Blandford, Wimborne and Poole Telegram. — 1875-10-08 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

LORD GAGE ON LA.BOITRARS!  UNIONS.  This venerable noirvir-iVieigh-ti:lo-u-itk year, has just issued an address to the latiburers employed on his estates at Fine, Sussex, on the question of labourers' unions. Delegates from the National Union have recently visited Fine and the neighbouring parishes, and his lordship, in consequence of his great age, has adopted this means of conveying his ideas on the subject Notwithstanding the fact that nearly 300 are employed on his estates, each copy of the address was signed by himself. His lordship says :—" I have to observe that every English workman has a right to join any union he pleases, but it must be remembered that an English employer has an equal right to refuse employing men that belong to a union: and I am quite aware that all good and wise men are averse to them. lam desirous to state, as the friend. of the labourer, that I am unable to ascertain what good the unions have done As an employer of the labourer I object to the rules of the unions more than to the unions in themselves, as I can easily perceive that there might be a union that would be quite harmeless in its effect between employer and men. But then I cannot allow for that union to dictate to me or to my workmen what wages I am to give or the men to receive, whether we would or not. That would be an oppression quite wrong in principle, and would only lead to dissension and ruin to both sides. Trade combinations cannot alter the law of supply and demand, nor can they permanently raise or reduce the rate of wages. I have to complain of the shameful misstatements made and the tone of abuse of farmers and landlords that have characterised the aedresses of delegates and those who would listen to and believe such talk I should much rather dispense with their services, and get melt to work who would trust me as their friend."  One of the preparations in anticipation of the visit of the Prince of Wales to India is the manufacture, in Calcutta, of a silver howdah for his Royal Highness's use. APPLES are so plentiful in Devon that they are offered at is. a bag, and cider at considerably less than 7s. tid. per hogshead. A child, aged 3, out with his mother blackberrying, ate some of the deadly night shade, and, died from the poison the same night. Professor Ga.mgee arttributes the high price of meat to the importation of live animals, which introduce disease among our herds, The tests applied to the 81-ton gun have proved in all respects satisfactory, and. three corresponding ones are now being manufactured. During the late gales the boats of the National Lifeboat Institution saved 77 lives from various wrecks without a single casualty. The boat to which the accident happened at Liverpool did not belong to tho Society. Mr, Andrew Little, a solicitor at Linlithgow, has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment for an assault. He had been once previously convicted of assault and five times of breach of the peace. According to intelligence from Hong Kong, a mutiny amongst Malay seamen has taken place on board the Queen of England. The first mate was murdered, and the captain wounded. Mr. Disraeli, speaking at the re-opening of St. Michters church, Hughenden, said be trusted they would show to the country that it possible to combine the beauty of holiness with the profession and the power of the Pro, testant faith of the Church of England.