The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-11-17 00:00:00

TO TUE ELBGTOIIII OF THX 0017NTY OF
DOB.bET.

TIVITLIUF)I,
YOU have on four previous oeeetdons done
li for
me the honour of aending me to Parliament ea
rp and in soliciting the fifth time
your Ite
the auff,ages of. an enlarged con•titueney, I do no with
the more conliden‘e, in oonatquenee of • well founded
hope that you has* approved of the course that I have
hitherto pursued.
I have always even an independent but consistent
support to the Conaervative perty, because I hold it to
be the aaler,and fektbe more practical of the two. It may
sot talk no loudly ; but it gets through more business,
and turns its work out better than its opponents, and
thin I believe the isountry to be aware of. Moreover
the tut mixes of this ismer have not fished for popularity
by elatuonring for illoonaidtred changes; but have
w•ited until the proper moment unveil, and then have
aueceeded in bringing before Parliament, in a practical
shape, !donna id which their opponents have only
trnaag. I may p jet notably to the Reform Bill of the
Jut two 801.1110.• le which co el you are nom
Galled upon toexereire the Franch7:Tor the &et time.
The Co iv. Government has not only succeeded
in eettEng tin absorbing queetion,but it Ass planed, in •
comparatively abort time, the Foreign relations of the
eountry upon • bound and intelligible footing, based
on the oonfidcriee with whist: it has in•pirc.l foreign
cabinets, by conviticing them of in loyalty mad straight.
forwardness, free from warp and bite, and from the
.1 ghtest taiht if intrigue. I look upon such • character
for honesty a• this to he of no light iinportatice in the
present ospect of affairs, and ode that behows• tba
Electors to weigh well before they risk the lost of it.
The Cones, vative Government has hein taunted with
. emir-vegan°, (a charge easily made), and lucreroe of
&gamete* has been condemned in the lump by persons
who knew that such an accusation (no matter how
fueled) is Idiely to t. II ou the eve of a Geaeral
Election; but can this be fairly mild id it? It is notorious
that • cheap flossinment is not always the most
eetionmi,•l in the end; and that p•rsimeny, at the
expens- of ifliciancy, it often • po r awing. Popularity
may be tempos 0y earned by auc's • policy ; but if
estahlishments are to he reduced no low that they are
inadequate to supply the purposes for which they were
intended, let lbw* who are theadvocates for ouch • policy
accept the resioneibiity. I am an advoteite fir economy
but not at all bawds. Recollect the Crimean War, and
our short-c..mings oil that memorable occasion.
In my opinion the industrs, ability, statesinanship,
and specially the control of temper displayed by Mr.
Disraeli upon m•ny notalde nccasilns, contract favour-
ably with the qualifications possessed by any other man
that is a member of the present Parliament, or a
candidate for a moat in the next. I shall, then fore, give
him, in the event of your returning iii., my willing and
independent support; becati.e I feel that under the
present difficult eircumst•nces of the country, the
',ornate iotroduaerl by him promise to be of a &render
and more practical nature than those of any other
political tearer which the times have yet produced.
I own that I look with jealousy and distrust upon the
league of a host d Ineli in many different political
creeds combined under the leadership of Mr. Gladstone
on one point, and one only, which may be shortly charao•
teriaed 1. the policy of sktorrritivc
Great and extravagant Inds for popularity have been
made, and will he made, under this I ead ;but I appeal to
the experience of the last thirty years, and aals whether a
reasonable man can arty that any of them have been
carried out! . . _

Gl.d.lone'sßwolutions in the matter of the Irish
Church Establishment were eminently itortravtical. He
failed to point out what he intended to di with the
retentive, and his proposition for a sort of dermal torture
which might last over the nest (tiny yearv, was • fancy
which be would he glad to forget were his bands upon
the reins of office. _

The proposal was intended to serve • temporary
purpose, and, having fade 1, de.ervre uo fa rthe r attention.
The t udowinent of the Irish Church, however, in quite
another matt. r, sad one which ought not to he mid.
the touchstone of party. I sin well aware of the
dicltis which surround it, and I hold that the man
who approaches it, pledged beforehand to a particular
course of action, has given hostages to p.rty after •
fashion that will probably interfere w.lll the decision to
. which his better judgment may !zerealter poinL
If ever there wets • subject to be ammo:bed without
party bias, and handled upon large and com-
prehensive principles, it is this one, which now bias
Gir to be treated as • party watch-cry, and misguided
aenrdingly. . . . . . .

If you retorn me to Parliament I pledp myealf to
coiaider the •uliject in all Oa bearings, anal I think data
is a course whieh you would wish your representative to
follow.

I have arldressel you at some length, because I wish
to place before you the situation io all It, significance.
It a no use to deny that • crisis has occurred, and that
a grevt political cblingl haa %keit place womb is full of
meaning. For ray own part I look to the future with
oune,loooe. I 'spent that the "subversive party" will
receive • check. I calculate upon the sound good
sense of the country, and I think the Ecators will hays
no difficulty.io deciding who their true friends are.
. . . . .

The eapalsility of cerr-ying important measured through
Pet battiest, able ronduct of the Foreign relation, of this
country, prudent forethought in keeping up its befenpes,
and great repellence in drilling with Parlament, ars
qualtlc.ticn of no light practieel cob.; and I maintain
that they are possemed in a remuk-ble manner by Met
Majesty's present sleimra. On this ground I shall
support them should you, as I trust, me ono,
more to Parliament.