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

WIRING FOR THE TELAGRAM.

What has Bridport done at the recent election? No
One CAD answer that question satisfactorily until the
electors begin to realise, and that shortly, the change
they have made. If Bridport has made a grand
mistake, sad tusloubtedly it has, the eyes of the
country at large are wide open to maintain a liberal,
peaceful uud'honourable policy, in the Government
of this kingdom. We need not refer to the measures
adopted by the Tory party at the late election, which
vomited in the winning—say the wreochlng—of the
we, from our esteemed Mr. Rani. If some of the
Bridport electors have stood in their own light, it
must ere this be evident to them that a large majority
of their fellow-countrymen are pushing forward with
might and main the rapid development of their civil
and religious rights and liberties What now of the
"Midlothian Agitator," as some have been pleased to
berm the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone ? The result
of the poll at Leeds is tufficient evidence that electors
are asking themselves what Earl Beaconsfield did
with the magnificent revenue which Disraeli and his
supporters found at their disposal, when Mr.
°iodates. terminated his tenure of °See ? During
his (Mr. Gladdest's) administration, our old country
was highly prosperous and plenty of money was at

Mr. Patch has gone away, and so has Mr. Warton.
The representatives of the local press ace anxiously
awaiting the dinner the former gentleman promised
to regale them with. They hav'n't had a sniff at it yet,
and are beginning to inspect the whole thing will be
a eh. If the invitations are not shortly issued, the
reporters earnestly hope that some benevolent in-
dividual wi I forward Mr. Patch a TehgranB with a view
to remind him of it. A number if our poorer brethren
are daily bothering us concerning that chimerical
£l,OOO which was supposed to have been safely bakrd
for their requirements, and to be drawn the monit nt
the election was over. They are begining to suspect,
am we did all along, that the money Is ho .8 de romixit,
and will take a form similar to that of Mr. Patch's
invitation dinner.

But there is another £l,OOO which will prove of
more interest to the electors of Bridport, and that is
Mr. Rail's recent eurchwee £l,OOO worth of shares
in the Bridport Railway Company, and as stated at
the late meeting of the proprietors, "Mr. Rain would
undoubtedly takt more if required." This is, perhaps,
the first public statement of the above fact, but another
evidence of Mr Ralli's generality, which he has ever
shown in promoting the interests, welfare, and
prosperity of a borough which ham shown him such
undeserved ingratitude. Mr. Warton—" Go and do
likewise."

THS MO.VTINSORINA AND MR. G LADSTONS. —At an
early hour on Tuesday morning a telegram from
Montenegro was received at Mr. Gladstons's
which informed the right hon. gentleman that the
montenegrin nation congratulated him on the great
victory which the Liberal party had just achieved, and
at the same time declared that the Montenegrins would
never forget his championship of the cause of freedom
—" Never, never, never."
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An endeavour is being made in London to omanist
a popular demonstration of welcome to Mr. (line
on hie return from Midlothian. It is proposed to meet
the right lion. 'centime= at the railway station on his
arrival from Scotland, sad to present him with an
"address of congratulation from the working men of
London on the grand triumph at the polling booths of
the principles sod policy of which he has always been
the earnest and eloquent champion." The proposal is
being takes up by the working men in the metropolis
with aped deal of enthusiasm.
POLITICAL MG-11DM —A murder, which is thought
to have been prompted by political ill-fealing, is under
magisterial investigation at Ashtonmnder•Lyne.
The deceased, an Irish labourer, named Morianii,
showed an interest on Saturday night in the return
of the Liberal candidate for that borough, Mr. Mason,
which led to his being attacked by several men.
Merland and his meitilants were elected from •
public-house in which they had been fighting; and an
hour later he was found to have received the most
terrible injuries, use of his eyed being knocked out,
his noes broken, and his skull fractured. The
on-
fortunate man died early on Sunday morning. His
' amailants are believed to be Orangemen. One man is
In custody, and the police are in quest of others who
are paspocted.