The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-11-16 00:00:00

RAILWAY SERVANTS AND THE
EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY ACT.

Us maday evening • meeting of railway servants of
various grades, chiellv in the service of the Great
West. ro Comoany. was held at Paddington to outsider
matters affecting the 000dition. of their employment A
goods guard took the chair. Al ter • discussion. Joined in
try engine-driver,, firemen. passengers and goods guards.
laud others, the following resolution ass unanimously
adopted : • Tint this meeting, fully cognisant of the
valise of insuranoe and anxious for its extension as •
provision against eventuslatiet In life cannot accept
mutual insurance against accident by employers and
employed se • substitute for the legal liability of employers
under the Casployers' Liability AEI. Thetas's this meet-
ing warns the members of the railway service not to
oultrort away the protection afforded that:a under Mr.
DAlson's Act in return for any gift of money Katrina! by
• company to the Insors,ce or piovident society to which
'they belong; further. in the event of the companies
forcing their *errant. to contract out of the °iteration' of
I the Act. Me executive c troll of the society is hereby
requested to take step. to obtain an easctmeot rendering
such contracts illegal?

VIE POLITICAL TRIALS IN RUSSIA.
The list of charges is terrible reading in itself. The
as.assination of a Prince. the attempt against the Emperor
last April twelve months, the undermining of two rail.
ways, the explosion on the Moscow Railway and that in
the Winter Palace -these an, some, and not all, of the
secuutions. Some of the prisoners have acknowledged
their share in the procuring of dynamite aud the piercing
of mine.. The one common feature of nearly all political
prosecutions in Itus-M. the presence of woman among the
"Bob,- Is more fortunate then homer; for though prisoners arraigned, is not wanting here. Never before,
several ctlos elsioe4 toe put a. their o en, they even in Russia, have political prisoners been tried in
until hew is dud t do 11... The Gator .1 i. so ()Siert of batches on such charges. If it were possible to doubt the
contention while living. Lublin insi•te tti•t he is here, existence of plot, to which some of the accused have thaws
and wishes to lets him on arrival; Wat.rforil puts in s selves confessed, it might be held that these wholesale
similar claim ;so does Wooleich ; and it is r, pored 'hat eharaes of miqiug retd erromite.leying were too fantastic
this Rap' and the Lied Mayor are striving t first for the belief of any one except a Headen police agent.
to dine bin,. Cawnpore, where the h. ro seas Pero, should Never before, no sr as we know, di I organised political
feel proud. conspricar occupy itself with such schemes. Regicide
plots there have always be-n, and brooding assassins have
A miusqpierule dinner I. rather an original int rtain• devised and put to use infernal machine. of one kind or
men', and it is not improbehte uia7 booms a ie.o,renable other at a most any time. But it was reserved apparanti7
amusement. The other Any. at • very hood,' for Russia to bring such monstrous birth to the worlds
where everything is to reel.% end all the spo.ini ions or light as the Nihilistoonspirules with their dynamiteand
the beet and ernirest, the com °any of ihe eries. re cot., their mines. Political discontents. it was once well said,
or society, and hostess a churning and he.sot 10l 0,,m5,,, oug .t to be kept mid r a mass hive ,• they are never so
the guests were requested to e 'me down to dies., op ..ak,d. dangerous as when they are forced to hide. The Russian
that ir, with real coonnalnan rn"lin on in"'n f nin.n•l near Government have been forcing their so itical disoontente to
the intistekse and discoveries that result d were not ell hide for many generstions, and the is the result. The
woman% and that the amusement was r.ther a risk, mine for the dynamite was begun by the Russian despotic
if &Alai to remark, the be undo' hostess is herself a system ages ago ;it is eap.ediag new.
widow.

Glemoral Robert. expects to eyrie.. In !Coition.' ow tits
leth 'outwit, and haa telegraphed to Led, R .he.to to meet
his at Dom. The an visit which he will p.y +ill
probably be to Wind•or, by command of her Ill.jestp,,
who, it Is said, wishes t the gallant C. oaeral apt the
comrads wb.. aro accompani big him bouts then.
fighting cloth.• I am c edibiy Informed VI .1 °Meta to
that effect hay. been i ou.e.

The detached .a.dr' lit Entitled In the mat
charmingly detached order. The Bacchante het saib.d
for Madeira some time In adirsoce ; end the Tourmaline.
atter starting to join the lagehip 01 tin Clenwllliam, had
the =Wettest, tr have to ret.tra 4:l2mouth. •• the
weather rolled her shoat very an Ur. to put her
behaviour in the mildest Mantua,. 020/oqUitC. OgA
that the Inconstant made the pawls Ii vim° lagship
of a squadron that was " 000rptet000s he it, absonce.'
Thin WWI • iplendifi entnowncement for a °role, which wan
to last more then 18. but in now exp,c'e I to hi ehottened
to within 11, =matte