The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-01-09 00:00:00

DORCHESTER.

PIOVISCIAL COKPLIMENT.-Will leant from
Sionamici and Glamorgan Herald that Mr. J.
H. Joon, photographer, of Sesame, has been
illeliveviag • lagers is that town oe photography, I.
the coarse el whisk ho direoted attention to carbon
pristine, beginning with the carbon and photolitho-
graphic proem= of Mr. Jobe Penney, of Dovemar,
who was the Area as dissever the arise proem, and
'bring it to • practical Owe. In speaking of Mr.
Pocuicy's labours in this direction, the lecturer
elated the diMoulties which he (Mr. Poway) laboured
under in working out kis process, and paid • high
compliment to his skill and ingeouity in overcoming
them. After the lecture • collection of photographic
specimens, obroaologicelly arranged, created mock
interest, sad, rays the Herald. do pictures which
attracted meet attestioe were the memo and carbon
spa:imam of Mr. John Penney. Ito.

Dosser Lisorresu 1w vas Nourn.—Remeotly
we .aid before or readen some quotations from
lettere of Dorset labourers now working in Cram•
bastion colliery, and we pointed out with what a
must* line their descriptions of the places, their
work, and the treatment they repsived were tinged;
st the lame time we had no reams, not yet have
any, to doubt the good faith of those repiremotations.
But we have reoeived from soother ODOM • letter co
the Game Wise, taking a viwy gloomy view of the
'whole 'AMU", sod we will iodate the nature of the
remarks of our correspondent In the first place
She UM WWII not treld by the agent that that. was
.81 Sink, at the cothery, and Woos, be concludes,
perhaps rather unfairly, that they were doped.
Theo, he says, they 17 hour* in • railway carriage
joaroeying thither, "without ever leaving it." How
She unfortunate agent, or anybody else, he to be
blamed for that, we cannot conceive; for die same
thing, we apprehipel, we. the *ration°, of all who
travelled • simitir diatom* by that train. But it
indicates the unreasoning complaining of the poor
fellow. On arriving, be dale dist they were
"turned intro a bore, where there wee waiting for
them bread and chime aod auselleing hike-warm
termed coffee, and it was • meet wrolaed eight to
as. poor women and children looking sad.' Na-
turally "cough, Wier snob a loog jounce, they would 1
all be tired and weary, sod it ea saddening to all of
us to leave the home and the places that we hare
bun fusilier with from our earliest days, yet the
average Englishmen is not prevented by this from
puebiug his fortune wherever be believe. be best
may. But " inhatativenen" 'emu to be an especial
characteristic of du Direst labourer, and that may
he esplaised in a measure by his poor condition.
Respootieg the "beauty" of Cramlingtoo colliery,
remarked upon in the letters we quoted from
previously, and which we intimated was very
unnesal in a oolliery wallop, our present corns-
poodeot says, "Is may be • beautiful place for coal,
but nothing more," and we think this the more pro-
bable description of the two. Theo he desonbee
how they were kept within the bait' of the
we upset in coosequeno, of the muter, is:will:re
men on strike might molest taro, and tint the place
was guarded by about 88 polionnes, and there
one *Metiers in the neighbourhood. He asks : Was
this a *co to seed nun to? and replies, he should
think not, when it was to torn out of their employ-
meat teen who had bees there from childhood, and
he espressos • bops that they may moo be at their
work again. But these are Dot precisely tle• feats as
we learn them from the Newcastle papers; it
apposes that the pitmen demanded an advances of
wages, which the master, refused, whereupon the
man nalueardy left their work, thinking to eowoe
their employees to submit to the demands toads
However, we cordially approve of his wish, for it is
• aid thing to see mu &tufted in antagonism to
their ordinary eintdoyers, end appsr.lly not under.
66".litest that law of supply mid dressed which meet
of wwwwity, regaled* the aloe of labour, as of War
commodities Why &ma it be socutsted •
Or. "8 Wog that masters should mek for labouren
at Me Wwelerat rate? Do sot the libraries areas,
wheWever they require We the shops where it may be
obisheed at the dieepiet rats; sad would sot they
confider it • greet hardship to be orompelleed tos
mccl gems tbe oeukst vales beemiss the sellers
asked It? Of wares they would; yet this, as we
usderslesd M, is what the Cramliegtem °plats did.
We bow, however, that they are now seeking to be
employed eosin at the old terms. Fuielly, our
~,,,,ggpgadagg geseplains, that the mu who did sot
like the work bad to pi home as best they could,
and thishe the 'gait who induced them to gest_ought
to be made to work useierstMesid for lii.. We do
Doi woolly see the ouseetions between the two
prepostilicas, but we expect the asset fulfilled his
agreement; if he did sok of COWIN be is arseable
to as relies so, doing so. We are mews» what
promises were bald out to eandidales for this er,Pial•
meat but they could hardly upon that worlitas is
a eeed wise would be either *sisal or way, sad we
ars ailisdied of this that sees hat emu*
W
hard-working Ines ess ge6 any beau livingilells4
am* Ibee dot of the ems. Dole* lebesee.