The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-07-04 00:00:00

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DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS
DORCHESTEE, TUESDAY, VILY 4, 1888.

' must have made every Englishman's blood boil
to listen to the cold-blooded answer of Mr. Lay-
ard to the demand for interference on behalf of
our unhappy countrymen, women, and children,
chained and enslaved in Abyssinia. We are
proud to acknowledge that the voice of another
Dorset candidate, that of the humane and gene-
roils as well as accomplished member for Poole,
Mr. Henry Seymour, was raised on this occasion
on behalf of his friend, Captain Cameron. Mr.
Layard coolly appeared to think that it was
much better a British Consiil should remain in
slavery than that any disturbance should be raised
about his insignificant life or liberty ; in fact, he
as good as intimated that in all probability he
should make such a statement to the House as
would result in his being put to death ! But
Mr. Seymour asked and asked in vain what
oourse the Government meant to take; and for
the first time in the history of the British people
there arises a case in which there is no redress
for the oppression, and it is alleged even torture,
of British subjects by a barbarian prince. The
appearance of Mr. Seymour in the field naturally
leads us to speak of the impending Poole election,
in which his return appears to be the only one that
is sure. Mr. Hely is again upon the scene, and
we publish that gentleman's ingenious address.
He will doubtless play, as heretofore, the part
of the popular oandidate. If he has faith like
Napoleon in the star of his destiny he will in-
evitably succeed on this occasion, for we observe
that he dates his address on the anniversary of
his natal day in Poole. Mr. Bashford has not
hitherto succeeded in gaining the confidence of
the electors—chiefly, we have heard, from being
known to have stood on diametrically opposite
principles to those he at present avows on two
other occasions at two other places. Mr. Harding
we should judge is nowhere, being the nominee
of too extreme and obscure a section ever to
succeed in Poole. Whilst in this locality it is
worthy of remark that even good old
Admiral Walcot, who addresses the con-
stituencies with the kindly mixture of the old
seaman and the ancient knight aa "dear gentle-
men" is opposed by a man of tolerable
name, but it would be a pity to see the
admirable ousted. His honest out-spoken
opinions on nautical affairs would be more missed
than those of any other naval member of the
House; and, heaven knows, we have none of his
intrepidity, fidelity, and candour, to spare.
Mr. Drax has issued a supplementary address at
Wareham, which surely ought to satisfy any
further requirements that could have been ex-
pected of him. He goes in for the Repeal of the
Malt Tax, and denounces the odious inequalities
of the Income Tax, like a man who will not for
any fanciful crotchet of expediency submit to
saddle important interests with injustice for the
advantage of others. —The Dorchester can-
didate' have been resting on their oars.
Not so the Weymouth. The contest rages
keenly in the united boroughs of Weymouth
and Meloombe Regis. At the Odd Fellows
celebration, on Wednesday, the two members
and their rival aspirants were all present—
Lord Grey de Wilton, as a member of the Order
occupying the chair. His lordship with Captain
Gridley, his leading opponent, made 'all the
running" (i.e.) speaking, whilst the two commer-
cial antagonists, Messrs. Brooks and Edwards,
were discreetly reserved. Whether the honourable
candidates made any political capital or not out of
an occasion where, to use Lord Grey de Wilton's
own expression, "politics are tabooed," is more
than we can surmise. Of course, so far as
creating an impression went, it was legitimately
attainable then and there; and, as we thought,
when we saw the animals competing for prizes
at the cattle show led out day after day into
the ring and put through all their paces, this
assembling of the batch of candidates together
at Weymouth for purposes of comparison, is not
at all a bad idea, and might be adopted, if not
improved upon, elsewhere.
At Lyme we learn that Mr. Hawkshaw has
resigned, and that his son has issued an address
seeking the favour of the electors. The eon's
address was only issued late on Saturday night.
Affairs have received moreover a fresh complica-
tion from the appearance in the field of Mr. F.
It Dumas, whose meeting is announced for this
(Tuesday) evening.
The Dorset County Members have, up to this '
moment, issued no addressee; but we have just
learned that a joint address from them will appear in
the course of thisday (Tuesday.) Promptitude reigns
however in the west. In Bristol the days of nomin-
ation and polling have already been appointed for
Monday and Tuesday next—the write being ready
for issuing on Thursday, immediately on the dissolu-
tion of Parliament, and it is expected that Dor-
chester and other boroughs will follow the same
coarse. Mr. Westrapp, the new Conservative
Candidate, has a good ehanoe' of coming in with
Mr. Einglake for Bridgwater. A joint address
has been issued by Acr. Neville Grenville and
Major Paget, who come in unopposed for East
Somerset.