The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-10-07 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY, OOTOBER 7, 1878.

kail bees ruined in leaked la owe year—ahem they
mime te marider that iodate h them nearly 300 per
mat.—they would be able to form woeo idea of what
the wealth of Ilusland was for ono year in toes partic-
ular breech of industry alone. 800 that tialoalati
would sot eery out the whole 'dee. That was only
the raw materiel ; let them hut 'Unit at what was done
Is the maestaelaas of iron a:4l to point of lahoor. The
report from which he b.d lot.» quoted st ii that
there we» nearly 400,000 perema employ aka. in
coal =law. Let them, then, thiak i/t tb. hue,, de of
thoseends erg ..d in tho mannimeure of or nand other
Wags, of lien ask ohesesolv“s tie ore goon o.tit
was evorithiss was so dein lard tha. th.y meld not
se they used to do. Tliey made there uomplaiute,
but still lived on sod Ile a. .told 'hat in Womouth
the people e.en;ad deistmined to ham the beat of
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everything—(laughtcr sod applause.) Let the great
evil likely to stie, was thle—a,,d he *lieut he sorry to
be a bad prophet—that th. re wee sure to b • • repeti-
tion in everythis.g. Pfaip ctity and acvertity ',Vowed
one another es cettalu as night euroceded d .y,
but it was oily • qu,stion ii time. When t'..y
mime to consider the great prOey rity whieh
existed in this country at the present moment
and which would continue so long as tbo Goal and iron
trades were prosperous so long no foreign sonatas:a
would be traders with Ism. aed give enormous prices;
although the extort of coal and Iron woe quantliy
this year than it was last, the fact that fOrtignere had
given them for a much less qua ,tity of both oral and
iron six million poituds sterling is exiteeo of the erosions
year would give them FOO2O idea of orbit the wealth of
gaidaad WAS. If the geological roq•roheo mole in
Virginia proved to be Wattle. they might be quite so a
of one thins, that Americass veered nut coo,c to .iits
ootintry for (Let quantity of iron which lid
formerly obtained of no There was, however, one
@Aida:Con which they as Readable-a musk Lel, lied
that was that labour to herbs was oh more abund-
ant than in Ragland. Labour in Am rice denandori
high prices, and Kuglishinen would bosbto to h Ad their
own ; and, notwithstiindieg the discovery of oral-fields
in Americo., he thought this eountiy would still con-
Moo to supply her with • great p..rtlon of I.er
(applause). He had been expecirg for the last two or
three yean to see some branch of COW:WHO° in this
country break up; but without • single exception,
whether amongst tailors, hootma'sers, or otroontors,
them had been • greater domacel for labour. It might
be that the Iron and coal trades had otosed this gePtral
prosperity, end that there had been a greeter demand
for labour. He must, however, say that be hal berm
expecting to see • link In the chain of saws. break.
Whether it would be amongst smalgamatod asrponters,
tinkers or joiner' he could cot any • but at any rate
he had thought there would have been' labour seeking
employment. Up to this time, however, no wich thing
had existed. Thee we. that demand fur lsboer, not-
withstanding our population—(ripplaute). After one or
two further observations, the hoe, member cell, d on hie
good friend, Dr. Drew, to commence, his lecture.
Dr. DIPS then delivered, In popular' but meet
°arrest phraseology, and garnished with flowers of
elomisase, his lemurs on geolooy. illustrated with
diagrams which brought the truths of the miens@ vividly
home to the mind. The immense age, which have
elapsed slow the primary rooks began to be crumbled
by water and again to stratify, were startingly compared
with the brief spun of time, about 6.100 jean, which
has stißlood for (ho human period. He ooadunted us
step by step through these vial ages, and rove • thrillirg
amount of the powers of those vent-boles of the world,
volcanoes, and illustrated it by the story of the destrue-
don of Herculaneum and Pompeii. In souclasion, be
meribed them tremendous effects to fixed laws laid down
by the Almighty. This world, however, with all its
mighty forms, was but a toy as isomparsd with the
gigantic orbs which, fioeting in apace, obeyed the same
controillag nand; monster suns to which oar luminery
paled into • taper light regulated and guided solar
systems immeasurable in the "great profound
myriads of eters, whose distenes was so great that their
light had not yet retched this globe, told of the majesty
and onsnipotenee of the Eternal, and "whilst the
heavens doglegs the glory of God, and the firmament
showeth His heady work." where was the man who
would dare to rob the lafinity .1 111. glory f Where
woe the subject who would rebel against his Sovereign
by teaasferrum His power and His authority to stooks
and storms, and, by getting up some blind deity of hie
own, invert matter with the attributes of God 1—
(applause).
Hr. 1100asaan presented the thanks of the meeting
to Dr. Drew for hie exoelleot lecture, and remarked
(bet a geologist would not have expected to find coal at
Hooklend Riper; sine, the Portland Stone formatioa,
which use so near that place, was geologiealiy separated
by ea immense interval from the anal measures.
Mr. R. GAIL= thanked Mr. Edwards for presiding.
and Dr. Daew and Mi. RORAIMA both cordially
aeknowl•dged the vote of thanks.