The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-03-31 00:00:00

THE DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, TUESDAY. MARCH 31, 1885,

Bill ambit foto operation with an 'baba in whlote
ramp of Mem would take pan In Introducing the
lialever—Mr. Genoa* Janes, barrister-at-law, aid •
relative of the Attorney-Oeneral—t the audleeme. be
raid be was confident the lecture about to be delivered
meld be well worthy of the attention of the sadism,.
(Applantaa
mr. lion, who was most o-rdlally received, explained
, be ad felt ease diadems hared na to deliver his lecture
mill KC J. Howard Bowen. tie secretary to the amecia.
Won, mewed his be would receive • kind reception-
(Hear. Md.) In referring to • speech delivered In Flo,-
mouth • few days ago by • Tory lecturer be
ideal Ili. Sylvester be admitted that the
speech we. a very eloqoeat nod able on.;
am that if the argumento be put forward
were Mad upon accord' facts the "peak In
itself would be most oonvinim. In dealing with that
=he did not wish to appear to be making • personal
upon Mr. Sylvester. The era thin. that stnick
haa we. the bending. 'Why ma I a Tory r-( Voice :
It we. 'Why am I a Couesnative.l He had no doubt
but Mat Mr. Sylvan.r bad bees • Conservative all his
life. Illeszt_hear.) If then were plenty of good OMNIe
for beteg • Creservative, and if the gentleman bed been
• Oosservatine all his life, why did be give • lecture to
know ' Why he was a Cosservative r (11ear, bear.)
Tags were four bun hod piteous who bed tickets, who
no
doubt had also been Ombervatives all their Ilya, and
rot itatll last waek they did not know why they were
Costrarvatina (Laugliterr) In reeding that meet* it
streak his them eh. one principle running theoligh
and it we. Ws, ' • Tory ran do no dom. A Liberal
• do nothing right.' He did not know what his bearers
%hamlet Mod that. For his owe part It reminded his
of aa .14 1047, who thought that as her natural bosun
wa Arianism she might renovate it, the result balsa that
she mode it • little too glades ti be nittanel. (Lsaghter.)
For hie own part be dld oel believe in the lafaillbilitY of
eay 'althea party, my mare than he believed la the in-
fallltilita of say political leader.(Applause ) Mr. Sllvaetet
mid • I an • Tory brume I am • Monarahist. I an a Ton`
basses Osamoratives recognia the duty of maintaining
the Chassis no the established Chunk of Eatlead new
um. stet of laformaUon which we. rather Estonians'
to blown (Kr. Junes), althonth It might not hero been
to Ili. Sylvester's audience. Resold he we. • C mast
cativo because he was a sasuch supporter of the einem
Parliamentary institutioris ; and that the Home of
Innis had not shown itself inferior to the other House
in wisdom or *bylaw*, but rather to the contrery, and
that It wen the admiration' of all the 1.-gladly. assemblies
in other aoudads. nw we. o bit of Information
Another ream, • moot crooking reason any Tory oould
possibly utter. altboash not new for he bad heard it.
Wore, WWI the nada that he was all the more • Con.
earvatare because of be • °ameba°. failure of all
Liberal measures during the post 90 or 36 years, and that
as • tastar of fact Libeeslism had *m64411417 little to
bawl of DOW or in the pat: Now whaVwee meant by
the wad monarchy I Mr. Sylvester did not define tits
selkaiDge. On &tads., last a gentleman speaking at
Moortorough told his salamis that a monarchy, In the
Met moss of the word. did not exist to Isro. the
mend entomb to • aloawehy bast in Ram* and
then It existed to • limited extent. To me the
ward reasereby deurately It maid the Oneroment of
one. We. that what 14. Sylvester wee in (moor of
He would de Yr. Sylvester balm at MOO by MOD( be
mold aot hen. rased that especially e. he we. in favour
of the Hors if Lends. Wee there not mother meads(
usderlyieg that assertioa of kis to reference I. the
rncsoechil Did it not mono that the Tory puty woold
aroma to themselves the monopoly of loyalty to our
geese! (Hew, beat.) They dare not soy no, but they
'Maw out gl Infos-ems to Met if mt. If toot we. the
of it Kr. Sylvester growl, libelled not only the
Liberals but the people of tote land. It moat be masa
tared that if they were politicians. they Wen Englishmen
Ord sad politlabas aarerward• lA-Odessa* ) Whether
they were Liberals, Radicals, or Toriee, they had but one
erW in respect to her most grecious Majesty—' Key rd
Mem her, and long may she raga.' ((jimore.) with
rapid to Mr. Sylvester's remarks as to the Hones of
Lorde, no doubt he had an intimate amaectiou with the
legislative salafeales of &worm and was therefore well
qualified to give an Opinion, hot for • abort time thee
would *palatr the question altogether. These were no
doubt many liberals who could meintein the House of
Lads, but there would it all events be one
matter whiob most be decided it the next elecalos
—whelks", the House of Lords was to be ended
• DIMIOded. (A.ppl&WW ) lie candidly aioritted thus for
eke 0.1 part as deatred the latter warm (Hear, bear.)
•He meamsed the Lode for not lupporting =modes
for daceting the workbag amps by are times throwing
out the Bill in respect to the Uolversitr tests. do. When
to. time come they 'meld have to 0011Wer the quation
, as to what they had dose on behalf of the people of
, Waglaad. (A Vows: They have prevented rash labia-
Ma) Wee it not rah legleation when thee ref mod to
redscale the children of the working men. sod ref awed to
let the poor men go to naberglies 1 (Lead septum...)
Kr. Sylvester said that nothing was deaeer t the Cm-
sanative' thin the truckles. Did the people resent
sew believe that? (Cries of 'No.') Sometimes they Eat
at the troth by reeding between tat lime, Mr.
Sylnetert made me of an. expression which be mat
afterwards ham regretted alas. Referring to their
votes, wad there were present elec'ors. and sewn
eofrarchieed elates. what did he call their voila Tole
• wee how he expreaed It. He mild it the ' Brow
form to vote in amused.: H• bops Portianders
and elect we generally would, at Wm general
elastics, recollect that the Tory candidate by the
mouth of his own lecturer addressed them and their
votes en 'Bouts foram to vote in thousao la.' (Appleuse
and Maas.) Tbey most show by voting I r Me. El wards.
(lier, Mar.) He submitted •arious fech in connection
• with the awriems Reform Bills to prove that the conduct
of the House of Lords at repreeentatives of the Tory
party bad been opined to reform in every way.
The Lecturer was hers interrupted by an individual at
the read of the room semerting diet the Lords did not
oppose the WI Franchise Bill. It le needles, to say that
ro of nodal Isolator sassed.
In reply the Lanciaa pointed out that had the person
been treseat at the great reform demourtestrea in
Loudon, he would have known differently. Thle was the
first time he had ever heard, and he trusted It would
be the lest, that the Home of Lords did not oppose its
Franchise Bill. Referring to Mn. Sylvester's YAW .rki
impaling Chaste awl State. be °intended thin
disestabialuneet would be • benefit tithe Murat. because
it would be lately to lamas the libernl ty of it.
member,. (Applaosa) Why Mould the Stet pap
yearly Imps some of mosey to the Proteetacit Coach any
more than it shoild to the chapels and nomonformity
generally. Naconformisti ware' generally speaking,
not the riche.' deem. in the laud yet they could afford
end were proud to pay for their churob.—(l, Vomit:
They bed better pay their deb's, sod laughter.) Wby
mho 'ld Stott help be emissary to pay for the church of
the doh when it did not trey for the churches of the
pow. (Applause.) fie agreed with Kr. Sylvester that if
disestablisbasent came lope.. it might net be • bed thing
for the church. This wail the opinion of a large number
of poisons in the Church itaelf, persons who Ilk. himself
OIL James) belonged to the church: also some of the
sadist Had" of the church posiews4 notably Dr.
Kama the &Mop of Peterebro'. Mr. filtrate( said that
to the clergy of the r; eirob of England they owed the
*duration of the people, Woe that accurste I N half
would deny theaters! of the Church of E bland heel done
much in t moo gone by in edureatiag the children of the
Dower clamed In the principles of the Church of Zeeland.
T. weir education had beau emterben, end not national.
Tee Church bol opixsel national duration, oil io sup-
pert of thie he instanced the feet that in lffo7. when it
woo proposed tart the magietrates Mould provide schools
when wonted out of the rata, the Archbishop of C.nte:-
bury was melee% It: whilst in 1910, when another Bill
wos Introduoed in respect to the netiomel re:bailee of
'his country, three blazon. Were for awl 15 satinet it.
It 'tarring to the subject of patroude, be said if die-
reetablintnest would do away with it let them hove it
instantly. (A Voice: Do not leave Out the Soudan war
in I Gordon.) The looters,, role, ring to the latter remark,
said some Torte, told them they never ought to have gone
Into the fluidal. Ille r. ply was Stun they bel
predouely pledged Eigland t support the Khedive, and
that the liberals were not going ti break England's wort
te the trot lest ince they went there &menet the will of
the Lianas. 'Applause) The Liberals were not going
to be to. first to break Fatale& Is wail now. (liuer,
bear.) Did those who differed from them really mean
whet they said when they alleged that Mr.liladstone bad
caused the death of Guars' Gordon! We. it not •
harsh, we.linotiwickedtoingtooay I They must not be
derided by lido ales in respect to Encland'o great-
nese. for that did not depend upon further annexe
Um. They had new *none:, to attend to, and in
Heaven's name they must be contented. (applauds.)
An endeavour had been made to secure pofitmal capital
both in Portland and Weymouth in rierenoe to the
Portland state. This appeared to his to have been very
unfair. Tan were told the other night they should vut
for the Oosservative party, Made when to prom they
used • large quantity of Um stone and • *ditto instance
was gives in connection with • building which he (the
lectured saw almost ....y day—the new Low COMIC
Attention we. called toil to show what a Conservative
Government had done for the people of Portland. It Wee
also sad it had been supplied not by convict, but free
labour. If ever there was • misleading, totally unreli-
able. and Inaoeurate statement, that moose. The new
• Law Carte were built daring the time of tbe Gentierv••
tire Government, but the" omitted for the building woo
O Liberal menu, anti aimed under a Liberal Govern-
moot. (Hear, bear.) It was wader th•t contract that
the stone was sent to build the new Low Courts.
(Applause.) His bearers most not be dealt with in tha
' manner by to.. who would "catch their vote." by that
•hicti sounded very plausibh, but which in reality we.
• inmouste. It had nothing whatever Is do with the
Tories. fie to Vie statement made last week. he soul I
not concave how it cab to be mode. He was perfectly
• eat rin that the person who made it would not intention-
ally say that which was untrue and inaccurate, bat ids
be was too much of a gentleman to do so, but this wee
stated so last week. When be sad dried, he meant he
ha 4 reed it in the n•wspep ire, bad he was told the
rep irt was 66 donate one; also that with reference to
the Admiralty Boaldinge *bout Ii be erected the G/Vi ro-
uted bed decided to are Portlend stone 'not that, however
moaned by free labour, but bye menet labour. (A Voice:
Correct) • sentleman present mid correct. Well be ha I
no doubt, but that the gentlemen glarrally was correct,
' but for once he happened to be wrong. (Ladder sod
applause) He wee very glad to deal with the sub) ret,
hen sus* he had taken the trouble to go into the mater.
11. had used information of the higheet *inborn) in orie,
that be might have the pleaure of coming to tell them
that the whisk* bed r•ferred to wee, true. (•pplanse.)
ti• sae net at liberty.to show them the letter, it being of
• privets nature, it had been leen by Mr. B men their
hon. sec, who would beer be. out in that which be meld
teat the authority could not be bitter than it was. (He or,
be.,) Toe info/motion conveyed to him wee that no-
thing was ar yet settled In COonection with Portland it,,.
fy:eattbuot,aritta,baaiungtdtti:etewnr:.wotgrimiolviisamereaLrauit,ecabliotrlletTTM:noutidEd swweotll.l6lnthbiset
sent oot, no in the case of the law dude. Eiticustee
would be ant in by astractors, and it was the contra in
who would •irtualy decide Inc ronectioo with the 'tom
In the ordinary way the nose from free quarries would
be used. The contractor, if be specially wished the stone
lobe suppte I by convict labour, bat to make an spoil-
t rdlon to the Home B.lcretary, sad the Government had
oothiag to do with the Max. He told his bearers on the
best authority, and he did.. with much pleasure, that
no such •ettionty had been given in mesa to It. st /no,
and that no such authority bat been risked for. (Cheer,.)
Ifs did not say the' anybody bad coeds the statement
with • wick to be inascuroter, but It sometime' hepp roe I
that persons whaled to Catch not, by means which
ought not to be used. (Elea, hear.) •
;Meta/eel gairliVala tdo iPatercreintirrirt
&WAD 1 the platform,
isa:MFrtiPer"tip.l474peenoi:ithscalB":""svillisdwrkamhasiei tfbikeitlwmktiortith:dsermieliZobeir::;:egerk:.di`eiaarcbral
e ravened doubt in its accents. be said—' I believe lit,..
Porte of you here to-aistit are Conservatives T Amidst
roars of Inaba toughie? Ur. Hoary Smarm wee told If
piiirLoiny slar-ltrbek:l4•Bfmt:n byth he w::4446:l4.4"couortheltitte:onan:C'ehoe,::"”h hoof ifl:Li.i.orueurarkladh.l
g.rii.,tiewaithaitilprte:enletaieureibieeitibtua4tedweintee.
frln olo,:itorance..7
of
their ads,' and that be had n,t tol I them maul new
'ham Unfortunately the error be accused the lecturer
of ormenitideig he also at oars fell iota himself by pro.
wading to waits to. time of the meeting In .obn:sitting
steatite in raped to the statement down the merchant?
Incline at Portbad from ICC when le gra Bemanalleld
caurseaced his Mt adeolnistrstion, although me or two
D'reDee_preeent reminded him they hod heard all about
Ibis at the ateetlog bad the previous week.
The Lacyraga, replyiny, said tat if • Conservative
were known by his oount-uaaci Liberels were known by
their maids. ((lheere and Wader.) A. to the flitirel
respectiag the dose they mat boar in mind there was
now general depression throughout the country, and It
'pawed to his thst whether there was a Couserrative
or • Liberal G•siroateol in oleos he did not think it we.

Ike fault of the GI overnmeot itself. A big contract for
balding came into force whoa the Coaserratives were
In power. and that 004 not the normal state of affairs.
It wee hardly far when thoy went beck to the normal
stet* to tar that the Government most be blamed.
ca.planwa.)
Hi. Paula, deprecated the Conservatives taking any
credit to %WM/41101W respect to the new Li. Gomm&
He also submitted Nurse In reaped to the public work
dose by the Liberals and the Tarim. to show that Mime
wage in favour of the Lib TM. to the extent of I:1190 71I)
roar. This on. proved by return. made by the ammo.
Itr. R. H. HealPooD, • Tory, than kept the audii.nos in
enatianoos roans of laughter by hie remarks. Host of
hls observations did not reach the ears of quit, on.-half
at those velment, owing to the merriment which he
mated by his gesticulation', io He tall be was for a
clamp loaf, and money to bay it with : ela, that in yews
p. 4 the Lib*. ale had been gamed In Il wars, and, the
Ooa.orTa'lVs' only wean. There bad been spent by the
Liberals ClllO,OOO i .terilog, hut only 4310 0011) 000 by the
Oesservatlyee. What did L did Bloomfield do when tha
• lassies bear' mute over I (Howl Ifiullbtaf )
treaty wee dosed that the Rowland should COOl4 so far
and no ferther. Li to Hr. Gladstoae, be had seen • song
about him and the starvation Mare on. la the country,
eatitled—
' Walt till the clouds roll by.'
Much laughter.) Thy had had four hat-netitione
(roars of lactithWG—in the Ilyptian ranapaiga, end the
lest stage was weal% than the first. How many more
' haxmatitions '—(laughter)—would there b I Had Lord
Beaconsfield Men In power thin would not have been •
shot flred. When Led Beeconadeld came lat. office the
people tame out of the union ' lite sheep out of a fold.
(Laughter) In cow:ludo.% II oiroad &aura I his hearers
that if they wanted to hays bellies fall of food—(mare at
laughter)—ell they bed to do on. to vote for C 'warm.
Mem.
Yr. J. P. Saimaa said that ono of the greatest evil@ and
injoriee to the Portion I trade was the Law 0 outs. Is
bad bum to me the plum, and was ashatood of it. Could
they tell hire of any merchant or other person in Portland
who suppiled atone, that would take the credit of supply.
lag stone for ths building, because it wee • disgrace. and
everybody oat ashamed of R. It had dons more
tosfirda CaNNiNS the atone to be introdoorad from other
parts of ths coontry, and to form erchitect. and atom
memos int-itemsl in the trade to make srtigoial moue
laateed of that from Portland, than anything •lok I"u'"
of blaming • Liberal Goverm•nt or anybody. they h ol 1.
blame themeelves for allowing such a diecrac•f al article
as wadi in Vie manta to have gone there im Po rand stone
Mr. JONATHAN LANO HSI of opinion there arm as good
Mono in P.atiand now as ever there ha I been. He
alleged that, beceamillar. James bad not referred to the
Tory lecturer's rem aria' In that room the pre•loos week •,
Moo.* remarks, it must he taken for grant,d, were right,
good, and true. He contended they had nothing to do
with the obi trvatione of the g .naMman at Weymouth,
although they were beyon I divot*. If they wanted
prosperity they lutist not look 1. the R
Hr. B. COmegs said that at the try conning their
opponents woold not give them such full swing as they.
hmi bed that night. Al to the Tor/ mmtine itmlf • full
import was not given Mame, ammo. the Toy pram was
ashamed to pat 111. the newepapers. He p 'op wed • rote
of thauks to Mn. lames foe his able lectorc.
Thla was seconded by Mr. J. "Mame, and supportad by
Hr. W. AftwOott. and unanimously csfri•d•
The Lanmace suitably responded, and in reisrring to
fair trade nag tree trade. •Md, he did not know C donel
Humbro's view,' on the subject. If his bearers took hie
gavial". they would ask Goland Haman° the n•xt time he
came arnonast them. The reason why he did Out SNOWS'
Toting'. lecture HIM beaus, be did not hear It, nor
.00anytbtng Ilk* • full report of it.
Tim woosedlap thee tormisat•d.

work of the Habib nod Foreign Bible Society. A
celeotlon wee made at the olove of the meetly', which
was one ef the bast that has been held of late years
in behalf of the society. Amoog.t others preeent
MK • Mr. Foot, of I.)...rebtot Ir. Mr. Wig IttotAo . of
Plush, Mr. Jacobs, of Piddletriathide, and 11. r.
Doric

Hicks Beech °posed ths Egyptian &halo is s
ameadi arldob kept** Howe togethaw exoeptiosally welt
sad oa the whola it war a. suanweinl a mesa aa Sir
Micheal bsa nada Is the pat rear or too. Ile was
simmered be Kr. Chamberlain, who was esthuslaetleolly
cheered. Kr. Gosehee rose as lota before imirisight sad
lilted the beaches, but Mr. &slat raw Um numbers alip
swap Ida*, sad Sir Stafford Northoode did sot rata sii
of lam. Yr. OhlMare spoke for se hoar to a tb.oru.skll
wearied Howse, sad las quarter helots two dr Cosasaittas
divided.