New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-18
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

TIkAL GONfEEENOE- AAALc VI 80
FERINGs OF AGRICULTURAL LABORkiIs-
CONDITION OF Mr.. DIsRAELTS COUNT
IFROM Az OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE AAiDoNa
LONDON April 90.--In that SLOW lh'erliii.-
tent way which proceed in England ene ~
tural revolt may said to make progress AL over %
country agitation has set in In every COUNTY '
$1,000, nave revolted or are considering about revolt
ing They have heard that workmen IN towns nave
raised their wages by tradesunons ana the taf hauS
have determined to try their fortunes in the same way
The Warwckshre itinerant preacher has really set the
agricultural heart smolderng, and II may burst YET
,nto a steaav fame. II is quite time 1t did Joseph
Arch the Agricultural aiiator is sort OF WARWICK
shfrp lack Cade-exeepting that he has no animosHI
toward the alphabet; still he represents sort OF
araran revolt. The labOrer once aroused w IN tnese
DAYS keep on in the path The journey to America VIII
not in these steam vessel times take him longer ah
takes him 10 march around his county in search OK
employment when he is thrown out because no has
offended squire parson- Our illustrated Pape1S
have already given portraits OF Arch-the arcn aaVi
as THE farmers, without intention OF punnng' are
beginning 10 call him. He is genuine Warwickshlre
man. This insurgent Arch was himself originally
farm laborer is said still works with his hands as
well as well as tongue Early anxious 70 better mn
self he took employment wherever ne could Oplain
tribe more wages OF course, changing places Involves
having no place al times and having place implies, 10
an agricultural man, food. SO Arch had OFTEN 10
live sparsngly not from choice from absteDous
theory but from not being able 20 do OTHERWISE
To sleep on straw In and Outhouses was often an
act OF his own to expense Of lodging he learneu
somehow 10 read and write and get some genera III
formation which, however. would come to man VINO
kent his ewes and ears OPEN and who had motive ior
seeing and hearing Talking much 70 laborers' ne De
eaue Primitive Methodist local preacher, almost the
onlv thing a abOrer can attempt IL brings III AVlIe
money An active man can travelling expenses by
walking He gets invited TO better dinners ana Tea IMAM
he could afford 70 buy He has power OF prOnOt
ing these useful and secular ends He can suggest at
The end OF an impressive discourse the duty or caring
for the Lords servants even pnt the idea II prayer
in which ingeniously asks blessing upon them as
does It," It not imply that travelling preacher ID
tnsncere II he does this II heis very hungry and very
Door he Will be very prone TO do ths-tempted quite as
his way as Anthony was IN another Besides
by turning preacher lborer escapes suspicion OF the
squire and farmer who have a notion that when man
takes religion" he helps 70 keep people IN order ana
couteuted Even The parsOn is notified he does not
take well To the MethOdy" who ouitivates private
eOnventice OF his order and becomes sort OF IN
ordained unrecognized peripatetic priest. However
such a man makes a capital agitatOr If he happens TO
care for the state Of abOrers cottages as vel as man
sons IN the skies The Daily 6erS blew Archs trumpet
handsomely. II said:
In Rorford there dyveIls man who Is at once day
IabOrer and Methodist preacher-a man Iar Superior n
respect 70 bis class not greatly d ~
culture. but with a keen. restless, nqulrihg Inlhu
bodness OF thought, an independence OF charaSNr ["
reTntation commanding vide respect and rough, fer
vent natural eOquence that marked him out as specially
by for galvanizlng INTO vigorous acton
yet for which the time was ripe
This was written BY M Forbes, the Scotch correspond
ent Of The Daily Netcs.
When gentleman Of that nationality takes 70 praise
he does It in way which leaves nothing 10 be added
THIS description is one person could confirm without
considerable experience OF the man still IL Is not far
from the truth. know Warwickshire men by instinct
OF race, and have taken some trouble TO study Arch
and have found him a shrewd, honest-OOnng man. lie
~.rr1fn~ 4fwUFf In
are said 70 him. as though he intended 70 make out on
his own account lie does not assent, but seems TO
think about It, though he were comparing II with
something he had heard or knows upon the subject
which are good signs a Arch Is not so simple
A. he looks That is not a good phrase. II suggests
something crafty 1.-THE idea that mean 70 convey is that
be has stronger mind than his appearance bespeaks,
though that is suggestive.
An Agricultural Conference has been convened in
London, 20 be held Wllis's Rooms St. Janess. One
OF the attractions mentioned the pacards announcing
the Conference that MI Joseph Arch OF the Var
vickshire Laborers Agricultural Union would address
the meeting Mr.. Arch mas a small freehold OF some kind
IN his cottage left him by his father not worth much,
but sufficient give him little better position than his
neighb0rs. stu OF his humble rank has OBJ
tanned such sudden and creditable publicity he has
To enter London and find his portrait in three or four
Illustrated papers distinction which few attain
TIL the Of their days sets In. The Conference IN
which he was announced TO speak in most arts
quarter the underneath him the Bishop
OF London at the hour, "holding forth" on
the virtues OF the Diocesan Board Of Education. The
exTOry Secretary of state. the Right Hon. Claiborne
Hardy OF the speakers; the Earl OF Shafts
bury In the chair However, the Laborers Elevation
Conference az Wis's Rooms, held over the Bishops
head not attended in degree equatO private expec
taton The popular expectation not very great.
The public do take yet paying interest in the
question: and other interest is OF much service at
present. The promoter Of the meeting may have been
sanguine ne had subsde. The person whose
attached 10 the circulars calling the meeting
was Mr.. c. J. whellams. Unfortunately for him, the
town has some memory. At the time Of the French
German war a certain person devoted himself 70 the
duty collecting for the sick and wounded, and placed
eharity-boxes about. This zeal under the notice
Of the Lord Mayor who warned the public against that
form Of parting with their money. Mr.. G. T. Whellams
the enthusiast who to grief this occasion.
hr. Thomas Hughes, N. P, who announced
Of the chamen on this OCCASION recalled this episode in
Mr.. Whcamss career, and declined the chair
connection with him. The result that he
auested TO resign, and did So and Mr. George Howell
was appointed Secretary Of the Conference. Mr.
Hughes NJ p. called from town By the sudden Ill
ness OF his brother George which was the Of
his sending a note. Mr. Walter MOrlson NJ. P, Of the
Agricultural Cooperative Association, took the chair in
his until the arrival Of Mr.. Auberon Herbert,
n P, who presided the remainder OF the day
The first speaker Mr.. Arch. He detailed in clear
effective the viessitudes OF the agricultural
laborers life. II usually fell 10 single person 70 ask
for advance OF wages-when a single person could be
induced do IT, II fell TO his lot such farms he
work upon. OF he met with repulse, and
when he returned 70 his fellowaborers told them
the result they disheartened, and when their
came 20 their wages they afraid speak
about Increase. Nothing could possibly them
save them but LabOrers Union. They must