The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-03-18 00:00:00

THE EXPECTED GENERAL ELECTION.

Doa•Wr.—Ther• seems no likelihood of an attempt
being made to disturb the (musty repremotatioo. Mr.
Moyer has the entire coulidenoe of the agrlesiterigta,
Mr. Start is a very popular weary genVernao, and the
Hon. W. H. B. Portman la the Whig Interest wearies
the support of the Liberal party. Al Dorehmter Colonel
Start is Ins pretty strong positioo, and the Liberals have
never really tested the constituency against him. We;
mouth will have a severe mutest, the Coaservatives UM.
lag resolved to run two candidates—Mr. Hstabro, ths
sitting member, and *ir Frederic Johnston., who has
t 0,,. property lu the borough. The Liberals will stand
by Mr. H. /Awards, M.P., whom liberality to the can
hae been princely; and probab lithe point to his return
with Sir Frederio.—Warebsta may or may not provoke
• contest. The sitting member—Mr. Graz rammer.
tam) has been remiss in attention to his Petlianieo.
Lary duties, and apparently don't oars much about it.
At the geoeral election Mr. Calmat (Liberal) was
sleeted by a majority of 13. and the following month he
died, and Mr. Drag beat his brother by 69.—At Poole
Mr. A. $ Guest, shot. despribed se a Liberal-Coiner.
votive (and &beer tells us the Guest fatally pommels
Intend in this borough) easy probably bare to re-
motest his meet with Ur. Charles Waring, the former
member, to whom the Liberal party remain entliusimti-
sully loyal, and be has rosistalned intimate relatioaa
with Poole up to the present time, He lost the Mamie*
In '6B by 60—At Bridport Mr. T. A. Mitehell (Liberal)
I. esettre. At the general electlon Um. Goldenski (Co..
servative) outwitted the borough thoroughly, bet found
hi. &anew so hopeless that he tithed before the day of
polling.—Sbeftesbury will have a lively mutest the
Hon. G. G. Glyn being opposed by Mr. Fiese-Ber:nott,
a local gentlemen Captain In the Hills Corps,
and supported by the Marchioness of Westminster who
has inflames in the borough. Undoubtedly the molest
will be severe, and the result cannot be largesse.
Whether Derobeetor or Wareham, or both of them, wai
be ocatested, remains to be men. _ _ _

BSTSTOL —lt is annonnood that Mr. L B. itobinsoo
will come forwsrd in the Liberal isterest in the event
Di • general election. Sboa4 he oome forward then
will be three Liberal candidates In the field, inolndlng
the sittuig members, Years. Malay and Hoppe.
The ConservAive emidldates are Messrs. Rare and
Chambers.

Divissil.—Hr. Derby Griffiths, formorly member for
Devises, is, it is mid, about to MOW his polttico coo-
amnion with the oorough. However, the present
member, Sir nos. Batmen, Bart., is very popular ;
and, m the Conservatives of this town were
stronger or MOM united, ills generally believed that
Sir Tbomma Batman's return is aleolutely oertain.
EXITS& —The High Sheriff of the 'bounty of *Devon,
Mr. J. & Johnson, of South Holton, hae signified his
assoeptsom of an invitation addressei to him by th•
Cooservetive Associstion of lister, in conoeciion with
Mr. Arthur KUL.

won kurrow. —The Liberate will probably ran two
oandliatee fog this borough at the pelt election, with
a view of winning the net now held by Mr. Ruseelll
Gurney.