The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-01-22 00:00:00

00N8ERVATIYE MEETING.

SPEECH BY THE MARQUId OF SALIiBURY.
Conner natives, o glected from all parts of the county,
filled the Coro Exchange on Wednesday 11004.1110 Zr
being assembled for the porpoise of forming a Conser-
vative Aasooiation for the minty Unusual importance
we. given to the gathering by the presence of the
111 &minis of Salisbury, who was supported by the
principal Tory lord, sni gentry in the county. Mr.
J. J. Ferquhareon presided, and on his right bend
were the Martinis of Salisbury. Lord Dichy, Lori
Wimhorne, Mr. John Floyer, M.P.. .1 .uvl Vie
Hon. E. H. T. Distby, M P., and Ltolou..l
while on the left were the Esrl of E Jon, herd
Allusion, Lord Ashley, Mr. W. E. Brymer,
Mr. F. Compton, H.P. for South Hants, ant Mr. E.
L. Kindersley, there being also on the platform Major
B. William', Major Groves, General Astell, Mr. G.
F. Newell, Mr. R. D. Thornton, Mr. IL N. Middl ne,
Mr. A. Martin, Colonel P. Matthew., it... R. Burden,
Colonel J. A. Dishy, Mr. W. Dagdale, Captain H.
Yestmam, Colonel Harwood Yeatman, Captain J. R.
P. Goodden, Mr. H. S. Bower, Mr. G. Burt,
Captain Brans, Mr. G. Bond. Mr. U. J. Puke,
Captain J. F 'lir, Mr. Henry Fookee, Mr. T. Chap.
man Saunlers. Mr. W. D. Da ;dale, Mr. E. W.
Cave, Colonel Mansell, Mr. Charl.e Spicier, Mr. H.
B. Middleton, Hon. H. Start, Mr. Blake", R.IV.
Canon R. Smith, Rev. H. Everett, Captain Sutton,
Major Foster, Major BenethStenford, the Mayor
of Dorchester (Mr. H. Durden), Professor
Backman, Mr. W. T. Aylesbury, The ladies
were accomma dated a 'Lb "eats on the balcony. Before
we give our reput of the proasedinge we moat com-
pliment Mr. G. J. Williatne-Andreers, the Congers's.
tire agent, for his arrangements, which were entirely
eistiefectory—at any rate, to those who succeeded i
passing the scrutineers stationed at both d sore With
the exception of the gentlemen on the platform, the
ladies, and the members of the Press, there were no
ssala melded, with • view of Incresdcg the swoop
modation of the hall.

Lori SALMI:Iit sail: Mr. Chairman sod Gentle.
men, Electors of the County of Dores',—The reeelle"
tion *blob has been plmod in my haul., and which I
propos to move, is as follow.:—' Thiel • Conserva-
tive Awoolatlon b• formed for the C .ninty of Et moot.
the object of which shall bit ID c rols. ie all climes
within the Couoty in •upoort of th Conservative
Canso • t promote the unitoi actioo of the Pony
in al .not ore c•nnected with 44 let vote,
Anj t, every'. the It-girtia•
of Voters."
A. you are aware, tbi• kiwi •if oro ih itiou though it
is nw to the Giusti. of Dorset, has been very
serr.rally f Mowed among iith-r counties in this
o ,untry, awl hat loon followed w.th the beet effect,'
hoc mos it i, fouoi not only to utslix. on I C imbine our
force, •ii,i mike them strong io th • day .if battle, bat
atm it h-Ings together in hearty into° ourie sod union
all claws of Cl., great &mitt to which wc belong.
(Applausl I You will, douhtle.s. b, 101 l that this
12 invirvative Association which we pr ipose ti form is
merely color another name the Caucus, aoain et which
we of 'en %protest. (Rem. bear.) There is • very ilie-
Boot sod clear difference between the too. rha
obj-ct of tho as, .Ciliti,pn is to send the bet men to
Peri:so:oat to r,pr.-sent the Gooier Vali re calla,.
(11.er, bear.) The Ohio* of the Cacaos I. to dictate
to them men when they hove got there. (Hoar, hoard
That is an object that I hope will be ever far fr on the
thought. of any sisooiati.,n we shall toned. (Hear,
hear.) Well, then, perh.p, we shell)), told that Con-
servatism has 11,urished very well in the County of
D iriet—te it and subtoolly ha done for wetly •
long year put—without the areiet mos of say °egoists*.
Om of th's kind, and why at thi time of the day is it
nosesetry ro cot,. wit • iiew pith? Well, your
eli ,iromo has pointed out what I. Uwe mist obvious
an orer to the question. Cireamstaucea owing to
recent legilletion, have • ...I •11.1 changed. Ho
referred I, the rne.hee of the Corrupt Practices Act,
which ia • net drawn In front of all the unhappy
realist, and age •to •h heuoef rrth tab" part in
&scion.. (Lsoghter.) An it will reg Ire no CMS.
moo vigilance and no or Hoerr co-operation to
from• atei tutniele into thole •ne.tien. Bit ones I
provision of the' Act ought particularly to roe brought
to your Alsatian. It I. provided teat prootioally no
, issid cc, nte stia'l he employed in case og or aoudad.
ha the electioas. Vi heo I ..y n psi., agent., I maser*
these is • small sum allow ol for a esotrel spat, bat
Practically, comparing the condor* elections in the
put with the oonloct of the elections an they mast
now be carried through, the paid agent hie
been obollabed in favour of volunt 'sr agate), and to
bring man up to the poll, and spreel our prinalpies,
sad to take cans that everybody votes—things that
are she entely eseestial to be demo no the eve of as
election, and daring its prooress. Henceforth we
most trove to the volunteer action of Couservativos
who will devote Chamaeleon to that papas ; we eon
no longue have,, we have had in the pa*, pad agents
to do It, It is necessary, therefore, we should be
orgosimi together, 53 that the right man may be found
U the right moment to do that which is mesatial to
be dose. (Applmee.) Well, then, there Is another
function also which! think this 0 integrative Amato-
tioo is called upon to perform by the moving event.
of the time If we at, not on Oat threshold, we are
very tea to the time when there will be a consider.
able widition to the constitutoce of every Gooney.
Well, I have no reason to believe that that addition
will be less Conservative than those who already form
put of us. (Applause.) Butt know it will be neces-
sary to commocio its with them in a very different
way. When constituencies wire very small • few
litters were all that were necaoary in order to corn-
muilicas bet seen the caudldote .ini his friends the
elector. When they became leer •r. communication
WM carried on largely thr 'ugh the ogees,/ of the
prom, but a ow you are reaching • portion of the
population which has lOW leisure ant inclination for
the study of the newspapers thou th eas who have
the suffrage n or, and thoro is n doubt that 0 innUil-
Ideation, If you wish to communicate with tam, and
If you wish to lolluenoe them, ant teary to their
minds right tiles upou the burning gotolloas of the
day, will have to be done to • great extent by per-
sonal intercourse and influence. Cr course that can.
not be done by the coo tidal., himself • he will have
tbuniusee to ; but it most bed ins by his (darts
in Tarim. port' of the comity, and In Ovary wtal
clam. Ansi there will be • drat deal more of oral
c sonsenication, both in conversation and by speeches,
If the new elect or, are to have brought before them
the real truth and effect, of the great question*
in regard to which they will have to deliver
their v, tea Now to do that, that is
another form of this volunteer orooperation and
organisation, which is the vitt.' part of the system we
are now, or which we shall shortly be, called upon to
enter, and which we (cannot perform „coped, without
oramitation of this kind. (Applause.) Well, and
beside. th it, Chore will be for some time to come barn.
I no an,lafitioUt ((nate ins of p Um, which shoul.l range
all men in the ranks of the poll' ic army to which they
bolono, rind which th iul 1 'aspire them with energy
and vigil ince, acid give to them, and bruises them to
arm thencielvee with, all the assiattnoe that organisa-
tion oau confer. (Hear, hear.) I hove spoken of the
.pproaching change in the franchlw ; whether that
ehtnge is actually imminent i. • matte, of considerable
doubt. (Hear, hear.) From all that I can hear, it
seems to in. exceedingly probable thlt the memore
which is to be proposed .111 be one of a kind that will
receive very strennous opposition from the party to
which we beloug--(applausel—more no exempt of the
details of which it is made up thtu the particular
principles it It intenrial to stub oly. (Hew% hoar.)
The real cause of the d stibt and apprehension with
which this csoxiiig measure is viewed by the Conserva-
tive, I. the particular set•if nimu•ostotnoes under which
it it to be iotroduorol. Y oi will observe there is •
great deal of indifference In the country about it.
(Hear, bear.) Nobody really case very much about
It, and nob perms for it. Well, that is not In
Itself absolute reason whymch legislation should not be
intro.-Noel, but It Causes One to enquire what are the
motive, which have induced the (I ivernment to abort
this time for Intro lacing it. They coon it oonsi ler it
to be a matter in itself of extreme urgeoi end
importance, for, though they hove been now fourteen
in office, they have not introduced it yet. (a..., I
hew.) If it had been • matter of urgency or import- I
&nee It would have been intr educe! let year, or even
the year before. But we see they have been able to
postpone it for matters of consowative unimportance. I
On the other hand, there is • feverish anxiety on the I
part of the supporters of the Government that the
mecums should be brought in, and if peoble passed, ,
while the present Perloiment exist.. Oils, what is
the explanation of that apparent c oar suction? The ,
solution appears to me very patent. The last
election woo an election which mty be fairly ,
called accidental in It, remits. (Hetr, hear.) Ant I
give Colt that name for this real,,. that while it hag
resulted io giving an overwhelming and crushing
preponlerance to the Government now in the House
of Commons, a number of between two and three
thousand, a• you will fiat out if you look to the
details—that numbir if they had vital differently
would have altered the ism* of the election altogether.
(Applause.) Now that enormon, preponderance was
therefore an socilental result, and is not • true
representative of the real relation, under which the
two palsies eland in the country. (Applause.)
Whether the Liberals or the 0 ,n.ervatives are in a
maj irity in the country I won't enquire, but this is
quite clear that the Liberals are not In that enormous
majority which the portent composition of the House
of Commons represents. (Applotte.) Under thee*
circumstance, it is very intelligible that the Liberals
should be very anxious to pas. this meanie before this
admirable accident of an Clouts of Commons has
separated. (Laughter.) They should indeed be very
anxlous to poos a Bill which, by a manipulation of
details which It cont.ins, should, If poarlble, secure to
them in the future the prep ooderenoe which they have
accidentally obtained. Let them get hold of the
balance of the constitution now they are strong, ant
they will give It such • wrench lb it it shill always
weigh on their sides in the future. (Applause.) Well
that is • Tory gaol .round if sr their m go. oe. awl it
naturally excites f root u. • d Of root stater of feeling., and
this side of the question naturally make. it of great
Importance and our imperative duty that we should
offer to any meteors, conceived in such * splrlt as
that to which I have referred, an much opposition as
we can. (Applause.) Well, then, besides the party
question, which., not unimportant, there are gni:igloos
of general p Imperial—lmpotence.
involved not in the principle of the Reform Bill so
much as In the time when it is introduced. (Ap-
obtuse. ) Now, we are told, in coneormenors of Its being
iotooluced at this particular time, that the franchise
and reolistribution mug be separated from each other'
that means to say that when the franchise II pawed
there will be no security whotover, either that the
re-distribution will be peeled or for the character
of that re-distribution when it oomes. (Hear. heir.)
Of course it will be *Oil the Government
will Inform us what that Wan of no. listributi ,a is,
but stub inf windier' will n g be worth tho li.pr on
which 111, reports). (Hear, hear.) Again an 1 again
have we hai strikirot examples of powerful hem.
meet, making promisee which they hove boom hope.
lowly unable to fulfil. (Applause.) Twioe during hie
political life Mr. Gladstone hat been • potty I. a
promise that by a given day the Income T it ghoul.)
be abolished. (Ltughter.) Many of us are at all
stereo perfectly competent se to how far that promise
has been fulfilled. (Laughter.) The Blur. Soo Ae.,
whose remits in many respecte are very g +Ol. which
presses with fearful weight upon • 'particular clue of
pr.ipiirty —that Act Was perm! under • an, irance,
which emanate' too promise, th•t the rate shoell uot
exceed 3d, iu the E. and I used hardly remit you
ii. a liter biota/toe of so aouronce by which 11,.,
represent Oleos in bsth House. of Parliarneot were
Induced to assent to the Irish Law! Act (lieu.,
boar.) The truth is no minister, lo mover powerful,
however sincere he may be, can give to the House of
Commons the slightest security as to fetters legisla-
tion. The temper of the H nue of Commons alters
liko the English weather—(loaghtor),—and at any
moment, oertanly in any year, It may oft* to be iu
the power of the midden who marls the promise t
fnifil it, soil it must cease to be in the puede or will
of the party by whom the promises were made to
give affect to those pr melees. (Hear, hear.) There-
fore the result of the introduction of this
outwore without the Redistribution 8.11 will
be to oggreatts several disadvantages under which
the rural porta of the country at preent labour.
(Hear, hear.) I don't say that the rural parte are
more thoroughly to be represented than the town, or
the town than the rural parts, but they have the
right each of them to fair representation, aoc culla to ,
their importance and numbers. (APplanse.) And
there are many subjects on which their opialoos
diff* violently, in which their interate are deeply
engaged. Take for instance this question of cattle
disease. There is not any question upon which
in the rural part, of the country more deep feeling
exist., than as to the conduct of the Government ant
Parliament in allowing the cattle disease to be I
Imported with comparative freedom into this pountry.
(Applause) But if there exists any opposition to the
crier remedy, It Omuta from the populations of the
towns, who have been persuaded, most unjustly,
an wrocarfully persuade!, that • due defence of tbe
mericulturists from cattle disease would involve an
Increase in the price of moat We believe it would
be exactly the other way. (Hoar, hoar.) But I cite
the questi in for the purpose of showing you it is not
Inv, as It Is sometimes aseutod, that the interests
of the people In the towns and this interests of the
people in the country are necessarily oo.inci lent.
Now, what will happen if this Rill, this Franchise
11111, is passed without doe attestlon belie Pad to
the bounden, question i not only Will 16. I•Wia

pelages, so they do new, en onorMoos prepotoleranos
over what ou4lit t e he cheer *quit able share of the
repossentetien ever the count:!, but, in addition
t that, there will be umewe of purely urban
p epulati whieh c out of the iii. of
every town li, tie c eintry, so that they not only have
their 'or 3-161)(1 slier, of the repreeentete ee, but
t isy will be able i sorely to a by tee nunbar of
boosebolii voter. which they will throw Uuol tee
register they will he solo largely ti rale I the
reoreeentetion of the par.., which Cr. up ci•111
sot avowedly eared Theret ere it will be al oevi
tuinletioe to the rural :Arta of the country if any mete
memoir. I wowing the franchise in tile 0 'Untied is
undertakee with rut ice attentien t tle
tiOU pat, and especielly that &ion which o recurred tree
bean Uri... But tows is ready a roneh
behind. Is lipewits:. tic euceive • more thoPP ',tune
U... for admitting. vast teem of county la rush thiere
to the suffrage ia Ireland? (Ileac. beer.) i onOrlutt•
sensible of the es reuse Sic ovrecience, the invidious•
owe, of M 401.1441./ • Bill that shall des' with lng
lead and shall not deal woh IreMnd ; but the argu-
ment I draw from that difiLulty is net thet we are
to demi with Ireland at a time when the iuterests of
the empire forbid it, but rather that we oh euld put uff
Bill for which nobody in Euelea f ask, than bring t
a Bill which in perilous to the interests of Ireland.
(Applause.) Now reutenther what the householders
in the °wools. in I nlets I are at this m uncut. We
hope it Is not permanent; we hope that • 0 utetent
exhibition of good will on the part of the peo ii. and
the blevernineet of We aoilut I, awl due rea.ction
upon the reel bearing of affairs, will cenaittos this Irish
people that their true haopiaese ria I tow prosperity
li. in costing in their lot hew lily with tee people of
this oluctry. (Applause.) But treat is net their
humour at this moment. They have just °me out of
a battle—a battle conducted with weeping el vielence
an I outrage, and in whieh they have sumeoled in
wresting from the Geverausent and Lortslatu a of
this a mutry a memoirs of an extreme character wholly
unexampled in anything ibat this Gauntry has ati.lllll
tu before—(oppi ease) —e roamers wlaluh
has dealt with great severity with the rights on the
part of • particular sactleo of the ceenin e city which
! had been reo egoised fee °eateries back. (Apoleuse.)
Now euola • vict ay as Chill wa. not nelieee to ite own
immediate results—it lea 1.1 the hope ol more, it whew
the appetite, it give. toe impression they are irrasiettUle,
and it snake. them take a very I or genius at, of the
resisting power of tie Governme it au i the Legislature
of Dagland, (lieu, bear.) Aud if te pe eple minds I
a• they are you outcast the etulliMoJs a Uhl nal
power which this suffrage will confer, how can you
exposit that they not use it for purism*. Utterly
✓epegeast to emastietatiocal prautioe and history
of this country? (Hear, hear.) Thee te whom do
they look for guideoce 1 Do they link to their nine
countrymen of a higher owlet slanting fir gwdacoe
Do they look to the Government ef this county, to
the great men of this o motry Do they I I to the
Wales's of the Milted Kingdam, as that to which
they can confirm? Ni, they have given t lair
allegiance and their trust Ii men wla ea avowed object
It is to separate Ireland from Englend, an 1 wales
sympathies are far deeper with • foreige so entry than
they age with the country in which we st atol. (Heat,
hoard I am told that even if the result is as we feu
we shell not be seriously some off evea th an we are now;
that even if we have 90 Seporettet mambos in the
H awe of Comm is., the resoluti in of Oogland and
Sootland will stall be string enough to rep •I their fatal
prayer. I wish it may be so, but I c infer; my hope.
are not as strung as my wisher. I see n ohiug of toe
tenacity of Rogow in those woo have those eeoiel
forams which govern in this coutory. I see Witting of
the reselution and the tore, which will be necessary
to refuse the demand of 93 per ceut. of the people of
Ireland, as measured by their representatives, however
dangerous that demand may be to the interest' of the
Empire as a whole; and my fear is, if you put thie
weep in into their heatio, you have nut armour strong
enough to repel the blows that it will deliver.
(Al:Pleased Thew circumstances make me rather
amptical when I an. told that Parliament will asseut
to • suffrage bill this year. I think the more these
difficulties are co:unlined the greater they will appear,
and the lees will be the inelluatiee of Perliament io
swept the tremendous responsibilities, which such a
meaeure at such a time involves. ([fear, hoar.) Bet
that is not the lees reason why you should organise
and prepare yourselves, for we shall then be at the
beginning of • long and anxious, esti preb ably au4ey
coatroversy, in which each man who lives hiscouutry
will have to do hi. hest. (Hear, hear.) If you look
around upon the state of the politoal won-I, you will
find in it fresh incentives to properation an I vigilance.
I will not refer to f•ereign affairs: the pro.pect is as
dark and as gloomy 64 it can be, but the memeut is
hardly °Renew). to speak of thet But even iu
domestic' affairs very many of us must think with
respect ts the legislai in that has g rue en ter seen time
past, that it is movincslowly, perhaps, but efea lily, in
a direction th et is little to our min (ile.r, hear.)
We are *tending upon an pl sue—an
plane that loots from the po lid in of L ir I I isrincsm
to the position ef Mr. Chamberlain in I 'n
from the position of Mr. Chamberlain to the
depths over which Mr. Henry Ga irg rules
supreme. (Lied *polarise.) &tome of Us there are
who look upon that state of tbioge with aboilute
despair, and believe that nothing cut et up
the movement that has begun; but there are
others, I hope they are much neer° nomerous, who
still, though they see enteugh ti excite appeobensiou
and stimulate their exertions, do not we e. louele t
justify despondency. (Applause.) 'They probebly
say to themselves that werrethew or wiser, by wane
agency or other, we shell be stepped, arrest, I in
rolling down this inclined plane at some point or
other. But what Lowey will it be' Wnet broke is
strong enough t i atep the •ehicOe 11.3.13 which we are
standing from rolling onward.? It certainly will 0 d
be the spirit which the C•inservative ohs.ses hove too
Very frequently ehewn in the lenience of improliog
agitation aol dangef. It Caleir.t be too ofteu retuate I
ti C meervative auliecces—theeseential failing of their
disposition is apathy, (Hew, how.) 'Poe very cm'
tentment with the existing state of things which their
principles imply has • tendency to induce them to sit
quietly by mad let things go en, and truut that all will
aims right. But if that downward pr .greeS of which
I have spoken is to be arrested, it assuredly will net
be by lattice/ things @bile. (Rear, hear.) It will need
the hearty emotion of *II whose is invicti me in ince
them to desire to upheld that whioh our ancestors have
haoled down to us. ( tpplaute.) In old times it was
undoot KA that e.,eryt33 iy we. betted to take pit in
the defence of h.s cou•t,y atainst her chemist. —1
take his part in his proper line, an I to do hi. li-st 4
any 116CrifiCe. But for generatsina pent we hoe,' he
a happy social or ler, daring which the S:ate teal beee
able to pr.oect itself. are I men Is sire been ohle ti
at untin their own w iye, follow their own iolu etry. end
so) ey its fruits without any special exert i in 4 ..1. their
part le maintain this state of things by virtue of
which these blessings were ensure!' t u them. It m ty
be that we ere entering open a new epode, in which
these old duties will be lel I mew up in all rueuebers
of the Censusenwealth—thet we shall be obii4el to
shako off nut Conservative apathy if we mean ti retaio
that which we valmo—that we shall be ohlice I tu show
that the forme of preservation can be as lbctiV , 64 alert,
ant as vigilant as th e laces of deteuction. Au I
it is as an instalment of our duty in this respot, and
It is as • mem's of ooathining and giving effort to the
efforts of all thoess who desire to maintain our puiticd
institutions, and Ii hand down our social structure
impaired, that I venture to move the resolution whi h
has been placed In my heeds. (Lord chews.)
Mn. Foolten, in seconding the resolution, said that
when they a moldered there ware 8.000 voter, in the
°owe ty.i t behoved them toles very careful who they sent
to Parliament. They were perfectly well satisfied with
their three member., who had served them honestly
and faithfully, especially their good friend, Mr.
Floret. (Cheers.) He hadalways treated them weU,an I
be might say he was always in his place. There would
be • great change from the elections they had seen t 3
theme which were to come. The first election he
remeathered was just 60 years ago, and he rememhered
the memorable election when they were 14 days in the
Pouolbury, and every OSLO Was brought from every
°erase to reword his vote. For day eller day it Wee
one awl one on each sits, and it resulted in the return,
of Lend Ashley's father, who, he wee pleas il t i say,
wa, still living. Then he founl thsy ha I more p Min;
places in the ceenty, and now ne voter was allowed to
go more than three miles to reach the poll. Color the
present Bill they must be very cue( 11. He als.
pointed out they meet be carotid n it t e promise their
votes before the t•me can., al: -.11 Ii .n :40 ue,e
Liberal caedidata went into a t oreu an I was premise I
• hundred votes, but when the time C.llllO h' only gut
25 vile., They mu .t gaol e I, meet, :in true m's
t I Parliament. He hoped when thi. resolution was
weed, as he was sure it would be, that they womb'
keeo the asseocietfora going. lioferring to the
A:Semite...l Melding' Act, lee said that w so paeest by
a Liheral Parliament. It win very much c emplaned of,
and he hips Ito live te s clue noble marqule sad Sir
S Nerthe its re-in riot it. It, then spoke of the
Farmers' AlUsoos in Soin9re -t haring pawed a ante
against Mr. Freak C.repOin. 'The itoroptons were a
goo I .t ve a-id h. hal rented uoder
them all hi. life. ( %is 'lees'.) Ile nil not think they
(the farm •re) ouglit te ;Ow e couch e 'Wiliam in the
Prime Minister after hi. recent epistle t hi. tenantry.
(L euehter.) his epeeeh to the tenants woe a very silly
an I S.Upl.l one, Is woe afroply to pet jam in their
mitt'.i (Laieghter.) Therm was an oil iseying. Uoce
the Luso and twice the child," an I be Lanes I the old
gentleman he I got beck his sweet toeth. Ile was vary
much 'erode e think any into Could clothe such •
speech. Lie bad heel leiking at the papers let .Iy, and
he was very in wit struck with what the noble
marquis had sail a: Watford, and that was alai a very
lime speech which Sir lioharsi Cram made at Liver.
pool. He begged mest rend ally t e mewl the reselo-
Moo which had been propow I by the ILoquis of
Salisbury. (Applauw.)
The CHAIIIIAN then pet the reeelution Ii the meet.
leg, and it WY c onoisiusously amid great
apolansw
.;
wol Attearou : Gentlemen. brother C men-
esteem., and (t 3 the lade-me) may I not &Id sister
ra:: you ( prepalailuse, .)
C nwervatives?—(lauehter sod applauw),—l have Woe
asked to move a resolution, sail I undertake the teak
witliptliosut.
Bat before I read that
.s
must join with my friend in
the chair, and congra elate you on the thorough
mucous of thi4 afterniwn'is meeting. ( thPlettle.) For
what do I s-e bofore in • ; whot is this vat arena, this
am of fames that I we I eiki ig at my noble Liao I no
my right? (Amplau.e.) I noc consiamen who have
inn here, not fr panel icy einolausent, not for
selfish Interests or claw lughtlati or, bat thr.311301 feeling.
of peitrlutidill—(l3ear, hear)—hoVe Come forward, and
who say that when the time arrives we will duvete our
atmntiou and mar time, mid will throw off all apathy,
and do all that lies in okir 130Wer tO penooto the good
noble
ec:osuedi 4cohae.o am, as
my r
G;hei t , n
nt cmos, we arc ca ljtidit:dll does :az
oaynt.-I will
' reign proton:Onset, In the gran c sooty of D wee'.
-er ti
! tsar rat. aorConservativenut
p c t
-in in 'pp eniune if zmwaeynnot.4. I
tell you what in my opinien • Conservative is, and If
I am wring I hone my Dibble fristel will pull me up.
(Leughter.) A C meervative Ii begin with—let me
Sell you what la Censervative ie not. (Itenewol
laughter.) A C inservatice is u t a mail who puts his
foot down and says " lam •eainet all pro4re —(hear,
hear)—l am against atten lieg to or re !reeding
grievances or compleints of any class "I me len°,
countrmen." 4Applause.) That Is not • Conserva-
tive. Why, a Conservatjvie is a great deed more liberal
than • P.M many gostiwats who go nadir that

n im encl slum (Lsu rhter an•l °beers) AC eneervative
always delights under a Cumeervatiee party ti come
iorwaro to re Iron the grievances and consPl elate of
any c a.. W ton tb.,111 re a; las. nig Giellei•ative
'early hay a never bee, afraid ed the on aple. wittnstlil
Why. Li ilt at 631,1 BIM) mediel I. tie wee u 4 &treed
poi de au ICO b mud to •tv my
there wool( n 4 -out, form eral WI this pintos= sat my
1.. wil 0 .W 44.14043 lb. etteadoss of the c minty
feanehis, wpieuse.) Na e. gentlemen, a w ard
sh.ht the !Let as'al Bali I ii at koo• whet the
IL dorm Bill is--(leaneiter)— .nt. beerier hist er.l.ll'P's
psidne, 1,. •lies not kasow waist the Reform Dl. ie.
(Idaugwed mghtsr.) I will tilll you why. B -ca see
lief Majesty'. 0 mental ant al , not know what Um
Bat 'ran Bill is. (Immense I surb..n.) Why, there'd
g dog t be a C tbinet C moo. every day next week for
1., hours. Hos' they will tiros ail bow tiny erill
squabble. (Great laughter.) I wish Lord "Isrtiagton
h iie little more b eckb me, au I then he w 101 I be cos
~1 the first men In Ecgland at thie m.nent, but I am
afrelii he will be ilWelLivra I 41,e in tie lot. (Great
laughter sal apolaased Ii 'talon i.e. y 0 I emit knep
your eye on three ;solute ia the c casing astorm Bill.
sod I hups my noble friend wili are' wile me. rise
first la.! yuu wish propertg to he represented or do
you a it? (Cries of " Yes I") Do you wish cumbers
only—messes—to be reoreeseted is the II awe* of
Common? (Cries of No I") 1. viu wish the
(rennin.* to be extended t ',elan I? (Rio awel cries
of "No.') I believe .t veal be am evil day to this
a 'witty whoa pr yerty ha, •., voice ii the Mouse of
Comm as; I believe it wall be most unfair and nejuit if
numbere iin y are reoremote In th.. Ii ,um of OAR.
ne ms, and I have 110 ueomt.on in ening at this
in onset if you extent the fraembiss to Ireland it will
be • suicidal policy. (Cheer'.) Now, as regard'
Ireland. I.t 11311 tell you a story, aad it is one which
i• wort!, he eriug because it i. true. When the our-
darer. of L art Fre lerick Oaveudish an I !.tr. Burke
were ly lug ual ler muteuos of death, • sister of mercy
--for tibiae' ems. no moo hal in ire respe4 toa • usymit
head—ei pre ise I • &weir* to see th .4.1 men,
au I t ion I, svour t bri 4 .he is I" a prop-r stet* of
most, I. me their priests • al be pm forgives... guy
, ;heir wick dowse. With Jot Brady sh could do
nothing, but what di I lb. others say? Toler said,
"We thank you very woch for your kindness. We
boos why you come heel' aol we are very muols
obliged to you, but we have nothing de ask forgivecen
You Ragliels people mat your soldiers Into the
1144, eat they die Is battle, and you oda them
berms.. We c sl ler y uremia, and we die for our
c misery, and have nothing tm ask forgi +saes for."
N. mark this, if this «attempt wee oonlined to tholes
for in in it w ioul not algady, but I know, and tier
314 eity's U irocrusicit k Lie • at this moment, there are
tens and ho, dreda thaueacle who are imbued with
them delm ;a, an•l wh a would to-morrow hear with
emultati m of the mar ler of another representative of
tie Queue G mernment in Ireland. (Cheers.)
a..k you if thmvs nomad are to be trusts I? Is it right
at tan moms at t I mar the (rambles in Innen ? If
pag d. y old have in the Howe ot Commons •
h aualre.l men worm or q ill, as ba I we any of those Ingo
who murdere I Lord Fraterick Cavendish and Mr.
Burk (Appleue. ) Now, gels:lame, one more word
upon C onor.aeisin. lad oa't kilo* whether you read
Liberal spoeclom, but II II find they aregenisrally
wale u mt tw thiugs. On., is shim of Lord Salisbury
—(iaugutsr)— cid tits 1102,4 is bulling I iefilmives up
as lb cemm ,ions and trien•ls of the working easels&
A. reg er le L int Sali.isury, he cam take, pr•tty good
care of himself. but I protest against the Liberal party
calling tusunselves par se the friends of thos working
el ...es. (Apolitust.) L eik at the legi.lati in of the
e.t 25 years. All the in &wires, ho ans, and area of
jomace for the working clause have been ?mated by the
Ceumrvative party. (IL 'news I appla”se.) At the
present moment one of the great gasetioas of the day,
toot of improved dwellauge for the poor—who was it
that Ler augat that forwagi, and directed the anginal:lon
of Par'laenent soil the public &a I the country to it?
Why, L rid disbury. (Applause.) I sissy my this, that
notwitbotsading the sneers of Mr. Chamberlain—
(biome) +boodle I that paper of his the mere worthless
vacatioa MI ay ..( • lands I propciator —I say that Lord
Salisbury will go down to posterity as one of the
greatest friends of the working man, henries by his
sagacity, anal by Lie 1.403;4 formight, he forced that
subject on the attention of the country, so that In
future year, every w arising men will here that which
is one of the en st Inestimable blessings in this wind
—a cow( Jrtalild h me. (Lou I applause-) Now,
geatleinm, I think it pretty nearly time for me to
more my rawalu do a. (Orme of "Go on.") I have got
• !Mae ano-e ti .ay; I have wit col I finished, but /
must re id the res elution to you awe use that is I:old-
ness, eughtar.) " that ti. following be the basis
of the rules of tie asioiati in : —(ei.) All persons
G.JuillirV.V.ire whined.s inky he a emitted
inee•
nl.ere ,if the 41410.11 ition, GU I .1144:1 II) enrolled in
heir ro.poCLire LI. 'eta on payment of le." 0 ems.
cot vary 'ls o I (Lo u 4 rwelv• penny
.1t you are a 0 iii•arValtiel fir life. Mum owed
beizhter.) Now, about th r I have to an we
mud give yin g autlen One piece id • iriO4. When
tic, rime arrives sod !nu go a Livening, mind
y u deka th et Ast of Parliament In your pocknta
—the Corrupt Practice. Ac. I mess. It requires
the wis ion of a serpeat to elude Its
grasp (laughter) sal t should be armed-
ingly sorry if soy id my (i-emeervative friends,
thvoruh a little mistake or s little too much zeal were
oblige It, hays • little change ,ef air fir six months—
(reoei wed leuglat 4)—in that dounsl br silty which is
at far trim this hell." (I. laughter aid applause.)
Bit,gentleusau, I for one very in ich r mret the Act j
you know I like &ogee inoley aired, at il. (La aghter.)
I me Meet well when I was firet of all member for
March ter, it cost Sheridan, Mr. Deemer, and my-
self 1500 e Leh ; and the money lid a g .4 deal of
• au I wai circ slats lin the town. Iw ma chaired
though the t iwn on th it OM tsion, an hut was • very
blautdul (lau.:hte.)—i c. i see it n iw—and
ovary wind vhml a 1•17 in it wiring my e dour+. I
eholl4 be very happy Li eagage every lawyer, Liberal
or C ,ri•ery stirs, in ths c iuutry --(laughter)—aud every
• public's ,use, and every horse aud carriage—(ramewed
I nightie) ;it warms us all up you know. It warms up
toe at IU who pays—(ls,ghter)—auo.ll warms up those
who receive it. (Lou I laughter.) Therefore, I for
~ne an very carry tte Bill is passe I ; but, so It is
p weed. we, ae cool C uswervativm, mint obey the law.
( kpplauee.) Now, io conclu+ion, let me tell my noble
from I. Lori Salisbury, that wear. delightalltu see him
t .y--(auplause)--thst wears provluf him ass Dorset
applause)—aud that at this moment, not
ansrdy within them wall+ or in the a aunt; of Dorset,
tat throughout England, there is a large motion a
the community. Gibers", ao well as C iwierretivie,
wi,u I, .k tm tor I S eliebury and to Sir Stafford
N etlecote ti counteract toe evil influences of those
ansu wbo civ. vela ti sum ultra-RI lied utterances ;
' an I I believe that Lord Salisbury ant Sir Staff in)
North° it., will fulfill that MA. became., the pa. vie of
this c matry, wh i have in ire coons in sense that any
ot3er pa pie in the world, d in't rag tire vlo!ent and
! organic changes, they don't countemune I confiscation,
bantam 0016431 U ma Mellia that which Is most
r•aiegnaot an I m abh irrset to the feelings of
Kng.iahtnen—vis.,S iCialigUl Awl C otnuolom. (L and
..heers.) n ible fur I then morel the ad .aption of
! the roles •.f the association.

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51r. CR ammil S4uNoiss, in se: Hiding the resolution,
sal Ihe t very great plesiora in attending that meet.
in./. cud to say that he belonged to the Couleur&Use
Party. lie belonged to Vie Coneervativise because be
thought his intereste as • farmer were looked atm
better by the Cousergatives than by any other party.
It. also believed property in the country wee better
represtotel by the Oon aaaaaaaaaa than any other pmty.
He oral very much afraid there ha I been an epithetic
feelta.r tot iugh the Consery otiose. aa I th It was why
they did not bold that positi in which they hoped they
would attain. They mast put their shoulders to the
wheel, and work together. He hoped the time would
not be far distant when an election would come, and
they would be better represented then they were now.
Re also hoped when they wire •4 till in power Lord
-oailiabury and Sir Stafford Northoute w mid plans the
tricoltorel Hol.ltaio' tut ia a tar better position
than it we now. ( ttiplause.)
Nit% E. L. Kteogastsr then •upportel the set of
rules for the swoociation. it., hod been c ieasetied iota e.
what with the working of the Registeration haeocrlation,
owl do wito the fromitor of that reil .lution. anil
%soul,' u !savour to plus) before them the meaning
and iatent .if the rule, tioutein el in that reeolution.
Th ~rule,, if adept. I, would lay the foue.laton of
the whole structure of th amen ; toerefore, it
we, th • Uttllo it imp iv-anon th thy ehoul I under-
atin I io w irki f tlm,a. lit ta, pr ireeled to
ilitcani.t:h-ra sic lurable ieu,tli.

lfr. lialtieool3 Yzerxwe did hi had the honour of
propoiing for Riot o oes. Icration the next resolution.
The meeting that day was th mouldy a represent dive
one, ad he wee sore they mod have felt it an honour
that their leader in the Uppo. Howie bad taken
eoch an Interest in th s we ding for the loon dion of a
C ins yvative .n for the c .y, lie felt sure
every CU in that room was di roughly c invereant
with the p ,litkel questions of the day. 11. must
speak of the in inner in whioh the present Government
in ulazed the &medic atfi lire of the conotry. sod ha
felt the rein, of GJverstinent shout I be transferre I to
the hinds of a Do ly of einatitutional et it amen. lie
proposed the following revolution : That for the
Mrt year J. J. Varquharsoii, E.q., he the president;
Ashley and J. D. Wingfield Digby. Eel., the
vice-preeident...f the admilti in ; E. L. Kuodereley,
Req., the It in. secretary ; and Itob-,t Willl jour.,
d H Esq., bon tre orer." e h.,pel they would intim ,rt
the reeolutioe, for he wet ware the G.,verniog Com-
mittee would siMuieetly discha.gi tho dative
eutrusted t • them ( to;.lause.)
Nil.. E. W. 0 .vg 110(1411 led the motion. He thought
they woul lb.. lido the same state Ireland wan
In if soineViing vain it soon dem. Th 3 Government
did n ithin: for the farmer. During the lad twelve
months the fo it-andonouth diesels hat broken out in
this comity Lyle., y3t the G ...domed allowed foreign
countries to bring it in free. When the next general
electi .n to it place he h 'pet they would rally around
the Condrvative flag and retorn the C ineedvatives In
a majority. Tidy dido't want .oh men es Gladstone,
but ouch men as I, rd Sali.bury for farmer.. (Lind
applause.) He !did been • farmer between 40 and 50
years, and always loind the Couservative Government
the best for the farmer,. (Applaud.)
The re oolution was carried %manila odly.
L ABacrr then in 'we I—" That the officers of
. the associatiou, the cliairinao of the districts ii.. com-
mittees of the 'dieting regiatrati ,cistioo, and the
followiug gentlemen, representatives of p 'Ring
districts, form a pro•isholl c iffiruittee to o-ganbie
the adociatl in oath.. bads of the eecou.l resolution
Abb,t.bury, It William., Esq, an I Mr William
Ntay.,; Rearaloster, Maj .r Grow. ' • Bore E
Kin iersley, Eel. and Mr Ii Fa*. ; Bend-
ford, J J Farquhareori, E..). an 1 Sir W Ch mien ;
B'ilprt ; C (liners: .t.t 'II and hr .1 C
Voot ; Charm lath, nir G F Newell ; Cidil-
t to., It D Thornten, Eel ; L .r.l
Aohley and 1r II if unr, ; D ,rchever, 11 8
Ml list in, Eel., Mr If K by', an I %Er J P II algae ;
Everehot A Kadin. te.i, J Li idoo
Gillingnam, Calonel P XI dud w. ; liaz3lhury, Rev K
Bird in; Meiden Newt ,n, Col mei J A Digby
Meloombe Re.gi Augustus 1,4-ter, Esq • I°x,le, W
13,1431a1e, E•q. 54r E Ii :iolly. Nlr U £ ti.r4 .12
Pu Idletown, nV E Bremer, Iraq, all hr W lI Hill;
Suaftediary, C ipt tin H Yeatman aid Kr tir (tonic;
Short) nee, J P G Eel ; iridg I
Ylatal'^, Stnrcuinster Newt .n, Ii S itla,f,
E q; iv mad,. George But, Eel. in.' Kr ;•
T.lorucornbi, C iptaia Beige; VI ar t!ts.a. G Bind,
gag, and Mr it Pioney ' • Wimhoree. C J Perks, Ein
Winfriik, J Fyler, Beq, dad Mt Chapman Saunders.'

Mr. W. D. DOODaLII seconded the resolution.
Having bean for some rime chairman of the Poole
Conservative Avoollation. he c .old speak to the good
It had done in hi. Imm-diate neigh), mrhood. 4,me
70*`. MO they were Crouhl-1 with • Liberal member
3t Pole. hut be was pleased to be abls to tall th.m,
thrmegn tha energy of the marchere of that saurciati
ant through that al no, tip, w•-re abl .on the hit
000 ohm t snatch One cot nut of the burning fiory
turner (I.anghter.) He hoped when the time came
Uri w mid all w •rk togs her, that there would be no
divisiona of opini an thtt they would try to carry
thee.. member. for the c intv, if n-t .t the gen .ral
elan I in, at any rate when a bye-election came. ( kp-
plan.e.)
The resolution we. canted by acc'am stioo.
Mr. J. Ftoirea, P., propose I that a v.de of
thanka be tender. I Ii the Marquis of Sa/isbury for
pre I ling. ((Aeon.) They het been told that they
might greet Lord iellebgry as a Dorsetshire man. He
hal the honour .It,inct in the Moans of Commons
with him for miny yew., and as an old man he
realism', wed when he first heard that manly and
vitdrous el iqaenoe they had heard that day. In the
Hones of Commons the noble Alfarottle had served Ms
cauntry and hie Queen. (Cheers.) He would not g
through hi. 'stelae, as thay were known to them all,
in ire or lees, hut he could n d but remind them he was
one of the foremost members of that Government
which under their IFNI. leader, Lord Bmcondeld—
(cheer.)—hurie I back the tide of battle from the walls
of Constantinonle—(renewed cheers)—and secured to
Htrops • peace—s permarnket peso., be hoped ••• I
peace, at any rat,, whiol bad hatted up to the pressot
time. (Great applause.) Lord Sali.bury in that
action only fillet the place of his great pred•osseirs,
the ancestors of hi. vett how., the louder of which
WM that iliwtriorts stak morn the great Lord
Rurleigh. (A.ppl awe.) The bin, member concluded
by in ~in the resolution.
C don,' the Hon. E. H. T. Dutra seconded ths
Tot of thank.. . . . .

['he reeoluti in wee enrhusie.tically earriai, loud
cheers being •Is gi• for Lvly dalo.bu-y.
Th, Marinis of SALISBURY, in reply, ..II : Mr.
Clia'em in an I Gartlemen,—i beg t , thank 'pi most
earilly both on my own behalf an I o. Lade 8.1 i-
. for the groat kindnee• with which you have
received this vote of thank.. I am very s -noble of
the kin lanes with which you have ...oared ice. but I
am only here doing Mr duty as • Dorset proprietor.
(Cheers.) I will not pay you back so badly for your
kindusse to me so to inflmt upon you another speech.
(Odes of "Go on.") I wit only ask you to remembor
this meeting and to remember th.t you who have
voted these rasolutione are squally bound t them
as we are who have proposed than—(app saes)—
and that it le an engagement on your part that
you will carry out this metier thoroughly. When
first thee@ thing. were talked about I was
told that the difficulty of getting no • meeting in
favour of this associatini w oil, be alit there were
listlessness and &pithy, act nobody w .ul.l come.
Well, we have Iwo that euoh f.ars a. that Were
utterly unjostillivl by the regal. (Chimes.) We have
had • hearty, thoroughly rspreasntativs meeting—a
meeting which shoes the .3 unty is in earnest and
moan. to do brininess in the matter. (Cher..) And
-hen we separate let us remember we are supportinr
this °eradiation because it is a mainstay of the great
cause; it is the cause of England'. greatness abroad,
of England's prosperity at h .me—of England'. pros.
Perity at home founded on the principle of ay.iding
SS far as possible the diasens,ons .whion should rand
assess asunder, and on the principle above all of doing
Juetioe to die .im.,d "very alas. which is leapt able
to el-fend iteslf. (Loud cheers.)
Colouel Stagert.c proposed • vote of thanks to the
Chairman.— hi . CHAIM= SPICCR seconded the resolu-
tion, and the CH•IRII•S briefly responded.