The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-07-11 00:00:00

TIVERTON.

I LORD PALMERRICON AND 1118 CONSTITUSIM -Th.
Prime Minister has issued the following address to
his constituents:—" 94, Piccadilly, July 6, 1865.
Gentletnen,—Parliament having been dissolved.
fresh elections will immediately take place, and I
beg to solicit from you a renewal of that confidence
with which you have honoured me during seven suc-
cessive Parliaments. If I were now addressing you
for the first time, it might be necessary for me to
dilate upon the future; but I think I may with
propriety found my appeal for the continuance of
your favour upon a reference to the past, and to the
results of the course pursued by the Government of
which, during the last six years, I have had the
honour of being a member. During those six years,
notwithstanding the heavy pressure of three bed
seasons on Ireland and the severe distress which pre.
veiled in some of the manufacturing districts in con-
, sequence of the great diminution in the supply of
cotton from North America, the United Kingdom
as a whole has enjoyed a remarkable degree of pro-
gressive prosperity. Peace has been preserved with
foreign nations, and this country has been exempt
from the exertions and sacrifices which within that
period other countries have been required to make.
Additional freedom has bems-given to the employ.
ment of capital, and to the exercise of productive
industry; trade with foreign countries has been re-
lieved from many obstructions, while new and in.
portent channels of commerce have been opened in
distant parts of the globe. The result has been that
the wealth of the United Kingdom has rapidly in-
creased, and though great reductions of taxation
have been made, and some diminution bee been
effected in the national debt, the public re-
venue has always been sufficient to provide
for the public expenditure, and to maintain in
efficiency those naticnal defences, naval and military,
which are to every country among the best securites
for peace. The present time IA remarkable for the
progressive application of the results of science to
the operations of war both by sea and by land, and
this country has not in such matters lagged behind
the other great Powers of the world. Nor has oar
I colonial administration been less suooessfuL The
' population of our North American Provinces are
devotedly loyal and attached to connexion with this
country; and India, no longer the scene of Maur-
section and rebellion, is making rapid strides in
civilization and general prosperity. But the six
years' period, in these respects so happy, was doomed
to witness • calamity which plunged the whole
nation into grief, and while the loss of the Prince
Consort will for ever be recorded among the great
domestic misfortunes of the country, the universal
sorrow which that lose occasioned will at least testify
that the nation duly appreciated the high and
Admirable qualities of the Prime whom they mourn.
On the other hand, a bright gleam of hope for the
future has cheered the land by the fortunate and
happy marriage of the Prince of Wales and the birth
of two Royal Princes. How long the Ministry of
which 1 have the honour to be a member may cion•
Untie to direct the affairs of this great nation must
depend upon the will of the Parliament now about
to be elected, but I think I may be allowed to say
for myself and my colleagues that a just judgment of
our past administration will entitle us to the same
measure of good-will which has been extended to us
by the Parliament now dissolved. In the mean-
time I again respectfully and earnestly solicit from
you a continnanoe of that confidence, which, for so
many years has been to me • proud and honourable
distinction.—l have the honour to be, Gentle-
men, your most obliged and obedient servant,
PALMERSTO.N."

Vortrg.

[Faom " BAJWILLLAS :

A POLITIC:La Pont you MI
Psorts.l

"For the orthodox one day they shout,
On the next for Heresy cry oat;
And when State Religion with Dissent
At issue is in Parliament;
As Place is lost or kept thereby,
They give their votes accordingly;
To-day supporting Mother Chtirsh,
Leaving her to-morrow in the larch,
Their religion being made to bead
As need requires, to serve an end;
In short, like gamblers at taaluismmon,
The God they wetship most in Mammon.

Such are the men about to try
John Bull to gull by triskery,
And promises—both old end new—
About what they Wend to do;
Or boastings loud of what they're done,
Since last the light for Place they won.
Who for Place would sally England's honour,
And ignominy bring ;mon her."

LAYNNT ABU AND FATAL Pic Nic AOCIDZIfT Ut
JIIIISZT.—We deeply regret to record a very melan-
choly aml fatal accident which has occurred in this
island, sad has caused great distress in one of our most
respectable family circles, and very deep and general
empathy. The Rev. D. If. Lempriere, chaplain of
the General Hospital and Prison, with his wife, children,
and servant, and a lady friend, set out in the morning
on a plc °in excursion to Bonne Nita. and while Mrs.
Leinpriere was walking along the ridge of one of the
dangerous precipices there, one of the children having,
It is supposed, run too near the edge, in the attempt to
save the little girl from the imminent danger in which
she was placed, hfra. Lempriere herself slipped and fell
over the precipice. The unfortunate lady was dashed
to pieces, and her husband, who wee • short dietaries
behind, alarmed by the arias of his little daughter, ran
to the spot, when he had the agony of mind to find his
wife lying at the foot of the precipice a lifelau and
mutilated corpse.
BILLS OT MORTALITY.—The mortality of the oonntrr
is on the increase. Last week the deaths in the eleven
principal towns amounted to 2,674, making an average
of 25 In the 1011). London was within one of the
average. The highest was Manchester, which reached
33, while the adjoining town of Salford wee only 29.
Liverpool was 30, and Glaszow 26. The lowest figure
was 19, which wag shared by Dublin and Birmingham.
Of the whole number of deaths, 1,369 took place la
London. This is an erases above the ten years'
average to the unusual extent of 182. The principal
cause of death in diarrhcea, which rose to more than
double the number et the previous week. The w'aoles
number of births was 4,000, of which 1,949 belong to
Lotiddif, whirkis:allghtly above the ten raze' average.

1,111‘47.