The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-12-16 00:00:00

"Fools rush in where tinsels fear to trend."

(Laughter.) If Mr. ficheleber had retained the ordinary
phrase he would have more correctly described the idles-
Lion. However, they knew that they bad to encounter •
candidate from Cenford. They had had three or four who
aspired to represent Canford by being members of Parlia-
ment for Poole. They had now got another candidate from
Canford—the last time they had the lord of the manor—
before him they had the brother of the lord, and now they
had the stepfather of the lord, and he supposed if the
stepfather was rejected they would, in time, be favoured
with the agent, the bailiff, and the li itler of the lord of
the manor. (Laughter.) It wee • satisfactiun to them to
know that they had got an angel watching over them.
But when they had angels over them it was neceleary they
should consider what kind of angels they were, for as they
all knew, there were angels of light and of darkness.
There were angels of destruction—destroyine angels—and
he would like to know what sort of an angel it was Poole
had got to deal with. Mr. Scbrieber's speech was not made
at an open public meeting. Let the other party come
before them like men and stand up and speak in public.
At • Conservative meeting at which Mr. Schrieher spoke
he said: "They might be sure that never by Sir Ivor's
lips would the sentence of separation between his
family and Poole be pronounced, but that if on the other
hand that sentence should be pronounced by his humble
self (meaning himself—Mr. Sclarieber) or other lips, they
might still rest amered that, although Sir Ivor Guest
might accept with silence that separation, he would do so
with groat regret, but that he would accept it AS final and
irrevocable. Further, he would not anticipate such
separation which, on personal grounds, was so painful to
himself and to all who heard him, and, on public grounds,
so adverse to the best interests of Poole; but he felt it his
duty on that occasion to leave them in no doubt on that
point. It really seemed to him as though something
horrible were to happen if Mr. Banisher were
not elected. He (the speaker) had be•ri observing what
would be likely to be some of the painful things arising
out of this painful separation. Perhaps it would lead to
the taking off the tolls of the bridge, the Wilding of
another necessary row of cottage the deepening of the
harbour, or the removal of the bar at the entrance to the
harbour. Its thourht the "sneer' had once said he would
clear that bar away; and he thought, altogether, that if
this dreadful separation took place the poor teen of the
borough would roe 'vet liberty, and could vote freely accord-
ing to their conscience.; and he thouzlit that ••411 • con.
summation devoutly to be wished. There would be no more
" fishing" petitions, as there would be no further interest
In them. He believed they would he well prepared to face
this calamity that was ro foreshadowed, and he sup.
posed they might even breathe freely. He shoirlil at bees
the whole of the inhabitants and invite everebxly to
COMO and listen to him, Conservative. as well as
Liberals, and including the whole of the angel, of
Canford. During his (the speaker's) absence from Poole
there bad been various score, on the subject of dissolution
of Parliament, and he (the speaker) alluded to the antici-
pated important speech of thu Premier at the Lord
Mayor's banquet at the Guildtoill, but which turned out
to be of no importance stall. Ha(be speaker), however,
had not looked forward to an announcement of the dis-
solution. He would take this opportunity to state—se
some misgivings were expressed in Poole as to the pro.
bability of him (the speaker) being absent in the event of
a dissolution taking place—that he should hold it to be •
grievous misfortune to himself not to be present when •
dissolution took place. But he would tell them that
before he went away he took every precaution to be well
informed in time to enable him to appear speedily before
them in the case of a dissolution of Parliament taking
place, and the electors of Poole might rest assured that he
would never place himself in such a position as to
be unable to reach theca in time whenever such an event
took place. He was not one who Lad believed in • very
prompt dissolution, and he did not do so now, and for
this reason—people who knew they were going to be
hung took the longest route they could to the scaffold.
Mr. Waring referred bristly to the Afghan and Zulu
Wars, but said be would not touch on these questions at
any length. 1111 he had already dealt with them on a
previous occasion, and there was little change in the
aspect of affairs since that time, except that our soldiers
were in Cobol, and that mune further progress had been
made with the Afghan War. Ile condemned the foreign ,
policy of the Government, and quoted statistics showing
the heavy increase of expenditure and taxation under the
present Government as compared with the Government '
of Mr. Gladstone. Coder Lard Beacon.field the taxation
of the country had amounteel to le. GI. per head addl. ,
timid. Mr. Gladstone's Government hail saved seventeen
millions, whilst the administration of Lord Beaconsfield '
bai left a deficit of six millions of mousy. The
taxation remitted ty Mr. Gladstone's Govern- !
meet amounted to twelve minims, and now under this
present Tory Administration the British public
had to pay 6) millions more than Wore. Tee
annual expenditure was fifty millions sterling
under Mr. Gladstene's Government, and now it
was sixty millions. Ile would lit, to say one word on the
subject of Ireland; he was not a Home Ruler, but he
could not forget that Ireland was an integral part of the
United Kingdom, and was close at our doors, and though
the Irish were • troublesome people, and Nome-
times cried out a good deal when they were not hurt much,
it was quite elms' they had been hurt on this occasion.
They (the Irish) had been suffering from agricultural
deprendon as England had ; but though they had been in
the habit of crying out much more loudly than we had,
we should forgive them. It was • question for Pszliamenit
to consider how fir they could legislate to remedy
certain existing evils ; but they could not give them Home
Role. He hoped the Liberal party would never coquet with
Home Role, as It was important the whole of the United
Kingdom should be preserved man unbroken empire. He
also touched briefly on the Eastern Question, and mein.
Caned that the Treaty of Berlin had not given the general
eatLfaction that It was by some part's. said to have done.
The Emperor of Austria was no doubt satisfied with the
Treaty of Berlin, as it extended his empire to the .ditgean
Sea; best the Armenians and the Greeks were not satisfied,
and as to the projected reforms in Asia Minor, they would
need the expenditure of large sums of money, and he
believed the Turks to be too poor to effect such reforms.
Alluding to the depression in English agriculture, it pre-
sented, he said, a serious aspect of alf.im, and, although
there was somewhat of a revival in trade and they might
not next year suffer from • bad harvest, he believed the
causes of that deoreselon to be of a permanent character,
and he in this opinion differed from Kr. Gladstone. He
did net think the competition in American corn would
degrease; there was no chance of higher Delhi charges
affecting this, as the cost of constructing railways was so
light compared with other countries that if one rail-
way company raised the freight*, another railway would
soon be opened to convey produce and material at
• cheaper rate. But there were remedial mea-
sures which might be taken to ameliorate the present
distress. Something would have to be done for the
squire., the farmers, and the I•boeurers. The squires must
be enabled to a portion of the estates they held, in
order to enable them simply to live upon the rest he
of the nation were not very bright at peewee
CluTtet
could not think this was due to chance. It was due
to bad management. At the present time almost every.
thing was against us ; the Afghans, the Zulus. the Boers,
the Armenian., the Irish, the Turks, and even the ale.
ments were against us; this was not • time of tranquillity
and leisure. We must, be said, war with reason and
intelligence against foreign competition, with increased
energy and industry against foreigners and humbuga at
home. We had got an entangled foreign policy, sad he
to the elector, of Poole to prevent Mr. Schrieber
b▪
eing to help to tie an additional knot in that tangle.
(Loud cheers.)
The CHAI/UUX here mentioned that he had received
letters from • number of gentlemen se lise were unable to
attend, amoupt them being Aldermen It Kemp-Welch,
F. Styria& and G. It. Penny, who were all unwell.
Mr. T. Fal.vgr,of Southampton, then delivered a dining
and powerful address. In which Ile seamed the Govern-
ment of committina beam.° they were not practi-
cal statesmen. He sold Lord Beeeensfield'e phrase
iiiniseiesa et Mertes should have been insnerities
gyreameine and that his lordship would live in posterity ise
having made a Queen an Empress and himself an Leland I
a tutot of the Garter,
The MAMMON put the vote of censure on the Govern-
toestk to the abse, sad it wee curial with ecelawatioa.

Th. MAToa propodedoind Mr. LT now sotooded, • vote
of conk lents in -Mr. Nraring, and It was carried with
enthusiasm.
Mr. Watts° returned thanks, and proposed • vote of
thanks ti the cbtirotati, which wag evunded by Mr.
Tiurvisaoi. and carried.
, Toe I...sidings tnroinated with an original version of
"Auld Long Syno," sung by Dr. PHILPOTS, the audience
joining in tha chorus.