The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-01-08 00:00:00

MR. BRIGHT, M.P., AND MR. H. D.
BZYMOI7II, M.P.

Mr. Jacob Bright publishes a sorrespondenes whick
has taken pleas between himself and Mr. John Morley,
the editor of the Forentily isviser. whisk it
out, specially affects .H. D. Seymour, tt. r. tee
Poole. Mr. Bright began the earreepoodenee by corn.
eleining of a passage in an article mititled "Public
Affairs," which stated that 'the absurd inenenney
some of Mr. John Bright', stateussota, as, for instance,
that all the land of !Scoilaed lain the hands of twelve,
and of England in the h oda of 150 proprietors, we
serious bleuiishes in his oratory." The writer also took
Mr. Bright to task for an alleged declaration that "the
poor only are fit to legislate for the rich." The oonea.
poodenee finishes by Mr. Jacob Bright erolaining that
what his brother molly said as to the ownership of the
land was that half the land in England is is the pp,
session of fewer than 150 men, and half the liod is
Scotland I. In the pomeasion of not mon than tea or
twelve men. As to the other point, Mr. Jahn Bright
said. "I deny altogether tbat the rich alone unqualified
to legislate for the poor, any more than that the par
alone would be 44.11111-d to leglalote for the rich." /1,„
Jacob Bright wanted to know the neon of the writer of
the article. Mr. Morl-y replied he expected
shortly to see the gentleman, and Took! give the
IMMO if aetborised. Not getting a speedy reply, Mr.
Bright sent a letter to the editor, addressed to the
anooynions writer of the article in question, from which
we quo e the following : . . _

" I shall not seek for epithets wherewith to charm
Mune /oar conduct ia this matter. it is enough the
your wiener and norm show that you regard it as I do
I observe that you go out of your way to rosin an
attack on Mr. Cobden. I believe your elatemeat I.
false; but at it appear. to refer to unreported mover.
mations, I am usable to convict you, as I bare dope in
the come of my brother.
" You are a 'Liberal member of the House of Crow
moos.' lam at present ignorant whither you represent
• free constituency (of which there are some h, England)
or whether you sit for a pleas where the election have
only the appearance of choice. If the latter, you may
be less afraid of giving the public your name, as yr a
might tbertby establish an additional claim to the sup-
port of your patrons' if the former, the cem would 1.41
different. Those who elected you might put incon-
venient guanacos. In the sourest of your article, you
may lb* people of Glasgow 'knew they had DO real
grievances.' If that be your view, should not you bike
your seat on the other side of the House, among those
who think that things are perfeet as they are, and that
obange is an evil ? You speat of Mr. Gladstone's Ite-
form Bill as • double dose of concession in granting tie
voting privilege,' in order to compensate for its author's
illibenility in other direedona. And vet you know that
If that bill had passed, millions of your countrymen
would 'till have bete excluded from the franchise—a
stele of things now hardly to be found in any civilised
country.
. . . .

"You have done one venire to the cense of Reform.
end for that I thank you. By ateasking Mr. Bright
through miserable inventions of your own, you have
given the strongest testimony which it is possible to
obtain that the speeches whose induces, you would fain
undermine are themselves ananswerabin"

Mr H. D. Seymour, it seems, had beso out of town,
sad so bad the editor, which explains the delay in
answering Mr. Jacob Bright's letters, but Mr. Seymour
writes that on the 313th Dec., the day on which the
letter above was written to him anonymously, he wrote
to Mr. John Bright as follows, and sent it for trans-
mission to the editor of the Fortnightly Review :
" Knoylo. Salisbury, Dee. 30, 1866.
" dear Mr. Bright, —As I MD informed that your
brother, Ur. Jaoob Bright, has been writing to Hr.
Morley, the editor of the Fortnightly Review, complain-
ing of an inaccuracy in an mirk in white one of your
speeches wee misquoted, and requiring to know the
author's name, I writ* this letter to inform you that I
wrote that portion of the arras which relates to English
affairs, and in which the error somplained of was made.
lam always prepered to accept the responsibility of
what I write, and had you expressed a wish to know the
nano* of the writes of the article in question, no doubt
Hr. Morley would, after ameoltetion with me, have tent
It to you without delay. As Mr. Jamb Bright had no
kind of right to ask for it I think Yr. Morley aired
oaproperlyw in refusing it. I don't know whether you
y ever saw the article in mention. mod I will,
therefore, position that it is the puling affairs' artiele
of the lit November. An spoke has been inserted se
the January number of the Reeky, and I have directed
a number of it to be scat to you at the Reform Club.
I beg again to apologise for the mistake, mad to asters
you that you were not intentionally misquoted. At the
same time, I must say tbot 1 believe your statement, that
half the land in Robliod and Scotland is in the hands of
160 and 12 proprietors respectively, is 'moonset ; but is
you give no authority for so important a declaration, it
Is impossible to point out where the error lies. That
there should have been any mistake I deeply regret,
al,hough it did not affect my argument. I am ore of
the many members of the Liberal party who, admiring
your oratorical genius, and fully admitting the Imbibe
benefits which you have in many respects conferred upon
the country during your long career, mast respectfully
beg to differ from you as to the sadden and sweeping
changes which, to judge from your speeches, you would
wish to Mtrodocts into our laws and Constitot.
" Earnestly hoping that you may so temper your acts
and speeshes as to render it possible for moderato men
to agree with and mgport yolk
I nensittryziours truly,
"J. Bright, Esq." d
T D. Kwriscros."

a" Weeheonntryniaa" writing to the editor et the
Star, says :—" Pray can you tell as who are Me pro-
prietors at tlio Fortnightly &view? I hoar that Kr•
Mohr Poyatoor, Liberal somber for Poole, and Yr.
Charles Waring, his mileage', are two el theta.*

Tan Reeser/R.—The /SOW lop that the current
quarterly return of the review will
_probably saws*
even the roost sangline finansiers. Daring the whole
of Gm past year the reveries has suffered from very
considerable rednotioes in taxation. But, notwith-
standing the receipts for the last quarter are 2325,000
in exams of the corresponding period of last ; the
reeeipto of the pact sloe months show • net lncneaae of
little less this • million; and for the whole yoor the
nee decrease is only £410,816. The lather malt la we
shall sex is in Ina aufildeatly striking, but the one-
z=of the owe whole years is somewhat dnadirso-
to the past twelve swath& The large reduetion•
In the Budget of 1865 searcely exercised their naturel
inflamer daring the last nine mosthe of that ow, but
Wicked a_itroportionate depression spoil the first
quarter of 1886; no that, to form • etrist somparison
betwesa the two jeans, a very ommiderable amount el
the darer, which is roamed in 1866 shoeld
to 1866. But we shall better estimate the full
stl• rearms of thin return for the twelve months if
we compare it with the ouniuspoading return two pears
ago. For the year ending December 31, 1864, our totaf
receipts were L 70.125,000, In the following spring Mr.
Gladatoce introduced the greater part of the reductions
which have been in operation sloes. The estimated
effect of these redectioes wet to samilkm no Ism than
£5,4110,000 of revenue, end the whole of this lose we!
to take effect within two jean—that li, before April
next. Last year he again morticed 082,000 from he
imams of the current financial year. By the reduaffon
of the two years, therefore, he abandoned little kr
than ell millions, sad there retail= DILI! one quarter
more during which the lore is to be felt. a other words,
It night have been estimated that the menus of 1864
would be reduced by more than 11.0 Malian@ at the sod
of 1866. This would make as estimated income for the
present year of about 66 milliona. Instead of this it is
eateally 664 militate, so that it has recovered to the
extent of Si millioas is two yeses. The estimated
expenditure for the current year was £215,226,000. If
oar suppositions, therefore, should be realised, Mr.
Disraeli will have to deal with a soophio of sheet •
million and thnie-ipmsimrs. Whether it will he prinked,
In our 11,0•021i011.. to apply this satiefmnary balsam
to she reduction taxatlos, may be • somewhat
antioem question. It will be difilault to avoid some
Ames in our weiliteire system, and we warmly vesture
to hops that the Government will increase the ellieleacy
of our military and naval forma, and at the same time
diminish their expense. Bat to whatever purpose the
money may be applied, it is equally airesaltio to knew
that we cemmenee the year with • very imaddieshie
balsam If additional espeWie sboehi be sesessety
oer resent polio, has .aalmled as to undertake it with-
out in any way augmenting oar burdens' or! we have
wore mosey than we want, we can Mill further lighten
• weight of taxation whir* has already been read,
reduced.