The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-08-15 00:00:00

HUSTINGS AMENITIES.

To the Editors.
"Sir,—You will oblige me by allowing the accom-
panying correspondence to appear.
Yours fAithfully,
ALFRED SEYMOUR.
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39, Upper Groavenor•alreet, August 10.

"13, Arlington-atreet, London, August 3.
"Sir,—Allow me to Call your attention to nig letter
addressed to you and to Mr. Ponder, in cue it should
have escaped your obaervation. I have the honour to
forward you • copy of the Western Morning News cow
taming it.
"I have the honour to be, Sir,
"Your obedient Servant,
W. G. DAWKINS, Lieutenant-Colonel.
" A. Seymour, Esq., MP."

13, Arlington-street, London, July 19.
" Gentlemen,—l learnt only yesterday, and from
the newrpaper, that in reply to my ob4ervation on the
beatings on Mr. Pender'a bribery, be bad replitd to me,
'lt is false.' . . .

'lf Mr. Fender will publicly state that he is pre.
pared to affirm on oath that none of those electors who
signed the requisition to me either have or will receive
Mr. Pander's money, or money from any one, to elect
Mr. Pander, I am then preparded to withdraw my
statement, unbas proved before a Parliamentary cow.
mittee or a public scrutiny. If Mr. Pender does not
adopt this worse, I conaider his intemperate words are
applicable to his own contradiction of my statement.
'A. to Mr. Seymour% statement that I am 'Cot •
fighting man,' I am prepared to relieve him of his error
as mod as he likes at Wormwood-scrublr or elsewhere,
and thus, probably, relieve Toting it ones of a repm-
sentativs not of her-dunce. • . .

shape

• !_'!" 'I Gondola with you, gentlemen, that you did not I
:And. your hold on she hearts of the people of Totnes
isecure enough to induce you to eery out the Isolatest
without the mistaken use of. the personalities towards
apponents who were meeting you .oe quite different ,
amts. And, I have the honour tolse, gentlemen, your
. obedient servant,
'W. G. DAWKINS,. LientenanteNgliel.7
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'3l; Upper Grosveneratreet, August V.
' • "Sir,—Your letter-of the 3rd inst., in which you cell
my etteation to a letter published by yourself in the
Western Morning NeWS of July 20, and addressed to
myself and Mr. Fender, , only reached me this morality.
"I ate, net• in the habit of noticing newspaper
electioneeling publications, hut slow you have called
I my attention to the ItMer in question, I beg leave to
' refer yon'tb the-enelesed reports of WS speech in the
Wesiera Timer and the WeiWea Doily Mere wN, which
- i accurately the Words I used.
'ln speaking of the qieation of 'non•intervention I
I, ' That /sighting wesViri Colonel's trade, but WY .
... new,' implying, what I then believed to 'be the case,
st you had left, the eirmy..:, _
"I. havenow.only just harped that, instead of leaving
' theermy,you elected to be placed en bait-pay. It wee
therefore not strictly corgettli to state that 'fighting- was
no longer your trade.'. For this error I beg to exposes
mY regret. . ... . •
' "With regard to your seggestiou that I should meet
, you at • Woomwoodecruhbe, kW' eltleWl!ere, in order to
;ire yott the opportunity of ' rellavieg Totnes of a
' representative not of her choice I feel deeply sensible
'of yonr amicable intenttenittolards my constituents,
lint, at the Name time, iinagine that the days are t t
*hen the survivor' is the gentleman to be elected •
1 osostituenay, and therefore I cannot be a consent
I party 1* making myself ridiculous before the public
• "1 Mutt decline any further correspondence
'title subject, and shalt send what has already to
the Tiases.
'" I have the honour to remain Sir,
"Your obedient servant,
'ALFRED SEYMOUR.
"To Lieutenant-Colonel Dawkins."
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DOPIN AND THZ LADLIIB. —An answer, in the
.oape of a pamphlet, has appeared in Paris to K. Lupus's
may —" Bur he Luxe dirt:nit des Femmes." The answer,
which is by a woman, points out that the extravagance
of men is at least as gnat as that of the other set. At
the Paleis Royal, the other day, • woman appeared in
such an extravagant toilette that she was hooted by the
crowd, and was obliged to claim the protection of •
tergesit de vilk, who enabled her to escape.
The Emperor Napoleon left Plembieres on Tuesday
morning for the camp at Chalons. A Paris corres-
pondent monis tits following strange rumour now pre-
vailing in Paris, and. which in all probability barn
originated more in the dearth of interesting news in
that city than in any leaking out of political secrete
and arrangements. In the event of the present Km-
peror of Mexico having no offspring, Napoleon 111 kg+
decided upon offering the succession to the Tranastlankkt
throne to a son of King Leopold, the King on his part
agreeing to • transfer of Belgium to France, and the
Iremoval of the French frontiers to the Scheldt.