The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-11-28 00:00:00

LORD HARRY THYNNE AND TRH mAiati.
TRATERYni ROBIERSET.
" DIGNITY Arm inetnetNer."
The following corresisuidence between Lor.l Cork
ad Isird llenty Thyme, hag been puldiulitul
" Manama
"1/ear Thrum,' Ilarmg 'no re... 1. eith tu och uuretiug• in the SArrborme Journal of the Ifith Met., the eneteeil
statements in your socmchee at the Knoyle f'artuer,' club
dinner. I feel imperatively called upon, in
my own honour and that of :ay brother i nin
nagists.
you
to
answer the yellowing questions :—Firgt—Wheihz
thee extracts are a true and accurate report of y
statement:l Secondly—What, in that cad., ure
of the gentlemen on the bench whom you must
Thirdly—Upon what do you ground your auppmed
led.te of the for their atqadntment, and whut pro,/
have you to adduce in aupport of your auperNion theta
64 unfitted for their poutut I think it yield, at the
time, to inform you that 1 reserve to my/elf the right,
only of publishing in the newspapers, hut a 1.., if 044
flt, of sending round to every magistrate in the county,
this letter and your reply to it.

Yours truly.
(Signed) "eottn."
It is scarcely necessary for mo to ask whether,
making those statements, you wore aware that one ,4
latest appointments to the hunch W 3.4 that of Mr. Lope.,
the Conservative ex-moodier for Froute, at the roano.
mend/Axon of your hrtPther."
" Skerborne Journal, Nov. Ili, Itq6. Exract fru%
9sehes of Lent Henry Throne, 11. P., as chairman of (1.
Farmers' Club dinner at Knoyle, Wilts:—' lieteriting te
the question of the tnagistrates, let them take the county
of Somerset. There they found It of people placed en
the bench for no other than political reasom. and wh_
were entirely unfitted for the entre (Statue.) .
As to the question td the tungi.drat...„ ant
moot of several who were not fitted ter the
referred distinctly to fi imerset, not to Wilts : nut] b.
might say that when canvassing the other day at Ftsn.
' and in expressing his surprise that a rertainwaa ,ttntit•tni.7
not ii gto support the Conservative can'tlidats thio time, he was informed that his reason for turning
was that 11C aanted to he made a magistrate'. and that he
knew the best way to sectiriiiiis beiug placed on the tend, was to turn yellow (laughter).'"

"Maiden Bradley, Bath. Nor.
'D
ear Cork. —I am aatonished that you should ,00.
prised at any eritiehlua on the waY that you lwrforni rOtir
dutiee of lord-lieutunatit. You must he well aaoro that
the eubject I. matter of ordinary comment.
" Ili the allusion you make In your defence to tin
appointment of Mr. Lopes, q.c., awl X P. ton t,4.,,t to
appoint for
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you will learn the touour of arguimultx.-1
"oaetwaleti:hBrraetdteonilgiaifs,tanluurr}d.trsc*lPaPeeen Itihem you will lind me fully rpuort.A. a,d
reftnimen:
hetrih:""weymours truly,

" HAW. TUINNL" " P.S.—Have the goodness to return the drum which you were graciously pleased, in the pertorman-e .4 your duties as lord-lieutenant, to order Superintendent I kcersa
to take frotu the Frolue boys. You are perfectly 5e1,01.,
to publish this with yours, and I hope you %ill Tillke 11/
good • thing as Gladstone has of his publication.:

"Marston Ifoune, Frame, Nov. 2it
"Dear Thynn),—l greatly regret that you .houLt
Intentionally. I hope—so completely miaapprehend the
purport of my letter.
"I have no objection to either "criticism " or "oriel-
ary i,iument " on my public conduct: but I aimed at.
waif ul and public mis-stateruent involving other. a, well
as myself, in their and my absence, to pale uncoutre
dieted.
" In my allusion to Mr. Lopes I make no "defenix." as
that would imply accenting an unproved accusation: awl
you misquote me—inadvertenly, I feel sure —aa saying that
I "required pressure from your brother." To mann.
men.lations from proper quarters I am always open, and
pressure, where no one else has authority, is an obvious
Impossibility. I will try to procure the two papers from
the next county, of which you acknowledge the accuracy
(though you accidentally omit the little courteay of favou.
tug Ms with their names), and meanwhile, have to Umiak
you for your unreserved permindon of publication, of
which I shall immediately avail myself: adding to the
two previotta ones thii letter, with which I clime our cot.
respondence. Allow me, however, before doing 101 to cot.
reet one Item in the general confusion of your ideas on the
etatun'and duties of a lord-lieutenant It was ai a magi*.
tante, responsible for local (terve anal order, that I de.ired
our milieu superintendent to take from the Fr • INIT.
their drum, with which they were nightly annoyin4 the
inhabitant.' anal frighteniti: that horse, lal the town in the
dark. ki it is just possible that other minds tuay I. SS
strangely ignorant, I mu touch obliged to you for git in
100 tin, oppirtunity of c.erns•ting any savli miatake at U is
particular • t. 'Yours truly,
(Signed)

"Mahlon Bra.lley. Nov. 2.1.
" Doar Cork, -I irtre to Omni; poi for your letter
IVCAIiVed late 1:IAt whiel, pm li.tve already, Ixm,
puhlikhva in tin. Itrlxtol mmer thin morons'
It any rorr.,bor.stion wax aantod .1 pew vintitn,, for
tho olliee of lord-Iteutrumut it is emitannxl therein I
repeat that you mike your appointment,' for poly pur-
putT: .

Yu forget, 'lon you say that no one hut pmmalt
ha, authority, that the Lord Chancellor can override

" If my idea an, confused, as you nay they are, as toile
status awl .lutiv; of a lora-lieutenant. it is f 11464
conatanUy loifore my eyeo the very extra•rdivary way in
which you perform them, awl from seeing you mimo,. for
vartylpurioioe., the !lower conferred uIOM you by the CMIII
for the general go 1

•
" You seem as ignorant of your position as a magistrate
as you ore of that .4 A loriblientenant, for you are no hues
responsible for the local peace and order"( Frame than oaf
other magistrate of the iliemiom,, and have no Iwo*
authority. If the police are found wanting, it is for the
bench in potty seuions aluietUblad ti Like the matter up,
not for you individually.
"If it Is strangelf iznorant not to understand the one-
Wed and party way in which you conduct your official
duties, I prefer my strange ignorance to your peculiar
wisdom The question at issue in matter of such notoriety
Chas it is not worth my while bandying lsore words with
you about it. I treat your charge on myself with the
Contelllpt it deserves. lam perfectly ready, as VDU wish
It, to allow this corrilipolidon,o to OA, which you 05010 55
eager to close as you wens Unwise to open.
" I taunt, however, remind you of your proud, to
publish the whole rd it, and. you to give the .thse
publicity to this that you have agtittly given to the other
three letter&

"1 ronisio, yours truly,
"Hamar Tin N,E."