The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-04-13 00:00:00

NORTH EAST LANCASHIRE.
TORY DODGE.

Coneiderable ill-feeling was created by the Lane to the
electors in the outlying districts of a circular declaring
that the Marquis of Hartington had retired from the
contest, having elected to sit for the Radnor burghs.

POLLINO.
The Niesquie of Rartington (L) 6,683
Mr. R. W. Grafton (L) 6,519
5,231

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The Liberals have 'thus gained both seats. •
TILE NATIVES Or INDIA AND THE GENERAL ELECTION.
—The committee of the Indian Association of Calcutta,
a public body representing the interests the people
of India, and having branch 'emaciation' in several
important towns in various parts of India, have issued
an address to the electors of the United Kingdom.
They remind the electors that the natives of India
have no voice in the administration of their own
affairs, and that since the assumption of the Imperial
title by her Majesty a line of pllicy of • retrograde
and repressive character has been pursued in reference
to Indian affairs which is opposed to the beim/bent
traditions of British rule in India. They refer to the
Vernacular Press Law to the Arms Act, to the
suppression of the Delhi and Barelli Colleges, to the
saddling upon India of the expenses of the Afghan
War, and to the recent unsuccessful attempt made by
Lord Lytton's Government to close by law, as against
the people of India. the door of competition for
admission into her Majesty's Civil Service. In con-
clusion, the committee says :—" Electors of Great
Britain and Ireland ! The voiceless millions of India
earnestly appal to you to remember that in voting on
this momentous occasion you are deciding issues of
great importance as affecting not only yourselves,
but also your unrepresented subjeote ia a distant
dependency of the British Empire."

The Right Hon. ilimh Childers. M. I'.. at amass meeting
in Hull, denied the allegation that the Liberal party were
unpatriotic. They desired the maintenance of the Empire.
They believed the connexion between the colonies and
the mother country was of vital importance. They desired
that India should be well governed. They desired that
there should be no mistake about their determination to
maintain the Parliamentary union between England,
Scotland. and Ireland : and they desired to extend the
county franchise. Without giving Home Rule to Ire'and,
they desired to grant her citizens coital right. With thole
enklyed by Englishmen, by giving them the same
HlTrhalege. Goole Liberal Committee it is said have
emphatically protested against the injudicious reading
of the Riot Act in that town on Monday, and the
brutal manner in which the police indiscriminately
attacked men, women, and children.
THUs is nothing more nourishing and warming in
cold weather than a cup of really good cocoa, but the
difficulty has been to obtain it pure. This may be
secured at the cod of one halfpenny for a large break.
, fast cup by using Cadbury's cows emsnoe, which goes
three time* as far as the adulterated and starchy
compounds ordinarily sold, the smelled packet making
fourteen breakfast cups of strong cocoa.
RZSIONATION OF PRINCK BUOIALC—An unexpected
Ministerial crisis has arisen in Germany. The
Government being defeated in the Federal Council on
a Bill imposing Imperial stamp duties, Prince
Bismark has requested the Emperor to relieve him of
hie functions His Majesty immediately refused to
accept it, answering the Prince with the one word,
" Never."—Prince Bismark is really ill.
it telegram from Candahar in the Times states that
Colonel St. John, the new Oommiesioner ix that city,
has brought a letter from the Viceroy to the Sirdar
Shore Ali conferring on him the sovereignty of the
province of Candahar, with the title of Wall, but
informing him at the same time that the railway will
be extended to the city, and that a British force and
a_ political agent will be permanently stationed there.
The Cebu! oo nt of the Laity News says that
the cooling flo.rretVewill see a settlement made or
elms a renewal of war.