The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-10-27 00:00:00

Your derot.4l Sernak
HENRY HERARD EITURT.
Criobel, October 12, 186 S.

TO TUE ELECTORS OF THE COUNTY OF
DORSET.

nesnsuss,
BEG respectfully to inform you that I
intend again offering myself as a Candidate for
your suffrages at the approaching Election.
The proceedings of the Parliament now about to be
dissolved have been of more than usual importance.
Measures effecting great changes in the governing power
of the country have been passed, if not with the
hearty co-operation, at least with the general concurs
rence, of all Forties. They were, I freely admit, of a
more extensive character than I had previously con•
sidered desirable; but the difficulty of finding any
resting place short of that which has been established,
and a strong sense of the damage which must seals
to the State from a constant &xi tation for further changes,
led nee to believe that on the whole Her Majesty's
Government were right in proposing those regulations
for the representation of the people which, with soma
alterations, have now become law.
The new Parliament will have matters of no less
weight and magnitude to deal with.
questions affecting the connection of the Church and
State have always, and that iumt justly, owned forth
the strongest expression of i•pinion and feeling from all
claim* of the community. Whatever may be the effect
on the Homan Catholic population of Ireland, it cannot
be denied that the abolition of the Irish Branch of the
National Church as by law established will be a severe
injury and discouragement to the Protestant inhabitants
of that part of the Kingdom. On that account, and
because the change would be • eontratietion to seine at
least of the principle* on which the National Church
rests in England. I shall oppose to the utmost all such
IllealkOres of subversion.

In this, as in other matters o grave political
importance. I believe that the action of the present
Government will be more in scooreanee with the true
interest,: et the oountry than any that ean be substituted
for it.

Under its gnidanee the position of Fmglanil, in
regard to the Continental Power., iss well sa in its
important relations to the great Transatlantic Republic,
has been materially raised. The services by land and
we have been advaneed in efficiency ; and, if this result
has not been attained without some increase of expendi.
tore, it is fair to observe that no additional taxation
bee been ineuf red in eousessuenre, end that the legitimate
question for discussion is whether the coat las been
greater than the value of the improvements in the two
vest branches of national defence.

My efforts will be directed, as in former Parliaments,
to mist any attempts to increase, hy sa,litimulborjeas,
the taxation eaelusively of real propet ty, to remove from
it all such charges as are rather of eprioral than apeeial
obligation, and to enlarge the basis of assessments as
far as may he consistent with the priaervation of looal
management.
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()lithe grounds above mentioned, if I have the honour,
as I confidently trust, to be *gala elected, as your
representative in the House of Coninions, I propose to
give the present Ministry an indsponlent but cordial
support.
I have the honour to be, i;entlenien,
Your obedient and faithful Servant.
JOHN FLOYER.
Stafford,(October 14, 1868.