. £313 121.
total, £3,865 13s. 31.; /seonts—By ga, and meter rental for
half-year--v..., September 30th, lel. £1,126 Hs 611
Deoeinber 31.1. 1472. 21,980 13i. 0 1.—L3.054 Os. Ild.; coke
and braes, esim, flie 0..6d.; isle of stone, .8130 ; 'sleet
tar, £io 4.. 81 . sale of old iron, Llll its. Id ; gas fittings-
/DI 9s. lid.; transfer fees, 12.—Inlet, CUSS 13.. 3d. Memo,
random of stock, December, 1872, £2,226 Ilu 3i I.; 'ditto,
Decimber. 1871, £1,671 Its. 61d,
The Melee Mated that the £31818.. for repairs in-
clitird the eulargement of the seal abed sod additional
retorts; the oil it iron eouli only outtain 700 or 800
lOU' of ooal ; but 1,200 eould be store'. £l5O had
been obtained from sale of. stone which had formed the
base of the oil chimney, and £ll5 12 1,1 from •31113
iron. The directors exceedingly regretted they could
not declare the usual dividrud of £3 per cot; but
during the lett half-rear the expense had been more
than £l,OOO shove that in the oorrnaponding ball kat
year. Although ouid woo so much dearer, the prioo of
gee bad bsen the ..me; but the question of rai.ing the
price would some b-fore the directors very shortly. An
endeavour wee beiag made to obtain from Parliament
additional power to raise the price of gas, ococopsoy
had been formed, wines object was to get • bill passed
by Parliament to enable gm and ...et,r companies to
raise their price in 'mordants, wiih the enhanced price
of Coat, and there wee no doubt during the present
'salon this bill would be pawl. If coal kept at its
privient pries, or 'you if it got somewhat lower, the
eomputy must come to the town, out ask for higher
prime for the gas. It had lima the earnest and con-
stout wish of himself and brother directors to do all in
their power by personal and coustaut attention, both
at the works and the offices, to advanc, tee interests
of this company; he therefore moved the adoption of
thle report.
tieooode 1 by Capt. ROBeltS.
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Mr. THOliaa wished to mike a few remarks, as a
shareholder and as one of their directors on the coo-
dition of the company. He did not think the additional
cost of oriel during the last half-year had brought the
company to the utter and entire collapse which it was
now in. If it had not been for the sale of come stone
and old iron, titer would only hero had £2117 to be
divided amongst the ihareholders. He recalled their
attention to the ctrly formation of this ooneern ; all
knew the amount of interest be bad had in it, and the
amount of labour be bad bestowed upon it; be his
personal solicitation some of his relations had anbeariberl,
at • time when it stood in jeopardy for want of capital.
When be (Mr. Thomas) was chairmen, no private
interest ever permitted bun to be absent from his post,
he never went away for either plemuni or business;
but zealously discharged lois duties. Tbe first eat they
did AB soon as they got into smooth water wed to get
rid of the man who bed piletet them through all their
I diffbalties, thou the chairmanship of the directorate
! was pat up to rag. or whet was the gems thing,
drawn for by lots. In no other company in England
would they god a state of things equal to that;
as boon as one men had gained experience, be was
turned out, god an inexperieneed men took his place.
The next thing they did was to get rid of Mr. Penny,.
one of the beat gm emineers In England, who had also
saved them a considerable stem of money through the
contracts be had made with the Northern pits for the
supply of coal. Then they had begun to use island
ood, which all men of experience said such good regales
could not be obtained from as front North of England
coal. Soon after Mr. Penny wog ejected from ogles,
another company offered to lease the works, pay them
74 per cent., at the consumers' meter, and keep the
works in order. They had never radioed that for them•
tele.' because they had laid their money out. He had
stoodsloof, sure that the day of reekoning would come,
but he did not comsat ouch an entire collapse as the
present. Lest year, when agora/ire frauds took plum
at Birmingham, a gentlemen sent him foil oartioolirs
respecting them, cod be laid before the Mayor, and
sines then ttwv had formed the finance ant works
committees, lie should not be willing to allow the
statment of amounts to be paned without receiving
an essoronoe that the accounts would be submitted to

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come competent person, to gee whether proper results
bed been arrived at from thermal consumed.
Mr. Ronne was sorra Mr. Thomas had introdutted
the matter in the way hs had. He thought the carve-
ton were not far iderior to Mr. Thomas, in their
Inherent in the company. P.treosially ha Bodies)
and as onnumited with his family, held the largest
amount cf capital. He did not know there was an
understanding that Mr. Thomas MAI to be perpetual
*hal ems°.
Mr. TfloWas said he wee not.
Mr. Roitueseaki tither, was so such understanding,
Mr. Thomas had not mush to complain o'. Mr. Thomas
had talked about the company's ocillspm ; that was
ridiculous,. Were the company responsible for the ties
In the prim, of coal? Was not that rise sufficient to
lead the shareholders to expect that the dividend would
be less than last year? As to Mr. Penny, he lot them
to expect they could cot the works for £18,503, and
they had to pay £28,500. The directors thought that
they could do without him, by carefully watehinir the
work, and this bad been done. As to the neemmity of
having an engineer down to examine their alfdrs, that
was nothing new, a gentleman had been invite', that
had been decided on some time since. it was riliculons
to talk such Muff. Hot Mr. Thomas been at the
works half the time he (Mr. Rebuts) had?
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Mr. THOMAS : Not lately.
Mr. Rostra said be hod been there daily, and given
every attention to the concern, sad every one of the
directors hod done the con.; but if the shareholders
thoug'it they did not understood their businesa. they
could elect others, imbued with the peculiar fawnlike
of Mr. Thomas. They hod had to Pay Cl 000 extra in
coal loot boll-year, and if they bad hod that, they
would have boon sile to pay 6or 7 per amt. Could
they produce gas without n certain quantity of oat' ?
The shareholders sould judge whether after neying
£l,OOl extra in coal, they could exooot to receive t'4,
same amount of dly.deurt. . _ _

The MATOIII supported the remarks of Mr. ftobine,
and said he and the whole of the directors would he
quite williog to rerign their trust tato thn ohareholdm's
bands. They bad never moeived a single farthing for
their arnica's. though they hod given both time and
attention to the Interests of the oompany.
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Myra°cubed been Interned that in a gu company
in the West of England, making about hslf the gas the
Weymouth oompany manufactured. £l5O a year wee
made out of the ammonisoal liquor, for which the
Weymouth company never roossiv.d a single penny.
The MIToS salted whether If the directors had
teetered a dividend of XX Der cent., they would not
have receired the oongratulations of eve -y one? It
was entirely owing to the rise in the price of soil that
they bad not done no.
There was some eonversatiov, started by Mr. BOAID,
shout the sale of some old iron by Mr. Stone, which
Mr. Brenner, the purchaser was maid to have asserted
he had gained £5O by.
Mr. brows explained that he got, groat deal more
than he expeoted, end Kr. Couitrr beloved Mr. Stone
had made • good price for the old materials.
It also came out that Mr. Stone bad cold clew
trucks of coal to the Portland pa works on his own
amount.

The roport WI reoefved ml adopt.d.
Mr. W. T. HALLITT W/11 reelected auditor, ilia the
meetiog was cloud by • vote of thank. tu the
Mayor.

PORTLAND.

SUDS' DEATH AT THu SAWMILLS, rornar..—Almat
liall•past eight on Wedneacity, an elderly man named
William Allen, who has worked as shoemaker at
liallains, and lately has been argues driver it that Saw.
mills, died very Boddie!, in the midst of Ms work.
Ho was in a trench In which the intermediate crank gear
works, sad winks doing somethlos t Abe gear. wh!oll was
at rat,he haat back against a stone, and remained
Nothing had struck hlm,ocr had is. slipped
I. aa_y way, for ail was quiet In the trash. John red
sad Mamas Way Mal aim oat, sad took him to the
°Sea Dr. Danko we. oat for, and arrived very

promptly ; but the poor man was demi before the doctor
arrived. He was then removed to Ids home at
Mantras. Ile wee about 52 or 0 years of agOE
was married, and bad • large family, two or three of
his eons being arowt-up mite. It was understood that
he had suffered much from disease of the heart, aoct oa
i'llorun'tion being oonveyed to the coroner. IL N.
Howard, EN., that gentleman did not think it
neoessary to hold an inqueet..—On the s6me morning
old Mr. Gibbs. of Hing.igtr,et, woks In Orkin in his
garden, when he was overoomo by the cold, and sank
down Insensible. He war taken very ill to "
Simon 81,0002,114." but by ths blessing of God oa the
restoratives. he recovered. Thus One was takes aud
the other left.
011tHE ABBAS.

LlQUlDAV,a.—Frodarlak William Brea Tibbs, of
Gismo Abbas, taller, draper. tesoisaler, kr., ham Mod
a petition for liquidation by wrongs:cent, of bia affairs.
Wa llabilines amount to between £1,300 and £1,400,

0811INGPON.

Ws regret to announce the dooms* of the Rev. Sir
James Phillips, Bin., Ormington, which took phoe at
his residence on Thursday evening, at the edvatmed
age of 72 years. For some time past the precarious
"An of the raw. itentlooman's health hos oimasioned
much anxiety to hit (Hoods. The deceased, who eras
the eleventh baronet, we, born in 1793, and suomieded
to the MU° in 1857. 11. was eduonted at Qneen's
College. Otford, whore 1.0 graduated 8.A., 1817, &tad
ILA.. 1820. Ile succeeded io 18321 k the living of
Oonington, whieh 14 in the gift of the Bishop of the
diocese, and which 14 of tho gross valve of MI Psr
annum, with a population of 448. Thu deceased is
itmeeeded by his No, the Bev. Sir James Krum=
Philippe, of Christchurch, Odord, woo was born at
Boyton, Wilts, in 1824, married is 1859 the eldest
daughter of the late Hon. and Ittv. S. Best, of Abbott'.
Ann, and wan appointed view of Warminster, Wars, in
1359. The family of the lam baronet is of great
antiquity in South Wale& Amour its ancestors was
11.aron ap Shy., who attended liichned T. into the
Holy "And. 1190, when, be behaved sellantly against
the Saracen& Sir Richard Philippe, the seventh
baronet was created Baron Milford in 1766, which
title ostire' on his death in 1821. The baronetcy was
crested 162 L
WARE ti

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Tag LAMS MIL JUL= Muju GACITILL, W•
are requested (on authority), te correct • slight error
Into welsh • highly respected cnstemgorarri 110
Sae:rearm Journal, was stilled last week—in meting
that "Mrs. Haskell, the author of Mary Barton, The
Life of Charlotte Brenta, Jane Lyre, Ruth, and other
easellent works, well known to our valued readers. It
the widow of the late Mr. Milan Gaskeil, M.P." This
esteemed lady, however, deemedly and LighlY
traded for her own sake, as well as for being the widow
of a well-known and respected Unitarian Minister at
Mazob.e:er, was NOT related by marriage certainly, and
we iw,lieree In any other manner except through
admit It,, lieu in.,. ttdit ltod made, to the late ,
honouree% Mr. Manes flokoll.M.P. Ile married Mary,
sesond daughter ot the late Hight Hon. C. W. William
Virnn, M.P., was a Lurd of tho Tramury ,in the
adintnistration of the lamented Sir Hobert Peel—from
1841 till 181:—rthen he reel:toed. was • Liberal Con-
e. ryativ*, and strongly nppowid t the impoaitiou of
civil disability on account of reltions opinion& He
formerly reprenented Weldor' Saver, and afterwards
Wenieek from 1832 until he tosigned • my few yearn
ago. As regards the interesting nu 4 truthful seermet
given by tho Sherboms Journal in relation In that
oelobrated Wareham Election Committee of 1857, we
have received • communicati*o from • highly respect-
able and relisble witness who was present during the
whole men*, both In the House of Commons and the
Cnrotnittee Peseta where Mr. Milnes Goshen presided
with great jostle* and dignity, and well remembers it
al!. He entirely oonfirms the truth of Our • COO•
temporary% stetement, mad endorsee it is every par.
Mettler. His own rooollectione of it also lead him very
worth to approve the wise treader of the plwors of those
put Oommittees to Her Majesty% leader', independent,
Impartial. honourable, and iearned judges, • duty which
they undervike sorely against their own will, hut have
well fulfilled. _

BOROUGH PitTT titsstogs, fiaturder.—Before Mr.
Juries Albert Penton, (Moyer), Mr. Chaise Wlllooz,
(ea-Mayor); Mr. F. Flatter. Town (lerk, in attendance.
MMHG GIIIIHRATION—NUID OF • GOOD SCHOOL Waal).
—A lad named lan Maid" W&I summoned by P.C.
PAIIPOIIS for stealing turnips last Sunday morning,
between the hours of 11 mad 12 o'clock (whilst people
were at church, and in their several plains of religions
uorahipl from • field called Handle°, io the parish of
St. Mazda's, Wareham. The witness Pereons duly
proved eervice of the rummons on d.leadai.t's mother
at her dwelling-house-- ono of the Folly cottager!,
oppoeits the Ploudicao, the totes is goo. The mother
told him tbe boy wooll not attend b fore the 'aegn!
irate., as she bed sent him away. The case wee then
tekse as though he were preeent,—P.O. Persons, being
'MOW, stated toot on Sunday morniag. the Lb intuit
he raw the boy between the hours 11 and 12 o'clock
arose the Folly gardens, go into Nandi*" occupied by
Mr. Frank Square, end take the tornirs. His metier
was all the time watching at her door, and called out
to the lad that the policomen, or bobby, was coming.
The lad then caw the peacetime, threw down the
turnip., and ran into his mother'. house. The polies•
mso picked up the turnip., brought them away, and
toll the mother she would hoar farther of it. The
ma.listratm, after conferring together, fin,vi the
deleodane 181. Including costa, or in default 14 days'
itepriecuomeut with herd labour. The mother then
appeared, and asked for time to pty, but the magi.
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triage, taking all oircurestauees into account, refused
this requeet. These little police eases are seldom worth
the tro,,ble of • detailed report but air readers will
at one, i.e Ito important principle Medved in the
above, though thig turnips were not worth twopeoes.
All garden tenants of the neighbourhood will rejolot
that this young culprit happened to be caught in the
very ',clot stealing.