The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-02-04 00:00:00

SIR IVOR uultu ANDT.H.R_RICr.RLSENTATION

Ul' PORt lARLUft]ION.

There is • report that • new hatch of Peers will he
'bottle created, and that Coo .rv•thre heerthorning.
wh•cl'i h,ve tet loud rev arlid will non to, healed. II is
not likely that all intonate will he nti.fiod, for If L •rd
B ac0n.11.1.1 were to heatoet car-aids noon .0 who 'on.
slier themselves entitled to the distinction he would
simply mood de the Hone of Lord& B-ut there are
certain c ontonn-rs who an believed to have earned •
right to receive recompiles which • peer Ire glees for
service. rendered to their party. It is no necnnary that
these waren* should one hers .bat are ordinarily con-
sidited nrcenful, for Lord Beacosslield has been kcoen
to give substantial rewaids to thme who hare, for Is,
stance, fought and lost political natl. s. 8, Alfre•l
sine, for example, was appointed Raniver•General of
Island Raven!s after h• bed made two or three 110411 e.
easeful attempts to wrest one of the seats for Tauaton
from the Lanni Muir. Con thus principle, we
hoseine, It I. topnewad that Sir Ivor Guest to it ho
~....4.1 with • pewits, and will find • meat In the
House of L trio to be • &Aaiun' lye tam fedora, of his
nomeroos end ••ntherate efforts to get • net is the II 'u.-.
of C lemons. Within the loot five years this Doranshire
hat-set lan been ihree times an tanotoce..ful
c .n.l odate for Parliamentary honour., and we are informed
!hat be has jihit been asked to make a fourth attempt.
•• the last general e!ertiou he cont. s•ed Cl .ntorgenthins
againat Mr. Haney Foetal. avid Id-. Tailon, butt • be two
L hen& were roturnad by large nastftritiee. Three month.
alter this defeat. Sir lvor Guest nen ratered the political
Hata The that for the h.rough of Poole heratne vane%
and it was theught that Sir Ivor's local lallosnee groald
triumph over all ones!. ion. and that he must coined Is
.resting the rennearetion of ton constitaittioy from the
Wirral p'r'y. Bin in Mr. Evelyn Ashne be found •
1 " Inman w .rthy .4 hie steel," and L iti Shaft tabu'''. son
won the victor. for L'beraliam. Defeattd In Glamorgan.
shire sod at Peon Sir Ivor Guest rooted sotto,. from
Dogtrot Varlets; but the withdrawal of Mr. !Ullman
Hodgson from the representation of Bristol once more
'emoted hits from his retirement. ano he enueht the
oil/rages of the citizen. who had previonaly sent two
L'henslo to repensot "lb. capital .4 the We t " in
P aliment. The consequences of bus recent routed a ith
Mr. Le eh Fry were onore dieestrous than lb.. of lon
p dismal fights in the Welsh county and the Dorsetahire
b 'rough. Am aggravation of his normal ill fortune lel&
hitu at Mimi, and for Uie third tiro. ha re.tred to hi.
home, defeatM and prolably dispolted. But, gales.
L -rd Beaconsar,ki Intervenes and ;Ova $ him • or at in "the
added chewier." it is possibie that abr Ivor 0 teat may
succeed in le amtlng • stem' sr of Oil Ron. of C motors,
after all. We understand that C•pielti D.w.roo.D.tner
I. shout to nitre front the rewires allot. of Pm tar li ea t on.
and our onnemondent in that ell age jpf,,rais .. that
Sir Ivor Guist has men netted to ofhtr himself am the
ch......tiee candidate. "What • fell wee there l'
Ell Wed by Glamorgasahlre, which las Nearly twelve
thou.auct elect ors by P. 1010, which h.n upeents o
seventeen hundred, and by Bristol, which has nearly
twenty-fire thousand electors, Sir let. Guest is asked to
contest the ro prenothtion of the hundred and forty-to,
electors of Portnlington ! There I. enethiog irrepressibly
droll in the idea of ouch a transition as that involved in
going from Bristol to Portarlinton, as well as In the
apparent desperation of Sir Ivor Gnat to get into Platte.
naent by some mean or other. The c intent he teen the too
boroughs la certainly striking; and cannot fail to newest
practical rellect•ons. A • the last general al ...Ilona Coos., 'ca-
tivo candidate failed to get returned tor Bristol though be
p.lled upwards of 800 votes. whereas on the same
occasion the Goutere.tire candidate was elected for
Portarlineton with 76,01.. ! If Sir Ivor Guest obtain.
the" honour" of reran-n. 114 this borough in Pnliament
he will, at lent, have the saiisfactdon oh knowiug that he
has sought the rept...elation of much mom important
constlthencin He is like the Bobo t ..Gmaseral in this
respect. Sir Harding. Giffard wooed Vie electorat t of
Cardiff twice, hut failed t o get elected, sod he was after.
wards equally unsucoessfut at Horsham. After then
failures he attained • goat for the pocket borough of
Lsonogetoo. To•r• is thui • remarkable amt•larity
ootweon the electoral . 'lnnens of the Solicitor-Geogr., ,
sad thaw. of Sir Ivor Gnat ; and onion Lord B as .n.fteld
cure. tin nits. • corooet at.• only 440 ••••••11 prohohly
are the • a-tialaw of the L ed.l. nutmeat 41,f Ireland
+ilia( In the II -.tor of C Item oat fir tho smallest cos-
stita tier In the United K wham.
But these facts, al hough Une present • ludicrous
unto-c' to our new, bring out shah the enormity id our
nes.nt system of reptesentailan. Milos the grip!e of
thin Parliament, for thence, Po. in 1. (non, with 4,.
•un.fred and forto-twoeleeforth hes roilltthel the voice et
Codiff, with its nen thousand elector.; and °eh. r
a amps., almoet a. kl ri o , might I.• mentions I. Th..
..• simply menstrous, and t. 55 aisomely for 'apish the
country ha. to tbaak Lod Be .comefiel I. 0... of the
amorally' principle, of his Reorm B li .o. MA was that no
" • ei•ting centre of reprearatati qt.' should be dietorinl.
Mr. Gladsome had prototard, in the previous yrs., •
-cheats for the groans' of email boroughs, so that seats
might he distributed more in accor.l.nse with the claim.
'd P Wailation. But the fact that s• nonnative wiling,
are goal permitted to triad Ithosher. to P anal:neat I. not 1
U,. whole of the caw, against the sy•tent as moulded In
the present Prime iltol•ter. It let-ca 6lt WT. alword
to allow P•rtarlinthou to Beni one roosiolaJr to Perli anent
than to allow Tiverton to seed tee. This borough, with
shoat a sixth of the number of elector., and shout the
s.me proportion of population, has -woe the a <debt of
Cardiff in the BOUM of Comm ma. Wa do not c Initiate
of this nannies of any preferenee which the .01411
horanita rive to armors elitism, forth. two ppintlent for
Denton are Littoral.; but we protest on the groundo of
principle sealast such minimalism and Inongruitie. is too
repreenittion as those to which we refer. Ref in& is
orifently needed in this d rection, and must neeenali Y
COMO with the eat .nsion of householl &Wive, to
...made'. W. should he glad to gee the Liberal
party turning lie attention a little mot.* to this and
other question of domestic leg:elation. It Is very
Amiens. that the f ...lin polo, of the G 'veto.
meet should -he carnet(' watched; but we believe
toot It is not deetrable that the attention of the
Liheral, should be wholly &nor!. I toy either the Afghan
complication, the AnaloaTurkish Convention, or the am
olication of the Berlin comoronain to South-I ...ern
Europa, It is • favourite device of " Imperialism" to
.11.011 attention from domestic oneenties by • showy
p !hey ahread. Boutetiron • lively diplomatic campaigh
answers the path..., hut • resort to actual war ha. tot
hen inikanwn. It us the duty of Liberals to defeat such
...CIO as then ; and it is the especial duty of British
L• nettle to determine that foreign hob( . shall not stop
donseetle Inislation. We hope that when Parliamen!
re-assembles the Liberal leaden will insist on keeping
home Jenrette well In the public vie., and will not alio-e
them to In obscured hy oneetions which wi'l only
Indirectly affect the II oxliskt people. Electoral
reform ie, aa we have seen, a matter which is woithy
ol merlons attention, an t demands that earnest mad
practical stateroanthip should he applied to the 'Anion
of the problems which it involve'. This is on of the
"great question" that mast be dealt with In the near
futon Another rinertion of which we shall probobly
hear much before the next Parliament re ttme is that
which wee made the subject of a meolution the Non'
woof errant Coaference at Leeds yesterday ;in although
Lord Harlington has expensed himself in favour of the
d eastabliehmeat of the Scotch Church, it ia namely
likely that any Government will be found to
melt • menus for some years to come. Than atCra;
gentian of more practical aad pressing importance
which we are anxious to see broaeht to the front and
kept there; sad we look to the Liberal party to render
the coaatry this service. We do sot anticipate that an)
&meant of inswrins will make Mr. &later Booth awry •
satisfactory C mow Governmett Bill through Parliament;
but the Liberate con at lent show the country what Mei,
views are upon this urgestlymeeded reform. In Ulla
direction they can do much to justify their claims to •
favourable verdict from the constituencies at the Beet
election. 111. quite certain that a strong feeling of di*
satisfaction hoe (mina tap In the country became of the
penny of domestic legislation which has cknecteriewl
the last two or three ilenions ; and unless the Liberals
earnestly, ellergetle.lll, and practically protest against
this apparent iodifference to doineetn Interests, they
man share the odium which such ispliffereace Involves
The Liberal etreneth in Parliament is numerically in-
ferior tea that of the Coniervatives; bit in the country
the petitions an reversed, and it is to the Literals that
Ito. nation look, for those unlit:eating measures .04ch
seomen the gesern well-being of the peopie.—Dwily
Chrenele.