The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-05-30 00:00:00

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MR. GL ADSTONE'S SEAT—Mr. Gatborne !Tardy, it
not going to desert his constituents at Leominster, to
oppose Mr. Gladstone's return for the University of
Oxford. If the Conservatives are anxious to °outset the
seat, they must look out for another man.
BANBURY. —The Conservative Association has in-
vited Mr. Charlie Ben, of the firm of Thompson, Boner,
and Co., inercbautt, London, to beoome a candidate for
this borough at the ensuing election. Sir Charles
Douglas, the sitting member, will offer himself for re-
election, and it is understood that Mr. B. Samuelson,
the wellknown agricultural implement maker, who
unsuccessfully contested the borough at the last election,
will become a candidate. There are nearly 600 electors
qn the register. The political opinions of Sir C. Douglas
and Mr. :Samuelson are nearly identical, and a Conserva-
tive may come in the event of two Liberals going to the
The election intelligence from all parts of the country
looks hopefully for the Conservative cease. la South
Warwickshire the Conservative candidates have just
completed • most succeenful canvass, so that their
Saturn is as nearly certain as any event yet future well
clan be. Lord Duncan, who oppoaes them in the Whig
interest, is a young man totally unconnected with the
tiounty, and with no prestige of capacity in his favour.
In Greenwich the Conservatives are all astir, and
arrangements are being made to secure the candidature
qf their former representative, Mr. Peter Bolt and of
Sir J. Heron Maxwell, who is also favourably known.
The only opponent as yet named as likely to contest the
borough is Sir Charles Bright, though Captain Douglas
Harris has been distantly hinted at. Di Taunton,
Cardiff, /to., the same activity exists, indicative that
the coming strife will be well sustained by the Con-
servatives.
MR. DISRAELI'S POLITICAL MANIFESTO. —Mr. Disraeli
has issued an address to his constituents, whieh has
every appearance of a party manifesto. Reviewing the
history of the Parliament which is about to be dissolved,
he remarks that the parliamentary oondition may be
generally described as • continued attack on the Con-
! stitution in Church and State, sometimes suggested,
always sanctioned,by the Ministry,and invariably origin-
ating with the Liberal party. The attacks on the
Church have, beasys,been idlest "slightly discomfited,"
and we are told that "the House of Commons has re-
solved that Church Rates shall not be abolished." The
, attacks on the State have not been so energetic, but
more prolonged; and Mr. Disraeli considers the latest
division on the Borough Franchise Bill as • determi-
nation to accept the principle of Lord Derby's Reform
Bill, instead of lowering the franohiee. In Cie separa-
tion of Church and State, Mr. Ditraeli sees the seeds of
national corruption, and the fall of empires. On the
extension of the Electoral Franchise depends the dis-
tribution of power in the State. 'it appears to me,
that the primary plan of our ancient constitution so
doh in various wisdom, indicates the course that we
ought to pursue in this matter. It secured our popular
rights, by intrusting power, not to an iodiseriminate
multitude, but to the estate or order of the Commons ;
and a wise Government should be *ireful that the isle.
, inmate of that state should bear • due relatihn to the
moral and material development of the country." " The
leaders of the Conservative party," says Mr. Disraeli,
although they will never shriak from the responsibility
of their seta, are not obtrusive candidates for office.
Plasm without power may gratify the vain, but can never
satisfy a noble ambition."

MR. CRAIILEi DICKENS'S REPORTING
EXPERIENCE.
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' *r. Charles Dickens, always as happy in making •
I:
has belt in writing an attractive story, Presided
the second oidebratiou of the Newspaper Press Fund!
'Raturday—a society established to assistyliterary men
toted with pehrie journals, bet who do not eume,
7 w.thin the range of the "3.Literary puud,,7 He
, II !ant ,into the gallery of the House of
v IS • aaihanientacy reporter when I was a boy not
teen, and I left can hardly believe the incanr-
' truth—nigh thirty years ego; and I have pursued
e calling of • reporter under ci. munatanees of which
i.e. ay of m brethren at home in England here, many
My bret 's suocessors, can form no adequate cow
'Won. I live often transcribed for the punter from
y 'shorthand notes important public speeches in which
. strictest accuracy was required, and a mis-
ts In which would, have been to a young man
ierely compromiaing, writing on the palm of my
l*cd by the light of a dark lantern in a post
and four, galloping through • wild country
through the, dead of night at the then surprising
r 460 r fifteen mile' an hour. The very last time I was
i zeter I 'strolled into the emtle yard, there to
{ entity, for the amusement of a friend, the spot on
.l4eh I once "hook." as we used to call it, an election
-spe.aiiii cif my noble friend Lord Russell in the midst of
a lrecly fight maintained by all the vagabonds in that
divilioti of the county, and under inch pelting rain,
•as I remember 0-- good-natured colleagues who
a at e, held a pocket handkerchief
the Manner of a state canopy
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of the old gallery of the old House of Commons • and I
have worn my feet by standing to write in a prepc:sterom
pen in the old House of Lords, where we need to he
huddled like no many sheep (laughter)—kept in wattle'
tall the woolsack might want re-stuffing. Eeturnlait
home from excited politicial meetings in the oountry he
the waiting press in London, I do verily believe I have
been upset in almost every description of vehicle known
in this country. laugh.) I have been, in my time
belated on miry by-roads towards the small boars, forty
or fifty miles from London, in a rieketty carriage, with
exhausted horses and drunken poet boys, and hare rat
back in time, before pablication, to be received with
never-forgotten compliments by Mr. Black in the braises&
of Scotch. coming from the broadest of hearts I eat
knew. (Hear, hear.) Ladies and gentlemen, I mantles
these trivial things, as an aunranee to you, that I neve
have forgotten the fascination of that old plunk
(Cheers.) The pleasure that I used to feel, in the ra-
pidity and dexterity of Its exercise, has never faded ea*
of my breast. Whatever little calming ef heed or Iseaft,
I took to it or acquired in it, I have so reaseed, seem.
I fully believe I could resume it to-morrow. (Cheers.)
To this present year of my life, when I site this hafl.
or where not, hearing a dull speech—the phonemes&
does occur. (Laughter.) I sometimes bora& the
of the moment, by cranially following the
in the old, old way; and sometimes, (if you sea
me,) I even find any hand going oat the table eleelb.
(Laughter.) The kubacriptions at the close of the
meeting were announced to be £1,3:10.