Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-12-09 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

LORD SALISBURY.  The Marquis f Salisbnry on Tuesday r. ceiveil deputation of working-men members cf the Board of Management of the Lam:A:shire and Cheshire, South Wales an] Mcnraturitslire. and South Wales Miners' Permanent Societies, on the subject of the Emplovers' Liability Bi'l. The depntation asked the assistance of the noble Lord in rejectirg the Compulsory Clause of the bill. It was urged that employes should be permitted to make their own arrangements with their masters.—Lord SalisLury, in reply, said the matter was one wl.ich had closely occupied his attention. It was evident there was a considerable division of feeling on the subject, and there was a strong element of men who desired to be left in freedom, and not meddled with by the Government. The only argument that ha had in favour of forcing the Act upon those who preferred voluntary arrangements was. that it would lead the employers to make provlsion agaient accidents. He hardly understood that argument, because it was perfectly obvious that the employer would insure and throw upon the insurance company all the responsibility. I_ nder the voluntary arrangements the employer knew. that a good deal of money would be required for accidents, and it was to his interest to do all that he could to prevent theme apart from questions of humanity. It was said the employers woi.ld continue their contributions, even though the Act should pass. That might be true of individual employers, but he was inclined to think companies and societies would look at the matter from a commercial point of views and he could not see how they could be expected to do anything else. Those who desired freedom in the matter had his deepest sympathy, for he himself should intensely dislike to be dragooned into a matter of this kind. He would carefully consider all that had been said to him, and would. do his best to secure them the freedom they so justly asked for.—The deputation thanked his Lordship and withdrew.  ATTEMPT TO MURDER A CoNSTABLL It has just transpired that a determined attempt was made to murder a constable at Tottenham early on Saturday morning. Police-constable Hawkins, 352 N, was on his beat near the river Lea when he noticed that the door of one of a group oi six boat sheds near Stonebridge Lock had been broken open. He examined the interior, but found no one there, and was proceeding to another shed when be was confronted by two men. Immediate', afterwards he received a blow from behind, and was lifted off his feet and thrown head foremost into the river. The men immediately made off. Although clad in a heavy coat and wearing heave boots the constable succeeded in getting ashore. AA soon as possible ho made his way to the poligi station. The perpetrators of the outrage have MR been discovered.  The aeacc boay ot a man was touna on 3unctay oa a sandbank in the River Ribble, near Walton-leDale. Next morning it was identified as that of an imbecile pauper named Robert Holt, who escaped from the wards of Ribchester Workhouse a fortnight ago. He is sup oiled to have been drowned whilst wading across the river.  The Rev. John Fentiman Lingham, spoken of by the Times as "a student of natural histony, a love, Di cowers, a liberal-minded Churchman, and a good man," died at Wimbledon on Saturday. He was the friend, and often the counsellor. of Arch.. bishops Sumner, Longley, and Tait, and of many ether dignitaries of the Church.