The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-05-15 00:00:00

1111Eg111110 Orr INIROESSID3.

In the evening at ight o'cloob. • poblie meeting took
place at the Townhall, called by the Mayor, to
ompb-
sacs with & requisition of electors. The hall Mae
crowded by men of all chums and political opinions, sod
the proceedings were of • roost unanimous and swami-
sotto character. The Meyer (T. Whiz. Beq.,) presided,
and cooopt the company we ootired : -Mr. T. A.
Mftchsll, M.P., Mr. J. Gondry, Mow& 3. P. F.
Gundry, E. (iondey, J. Jefoni, W. Swan, H. K.
Stembeidge, F. W. Goodry N. K. Loggio, L IL
Mutton, J A. Dee. S. W. Whetham, Alfred Nephews.
Thompson Stephen; 11. N. Con, J. P. Stephens, Y.
Good, P. W. 0-ad. A. H. Gaul. Gortatus Ewen;
Baluster, H. FAmonds, 13. Blildlecombe, Iteoadlev
Noses. Brill., B. Cos, T. Beach, T. Lem Rood,
T. Nortbover. J. William.., !lull, Coepoek, W.
Knight, Laorenee, Grows, Omens, Fors, Francis, IL
Roan-ell, Welowrignt, Roles, Wayiand, S. Bennett,
S. Whothem, Hone.., Booknole, C Siva Meld, B. P.
(Sundry, Maine Templee, Werren. Crsbh, Dr. limes.
Pollard, W. Fry, G. Edwards, A. Manley, W. H.
liernoldi, SOS r, Westlake, It. Fooks. G. B.
Peens. J. C. Baker, J. Tampico's; Spooner, Ike., Ac.
The Maros, who war rooted with applause, said the
m• cling wee converted to tad Info orucid-ration the
enures to he pursuer( with reimrd to the Governmest
ineasere for the redistribution of wets. That being the
acne of their meeting he need soweely tell them that
it was a awe" important samotbly—probably the most
important locally that had take° places during this 1,003
yeere whieh had passed since the town was founded,
ard in the 600 years daring which Bridport had laad
the privilege of returning to the Ow:proem Home of
Parlaunent two At and [wooer pamoos Is represent the
inhabitants therein. At the present time therefore,
when it wee proposed to etre them iesaed of two
members, about onewitth of their present representc
tire pool; their satheriog together was, be aright
sorer; without feat of crontradietbse, the most impor-
tant osewion which had veer owe:rod in that ancient
borough. The speakers to the ometutloue would enter
' lobo detwile ; therefore, be woad °sly ry be thought
that if the measured proposed lied been anything ilk•
what weld be emosidered fair and their doe. the wen of
Bridport, distinguithed es they had bees for so long •
period for their adherence to reform sad peblie improve-
ment, would have borne •ish a good gores beteg shore
of some of thew ancient privileges sad honour., but to
&et them te submit quietly and patiently to mesh •
mowers as Government now proposed was be thooght
rather too mesh- (applause). . .

tie J. GUIIMIT Tee. to MOTO the Get resolution. He
said Although I hove not ant neqoantly had Lb' honour
of addressing you at publie and amo• important otos-
dans. I howealiv confess that I have never de* m when
▪ fish* of rimponatinlity weighed ist,re heavily upon
mu than at this moment—(w, hear). I have resided
'anciently long amount you, making no "wet of nay
polirical sestinas* to render it needless to tell you
that under ordinary ciroomatances you would scarcely
ham men me *re at • meeting for th• pe,pom of re-
cording dimpprobatioa at any 011tYllfl which had for
It. reel object the reformist' of tb• general momenta-
tion of this great souotry. It may perhaps be a
nueber of samara to some that on the oscatrion I should
appear before you for Indio, any feeble akl I can to your
"honer power with the lolanda) of frustrating if portable
the eleastlin before the Cowmen. Hottfeof Tarli.rnent
.atlBl. i the Redistribution of Seats Bill. w Isiah will shortly
receive the consihmtlon of th•t sagest Hoeft. T... m .y
mk ow why I do that whey I so recently ens* my
name to a petitiou handed rotted for signature in this
boroath for th• extatialoo of tee haste**, of the pimple
In genera, aiming as wo do new that theme two hills are
now introduced coseautively, and it *pars to be the
Intention to curry thorn on oujoiotly In the Rae. of
°MOW'S,. The reasons I shall assign to yea am simple.
fare not *in of three who are ./raid of the 001 W.
qmooss of inter/hag my fellows-matey-men with larger
politica pooses—(aprdatoe). I am not so young but
that I tun recollect ere tha dent meth Reform BSI
was passed, and those Irbo mus remember so long beak
se I do will know that at that time the framed* is this
borough was on • mush larger and wider basis than it
Is Dow; and although that Bill was inteaded be inorawes
sav:mas power tb• people of Roglead, that was
mesh which followed ha being "anted in th•
h of &bloat. So ler se my memory sieves roe,
1411 the &ye to while I now refer, the soetlee lettiat
4.01, Diace in shit amough were not wilder, not more
cmgehilomi than they have been does end if la those
r ay, the iabajamata of the bOtolige were toted to
*crass the wider power" they titan poseeseed the*
they do now, I think we may f.irly Infer that
Ions" the lapse of that time when a greater inessare of
mbaratiou, experisoce, and wisdom have beets accorded to
they are at thmt coniratent to "swam the powers
they in those day. —(applease). This, and ether
shoussianses have l.d me not to look with feelings of
:pprehmasion ou th• lowering or extension of the free-,
Mae is this emmtry. I am certain in my own nand
that the extended educatioo and power of apprehension
granted to th• inhabitant. of Ragland have Wad it..
more than wee tha ass 40 or 80 years ago to mar he
those greater and more itsportent fesotienaHmapheao.
Three are the reSBOlll obi* Winced me not beg sham
to ern the ratios for the wpm, of mostioning suieh
extension. But it bee always been my opinion that
shboadh a larger mambo, of the people of this maim,"
went fitted to make am of repreeestative power than
ham bean the one up to this thee, the redistribution of
Dr.", if ever tarried out In • large and 'abraded mamber,
mirth' be mode am of in a *mimeo** way—Omar,
bear). It I. not only that I feel, a• our thealost
Mayor Meted, that • bongo like &Menet, which am"'
1.. astatinca from so remora • period, which for so long
• time has exercised its tomatoes so respectably to
Heal, and so fittingly for those whom it was salted
ow to serve, is not cies at ell events upon whisk a ear
rant not of injustice should be committed, so I thbilt
I shall be tibia to show you has been the cram now
—(applaass). We heard this aftornooo from our
exoellent represestastive. lx. Mitchell. Manatee which
prove that .1 .11 wrests thereby. searry *roach* whisks
are eate•riag Ire, from the proposed redistribution of
semis than outresives, yet whose inhabitants, so far ea
can be computed, are lees in number than our own. It
Is strange that in all the boroughs whim now ...torn two
members to the Rotes of Commons with the exceptioo
of one, via, Newport, Isle of Wight, ws worms the
laziest population of any la the na of oorcesgba, is
which it is proposed to reduce the represnotative power,
and Newport has merely • modicum of populations
superior to our owe. It is a strange th also that
whereas Chichester and Stamford were piece. whom
population at the moths of 1861 eniseded our own,
they now by tber computation made at the urgency
of the Government, are found to hay. rearded in popa•
lotion, while, daring the same time, via, from 1861 to
Ink She population of Bridport haa &demand—(h. or.)
bear). I Wheys I shall not 8. esll.d lo sesceint by any
at you when I way that at this moment the prospeote
of the town of Beidport as regards its aressisl
are perhaps mope promising than the 7 certainly wars at
the otheas to which I have .0.
Instead of bang in • position when either as regards
enemy, proapori-y, or vitality, wee* be *Med a decay-
ing or &chain( borough. I think I shell be supported
by the opiates and *mein** of yea an. win* I my
quite the oontrary is the tom At ime time I seal..
that I feared that the fall lid, of our prosperity
heti les* waohodl, but I believe that I wari
and that the Ouniag petal hria been
and that *Mead of wradartiag any title to be
called • do:dieing boroaek--estassi aside pencesl
feelings on the manor, whisk would lead me to take •
favourable view of our oosditioa—l thiak I may appeal
to the paha* to ask whether the start sanitary is a*
tla• fact?- (appiassa). It is qnile snidest by that Mem
proof —tho Mena* of population ret
, the tenetoo of
house amotansedation on this of the
while is esperly eased upon; things prLawilh
at all Gnus U pomest, and I believe 101" ems
will easithswar is the falter% Bridport
a lloarbaltiag slabs, and that it will be Amid
when the next menu is taken that the heads win
Inhibit • greeter inareaos of popaleaosthila Mahe" site
—(mar, hem). flees Wags stake ma teal that
' minstoost justice has net be dealt to us ; bat, on the
imahary, I consider that a mass** of &groat *-
jostles It* bees mauled out to net sad therefor', eon.
old ialtalitthot--oas hors he..,
eli=ghersa and bksly
toMilk my tile ammo, rota andthat year pear
perste should he as peat.. you yoensolves its with, and
your pstitioal inflaimos whisk eon have so boostarahle
maiistathed for so long • Period should not
be imassed, I hams peat plasm* he appierimg
before you to had any aid, however Ileshi•
awd weak, to avert what I esseiner weld be • orsut
patine anitifortaus *the borough : not *IT uhosJ we
eel* Wee the tun degekv•ibee of a ntesalers, bed we
ileeebb be naked' Wee tee other taxmen, oae of Make
Ise eelsbbeeehar .phee, and about whisk* I do net wish
ha es, saytklag to the had tbireppeadel, for,, Icaew
anay of Ito labablteate, and tallfl•6 lad *AM *UN

but the other borough (Idesibm) with which it is too-
poop,' to aulto or it one ol which we beim hot huts or
, 'ottani, sad is tepid to Minh es have no ensounity
of heeling or inters.% Beech. it is sitestd at •
• very (rest distance from Hi .a.l it I. not erns in
the man omen. all tires Skins. reed, r for time
impleassut sod unpalatable the Assn troliosed to ba.
thrust upon no. auch being the ewe think it right
ut this occasion, wl.etber we ars goo saki or not—right
for go as nes and Md.-pendent citnns to some Lem an./
enter our volnenn prides' et iintt whi the 0. vrrnupt.t
attempt in foist epos us—fiend cheer.). If we did n
dose! thiek we Moak* become, and jestly leconr,
the laughing stock of the ieholo country. Tirre•
lon, it is that I bops you will .bow by Jr.,
ognoto eat, She pet.tion which will he read to pet
byrand•bre t bet jou ear,e with use ..e the grsvity
this mossion—implatur). if. el t. at no enterm oboe
of that insoleum sierehation ‘.l rofoio ori it pie osgi t
to he shrink from which ean be hrousht to Mu an as
to prevent tbe carryieg of this nenentre —(hew, bear).
I ask no one lode more t• an I shen.ld leis to he edged
myself. to insists nothing like • bre. V priselyle, but
short of that, Ido my scare hound as inhabitants dm
old, reoectoblit, and respected boroagh to Mktg every
sap which we as ltroglibizmin and gentlemea legitimately
C*o to prevent so unjust .0 5.1 being forced utem n.
(loud cheers). lam glad to dna that Itle Mitehell,
has hien moonset us to-dsy, in prepared to adopt such a
mum es I bare endeavoured to shadow out to you.
He is prepared to take every measure which es • gentle-
man and • man of bosom, be can Mk. its in
averting this ashamity—(applaun). I Odell In is pet-
fectly eight in &ass .0, and 1 am quits sore from the
way you receive übservathoi., that JOU
with MO in the n
ee'Mien, if it ems 7d!
I should tender to our represent...time. I will
DOt detain you Jaeger, but Aim* r••• 4 Yee the ewe-
lotion placid in your hands. It is, "That this merits/
ootaridors the Governinest meassre for the rediet ribution
of oats to be flagrantly unjust towards this borough."
I hope that by your hands and voices bpand-trye, after
it is semoded, you will show it is adopted with perfect
unanimity, sad that you are deteresiord to do your but
as sea sad criterions to inert the thnestasted indictioa—
(lend ehern).
Mr. H. N. Col: Will you melee the propoeitios " un-
just to this beromb" sad to the maim, I
Mr. Macrae said he had no objection.
Mr. J. pr. Brartimis (the seconder) said be thosilil Jr
noisid boseas .d4witnyfectiment ; "sad to the reentry" w
ib.rmp ee
Mr. J. P. STiPIUSI, in Weeding the resolstimi, mit
he fancied there svat me rather importast point ehich.
had not be touched upon by either the Mayor or Mr.
thindry. The Msynr told them Bedpan had been •
borough for about AOO years, and be thought Mot m-
iens as prescriptive rights are not in tailed
to society at large they ought to be missidered.
Ile held that it was palpably laniard to take
Irons then the right of rotundas well, sayo
both members. leaving them to sleet oast represen-
tative conjointly with two other boroughs, with om ad
which is pan/eclat they had no conseetion whatever—
(applause).
The KATO* submitted the neolation to the meet-
ing_sod it was carried non en.
Dr. J•llnrolin said that when he intend the Mel be
had not the matt resole emerption that be Mould
be called on to .dar any remarks. He mime to
lichen and not to meek. As an old inhabitant
of Bridpirt be meld ace but feel a deep
interest in everything that ecincerned its welfare, as
well-knowing that it was propped to tie away frees
the. their aticirret privileges, he came to beer what'
oosne it was intended to pursue. He pinup, had sot.
felt Di strongly tio the subject of Parliamontery Selena
as many of those he au • around hits; he had attar
felt my alarm about an mimeos of the sullnige, or •
redistribution of mall; but at the same time no loos as
he saw that the last &dorm Auk the paring of which I.
so well remembered, work. d en well. Dad so ealcieotly
achieved the *biers* for whit* the Rome of Commons
wee returned, he for his owe park had felt tolerably
well estiell.-d, though be wee *worsting =daseasalies
mined and that education warn so far ex
the people of the country that • Imp else. wasns:tt:
Shed I. mends, the franehle now Mam those em whose
t ins eosforr.d in 1&'l; yet. ditlievisg that they might
go on a little loopr, he frankly owned to them that he
was perfectly eatralled with the policy Mooted in
She matter by Lord Palmerston. But chewer
names had arises which led the Ooverminot
to propose • Franehies Bill which appeared to
him in looking at the measure so far as. the

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ce—selliaeOckir—Mrer; cTo-treerned to deal very fairly
with the milord ; but, whoa it Game to the
redistribution of seats, be sonfeesed that be felt eon.
aiier.ble misgiving as to what would be Me remit. Ho
was persuaded of this, that the smaller borough.—
amongst which number Brklport mune—could hardly
elpiret to escape unscathed; yet be felt that the plan
proposed by Governineet for unithig this boressib with
Hooiton, which for all prettied wes as far off
as London, required very stew( groands of
expediency to recommend it to their metier,
sal soma of those grounds bad been shown.
It wee not till be bread Hr. ifitsbell's
st-
went that be fully understood the great Injustice the
Government memenne proposed to do them. It appear. d
by his statement that there Imre • large number at
boroughs with esealetione smaller than their own end.
others not such creator which h.d not been dealt with•
in the manner Bridport had. Therefore, be thought
that avert from Imperial Interests of peeled expedisocy
they had g t*itt to eamplain Si the nefairnese and in-
justice of the OVIIMINIMPIIi BilL He was not "peeking in
concert with any, be bad nothing to do with
milling that meeting. and did not premise to know the
views of those who took • Makin part in soovening
the aesembly, therefore say ohmereatiosie Si his tomi
not be tiel to ceaspromise Mew ha be spoke no he
.irmys did, what be himself thought sad not
waive, to offend or annoy soy one--(hear=
There was ow. point upon which be felt very
is referees* to Ileforat. He always liked to see that •
borough which returnei resi repre...at.Uv.s, simple ea
far am operable he • borough of itself. Thsst westi
an iodividnality about as old bereetek whisk kw
had • very great resseet for. Limiting baronet.'
together destroyed their indisideslity : they were
no longer reel lembs wine united MI6 46s
they became only eas of • large commenity, .ana
lost all that peculiar feeling which animated the
bergemes, whether they salted thesembee liberals or
Conservatives, wheel they pans forward to dhows, the
duties which the Osiontitetio• bad pr-eel lee em th.
Therefore, he always felt a very strung ,„7 to •
Woe borough., but swift the tide I. that
direetion, be most say he onld net have very
sere if the Government Mal married them
to their neighbour. at Lyme Regiiiir: they sere
well karma to roost of therm and thought that
*mkt net hem aroused each very objestioon
whisk' be believed everybody no. h.d to the plan. Ha
should himself have felt so far econteet with such • pro--
podeon that be did not thlok anything would have In-
dosed him to Kamse the politico be was about to do..
Under prompt eircametsesse trit thought that the whole
of **inhabitants whatever were their political opinions,
should do what they matt to ,stouglbeo the bands of
Stair representatives M order to gamble the, to main-
toin fee them at lead a more independent position than
U.. Government at preempt seemed disposed to word
to them. He proposed the adoptions Si the following

the undersigned, inhebitauts of lb. berewre of
arid port, petition your booreareble House agalest tha
bill browett is by Lite Ocesernmest for tie redistri-
hellos of mats, as latienee the most flagrant injustice
cm a town, the trade and poprlatioa of which are
augmenting every year. We Gad that two plasm.
with a polatiost in 18116, as tomputed in the Illselotal
Returns kid before you, to be inferior to oar oars.
Clriebester sad Stamford me proposed to be allowed to
retain twe members each, and nine others in tbe same
ioaiuia—Bswdsy Bridgoarth. Bankiagitant, Coker-
mouth, Droitt, Hertford, Hualtagden,
sad Marlow- to retain owe ease, without the addon,
io soy ems, of other sonstltatmaies, while we,4B2srlow
to them in numbers, are proposed to have ad toss
two other plener-Lyme Begin sad Flositoo--the lather
of whist is not in the same meaty, and is wholly soma-
embed with us. We, thriodoee, pray your bsareultbiw
home, if this sohenie I. to be adhered to, le relent alto-
gether the Bill for the redistribunee of seats."
H. moved " That tha petitios to the Howe of
Comosons now read be adapted, laid fee signaftrir
before the ialtabitaots of the town, sad forwerded to
the members for presettatiou, with *request that they
will support Its prayer. —(applasse4m.
Mr. T. Lane .14 be bad great re* aseending
the reeolatiao. They all baser h feellega—that he
, should not St* le see the borough deprived el orle
member at any rote • he was a greet adweents for
Reform, but not for egmatioa.—(applaave.)
The proposition was carried saanimeranly.
• rote of thanks to the Chairotaa Women the moat-
lag Is • ekes.