The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-01-20 00:00:00

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Jean lade made another appeeracce at Baer-etreee cge
Baum's,. Mr. Levies irons examinatloo of lospecter
Clarke elicited that Luk's friend, &dolma 11.1ey
Marks,
ham also mark a statement to the pohos. a.
sp ctor Clarke dented having repreeented thi. to Leh
161 n 0016101400. One eveolue bi- fore the rebattiz
cl, nou was prodneed Lute called at Sootlemdi scg,
ipreseed the Inspeotor to have a dilok with him.
drat marriage at Melkeluant am proved by his eimer.in„
law, whoa, evidence appeared to amuse him greatly,
The second marriage with Mrs. Arrend wee proved by
that lady kernel', who @peke rather acrimoniously of
the dementia blim conferred upon her by 0 c„,p,aia
Smith." et few more warder, from Chatham identl fled
thi prisoner with Luedgrem Mr. Poland called epos
Mr. Elwell to produce all the letters he had received
from We at llillbeck. Two or three were put in, in.
eluding a note of Lith December, in which Lnie says
Harding told him he had seen the man unlike him who
had (mused him all this trouble.

LORD DERBY ON IiOIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
The Earl of Derby, president of the Manchester
td>eiely for the Promotion of Scientific Industry, was
prevent, on Friday, at the first ordinary meeting, and
delivered the inaugural address. L'ird Derby said that
their object was a purely national otie—the develop.
meat of the industrial resources of the country. England
was a rieh *wintry so far a, capital wee woerned, but
'b. average of industrial incomes arss low, beiog only
about thirty pounds for each, or a hundred and fifty
per family, It was doubtful whether we were not
nearly equalled by the French, and the United States
equalled, if it did not Gloat us. Our prosperity
depended upon causes which might owe to operate.
We had the lead, and had not rswded ; but other
nations had advanced, and the tendency was toward" *
level. A greeter demand for labour hod been created than
the country could easily supply, and there was the
probability of a competition in which labour only would
be supplied by the foreigner, the capital, and probably
also the directing skill, being Englien. In old days a
summary remedy would have been applied, but now no
one thought of keeping out foreign manufactures by a
protective duty; that was an Amerioan and Australian
Idea not likely to be ours. Either we must consider
°empires beaten, or contrive to make every day's labour
of a men more productive than it had hitherto been.
The question was not where to find the power, but how
to apply it. The reeouroes that Nature offered wore
illimitable. What was limited wee our skill in taming
them to amount. Already, by eneoureging labour and
doing nothing for ourselves which Nature would do foe
us, we hard on this island, with a population of 72
millioes, accumulated power which represented the
labour of 500 millions of able-bodied men. There was
no reason why we should stop, and, in fact, we were
not stopping; and he might say, in passing, that the
movement now going on to create an artificial labour
famine in rural district' would have very different
results than were anticipated--that grazing farms and
machinery tended to make human labour redundant
more rapidly than emigration would absorb it. But if
mechanism spared human muscle, it made a large
demand on human brain.; and the labourer would be
developed into • skilful artisan, who required technical
training. It was the belief of the promoters of that
society that a great deal might be dope for teebnical
training without intetferisig with the training of the
workshop, which was in one sense the beet of all, and
that experimental investigations might be undertaken,
which individuals were slow to undertake because they
d4l not bring any certain profit. The utilisation of
sewage and the ectonomLing of fuel were meetioaed.
His lordship then explained the programme of the
society, and said those who bad taken this matter in
bard had not done so in baste, and would not easily let
It drop. Ws lordship was frequently applauded.