The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1879-08-12 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

THE FARMERS ALLIANCE. Bt IN 17,011•1111. Thursday night. A public meeting in connection with the Farmers' Alliance was held this evening at the Birmingham Exchange. The Mayor (Alderman Collings) presided, and there was a large attendance, including many fanners. In a letter excusing his non-attendance, Mr. John Bright, IC P., stated that he was unable to take up any new work. The right hon. gentleman thought new In= thOald undertake it, and wished the alliance meows in the greet work before it Mr. Mita', Ml'. In a letter said the fanners had the power in their own hand,. Al the next election they should pniose men pledged to carry out their views. They could do so if they were determined, and they would then take that position in the country to which they were entitled So long as they were content with grumbling they would make (Haar_ hear.) The Chairman explained that the had been called under the auspices of the Farmers' an emaciation that was founded In April with the object of securing various Worms In the laad laws. The alliance beheaded to hold meetings in all the principal market towns of England to ask for support, not only from the farmers, but from every one Interested in agricultural reform. He was glad the alliance had chosen • large town like Birmingham to hold its first provincial meeting at, and he could assure the members of dgrest welcome For generations past there had been • traditional feeling of opposition, and he might almost say antagonism, between the farmers and the towns. • strong Prejudice still existed, and suck • state of thi.ngs, he contended, was Injurious all round to all parties. Farmers had not been 110 politically independent as they ought to have been, having regard to their own interests ; but, on the contrary, had been almost entirely under the belloence of the landowners, whose action was seen in the laws they had been able to make and inaintel, The interests of the farmers were the interests of the pleb in the towns, and from the present representative magi 1= he augured • better state of things for the farmers. (Mears )—Mr. JUDO, Howard, chairman of the alliance, said the main object it had in view was to improve tha production of the ail, and the study of the meant 'I ecoomplishing that end. They did not say, as had_ b,Asi etsted,Nhat taxmen could under more favourable conditions double the produce of the land of this country, but imp Wy said that with snore favourable lain and wider leglalaia., they could Maws the prodooe of the land to one third' more than It was at present IvAotiloause.) —B Alexander M'Neil Curd,of i Genoch, whire. aho addressed the meeting, and on the a of Mr. a. Berkman, seconded by Mr. E. Striven. Leamington, • resolution was reoummending farmers and others interested In adopted to Join the alliance and endeavour to increase inflememie.  THK " Celestial" prdsa bee, by past Ad.,_ send Bin of head; Ladies, gentlemen, and c&ldrm. Dial It Co., Importers, Brighton. Bumps or is Aviviosa.—At the Rouse of Correction Coldbath.ftelds, on Thursday aftwooon. Dr. Hardwicks, coroner for Central 'Biddle...v, held an Inquest on the body of Henry William Pao., who committal suicide by bilaself with his braces in his cell at that prison tiani&day last. The demand ems undergoing of Wiliam mouths' bard labourffiessed upon Om for the mousinulthier of • man named Cele, who had seduced kb dinkier. The jury returned • verdict that the dammed committed suicide whilst of unsound mind.