The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-02-17 00:00:00

DOZONZSMIS.

Ma. Omusza howl ligacit, of ths Weslaco Cir-
Wee been speeded by the Attonery-General
Prosecuting Counsel M de Yost Of doe ow that
Cleadt, I. seeressiou I. the late Mr. Cole, Q.O.
Bennie GEAPIL.—Aa will bo wee from oar
edverldekm_solomas, • Imbue oe " Caudle." Is to be
given as Wedsesday by Um Rey. J. J. Dalton. As
ere underetasd that candles, Lampe, and lanterns of
eld end modem nes are to be brought together for
parposs, we should think this 14 Muir to prove an
sad twisnotin entertgameet.
Unirnewn Boos. We are plowed to wiles
:=6lthe meow of wooessful osodidates at the
Matyleolatioe at the Loudon University the
named Y. R. Smith, of West Stafford, who went up
from the Demi Gouty Basal and passed is the
Vint Division. This makes the 101 h enocessful can-
didate from ow County &nag since 1877, each
of wham bm obtained either Wooers or a First
Claes.
Innoviderr 10 Bocrrit-www.—lfesere. R. Day's
end lon leave Jed dieded • very decided improve-
ment ie Speinelseet. The bows and shop, lately
dogoiad by Mr. Pesch, have hese transformed Into
them Wakens shops, one oompied by Mr. Peal,
the Come Dairy (who has lamodwed his Milk Supply),
seceber occupied m glow by Messrs. G. Rear
sad Tray•fil (sonikeesre). SW the other Sy Mr.
I=lahmonver, kat Tim improvement is •
one, Davis bagel carried oat the
mark adatirebly.
Domoraersa Fats was attended by the usual
seetley throng, the dried beteg crowded throughout
We day with peewee on pleasure or bushier best, or,
=5:l. • little of both. The pleame outside lb.
w
11 the taverna, which did • roaring trade, must
bare bees reduced to • minimum, for ia the early
seereiseg sad at intorvals dodo, the day rain fell
Wavily, and ths streets were literally • ese of mad.
The reeelemaligreed "Milo/ lair" bean but swat
ausemblwee to tbe busiesselike OW of 101111Ot years.
sad we beagles Joseph Arch's paesionete dawn,
Adios of tbe degrading sprotacie of " new and women
geed* up to be bought and laid like collie," mad
Wei to former times. Many of the dotes-trodden
labenrers, we ars sorry to say, pestered to make them-
gam as midi Ilk* awls in soother way, and although
• divided improves:sew in this swing was to be noted,
vet Were was • digressing amount of druakennew
It we. a sorry "pectins to whams otherwise respect-
ablertroklal litwolle droned out of the town by
wives end daughters," 'logged, drunk." or, earl
7114t0 observe young men following the sample
r aided The tab did not look the sow tine.-
henoweed ling bidding. Tbs drums and If.. of the
Demi 'Armagh the tows at intervals,
&mg L4l7.ro:es the mai tial ardour of the
gzre., and the older men had WAR indignatiou
So • while heat by Limb old hided " Joe
Arab," who, Is • more thus messily dory speed,
demoseced the " oppressors of the people." With
sigh sod kismet madam, the Sown presseted • busy
mid but for the rain, na doubt our coui.try
would ham 'pest a pleasant day. The Waft
=I beldame of tie day woe a:adorned as MIMI
dr Field. There was a full average supply of
desk et the fair on Saturday. espeeisliy of cattle, but
den& ruled very dell, and farmer', In mder to elect
ease Webb mere done entirely at eedloas bud by
Mr. Reser, Maws. Henry Dolce and Boa, and Mr.
emends bad to resolve considerably lower priors,
....t be the may beet Made of stock. A general
wage for had.,. sad mime may be gime as from
11.1 /25 15..; beneems from 1.994 to SO 10a sock:
~Reg sleek bulb, 18 to did each ; fat besets, CO to
Miner ken 12s. 1. 13.. pm score) I hit mass. 74. lc
AIL Pr lb.! 47e. ed. to 6k; borne, XV, to
Or. • letkketney eleemos.

Len Ovens Mistiso.—A largeldy attended met-
big of labourers and others was 61 at the Assembly
Room, Nr Alen tsars. on Saturday afteraoon, under
the aospioss of the Agricultural Labourers' Union.
Prior to the sompling Feloklasd Bram Band
paraded the streots. Although the majority rf those
pressed at the meet* wen, undoubtedly, Liberals,
Roue were • few friends of the °opens side present,
who, at certain pule* keit tho roceedlogs pretty
lively. Ammo; thaw who were ittootlve listeesen to
the sphdted utterances of the various neskets wen
Mr. C. Hambro and other well-kaown Coneareatives
The Be,. I'. Weave occupied the chair, sups°, t.d by
Mr. J. C. 8. Henbane (Mantes), M. Christopher
(ChesUborns), Mr. Bic sk (Wimborne), Mr. S. Is.
Riker, Mr. Joesph Arch, Kr. J. Hitaell, ard Mr.
8. Pike.—Tbe Chairman delivered • moderate and
ataddress, and his remarks referring to the
il are worthy attaition. He said they had the
tots, but now they bad It what were they going to do
with ? if. wee 'Wald they were not gong to
remain en they wen, but that they would make it •
starting point for muoh that would be good for the
oountry generally. (Applause.) Touchline the die-
satablkhosat of the Church, he believed that question
woe not yet ripe for settlement. He did not
thbik the clergy of the Clench as • body failed to
discharge their dreier, and he admired the clearer
very much for the seal and noble efforts they displays
The Archbishop of Cautarbery himself led the
damps right, for they voted In favour of the
Franchises. (applause.) As a Noecooformle,b.
expressed his cordial IfMpatby alth the work of the
Church of Ragland. Mr. Neste aid the reit
question of the day an Tree Trade in land, sad he
advanced Mr. Chamberlain's views in favour rf
peasant proprietary. He spoke strongly against the
efforts of certain of the Preen (the Tien lorluded) to
decry Mr. Chamberlain sad his policy. Another
urgent question was the provision of stash!s hoses
for the working obsess. Hs looked upon Mr. Ohm-
berialu'e policy es perfectly mood and worthy •f
support. It will be for you, said Mr. heave Is
concludes, to 'ask the candidates for the vari
divisional of the county—" What an you prepared to
do to solve the groat difficulties that as the pre sot
moment beset the land eraser or so i the overcrowding
of towns. If they can tire you • favourable nply
you will vote for them, If not torn to your natural
friends and support tlsetn—l mean the Liberals, or
even better the icsdlcals. (Applause.)-11fr. Eloock
submitted • motion expends' hearty thanks to Me.
Glaistoss and the G.overnmeat for having pissed the
Franchise, entree every boasholder the vote, and dm
trusting that the Saab' Bill, now be& re Parlbunest,
will be passed. The mottoes also pledged the meet.
hag to do its beet to rotors Liberal madidstes for the
...oat,. no speaker ridiculed Mr. learqudarsoa's
proposition to tax corn. He advised them not to be
led away by the wiles of the Tory party, foe they
would endeavour to entrap Ramie the utmost of their
power. Bs true to your came, said the speaker, be
true to your purpose and row loaders, and strove all
to thatgreat man, Mr. Gladstone. If you are tens,
be sure that all measures for the good of the people
ell be given you. He farther urged thorn to we
they wee' properly registered; doe 'l ist any b dy
elm do lifer them, but do it themselves. Let them
return rood men end La., who would look after the,.
latereata sa lb/anon/loos days had looked after their
own. Except they got good mu who would pledge
themselves to do aU the work they wantsl, doe% vo's
at all. The days have ri,me fog teeny of ths old
anomalies to be done with, and this wood be dose If
they followed rose like Glee:Woos, Caoberlein, and
Arab. The working man was C 6 bock b ens and
sinew of England, an lidt them bays a von- In the
making of the laws they were t eueed rOey. It they
were milted they amid return tha men they libel, and
by their united done they could carry whet t oer
Chriatopbor sounded lbe resolution. ti-
ros pissed to fad the interest of the working clo• .0.
sate rardstheit political and social sitaatiou urabnt.. I;
ale, that they load moo like Mr. Hanbarn and Mc.
Nem to corn. forwhr tin support of the good —Mr. Restive .oppotd the resoialloo, and aspens i
his pleasure at seeing soms of his friends in the sear
of the room who hail come to be envoi t of. (L u
laughter.) In thanking the Government for passing
the Frauchk• BM they also hat to congratulate
themselves on having pissed safely and serenely
through a revolution. Toe a itintry was now handed
ors to whet some .rite and creatus were plowed
to cell " xl-t`iirstyßadical.." (Laughter.) The
country has gradually been drifilag into the bands
of the blood-thlraly Radicals for the hat 100 years.
ever glace ilso great Radical Wilkes first moved the
measure in the House of Commons that hod on'y
been passed la the last year. He thee briefly referred
to the Reform Aat of M. It was said the is 'entry
would be ruined by the Reform Bill, but hal the
country deteriorated sines then? Then the Reform
Bill of '67 was claimed by the Clooservatlea, and be
exposed the falsity of soio a °Wm. W.tO rig ird
to the list great Reform Bill, Mr. Arab was one of
the first and foremost who agitated for It, gni it WO
to Mr. Trevelyan's credit that he was one of ths first
who ventilated 11 in the Hone of Commons. It was
not till 1380 that it wail taken up ao a ()ablest
goeetion. Then they had still the Redietributiou
Bill, and, scorning to the Conservatives, they
ought not to have had the Fearshise Dill
at all VII the Redistribution Bill was paned—that
wall to say U they could not steer oos difficult measure
through Parliament they should try and stem two.
(Laughter.) This mooed to him to be the principle
of Tory legislation—blunder on in any Indiecrlminata
mason they could. (Laughter.) They were now
besting remade of stone at the present Government
over the Egyptian question. But if It were not
satisfactory to all minds, Seen If it were not satis-
factory to some members of the Maid party, let
than ask themselves where they would have been had
sue consecrative' bad the man•gement of again
Reratieg to ths lineable* Bill, Mr. Matthaei said
that gnat measure of reform was only &moan to an
end. They were nos" Viesliter " )
All parties were now agreed that the land question
must be first cc the list to be dealt with. This was
the question that moat front It. very natere be
taken Bee, IN It touched the very thing they lived
on. (Applause) They also hoped soon to bare laid
before them In a plotted shape the disootabliehmant
of the Church of Soothed (hear, beer)
and he believed they would coos have to seriously
oonsider the payment of members. With mord to
the money spent in the letter they o ,uld sully apply
some of the money derr ted to pensioning those whom
only claim to it warn that they were the children of
Beds father'. (Loughter and apptsuse.) They hoped
soon to abolish theta iniquitous and unmet tax**, and
they hoped many other abus,s would follow. He
could not help as e strong blond of the Libeesti in
Society, I. nobler on one remark of ths ohaiiman in
references to the Bishops In the Howe of Lori.; thsy
were said to have ve,ted is farms if the Franchise
Bid, but lot them take • list of all their votes sine
the beginning of the century, and they would see they
voted against every jet nmeaure—in Use Jews'
Disability question, the GAM Law.. Autialavery, and
the Teat and Corporaßone Act. So that If they bed
voted this thus Is favour of the Franchise Bill he
believed it wee only because they had begun to now.
nisi that the time had corn. for them to treat *kb the
people instemad of fighting them. (Applause.)—Mr.
Arch then moved that in the °Odom of Ude
meeting, in order to bring the necessary relief to the
Industries and enanufeeturos of the °Gantry, and
remove the overcrowding in the great towns,
they should have some broad and ootoprehonalve
measure of. land reform, in order to arrest tbs
decline of lb* rural population, to estab'ish the
labourer upon the soh, end to Insist upon
the lead being cultivated to its fullest
extent. On this tut Mr. Arch delivered a !night*
speech on the lend gasstios. Hs ommommed with •
onthlng Morale of the so-oaned Fair Trade theory.
Fair Trade woe not lateaded to benefit the farmer or
the Labourer, but it was intended to keep high rents
for ties laadowsers, and if there was • &ass of men
In England who would 6 studies upon • diagonal
volcano, II would be the English landlords in 1830.
(Hoer, hear.) They would upset them at the next
destion. Remember there were 5,000 000 electors,
and of these 8,000.000 weeklies me.. What good was
it for • few Unmet furriers to blaster about? They
most be careful how they binstand the poor labourer.,
for there is a Corrupt Practices Act, acct If ths men
belonged to the Union, and they were Wintered with
by the Meant farmers, they would' good" them for •
bit (Lushes.) One thing that had militated
att the snores of trade and agriculture had been
tiquitous law of settlement. They would give
the mama no rest Abet with tongue or pen till this
abominatioa whilst has mused the emote, 61 been
abolished. How wore they sofa( to do with ft 7 Not
with drum's& (Hear. hew.) He had been tepee
minted as nothing better than • dynamiter ; but he
had never received a penny in big life, and if he had
received thousands to damage life and Pooped', he
should not have taken it. (Applause.) They did not
wont to opafigoate or plunder, but the first thing they
ought to demand of every candidate was—' Are you
prepared to go to the House of Commons to abolish
this law of settlement, and let the land go into the
market to meet tits wank of the people,
Rest moured their first great ondaught at the next
elecHon would be on the Land Lem ; the land moat
be free, and the people brought back t ut aisle. They
wen not tbe enemies of Om tenant farmer,. Hers
were five million of acres being ruined, sod were they
to stead by and me their country
Ersged"d and withered by laws they bed power to
abolish They wanted those monopolies broken down.
Free the land, and Insist on its being cultivated He
referred them to the teaching of the Grand Old
Book, that the earth was created for the austsuancs
of man. If they denied that, let them pull off their
fourdornered hate, and shot their churoh doors, and
let them have so more of their aristooratio hypocrisy
(Appian...) He was an Englishman, and wanton to
no hie country take her true position among the
satins of the earth. What la morally right is not legally
wrong. and AO Mut had more right to waste the land
for hi" own aggnsdiasinsat and injury to his neigh-
bour than be bad to go and put • nulaanos ands.
Lord Puritan's window. If the working men were
united they would lay the foondatioa Some of the
future grand reforms at the next eleotloo. Teen
would free the Ind, and insist upon its being
cultivated, and If they were told that they were leen
firing with the rights of property let them reply
that they were gobs to stand by and guard
the desk of human egistmace, and that
WM far higher in the eyes of any nipn
elma the right, of property. He spoke
Armin sad contemptuously with the hiring
fair. "0, my (Sod" said he, passionately, " where
is your hoisted Christianity, that bars In 1885 men,
wanes, and children should staid rip And be bought
and sold like cattle" He then proceeded to give a
lemon in registration, and announced that In the
northern division they wen going to have • test
ballot. They were going to bring out Mr. "Imbue
and me. stun, and they Weald Nee that Mr. Stun
would be like the c +Ws tail—all behind. (Laughter.)
He was going to fight this county—not as a member.
He had bogged £2,300 for the purpore, and when that
was gone he could get another. The tenant Isomers
ha] had their hog at Arch. now Arch woe going to
I have bk Bing at them. Thay were going to have
I Mr. Hants= at the head of the poll bolter have •
men goo far advised than too for behind. (Ap-
plause.) However moat Tories may rage at the
&odes Hoped' ion or IJberals differ, it will be for
us at the next denim to ho very weld to seed oaly
men who would curtail the mossy spent la lonize
Wan. leandottee4 le eenettleeees he hoped tbe

inkchlef be had done during the laot 13 years would
never die after he had beim deed 13 years. They had
set the ball rolling in lb* rnrel parishee, sod it would
never stop until the great 'amoeba; hsnol of monopoly
bed been taken off every institution in the kingdom,
and every intelligent Engßahama, be hie
birth what It might, should hare free
some to the high-st pinnacle of honour
I. the land of his birth. (Apple se)
Mr. J. Misch.ll seconded the na lion. He own-
aliment td the chairman on Ms remark. with ref-rtnes
to the clergy. lie, to, knew some good men in the
°hurrah, but it wee ow the men thsy were Lasting
against, but the inatituti To. Church ought to be
ashamed to I.ave the labourer' in the condition she
had for so many years ; but he was n g alt' be able
to shake hands with them. Let them sink their
diffusor:es, soddo their beotfor ths puhling of. lie be
some of the air r4y were doing their best to do
their work, but they hal ma le t lama do it —(.lpplause)
—mad they woul I make them do more yet. They had
been cirtsrminei never to rive up till 'hey had the
franchise, and now they had it they Idnot mean to
give up till thy sew how they were roiog to record their
votes. (Applause.)—Mr. S. L. Baker mil ported the
, m 'sloe, which wee a:oriel by acciamation.—Votas of
thanks concluded the meeting.