The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-01-27 00:00:00

POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE

At the weekly meeting of the Ballot Society • letter
was read front. correspondent in East Kent, narrating
several instances of coercion at the recent election.
The following are some of them —"H.P., •freelrolder,
who WAS objected to by the Tories at the last registra-
tion, and who wished to vote In Sir. E. Dering, but
decided to remain neutral because his employer was a.
supporter of Sir Norton Knatchbull, was told by his
master the day before the election that he must vote
for Knatchbullr and hit voted accordingly. W. F., .
freeholder, a bailiff to • farmer, was told by his master
he might vote for whom be pleased, aid therefore
pledged himself to SirE. Dering. The day before the
election his master's son told him he must vote, as.
they did, for Knatelbull, and he was obliged to do so.
le. D., a freeholder, and plate-layer on the Smith-
Eastern Railway. a Wesleyan, had promised to vote
for Sir E., tiering, and was sent by train, with • free
ticket to do no. He was by some mysterious meant
taken from the train, and made to give his vote the
other way."
The members for Marylebone met their constituents
on Wednesday evening at the Literary lnstitutior,
Edwardestreet, Portman-semare. Mr. Peter Graham
presided. Lord Fermoy, in the course of his address,
said be had given Lord Palmerston a general bat
qualified support, because he believed him to be the
best po.sible Minister under present circumstances, and
decidedly to be preferred to Lord Derby. He believed
that a diteolution of Parliament was impending, and
he urged the people not to be misled by the profession.
of the Tories. Referring to the measures of the last-
session. his lordship severely denounced the Poaching
Act. The war in America he hoped would soon and.
He denied that republican institutions bad bad any-
thing to do with that war, and said Hutt if monarchial.
institutions bed, been introduced into America, the
States would not have held together so long as they had.,
Mr. Harvey Lewis expressed similar opinions generally.
A vote of confidence in the two hon. gentlemen was
passed at the close of the meeting.
TIM HIGHWAY ACT.—A meeting of the Kent mein-
tratee was held at Maidstone on Tuesday, for the
purpose of considering a proposition to divide thee
county into highway districts, the F,arl of Romney
was in the chair. A large number of memorials from
the different parishes in the county were in the
first instance read, petitioning to be excluded from the
operation of the Act. The main objections a„tainst it
were that it would load to centralise the manage-
ment of local business, that the expense of maintaining
the roods tetrad be largely increased, and that the
poor rate would no longer be relieved by the employ-
ment upon the roads of men who would otherwise
become chargeable to the union. A report was
read from the committee . appointed to consider

the subject, 3...tom:nestling that the highway district.
ahould be co-extensive with the petty sessional
divisions. Mr. 'tartly, M.P., moved the adoption of
the report. A few unimportant modifications having
been made as to one or two of the proposed districts,
the motion was unanimously adopted. It was decided
that court of general 'mimic should be held on the
3rd of March for the pumese of making. final order.
Mr. Ayrton. M.P., addressed a meeting of his con•
stituents on Thursday evening at the Beaumont Insti-
tution, Mile-end. He discoursed at some length on the
meaaures of the last swim* of Parliament Referring
to the war in America, he spoke severely of the conduct
of the Noah ; and, while avowing that he held with
neither aide, pretty plainly showed that his sympathies
were with the Confederates. At the close of the
meeting a vote of confidence in the hon, and learned
petlem•n was pasaed.
Mr. Adderley, M.P., waa one of the speakers at •
meeting .4 the Birmingham Church of England Defence
Aasociation on Wednesday. He was especially severe
upon the Liberation tiociety, which he described as
being engaged in • conspiracy, not against tile Church
and religion, but against constitutional and &helmet
principles of justice. The Church-rate Bill of Sir J.
Trelawny he described as utterly devoid of
justice, and some other measures also came
I. for rough handling. A resolution was pused at the.
meeting to the effect that the effort.; of "the enemies.
of the Established Church, eapecially of theft banded.
together in • society calling itaelf the Liberation
Society," demanded the alliance of Churchmen to resist
them.
The nomination for Reigate is expected to take pines
en Monday, the 2nd of February. Mr. Granville
Levervon Gower and Mr. W. A. Wilkinson am the
candidates, both professing Liberal opinions.

TO THE MEMORY OF AN INFANT BROTHEL

God watched the fragile dower,
So subtly budding forth;
Too fair—too beautiful to shed

Its petals upon earth.
Then, with • Father's hawk
He grafted it on high,
To bloom in deathlea lovelies
Beneath • brighter sky.
Oh yea, to Boarish there,
Where summers never cease,
And aweetest melodies are borne.
IJpon the breath of Peace.
We should not mourn las lest,
And wish the dear one here ;
But pray to join him on the stars.
Unsullied by a tear.
Forget that tiny grave,
It. iersorrow dress,
And think 01 robes 01 purity—

A Saviour s righteousness.
'Terse mercy coaled him Home.
Then why should we be mud?
While we Cr. shedding truitkos tears,
His lit.tho heart is glad.