The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-05-30 00:00:00

TO THE FREE AND INDEPENDENT ELECTORS
OF THE BOROUGH OF DORCHESTER.

James

lightened the tsxation of the conniry,
tmpatible with efficiency and safety;" a'
Aave simile considered "the Church
lent in our Constitution," and should
at any time be made to separate
," I would most strenuously repel az
. inch • Revolution. It is needless 1.
I have always felt "a special interest
•of Dorchester." From the close
• and those friendly associations
, I think you will admit
I interested in all your I
who comes amongst

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tANTLIIIINt - -
THE speedy Dissolution of the present Perlis-
meet, and the very unsatisfactory state of your
Ancient and Constitutional Borough, have induced an
influential Section of your body to invite me to offer
myself as a Candidate for the honour of your Suffrages
at the approaching Election.
Permit me at once to assure you that I greatly value
the high honour you thus oonfer upon me, and to state,
that I am ready to swept the responsibility, and to
fight for you the Battle of the Constitution, as an
Independent and Liberal Conservative.
I fully appreciate the views that have been exorcised
to me as to the present state of your Representation.
I perceive, however, front the Invitation I have
received, that you are alive to the dangers and
anomalies of the position, and prepared to avail your-
selves of the wholesome provisions of the Constitution,
whioh do not imprison the Electoral choice within the
narrow circle of local eonneetiona
In ease of ray &etre I would offer no pertonal or
factious opposition to Lord Palmerston, whose name and
career I greatly reverewee ; bet I could not, on that
aceonnt, support any measures emanating front his
Government, unless fotnded on sound and Liberal
Conservative principles.
In Foreign Affairs, I am an advocate for the principle
of Noe-intervention, both in the external and internal
affairs of other Countries great or small, except where
the interests of England are directly and roanifastly
concerned.

I am snider:La to promote Economy in every branch of
Public Expenditnre, and to lighten the Taxation of the
country as far as is compatible with efficiency and
safety.
I ten/icier the Church u an essential element in our
Constitution, and I would repel to the last any endeavour
to separate Church from State.

I shall always feel a @pedal interest in the prosperity
of Dorchester, and !hall gladly assist in the develop-
ment of thou local Institutions which afford comfort,
advantage, or pleasure to the people. On all occasions
I shall endeavour to nuke myself master of your
opinions and wishes, no u to give effect to them to the
best of my power.
I shall shortly pay my respects to you individually,
and seek an opportunity of explaining at greater length
my political views.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your very faithful Servant,
HENRY DRUkf MOND WOLFF.
Antelope Hotel, Dorehm.ter, May 24, 1865.

I TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF
DORCHESTER.
Gintinnitste,
PERMIT me to &snore you that the fact, that
I have hitherto issued no Address, but have allowed
another Candidate to anticipate me in soliciting your
Suffrages, is attributable neither to disrespect nor to an
insufficient appreciation of the responsibility which you
have thrice done me the honour to commit to my bands.
I am not without hope that your past experienoe has
led you to withdraw none of your esteem and confidence
from me, and while yielding to no man in my desire to
subserve your best interests, I have naturally shrunk
from intruding upon you with any premature utterance,
when even the date of the approaching Dissolution is •
matter of speculatien.
It seemed to Me, that at • time when grave party
diffefencest haVe Well nigh ceased to exist. I should best
reflect your opinions by refrain ng from violent partisan-
ship. While clinging therefore with tenacity to the
traditional and time-honoured doctrines of the great
Conservative Party, I have deemed it my duty to accord
to Lord Palmerston's Government,upon several occasions
1 during the past and pros ions Sessions, an honest and
! independent support.
rew measures of late years have appeared tome more
deserving of oommendation than the Union Charge-
ability Bill. Believing as Ide that the Interests of the
upper, are inseparably intertitined with the Interests of
the lower classes, it has seemed to me that injustioe to
the labouring man is conspiracy against the rich. In
the interest of both I have given to the Union Charge
ability Baran emphatic support.
My experience in Foreign Politics, since I last
appeared as a Candidate for your Suffrages, has taught
me to view with increasing admiration and affection,
the well-tempered liberty which we have the happiness
to enjoy. M.nhood suffrage and arrogant vaunts of '
freedom have not preserved to the Americans even the
semblance of liberty, nor do I observe that de,,potiarn
in France, however wisely oonducted, has during the
last seven years taken any steps towards increasing the
liberty of the subject. Our *lse, temperate, and
grateful enjoyment of the bleesings we have, will, in
my judgment, best be evidenced by caution in under-
taking measures which Cannot brit be tentative in pursuit
of improvement.
It has been my earnest desire to advance the loos
interests of my Constituents whereinsoever they have
been bronght under my notice. With an increased
sense of the responsibility which it entails, I solicit at
your hands • renewal of the trust which you have
already thrice confided to use, If it be your pleasure
to dismiss me from my stewardship, I shall retain only •
grateful recollection, that for Nine Years you have per-
mitted me tO be your Steward; but in the hope that I '
have not forfeited your confidence,
I have the honour to be,
GLPTLEIII.,
Your faithful and obikad Servant,
ciIARLES NAPIER STURT.
London, May 27, 1865.
1 --
ITO THE FREE AND INDISPENDRI4T ELECTORS
1 OF THE BOROUGH OP DORCHESTER,
'

asanzstses,—
IN elpeatation that a Dissolution of Parlia-
ment cannot long be delayed, I consider it my
duty again to offer myself a candidate for the honour
of your suffrages.
As my Parliamentary duties have been urgent, and
measures of importance every day being discussed in the
Rouse of Commons, I should not probably have
ventured to take this step so early in the Session if
I had not been forced to do to by an Address to 'the
Electors of your ambient Borough, whisk has just been
forwarded to inc.

I need not remind you that in 1852 I came forward
the invitation and express desire of the Liberal
party, to contest the Representation of the &roue;
I fought for them "the bottle of the Constitution,"
under the moat adverse circumstances. The cry aria
FAVEDOW AND INDIWENDINOI. Need I say we were
triumphant. The victory then obtained for ever net
free "tine electors/ choice," and the scandal of "the
*arrow circle of lova connections" was effaced. By the
strenuous support end energetic exertions of those
friends in the Borough, who advocated Liberal principles,
I was enabled to obtain for 'them an independent voice
in the Representation, from which for years they had
been debarred.

In the course of thirteen years that have since
elapsed, during the whole of which period I have had
the honour of being your Representative, I have never
received an intimation in any form, that either my
votee or the principles I advocated met with disappro-
bation, or were in any Way opposed to the views of the
tuajority of my Constitutents.
You can imagine, •therefore, my surprise, when I
,earnt from the recent address of a stranger to the
Electors, "the very unsatisfactory gate of your ancient
and emastitutiona/ Borough," and "the dangers and
anomalies" of • position, in which at least you have
been enabled to choose your own Representative. It
see= to be implied by the terms of the sddreen that •
few person., asfling themtelves "an influentia/ section,*
are determined, as they presume to sly, to correct
reform the independent position you have for the
thirteen years maintained, by nominating some obi
whom they are pleased to oonsider better able to fulfil
the duties of your Representative, 'hen the Member
you yourselves, not am a section, but as a majority,
returned to serve you in Parliament.
It is at all events satisfactory to receive the guarani*
that the opponents of Lord Palmerston, although they
are quite prepared to eject him from power whenever
an opportunity occurs, nevertheless "greatly reverence
hit %Sae and career," since his Policy which has no
obviously added to the wealth, and increased the power
of England, would thus appear at length to commend
approval from both sides in Politics.
Are you content to be told that "no personal or
factious opposition" to that policy Mill be offered
Would you not prefer trusting to performances rather
than to promises, however fair? lam able to say that
I have en ported "measures emanating from Lord
Palmerston's government," that I love advocated "non-
intervention in the affairs of other eoantnes,' that I
have been "anxious to promote economy in every
branch of public expenditure," and that I have sup-
ported a which has already oonaiderably
mtry, as far as is
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therefore, perceive no much
_ opinions on which I have
those now put forward, as would 4
member from a tried, to an
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irately should be more satisfactory
bare declaration made by another of
'Mittel subjects.
I have reason to know that you are and
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which I have discharged the duties en
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se, Gentlemen,
and obedient Servant, 1
R. R. RILIUMIGAX,

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DORCHESTER AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETY,

riIHE A NNUAt SEI tEP-BFIk ARING
_I. MATCH will take pl.oe on SATURDAY, 3rd
day of .TUNE neat; and the
MOWING MATCH
on TFIIIRSDAY the 13rh of JUNE next, in a field
near Broken Cross, Charntineter, in the occupation of
Mr. WILLLIAI MAYO.

The General Meeting, and also the annual Exhibition
of Cattle and Stock, will take place in Dorchester on
SATURDAY, the 29rh day of July next
The usual premiums and pies*/ of plate will be
offered for Competition.
G. J. ANDREWS, Hon. See.
Dorchester, May 18, 1865.

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effect
that
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between
us, -
so long subsisted,
more likely to be
than • gentleman
stranger.
I cannot,
between the t,
1110 those no
changing your,
Adready I have
which .
the bare
prolitioal
I have .
onerous.
manner in _
role,
_I should expect
'bold not hesitate I member
witisfaction ; but on er hand, i
hive acted faithfully —._ conscientiously,
-a sure that you will not be deterred by *
one sell themselves " inkwells'," from
the the prond_position I have so long he
I have the honour to be,
Your faithful .-
Loi4don, 48, Orcareaor Placa