The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-01-30 00:00:00

LORD SHAITINBURY AND TEM DORBILTSHIRE

LA HOUR6IIB.

The following tether apperred to yesterday's lister
80 much bus bees erred eireiost the ecueditioo of thy
Deratehini labourer that 1 feel it to be a duty to make
ea riots towards reeefyiair some errors eed isieconcep-
Uwe in reiereatte to our paopia.

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Tb. statement I Oak* is founded ne an inquiry NU.,
the condition of the labourers on 18 flume, extending
co% or very nearly 10,000 serve, all lying tsuseshrr, sad
• part of the toasty whorl then is but Iv tle pasture
for nettle, and of whioh the soil, though good, is nob
nisnarkalsis for fertility.

It will be mon *at our system of payment is is low
weekly mega, esirmisusentad sad eked out at Various
atom try pertssidtees.d alloaanosi in cola or
or Opportalllthe of pisc•-work (suds .or being always
paid for in cash I, so as to farm • omundarable to
at the end of she year. A eased inquirer is tal.dby
tits arreagesamit, for • question as to tbe madat of
wags is alweys answered by a detainees of the weekly
receipts. wilkod any meetioo of tits other pertieulars,
widen, however open to objection, allow, at say rate,
thes mimed of Um expenditure of Um employer ces tie
lebourer.

I MI very far indeed from approving this system, and
I should be happy t , see it altered. It is, lan setislee,
fisairesaily iajorious to both parties. Bet there is
reason to Whin that the lairemrsrs thaniseires mould
be more opposed than the farumn to say ahattreiene of
thmr perquisites in esehamps for • higher payment is
mosey.

It mast also be =satiated, se no saimportnat part
the ooesideration, that the boars at labour in throe
porta are not so gamy as in mere& other ematies. A.
• isseral rule, and with mry few rzeoptioes, me
Istmensr, fr .ra the middle of September to the mid ,le f
July the fallowing year, emernmees work mita r
nor matinees ts barged b. with ball an hour se
f..r• be..ef..i sad aa beer for di...... giving, thorsierso
to Ste autplornr., mason of 111, of!, t k.. $4".
• lb. middle of July to tm he iddle of September.
h
*sum earlier to his wort, and stays at it kb", beit
• b. is pad, for every hew beyond the 84 boggy
gives in ernarrai, oak, traps for lie sake-work.

i• a prosaic, vary dear to ear people ; sad, im
proof of it( I may state that wh. 11 at Puy Kindliest
tenants, Mr. Dynes, a maa of great inmnispines mad
liberality, offered to r..ereses Um weekly eve ia ream
for an inclosed amount of doily labour, be Pas met by
on immediate and boredom rased.

Allow me to give, by way at eisswpies, the eases se
pour able•bodied labostrers—tho fine single the mooed
married, with no &Una old enough to be maployed ;
the third with on. child mimed in labour; the fourth
trilh font sem se weekly wages.
The lint, the sink ow, remises 9L. • week, bet big
porqsisits. ia malty rale him to lls„ • area, &as bm
allowsoose In potsto groped and other Wags to Is. dd.
I week more, tasking • total of 12a. 6d. a week.
The seeiesd is married, with three *Mares, but 00111.
of Lb.a away of cork. • eoeditioe et things involv-
ing. in the early years of wed& d life, • beery pressers
oe the bloom* of the family. Ho is mimed at 9s. •
week, bet his perquisites is umwey raise hits tolls. 6;.
• week, sad his abwaarms to Is. 64. more, making is
all • remise of 16.. • week.

no third, married, with eight °hadn't at hoom two
of them ompied hi work, nein@ V& • week, his silos.
soma in woo for piece-work mien his to h. id. mon
and hit other pinvilsites to aat additional' thin*,
mating itt a Ilk Id His toe children want respao.
Lively 7s. and *a. • week, whisk, addtad to Ida impe,
V' s to Ow whole tonal, Ills. Id. • weak.

Th. !earth, married, with fort sow at work, moive•
10.. 64. • .•ek ; his pion-wock awow is .qual
1.. Id. • week, the nossiaiag alto..••••• to saoth.r
.bilhag. the. za•kiag for Ungar 13.. • wok. The
wawa carso• by the tour Ws, with their mossy allow
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hawse, amount to 34. 9d. weakly, making la •••••B•Att
of CI 17e 91 for the fun*.

I him myself earefally nod then rem, who erre
onlinary labourers, sod anther garters sor shepherds,
sad they admit the smarmy of the ealselegima The
remit is that among 186 We-bodied Lebanon, married
mod eingle, to sone of whom is higher weekly wage
lb" 108- ".• Lb. "whits velum of their earninp
Is l4s 6d. • week, with. shorter peeled of labour by
um hour sod • half daily daring tes mosths of the year
Lb.. is required is lb. wealthier provisoes of England.
But this is sot the full statement ef their insocial
position. Tim peasantry pow • weekly vent ii 1. hr
their esitages, whisk are, many of thaw, wile Dew,
rash having • frost sad hest kitehes o• the posed-
door, three bedrooms upstairs, aad every form el oat.
bone, gad other mmeeinssees, emantial to the ooseloilt
of domestic life.

To email pottage, al a Nana of 40s. and • wards. la
garden is Misdated, the prudent of whisk is s.thasi.d by
themselves at 44. weekly, magmata abcs ltie rest by
one-third of the amours' aimed above.
Asa* the alloteeesill system prevails her, to a groat
extent. • very large proportion of the lakowners, 350
in number. bold allotments, sad derive from them a
emmiderabie Menem of laseme. I have before me,
Matemeate from tbeateefoeh Is shah that, alter
pa yias the rest sad all other oataoamee, they have a
resi ae whieb, weed over the year, wonld igive theme
an edd,tional 1.. 64. °ek a week.
The oases I have grated most with the exception of
the Maude ma*, be raised in weekly reseipts by the
savirg on The tartlets' and the profits of tail allotments
to at lout 2a moos. I seed hardly my that the wars
of Labour me salculated here, as simerbere, by Uas
&mud lied surely, and tli• ability of the man to
perform the we k required ef him Tito number of hie
I ehti iolndrfe:mlauna strohibourne new:n.l for aid and sompeeekm, but
it menet be regarded as still, to additional reenassma-
In oddities to the Admetus"' stalled we hamw
an maple provieloa of pesay clubs, slotking st., sad
f..el slake, frees which the eositrihrston reeelve nesee
time 23 per met. over sad above tisk deposits.
1... satilled that I have rather understated Mu
overstated the ems se the lationrer. The papers sod
documents ma which it is Needed are apes to say ems,
sod • walk through the district would hinds\ abeadaim
'Masses of the asmaraey of what I my.
I hens no doubt that a simUse sialieneet could be
made by almost every landoweer in this manly.
I am, your obedient esevaak
Jas. 26. glialrrißßlTßY

A waster ides of the bemoan eassamptios ef
liernimaa's Pare Tea, may he formed hem the feet
that their warehouses emitsie lb. larselidoek of ditty
paid Ma ia Lefties, eomprislag the very Maim*
mi.'!" sad above twelm %minima feet of wareimmes
are coasters working mespatios tteir
riafT2 swims. Hoesimaa's teas are now MaMimi.
per pound simper; sad the whole baselt tide
reduetioags to the aosseaww, as all their issporte
are ssasz.llaresled paaketo and meld, with tits prises
primer theme, dime Uiroegh authorised assets
good as well se camp tss is thereby gearaemed, Its
pest sad iseremias popularity has Wand a hoot at
imitations, therefore sotto* every isealaa peeks. I.
Sorbed, Hondas& & Co.,
trLeedom, OMANI laperawe
of the put. 1.., It.. .. 41 belay powders.
List of Lori Aerate are admatlied I. .sr solseme.