The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-03-15 00:00:00

Obbs anb enbs.

The boisterous gaity of the Right Hon. James
Lowther does not seem very highly appreciated by the
London Press. One paper says, judging from his
juvenile method of dealing with serious questions, ,
"his ago ought to be between ten and twelve." A
second, Mr. Lowther. is young, and rich, and clever,
and he has filled the office of Chief Secretary to the
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. But, unfortunately, Mr.
Lowther conducts an election campaign as if it were a
joke, rather than as though great principles were
at stake. It is to this circumstance, perhaps, that
Mr. Howard owes his victory. If • serious and dam,
• man who could have adduced reasons for his faith
—it might almost be said a man who had any faith at
all—had been opposed to him, he would possibly have
been beaten. But East Cumberland, like the rest of
the country, does not care for buffoons." Whilst •
third advises " the rejected of York and East
Cumberland to make up his mind to retire into
private life. It is clear that England wants him as
little as Ireland relished his labours."

I congratulate my readers upon the comparative
obedience, which the Salvation Army have at last seen
fit to pay to the commands of the magistrates, and the
quietude the town assumed on Sunday last in conse-
quence. I will confess that I have been hard upon
these people, not because, As I stated in the first
paragraph. I ever penned anent them, that among "the
rank and tile" there is not a certain amount of earnest-
ness, hut because I believe that, 1411 regards the prime
movers, the whole affair is nothing but a gigantic sham.
However, we have heard now nearly the last of them,
and if any fresh disturbances ensue, it is to be devoutly
hoped the offender, be he Hai nt or sinner, will learn that
the Bench is not to be trifled with.

At the RRllle time it is rather humiliating that • clergy.
man of the State-paid church, in an adjoining psAsh.,
should confess that this body gets at people whom they
are unable to touch. The great Head of the Church
told his followers to bring in the halt, the lame, and tho
blind (spiritually), but if only kid-gloved customers are
served at the establishment, the sooner Mr. Miail succeeds
In putting up its shutters the better.

The following is not meetly Tennysonfan, hut it
relieves my feelings. I hopo it my not prove prophetic :
The great Lilwral Party of Poole
Said "There's no hurry ; let's take matters cool
An election took place.
They were out of the rate,
Than they said, "We've again played the fool."

What on earth are the Liberal party abont here in
Poole, If they don't look nut they will regret their
imbecile inanition. The Conservatives are working
might and main, although quietly. They are well
organised, and nothing is being left undone by them to ,
seenre a rets.tition of the victory of last year. And yet I
not a single sign or word do we get from the chief
Liberals, who know or ought to know through their
agents that it is no use looking to her. Waring again, hi
show that there in the slightest spark of vitahty left in
the body, or that when the tittle C 01111.14 they will he pre-
pared to 1111•SeIlt to 010 electors • candidate who tbey
May fairly ask should be aupported. Rotue was n(4
built in a day, neither will the electors of Poole, Liberal
or otherwise, consent to having a matt brought forward,
at the last moment, and thrust down their throats to be
supported merely bemuse lie gives lunation out as •
Li tal or a Conservative. There is an extensive leaven
in the Liberal Party a intelligent thinking and enquir-
ing men—l aro speaking more particularly of the artisan
elaws—who, before they reerini their votes, for a candi-
date. will require to know his Mesa upon the ellief
topics of the those vital 11110861 MM which are now
engrossing the attention of all Engliiihnien. For a man
to Wad up sod rey 4'l am a folknver of William Evart

Gladstone" may be a ver7 fair eertiflette of Atrocity,
but it is not the only testimonial to fitness for the oft,e
of our Borough lILP. that the Liberal elector of Pools,
—that is one of Medea eort—requiree. Whet then one
whose vote and influence is really worth hewing, who.,
signature at the poll is not to be bought by mere pro.
mises of present or future gain, will 11111 C before be gives
his support is, "What do you, sir, whoever you may be
who aspire to represent us in the future, think of the'
tronblous and direful times through which we are
passing in the present. Let us know how you regard
the present policy of the Government, where you
agree with it, and where, like an honest Eng.
halation, you must confess you differ from it.
Tell us what remedies you will support, even if
you cannot inaugurate them, to render this land
of ours more happy, more properous, mom
contented in the future than it is in the present. What
measures will you advocate to prove that'll... Earth is it.,,
Lord's," and not merely the property of their lordships
and to bring about that Peace and 1;mA...i1l among'
men," of which bloated bialiopit preach one day, whih,
next they vote six millions for the murderous slaughter
of their fellow men. Tell us, sir, will you give your aid,
however humble, to blotting out from our newspaper
reports the lailv riwordn of deaths from starvation, while
millions are yearly %lode,' in a corrupt and lISPIPm
pageantrv, and ill you il. your best to eounteract su4
foil that Woody greed for land, the gratification ,d which
sends woe and misery and ruin into thousands „r
homes." These are the kind of subjects upon which ti,„
gentleman who may hope to
real backlmne of the Liberal c uency will require
enlightement from any
represent it, and the sooner it is vonelisafell, the better
for his eitrinrex of /1111N,5r. and the better f„r the well,
hieing the Liberal Party in this bo r

Tie London papers See am already diacnaaing the
elumees of an election this year. One of them ays,
Ave pr„phy an eleetion before July and a laiim
Conservative majority." Annilior, quoting du.,
remarkm We !slightly differ ; what we prel IherY 6an
elmlion before July and a small Conservative majority."
Parnell, in reply to a Parisian journalist a day or t.wo
ay., said Another riven«. of the British arms and the
Gladstone iovcrion. tit is at an end." And yet Om
liberal party lure are quietly dozing away their
opport unit us.