The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-09-10 00:00:00

Duet Cattail! exprtss.

TUESDAY, SEPtIIIIIII 10. 1872.

Nu OF IHE
Ihe London demagogues have another griev-
ance. They want the Legislature L. p. )vlde
nice comfortable home' in the open, giro tam')
plenty of food..aud the franchisv, let them be

elected to Parliament and paid tot :their services,
so that they may abolish tile Crown, the Lords,
and the Church; and to these few modest re-

quirements they have now added • demand for
fine weather when they hold their outdoor meet-
ings. The speakers at • Mile-and meeting the
other day complained that the day was wet, and
the remark, we are told, was received with
approving applause, that it would have been fine
had there been a Royal procession, but because
it was only a meeting of poor men it rained.
How very hard! Tne only remedy that seems
to suggest itself, if these workingmen will per-
sist in meeting in inconvenient places out of
doors, is to abolish the sinecure (Aloe of clerk of
the weather, or appoint • Radical to the plaoe,
who would secure line weather for itepublicaus,
and ' • come down hot" upon the head of noyalty,
upsetting the nest little arrangement by which
the present Whiter gives her Majesty " Queen's
weather' whenever it is required.
Mr. Stanley is now paying a visit to Balmoral.
He is at present engaged with his book, and on
its completion has promised to visit Glasgow,
and other places in the N orth, in N ovember.
When in Scotland he is to be the guest of Mr.
Young, of Kelly, who has lately had a letter
from Dr. Livingstone, requesting him to pay
Mr. Stanley every attention. Mr. Young is the
well-known manufacturer of paraffin oil, and has
been one of Dr. Livingstone's most steadfast
friends. In fact, it is cruelly through the sup-
port which he has given that the great traveller
has been enable to carry on his explorations.
In • letter published by Mr. Stanley ou Tuesday,
I one or two particulars are given of the second
expedition sent out to Dr. Livingstone with
supplies. The members of it appear to be tardy
in their movements. When last heard of, on
the tab of July, they were within twenty-five
days from Uuyamyembe, and none of the men
had deserted. Mr. Stanley is of opinion that
Dr. Livingstone would be reached on the Jut of
August last. The doctor intended to stop ton
I days at Unyamyembe after getting his stores,
and than was to pursue his journey, wnich
would make it the 10th August when he left
Onyamyembe. Within twenty days, allowing
for all contingencies, Dr. Livingstone most, he
says, be somewhere near bLrers, Central
Elkonougo.
The election in Preston—the mound under the
ballot—is, according to local opinion, likely to
result in the return of • Conservative member.
The two Conservative members at the last election
defeated their opponents by upwards of a thou-
salmi votes each. Mr. Moron, the Mayor of
Pontefract, has written an interesting letter
upon the working of the new Act at the recent
election, and especially takes note of the absence
of excitement. Contrasted with what Pontefract
usually was at an election tune the improvement
was most marked. On the nomination day no
one left work, and the town wore an ordinary
appearance. On the polling-day there were none
of the familiar shocking excesses. This is the
opinion of the Mayor, for tendering which he
has been rather unfairly snubbed by the Con-
servative journals.
Two more seats are about to be declared I
vacant in the House of Commons, one by the
elevation of Sir John dimmer, Burt., the
Liberal member for the &int boroughs, to
the peerage, and the other by the appointment
of the Hon. C. Carnegie, 31, P, for I. orfarshire,
to the office of Inspector of Constabulary.
The meeting of the three Emperors at Berlin
affords opportunity for endless speculation, and
we hear a great deal about imperial plotters;
but the more sagacious portion of the public
regard the meeting as • very harmless affair.
The Emperor of Germany wished to have an
interview with the Emperor of Austria, in order
that the two proteutates might come to due
understanding in view of a possible alliance
between Frame and RUM* and the Emperor
of Russia, by inviting himself to the conference
has rendered it. prime object impracticable—
perhaps unnecessary. We are told that the
chief subject of political discussion between the
sovereigns and their ministers will be that
meeting of some fifty working class agitators
and democrats of different countries at the
Hague • but if this ba really the case the three
Imperial Governments will bee:wording more
. importance than th. rost tihteiewlfotrtie lddcngreootoathe
petty assembly
of the Working . Society.
After the recent exposures of the weakness and
impecuniosity of Una society, it will not even
serve decently for the subject of such tall
writing as has been devoted to the meeting of
the Emperors. There is nothing in the Inter-
national to form • pendant to one writer's idea
of three or four millions of armed men being
set in motion for a common object as the con-
sequence of the Berlin Conference; but it would
puzzle the writer to suggest one feasible and
adequate common object for betting those armed
millions in motion.
The " Autumn Manteuvres," have made
everybody a tactician and a strategist, as every-
body is • juii..o of horseflesh in the Derby week,
and it is amusing to hear the criticisms of
pretenders to military knowledge. But, what-
ever nonsense may be talked about the
manteuvres, it Is clear that they give wholesome
exercise to the brains of commanders and to the
bodies of soldiers. The weather, which has
been very favourable as a whole, has occasionally
been just rough enough to put the endurance of
our soldiers and volunteers to a serious test ;
and it is not too much to say that they have I
stood the test triumphantly. These chain I
campaigns are doubtless very differeat to real
ones, but most people will agree that our defenders
will be the better for having played at the
erne of invader and defender on the Wiltshire
Downs.
There is no apparent end to the demands of
the coalminers. Another advance of 10 per cent.
has been made this week to wages in the Forest
of Dean, making a total inmate of 30 per cent.
since the beginuiug of the agitation. The South
Yorkshire masters have given their men an ad-
vance of 15 percent., instead of 25, as demanded;
and this has been followed by • rise in the prim)
of coal of from 2s. to fn. 10,1. per ton. The Lan-
cashire miners, at • meeting on Monday, re.
solved to apply for a (tither advance of 15 per cent.
while the North Staffordshire miners, dissatis-
fied with the recent addition to their earnings,
have given notice of their intention to ask for
"a large per centagi of Mamie, " to date from
next month. In South Stafford, Worcester,
and Warwick the men have asked for 10 per
cent. rise, and as this was refused by the masters
on Thursday, 20.000 miners are expected to leave
work next week. On Tuesday the colliers of
Tredegar struck for an advance of 20 per cent.,
but the misters hasten to offer a compromise,
and the men returned to work on Wednesday
on receiving 10 per cent., and a promise of a
father rise as soon as the stele of trade will
admit.
Our readers will ohowvo with some anxiety
that an outbreak LA plague has occurred
at Pocklingtou, in Yorkshire. the Government
has ordered stringent measures to be taken for
stamping out the pest, and the result will be
watched with much interest.
In reference to the wages question, the
Speaker of the House of Conalliolls, at • meeting
of his farm labourers, impressed an opinion that
there will be no satisfactory settlement of such
disputes between master and workman until the
latter receives, in some shape or other, • share
of the profita of the buainem in which ha is en-
gaged. Carrying this view into practical effect
In his own case, he announced his willingness to
receive any small sums now deposited by his
men in Savings' Banks; to guarantee them 2i
per cent. thereon; and further to give them the
same rate of interest which he gets on his own
capital. That is, if his farm brings him in 10
Du. cent, he will pay 10 per cent, on the
deposits; if it returns nothing he will still pay
2; per cent r. to those who had made
Ito :Jreu CUM) weekly instal-
ments sayOj •-• , and to pay interest thereon for
the forthcoming year as if the whole a had been
deposited at the outset. The right honourable
gentleman's theory is not wholly new, one or two
manufacturing concerns in the midland and
northern counties having already introduced •
modification of it into their works. At Walker
Iron Works, Newcastle, for ietrienret, the pro-
prietors have just announced that their profits
daring the past year were 20 Per °ant, elie-half
of which goes to the firm, and one-half to the
workmen, in proportion to the amount of their
wages. Thus a man who has earned £75 in the
year will receive • dividend of .L 7 10s. But we
. doubt whether it could be applied to farm labour-
ers, and thinks that allowing them to rent •
quarter or half an sore of land, to make the
wet of it (ea the lieV, 0. Moule points out)
It would be fez nom awful sod advaolopaa