The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-09-23 00:00:00

THE ASEIANTRE WAR.
" 0111120101" Or MU 7110 OF AIRLIFT/J.

"A Soldier' writes to the Deily Nevis ridiculing the
proposal of • writer in the I'isess that we should estab-
lish with the King of Ashaotes " su extradition treaty."
He says this is • very protty phrese, and evolved' to
remind his renders of what It means :—" The King of
dshautpe onoe • year assembles round him all the
greater and liseer ohieftdus of hi, sullen tribes. All
are boon I to appear. No notice of any kind Is ever
is..ued beforehand that seensations have been preferred
against any. But during the yew • system of espion-
age, &most Napoleonic in its perfection, has been
carried on, °hied, through the sisouy of mull liwyw
If, through this suney, or foe soy other moos what•
ever, the Keg has taken • dislike to any =Neel, his
"mu will him hsitc eNsa shortly Wore this sauna!
°este= seeretly to contain executioners. Their basins'
I. to creep up behind the unsuspecting viatica, and la
order that he may never speak agsle, to run • kola
through hie mouth from cheek to cheek. He is then set
adds for future torture arid cesith as a searidee to the
fetish who is the object of worship. But the fetish
who out thus be propitiated only by treaehery and
blood is far too greedy of bateau mordlees to be
s.tielled by the offerieg up of those only who have
really become 'suspect bj the Ming. Slaves
by hundred. (the number In one ree.rded insects
leeched 2.000) err set aside to be al o nessitioed.
Such is till Meerut! ',• New for the trgia. During
the whole annual I pnlai wine Is pervod out
Ilk* water, end all age• and both ones j.rin in
lapping it up from the inhale vessel. in which It is
exposed, till all bosoms mod with intoxiestion. and
most of the common people roll over oare another In
helpless imbscrility. Bet for the oblate a different res•
time is prepared. Their exeltement shirr she wine his
been turned into the ernel vein by the display of all
pest trophies of their notaries, abbey the skulls of
their foes, whisk are treated with every kind of con-
tamely, by wild dancing, by unlimited popping off of
litearnas from morning to night, and by the hideous din
of thousands of savage instrument& When the (err
has reached its height they swoop down upon their
victims. These are then executed before their eyed.
with every brutal teroolty of lingering torture sod
insult whioh savage ereelry eau sanest. I have spoken
of this elan 'animal' eastern. Ones. year it it indeed,
held on • grand sesle--onee • month on • minor. But
the opportunities for exercising cruelty, treachery,
and last, which the ingenuity of the fetish priests
and of the Moorish *operations of the King have
supplied, am by no mass limited to monthly or annual
' sustains.' Whenever • man at woman of high station
dies, • certain large number of sieves are saersdoed to
the fetish, the blood being poured ever the burial pit.
That treachery may never be wicking when Wm @nature
Is worshipped, the trespass are also oinked round to
have the honest of holding up the corpse. Whilst thus
employed one or more among them is struck from
behind • blow lwilkih sends him steamed Isle the pit,
where he is then dispatched. Nor is Haig all. At
condo periods of life elderly men are liable te boogied,
simply on aseouat of agent on some similar pretext. that
they may be saeriffeed. Any 'extradition treaty' would
be valueless to the Mice of Ashaatee which did set
Involve our earrender of Crostini snob es each of those I
kens named. The description I hive given is no highly.
wrought isaginary pistare. It is told in sold terms
by one who wee actually present at most of the muss I
heed desoribed."

Duro rsom Warr.—Lart year 238 persons, se-
eording to the verilote of oorooerie Judea, died from
want, 0011, exposure, kt ; lo the preoeding year 283.
The manager of • working men'. olub at Notting.
hem has been laid £25 for wiling spirit, without •
lieenee to friends " introduced by members of the
°lib.

Taxmen' Hoserreu—A hospital will be opoood
In Gower-street next month for the aon-aleholis treat.
meet of demur. alr Walter Trewslyan is president
Ths annual outlay is 'palmated at frat £1.500 to
11000.

cazrAnaii. A olub has bees formed s liamburgh
for promoting this heathen Moineretloo lasted of
Chrietian orthodox Inhumation. The club already
Dumber' upwards of 8) members, malt of whom os
entering, rasdo • will, &clouding to 'bleb his remaiae
were to to burned.

Times was a great Fenian demonstration cm Sunday.
at Drogheda, tho oeoesion Wins tho funeral of Colonel
Leonard, an ox•hsed °entre of the Drogheda distriot,
There was a great groom-614d crowd, inoluding Dula/
Homo Ralson, bat no priests. Mouth all number of
people WY estimated at tee thousand, thus woe no
disorder.

b(P311111D MIAT.—The Norfolk steamship of Near,.
Motley Witrrees's line Ls on ber way from Melbourne
with a shipment of freab moat, perwred in ioe. The
shipment Is of 20 tons, sod it is understood that the
meat is preserved in iron tanks. It Is hoped that the
most will b. able to compete with ordinary butchers'
twist.

AT Siwria-Tnana PnOtte BUIS= To DIATIL-s.
Three people were burned to deal In • fire whlat on
Sunday morning deetroyod the Black Lion public-house,
Exeter. There ware font persons sleeping in the house
cad of these only the landlord sauseded in earping,
his mother.in-law, housekeeper, and a girl of nine years
old being destroyed in the flutes.
IMPORTWAT TO 02001111 WITH WIIII LIOUFUL—Tho
Lieopool 'tercel/ stye that the use where • Liverpool
firm of grocers were on Friday fined 20i, and outs for
exposing " intoxiceddog liquors " for sale sifter 11 p.m,
mat of oeusidcroble importunes. The defendants kept
their shop open on Saturday week after midnight, but
gave orders that no British wine vu to be sold after 11
pu. The fact of the wino being in an op.n shop at
midnieht was held by the pollee to be an Infrastioc of
the Licensing Aot, and the magistrates einfirm.d this
view. As a saisposate, all grown holding Sousse
for the sale of British winos will be obliged to sloes
simultamously with the public-looser.
A Putts Scaniu..—The misadventure of Mdlie.
Alice Repeal% is all the talk. Wills. Alice Begnsult,
who la pretty and naughty is a cumber of the drarattle
profession, In which she bolts a moderately respectable
petition. She had as • cher mei • clerk na large bank-
ing house' who did not know how to refuse any
offering, to which the lady of his love took • fancy.
Diantoods, carriage& and moveable wealth of all
descriptions this benighted employ{ sacrificed at the
altar of hie sffeetion, and in doing so spent all his own
money and couldemble RIM belonging to ether people.
liseently luau ha. int...rued, and Mdlle. Begnanit's
golden goose has fallen into the tolls of the law. The I
result la great feudal in the world of tisane& sad
mush sadness in theatrical areas. Formerly marquises
ruined thiamine far actresses; now-s.days perces+ de
• rola their masters in the sane direction. Surely
there is truth In the "The democracy le over-
whelrniug us."
SUNDAY Tatiana re UV= DIAL". —At Bow-street
five of the shopkeepen in Great and L'Ule St. Andrew-
street, Seam Dials were summoned under the Act of
Charles 11. foe ceiling goods during divine service es
Sunday, the 7th of September. The defendants wore a
uaryoook, two tehascenkits, an oilman, and • dealer in
fun bird& Bury tradesman la the district had
man.; a notes, urging him to obey the law. The
oonfastiour stated that he WS6 obliged to keep his plase
open for the "bookings" till one 00104. The tobasee-
alas urged that tobaosonlate in every part of London
kept open all day. The bird-dealer self b. mould not
possibly due his shop all Susday, ; all his birds would
be saffouted by Meeday morning. Mr. Vaughan aid
they amid be exposed to the air at the hook of Ids
premises. Defeodsnt calf there was no air behind the
premiers. Mr. Venetian said the Lot was a good one,
and was intended for ths benefit of all. The 'Aisles In
which defendants desalt were not perishable, or articles
of neosesity, they were rather articles of luxury. Be
would adjourn the summonses for 28 days, hoping that
what he had said would obviate the nocuaty of
Imposing the full penalties epos the defendant', whim
he should certainly do If the Drastic. was 6064011061.
CO-OPILAT.VII Fniio. -Thelzkor of the Bosse
Co of mmons, Mr. Bread, add his lobos:en at
their harvest home, at Glyale Lewes, geld :—You
and I Mud together in the reLLion of employer and
employed; and for my part I should be very glad U ,
that mistieaship could always homed* closer than It h.
We carry on together • business in isommon,yon finding
the labour and I finding the capital. lam reminded
that at this time last yes,! made to you labeerers on
my farm a propoesl that you should invest sub
sayinge u you can spare in the busies's, while I
aimed on my part that I would pay you 24 per cent
interest upon such savings, and whetever excess of
profit might be derived from the farm. lam very
sorry to tad that none of you fell in with the pro-
posal. lan one of shoes who believe that the time
will Acme when labour will be recompensed in part, at
lust, according to the profits of C&l hal ; and I should
have been very glad if you, the fellow-workers with
myself upon this farm, bad assisted me In shooing by
example the way iu which that dwelled end might be
attattel. I with to say now that the offer I made to
you last year is apes for one year more; and I am not
without hops that on reflection you wall think bettor
U it.

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11111LITAT ADOlDlllllll.—Aboat nine o'elosk on Satur-
day night an acuddent catenrred on the Haacherter,
Sherll,ld, and Lineeloshire Railway. • train at
Penuietou oonetating of are carriages and two brakes,
changing engines, not haring ham enflledently
neared, ran se the line towards Bernal.,; the roan at
the janetion tensed lb on to the Bboll4lld line, sad
there being a destine all the way, the runaway Irate
proeeeded at. rapid rate Moue the MAI until, in reach.
lag Wortley, it mune Into *Aldan with ammo trucks
to.gsd wish plipiroe. The carriages were thrown woes
the Hee, and three of them and one of the tract vans
war...pistol, smashed. Some of the loaded trusts
leaped over on top of the others. Of the three persons
in the carriages, the man was out about the head and
on ihe right arm. Oais of the women was Injured in
the side, while the other rase much shaken. On Bator.
day a Great Western end a Hilland train came Into
oolllalon at the Bristol Terminus. Such damege was
doo, to the rolling-etoelr, and the tradlo was mush
delayed, bat aopenes was hurt. On Fr:day afternooa
on the North-Baste= Railway, a ballast @Germ was
pushing a sot of laden wvgone before it, when, owlug
to the pieta being opened,-It ran Into • siding on whirs'. ~,nguas were stsartiog. Three or tons balling
waggons were eamehed. The guard of the belled train,
NVIII Herat, who waa tidies upon the bags of the
/mks ultra, was thrown down, and had his lig taw
lured ha awe pladed.

THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

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The British Laudation for the Advancomeat of
Solemn ouned Its seed= at &afford, la Yorkshire, en
Wednesday outdo', shen Professor Williamson (who
took the plate, u president, of Mr. Joule, who is ill),
delivered au address on the &tondo thew,. Peril/i-
-ces/ye wee Owen in the dation& on Thum, lay to 101,1
subjects. Prof's, or Phitiim discoursed is the geo'o.:iool
deputment oti the coal deposit. of Yorkshire and itio
celebrated remains of Kirkiale Cava. Dr. Beddoe, (,f
Cabo) read • paper oaths anthropoluy of tbeitouoty.
In the geogrophical section Mr Rutherford Clue% !
enters! Into a ceinprehenvive eintesi of r.e..ni red t
in Asia, referring urtioularly to the program of ftu•siso ,
domination on that Contioeht. On Ir4da7 all the ,
*potions met, said in the evening Pro/error Williamson
I delivered a lecture on " Cul.* The section of
Koonomito idemocie and fitatistko was prodded over by
, his. W. IL Fonder, and • paper was read oondomnlng
• the aggreesivenus of trades' unlace, sod arguing that
ihe reduction of the hoers of labour had been carried
too lee, while trues had been advatmed to a point whieh
I must be otter led with national loss, and might drive
goglish manufacturers out of foreign market.. A
I combination of capitol was the only tasaall of arresting
thus evils. Profueor Imoul Levi followed in r paper
on the sleet of the increase of pride of urtain neo
osri• eel if, no the east of living, dad its relatloo to the
! rate of wage* said solstice. H. remsrked that from
' +bodeir emus it might hero arisen, whether from the
I large addition to the stock of gold during the Isit 20
, years or from the sloes* of demand over supply of the
principle artfolas of food and other nuts' mies, it was
a fact beyond question that the cost of living in the
I United Legdom had become greater than it
used to be, though the extort of the inoreau was
fly no means so areat a. many Wet* diar,sed to
• imagine. (>0 a comparison between the years 1863
end 1873 be fouad that the town axioms Oboes
expenditure was 28s. 5/. per week at the first
oeviod would now have to pay 33i. 61, and that the
agricultural labourer who then spent 141 s. Per we.
would now have to pay 161 a week. Applying the
osnao principle to the middle aliases he found that a
family who formerly spent £2O) pr annum would now
bays beyond £230 per swum. The pritoolpal increase
in the expenditure of the middle classes, however, woe
due to the more !uxorious style of living thew indulged
10, ladles' dresses eating frequently from 1:10 to LIO,
cod the sealskin jeokete which were generally worn
costing from £l2 to £25. It mast be rememberel,
, that, on the other hand, the inaulis of all
closed' bad largely inoni.sei. Mr. Fencer said one
erect cease of the evil' ex'stiag In thM country was a
moat of knowledge of the tailruCido lows shish governed
the ridatiou between e :SW mid labour.
MR. SW. IrOMMTES tar DOCIAL PAOGIZaII

Ou Saturday the ittuht Hos. W. E. Feestor dairtrad
big WINO OA presidant of the section for Eksonosnla
Saimaa and Statistic*.

Mr. 'order said he must resist the temptatiao of
palmist; into a review of the progreas of teconota:c
se that would involve a defence of the aivero.
meet, although he +hoed he able to show that in the
matter of education the tioverament had acted upon
principle and not from two Ives of expediency (•pplinse.)
11. should be glad if some one would inwitute a review
of the progress roads in the economic condition of the
hiprdripytileymweoltos agothwialleotwilu:Sitglartis"i"itero7;P:rbodaidltels7tidhthth—kw."‘thltlehaivtsetawhthoaa-t
moot will hardly be challenged. Take, for exam,le,
the owiditlon of the manual labour claw in rive
country, which is after all the largest claw of the
community, and most matelot, to. I believe it would
not be disputed that there hes Nee a p-ogress most
hopeful for the future, and most rernarkablo as com-
pared with like periods in the past; that the great
body of manual labourer. throughoet the °wintry have
a pester slave in the eitnifotts and eel aymeats of life
than they had forty year. ago, and that they are more
able to obtain the neetesariat, the coraforte, and eves
some of the thwtries of hi., sad that their wages are
higher. And for that wetter I would refer you to the
paper read by Professor Levi yesterday, bearing in some
measure on that subplot, in which it was shown that
their wages are not only much higher in thesocelwe,
but that notwithet.ndiog some rue in the met of living
they aro high*, in proportion to the wet of bug
—(hew, hear.) Ido not think it will be denied, and I
am sure there Is treat reason why the wages should be
higher, sod should be raised, eith shorter boars of labour
—(applause.) I am speaktog generally; not applyieg
it to any particular trade, but generally epee/clog I
believe that the preesut condition of labour are more Ina-
proved in every respect than they were when this melon
was formed—(hew, hear). Toon, nein, I believe no
one can deny that there has been program in education,
that there has been progress in goateed salters, and,
general, speaking, progress in the way of • hotter and
more kindly relationship between this important Mae
and other classes of the community." Re hoped he
should not be mliapprehended ; he did not think they
had reedited the point when they could rest and be
thankful. "I should be sorry to be thought for a
moment to he euggesting apathy in arising and ina-
rowing the condition of egrieultoral lab ore's. I
believe there is that in the condition of the agr.cultural
labourer throughout the wintry to which the terra
• oontent ' would be by no mean. applieable ; that there
Is very much for °theta t, do for them, and still •
more for them to do for themselri. I wooly mention
this progress as • stimulus for future exertion, awl
cot as any ground for riot. This is not the place
or the time to dilate on tbe point of what lab.,arers
can do for themselves", and all I would soy on that
matter is, that when say of us are advised to spwk
g,oinge what we may think to be the besetting
sin of the hboaring elwww, we ought never to
forpt what are other besotting sloe of our o•u clew—
(appleme). And we must also recollect this, that la
the preempt state of flvaestion, •• mut take greet
distinction between mime and vice, and that crime said
Woe cannot be attacked in like manner. We must ea..
thane to punish carton, and to bring twee to bear upon
it, but as regards vies—sod I will iaeltuio in that
term the great and terrible rice of drunicennew—wo
shall we obliged to clan that the Mae has long pawed,
If there ever was a time, in which ere Gould
attack vice with maws by torso, of by any means but
parthaelon—(applause). To tolentifio discoveries he
looked for further groat and beeefioeot resalte. lie
spoke of the advantages of fres-trade, whiati after al,
was simply the carrying out of the laws of economic
sokinee, and went on to observe that "these prinelplts
must be enforced and serried out both in land and in
labour—(obeers) ; that we feel that we ought to be
more sure that there be nothing la the law which would
prevent the most entire freedom in selling land and in
buying land —(remwed cheers). In am not going
Into the question, because I thlok the mere
ethtement of this principle, which can hanily
be disputed, is almost sulthient to eneoarage
no to the reform that will be necessary to carry
it out And the to.. principles applies to labour
—there must be freedom to tell it and freedom to boy
it. Then, again, I suppose all mbar, improvements
must be considered to come within the nage of our
sertloo. Well, we have got very much yet to do in
that matter, bat I think that oar aim is higher—an i I
take (comfort from that—than it used to to. We are
aiming now not simply at preventing death, but at
making life batter worth living for, by conking it more
healthy. Lad do not forget that is dghting bottles
against disease it is not merely the killed that are to be
000sidered—it is the wounded. la those terrible
lodictions of preventible diseases throughout the
thantry the loss of live is very sad, but to my mind
even more sorrowful are the caws of numbers of our
fellow countrymen and woman who have a miserable
and a •eak life, sad ars doomed to fight the battle of
life under most severe conditions because of the wounds
they have resolved from preventible dhosaw--isheere).
Me agreed that we ought to have seen • greater ileauv.
tioa it pauperism than we have yet sees, but he was
anzious that in our objections to the evils which semen-
pany a poor-law we should not carry tithes objections to
the extent of thinking that we can do without a poor.
law. The objections to the poowlew Ile upon the
serfs..; they are evident. It is to.. that they do
a want of thrift, and as a poor-law dew
eneouracte a want of thrift, to the same extent does it
tend to week's and make less likely the perfontanes of
domeetio ditties. But the great thaw* for the existence
of the poor-law WY that, in the present state of Melilla-
Mom, it is not safe or right for any country to *Met
without the aeknowledgement of the principle of • poor-
law—without the sokowirledgement that • man shell
have a right to live, and that absolute destitution ,
should be prevented"—(applatue). After pointing to
the improvement which bed taken plow in Zeeland, In
spite of the isereate of populatios. aa disproving the
theories of Malthus and Mill, Mr. ranter referred to
(milldam between oapital sad labour, sod said he should
be sorry to see Mr. Morris's remedy against strki •
adopted, via, the formation of a league of capital and
capitalists throughout the country. "I think," cap-
tinned Mr. Farmer, "• league of labour against capitol
I. impossible. It may be talked about in • meetings
and in newspapers, but I do not behove in its pose •
bility. If anything could make it possible, how-
ever, it would be • leer. of capitalism &pima the
labourets—thpplause). thik wit shall all agree
that two such opposingalespas would be considered
use of the greatest male& that could allot the
oocostry"—(applases). He thought the two parties would
be unequally matched, and that a straggle woold be
conducted with equal recklessness on both sides. Tb•
very possibility of mob • state of things mails biro take
°orator% from the feet that the Ballot Act had bees
=d. " Usdoubiedly there ought to be perfect
min selling labour. That implies that there
should be perfect freedom in oonabicutrion. I believe
there was no greater mistake than the attempt to pre.
vent • man from agreeing with his iellow•Mall le to
how sad upon what ouadition they would like to sell
their labour—(bear, hear). But of mars* we ought
always to say that there ought to be perfect freedom
to Woes to combine, and that the right of the Indi•
vides! in that respect ought to be respeeted—(applougo,
But there is a danger, which I think Is not without exist-
ence, that in our efforts tomcats that freedom we must
not try to get the law to do that which it cannot rightly
or monot, In fact, effectually do. We can nuke use of
law to protect the Quota', subjects against bodily harm,
against physloW Tic:tones • but it is no use attempt:bat° i
protect men against per:rue:don or even against moral
intimidation. They can only protest themselves, and if
the law tries and strive, to do all that, it will surely
fail, and probably put upon the aide of those over whom
It attempts to exert its power, the feeling of the inter-
tonna with their reaeoacible liberty ; end I don't think
In dealing with this question we mast look forward to
any exceptional legislatioa." Mr. Foilthe *Pokilltr
fully of so-operation, both as an employer a
politician, as likely to lead to more stability In the ,
as peasant proprietors were said to do In
!mace; and reverting to the agricultural labourer
question, observed :—" What progress hoe been made— ,
progress that will be askoowledged by every
person.
however much opposed to this movement I Nltt
progress it is compered with the movement whoa I was
• boy—about forty years ago—residing is the western
and southern counties I I saanot enter into the question
Dow, bet! mutest I ant not sorry that therein wane
movement amongst agricultural bodies—(applause). I
du not in the slightest degree, in maelog 1t.., remark., ,
blame their employen. I believe they have weed as
other employers would have done—in wow oases better
—because they hew, been brought more into conteet
with their write. lint I do think that the fact
that it we not supposed that en spoultoral labourer
total ambito with his fethriediaboaren did do wow
thing to make their wages lower than in other parts of
the seantry. But in vrateidag this ateveeamt I think
wit oaOt act to be biased, but to oseoLtem y
with itoth skim The seedlike el

, tobourer ?Mht, to usury i.e.., to exalt' our sympathy ;
bat dm oo of the termer I. also • VITT digital%
a... am h prce: is not of that nature class hecill, auk.,
a lingo amount of mosey taymetits without a groat
deal of d•filloolty. I think, threaten., it le • I...curable
feature In this mov.mt,et 'bat tit". m a tried elate
somewhat °mutate with it—the Modlords—•bo are
I, • potation to oetabl, the.. to eat ma tatnierwas no
Ob sidert la the "Woman of them &faculties. May
threw out en a hitt to ti it meow that I Oink it
wo II be. nor.) thing It a paper eon be pa:Mosel
hif.iro it really trettioe ihe Iswm tI eCOInIny the/
ruett,r : bow far ;tot that IP for laud sfl -ets the
ium•troi o' wogee of the agroultunal libouretr"—(hear,
tsar). After a referseo• o Ito abolition of slavery,
et.l the jut. 11, etuel revelations that were takine olase
I. the East, Mr. Forster ootioluin I with • tribute to
the ability of Mr. John Stuart Mill.