The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-10-31 00:00:00

Corresponlunce.

THE COUNTY MEHR-Eits AT MELPLASH
AND AT DORCHESTER.
To the Editor

Sir,—lf Colonel Digby at Melplamb, and Mr. Ports
man at Dorchester. had limite I their observationo
upon myself t merit personal reflection there wood I
be no occasion for me to take notice of it. But
Colonel I bgby presumed the discovery of an inaccuracy
on my part as representing Mr. Clare Sewell Read to
be a menses of the Legislature at the piste -nt time.
This is, to rev the In set, singular, c mei hiring that at
every place I visited in the county awl elsewh we I
a-cribe I he fort of Mr. Read'. absence from the
House of C =mons, and the c onsequent lose to the
Interests oof agriculture, so caused by his fatal
adherence to party. Over and over again I pointed
out in effect that if Mr. Real had etoo I up as the
champion of agriculture, with views untainted by
p litial silf.interest, not only Nonfolk, but no county
constituency, would have rej c'ed him.
Again, Colonel DWI is is error in his sogreetion
that I insid no tenant farmer had been examined on
the Royal Commission. Tenant (sealers there were,
b t me eoutention is, they ware n st 'root Po repro.
ses t otiese f the class, and I a.lbere to it. I should
h voile • rouble, Terbium, to coafotte these ',ohne, wen-
n otivelv trivial as they are, were it not that Colonel
Dicbe ex sorrseed his opiniors on the retort of the
Conimisse sners, not only unholding the fidelity. but
the Otis afu:ii es, I its c imbed...es Of the eomodness
of h s vi. we. It me a.k olonel Dit y what explains.
ti's. cbs • to offer, whan iii, resort says "It may
notbe to .0.115, in.:isnot • whit acctioacv the full
• tfect of ("whin romp Ass or to, anticipate the
exsout of its four.' ..evelopitornt," t 1.1.1 tloen gown oe
to re m.n that foreign c on' wit; on " ix neeassar ly
not of a jo cinanent oh wars. r." Ily tbis, Colonel
Illgloy is Trapar d t s maintain. first, that farelin com-
petition cannot be " est im ote.l or " ae. l and
owean fly, is not oof a " permanent char ester," and
up on these points. I ask th.st gallant gentlest' on. from
hie knoowlsolee 1,1 American competition Mon s, how
oor in what m diner 'PI CV{ es solids the f .ists!
A. colonel hy his defeat if Mr. F.swler, was
the ineasos oleprivis.g aoicultsir sof a oil eat mimes
pentnriyr—a'no ..t in itself an haat I no —what 'laird
is these, I itssk. of his ad serener, t.o ite int Tests (nen
Vie slats o,f his entre jut • Vie 11. use .of .I.llr II
t Ole present! Fir the benefit sf the agriceltural
coma. 111 l y, Terhatm C .nel I tig'ov will stet when
agricultural lel.lOC/0, has been in.( ore the Males on
what occad on, he has foun.l is c invented to be in his
? Furthermore, p. rh ha will be belt:cod to
give seem reassion sorby to wl. n t in att ',dams to
alluvia the ree olutioon for the app oioitmant II( a
.M Water of Agricultuse, which, oof worse, hos is aware
Mr. El oyec v ote I neminst. and Mr. Portman, by his
absence, it would se in, forget all emus..
Mr. P ortolau, at I) rah soder, nail—" When he was
in the Rowe of Commons the Whips mew to an
underst oiling as to
tr.:h . war 141 +peak. Tili4 in pre-
cisely one of the poi. to I have teen g..ing upon.
Agriculture, allied to party, me MIS agricultural interests
controlle I by the ;gusty Wllos. and sub:wooed to their
isolits dictation and will. Bet beyond this little coo-
oof Mr. Portman'e, I cannot follow hion into
platitu lee time and circuoessances have worn obit and
rendered obsolet It is en.ugh t o remark that
anion .:st other things agriculture is pausing thoough a
perio Isf great Tobtical intolerwooe but, for my p
I h IPS the time is not for oli.taut when int pier,. dee will
be stamped out an I the spirit of equity and right be
t made to prevail.
am, S'r,
Your most obeslien. servant.
promote Howse's.
2, Tantield C nut, Temple, OA.