The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-11-03 00:00:00

Vampobirt.

BATH AND WENT Or ENGLAND SCCIATT AND
SOCTIIERN COONTIVI A lISOCUTION. -It has been decided
that the meeting to be held at Southampton next year
shall commence on Monday, the 31st of May.

Texas: are three lady voters on the recently-published
' list for the borough of Portsmouth. and the whole of
them have pledged themselves to support and vote for
the liberal canadidates, Messrs. Stops and Gazelee.
CHARD, OF BLASPIDDIT. A man named John
Thompson has been committed for trod at she South-
: aropton Assizes for publishing " • certain scandalous,
I impious, blasphemous, and profane libel on or concern-
ing tho Holy Scriptures and the Christian religion."
SUDDEN DEATH AT RINGWOOD. —During the past
week the Rev. It. Holmes Tusk. vicar of Ringwood.
motor of Ifwbrialgo, and Rural Doan of the Fording-
bridge Deanery, bas died suddenly. 111 r. Tech hail
been for some time under medical treatment, but was
not prevented from doing his parochial work. Oa the
morning of Saturday week, be was taken with severe
spasm of the heart, and expired before his medical'
attendant could arrive. Mr. Tuck had been viem of
Ringwood about six years, and was only fifty years of
age. His remains were interred in Hartsridge church-
yard Cu Friday, and the faceral was attended by needy
all the clergy of the rural deseery. by whom Mr.
Tuck was much esteemed, as a man of starling piety andi
worth.
Till E•ILL Or MALMBIBUIT AND MIL HAVILLTD-
Buss& —Correspondent)* between the Earl of Madmen-
bury and his agent, Mr. Elliott, and Mr. E. Haviland-
Burke, the Liberal candidate for Christchurch, has been
published in reference to • speech lately delivered by
Mr. Burke, in which he called upon the noble earl to
follow the example of cense great Liberal landlords by
Issuing a manifesto stating that his tenants are to vote
as they choose, and that there shall be no interference
with the voters on his estate, either on the part of Me
lordship or him agent. Mr. Burke stated that Mr. Elliott
had been working, sot only against him, but also in
favour of the Conservative candidate, Sir H. D. Wolff.
Mr. Elliott has denied this statement, and Lord Yahoo'.
bury celled upon Mr. Burke to give him the names of
the "threatened victims" of his agent's coercion.
His lordship declined to issue any such manifesto as
those which were abided to by Ur. Burke. and added,
"Such documents in my opinion are either sets of
Impertinence, or questionable specimens of electioneering
claptrap," Mr. Burke was absent from borne where
Lord Malmesbury's letter was despatched, and his reply
was therefore delayed. It has since been published,
I and in it he says that be does know that voters in the
borough have lad the "Landlord pressure" put upon
them but the particulars of each ease he must, for
obvious reasons, decline to make public, especially before
the election. Mr. Burke also my. that an impression
exists that Lard Malmesbitry's agent would not be too
anxious to point out to the voters that he (Mr. Elliett)
I. but • voter acting independently, and not as the
repreaentatire of his lordship's power. A word, adds
Mr. Berke, from Lord Malmesbury, might have di,.
polled all doubt upon the point, but his lordshipdeelines
to speak.