The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-10-17 00:00:00

A NEW PuLITICAL ALLIANCE.

So long ago SI JaDIM) hot" it tCtlitTed to 'AO Of
three Conservative peers" that it would be well to °pm
• negotiation with the ultra Radicele in London is
order to ascertain the real estent of their demists.
Mr. Scott Reim'', • well.known ahipbuilder, asd
stanch Disraeltte, having been chosen for the post of
go-between, that gentleman forthwith put hiebell is
1:0111111tiniatti011 with Mr. Allen, the secretary of the
Engineers' Trades Union ; and was at first met with
mush suspicion. Mr. Allen openly eonfesaecl his belief
that the Tory re,n-i at the back of Mr. Eiso,ii were
only making profeesions as a clor,k for poll icsl designs,
and with a desire to split up the Liberal piny. Bit
the Tory meat persisted that the negommia we of a
thoroughly honest character, and we no i.. 1 that Ir.
Allen and the other working-men's ii. *to Irtfe
made acquainted with the ail' dr began to eotts, dais
discontent at the "domination" of the upper Moak.
alma Liberals. After several more meetings. the wak*
leg men were induced to put their demands he
Icaislation into a definite shape, and to the follosug
effect:
"1. Something tiko tho United States Homestead taa,
with modern improvements, Is to lie einwtol. ahki,
families of our workmen' may by reasoned (non tier
quarters of the towns and given detached homestead,
suburb,

" 2. The Commune I. to Ito cltablishca so ftr
upon all coulitics, town.' and villages a perket or,mau!l
for self-government, with poorer. to the ac•inwitl --
portal of lands for the connoun
3. Ei3ht boura of honest and skilled work shall
a day'. lahour.
. . _

4. &hook for technical instruction shall lie estab:olisi
the expense of the St .to, In the midst of (ho hVISICatt44,,::2
proletariat.
. . .

•
"A. Public markets shall be erected In eery t•gra
public expense, for the oisJu of goods of the bot
ewull quantal, at wholeittle price,
"C. Thcre shall be e‘talilislied, as parts of tLi
service, iblaces ad public recreation, klivaledge, ao
mcnt.

"7. The railways bhall Ie purchaaed anti c :nduct.,l
pulilic an.i fur the coututun good, as tin: r.:—'
sunk.: is trot c,)lldUClesli."

Armed with this document alr.Soott luieU reamed
to his employers, who bad by this timo tot rnejt-ew
selves into a " Council of Legislation ;"•nd on the I!
of August Wm body signed an "aerevinei.t" in
Cony " acooptod tho propositions" of .'dr. All.n and to
friends, and also • rocepted the r..4rons•bnity' .1
preparing the Bills neeeentry for giving Clem I..sislitits
sanction, and of passing Vont' through bum itopcs
Parliament.

Toe signatories to the treaty on the pot of the Peers
and examen' are :—The Etrl of laddiel I. tbe Earls'
Carnarvon, the Marquis of Sliabury, the llablub,li
Lorne, Lord Henry Lennox. Lord J.,on 'bole"' fee
Jtoohtnhe Puesakoantigattoioun, ibrutHtthslefiorruel.wierti.l,l..o,..te.;alt.:
Gathorne Hardy. 'l'hiti Duke of it:eh:aunt the Esrl
of Derby, and Mr. Disraeli are and. r•teoil bs
affixed to the document. The " •"'"
O 01
the artisans ars those of blessr•
joiner; Daniel Guile, ironfouude, ; efeer
'w'—
bricklayer. T. W. Hughes, e.rp nter, ;
joiner ; Lloyd Jonrs, fustian cutter, W.
mason ' • Wet.tono, engraver ; Deighten, jailer;
shoemaker ,• Squires, painter; Berry, hu:tio:orWork*
otett's Itaithta'.; L.hh•go, ch,,tr.in a the 1.1.2 r
Representation League; and Eaglander, Ulcer"
Mr. %Valiant Allan, engineer, has not y 4
lid. Mr. Scott Russell add* hit :tame te tho.e
workmen in the character of an " enzineet. 114
Counoil of Legislation is to ho inoreared ti I.;
and in January next the first meetiti4 ot b.otb Cowl.
will be held. It is stated the Manlius of LOIOC, WL°
was one of the Liberals conlittltel at the outset Ulthe
negotatiooa, iusisted on being • patty to
meut even after the withdrawal of hii l'Ar•te
associ•tes. .

Co'h Councils aro to meet in January nut, PNri6l
to tbo asseLubly of Parliament.

A WINPFALL FOB THK CHAKITIIIB.—I• is • long ti.ll`.
since so numerous a list of b‘ quests to charite,le hod
tins Las appeared as in last week's Illeutrat,l..l,o
Under the will of Mrs. C. E. WalmeAey, ot
"Otte, ilYde-park, five institutions h.,ve rice,ved
eatib. There are also legacies to 'JJ other public char",
able institution. To three h .spitals th h.•
each ; to 22 charities 1.200 each • to 27 othersEll.oo44'
and £5O to each of 23 more.
SHOCKING YOACIIINO A lIIRAT.—Throo men wsr,e c's
Thursday c•immitted for trial by the litildernetriel
magi-trate-a fur night poaching on the estate of kla
Dudley. Too pri.,oni rs and others were suprised by
watchers, and a desperate fight ensued, 000
watchers received some injuries its his head, and r
a precarious state. Tte poachv IN, too, were
handled, and one man was worried by does so that,
be recovers, be will be a cripple for life.
A MAN DISGRISED A" A WOMAN POE TEN Vt.tfifi•--
At the potty session of Ballyetety, • small village
Limerick. • person who has passed ty the &du'
Bridget Fleming, and who has qeeri in the eosplef,"'
of several farmers in the neighbourhood as • :erv",ti
the most reovnt being that of dairymaid, was broa;G
before the magistrates charged with being of • dilfo7o.
sex from that assumed. The prisoner presented hI
self when called upon very neatly dressed in fou'''
attire, and conducted himself with the utmcet concha'
ante. From the facts elicited it appears that wood:
was between 19 and 20 yeas of age, dttring th, Po'
ten if which he had earned his living by snob ocolli
tions as thnse tp.uslly pursued by feundes, and b'h,
Always pass 4-1 for on., if that act - spswrini iS t.i
weighing an I tii,,k,ug•up of cldtos ; could sew ...Ph 01"-It
).d.•
Ws, e
thed; iyd •
moot eteellett wwiy:oc:tau,lno
u ,
his various employer,,
übtain
chn.aire.erctl.e,rthfirriogui,
export, cdorer, sod ladwricious.

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