The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-10-27 00:00:00

The beat laid schema o' mice an' men
Gang It a-gley.

and it so happened that the Prince died before his
father. This being so, Bubb Doddington became very
loyal all of a sudden, and evinced the greatest respect
and reverecoe lr toe old Kin:. But George 11. was a
very good hater, and he hated Bubb Doddington with all
him hear t, and he would have nothing to do with him.
So Bubb Doddington continued a patriot, i.e*, he was
opposed to the Court, till the old King died, and George
111, came to the throne. Of the new King Babb
Doddington was TO ardent • supporter that be soon
I became Derelict hfeloombe, of Melcombe Regis, In the
I county of Dorset, but he bad scarcely been raised to that
, dignity when he died ; and he believed that all Wey-
mouth and Meleombe Regis ever got from him was the
distinguished honour of giving him the title with which
he died—(laughter). He mentioned this to show what
the men who so dealt with the votes of their predecessors
thought of them. It a., happened that Robb Doddington
SECOND COURT.—WEDIMIXIaT. left • diary behind him, and in it, amongst other things,
be mentioned, that it was his hard fate to have to come
(Before J. FLOM, Bin, K.P“ DeFuti4b) down at the election time into these parts, and to spend
Thomas Clark, 19, labourer. for stealing four boots, no less than four days with "those low venal wretches,"
belonging to Mr. R. Rolls, at Weymouth, was sentenced as be calla them, i.e., your worthy predeoessora, who,
to six weeks' hard labour. knowing Bubb Doddington was going to sell the votes
James Edwards, 39, labourer, for stealing • cut, Ice.. of the members returned by them, thought it not us.
belonging to Charles Mabboat Weymouth, was sentenced reasonable that they should have a share with him of
to seven years' penal servitude, two previous °envie- the proceeds—(laughtet). That was the state of things,
against hiru• or nearly so, up to the time of the last
tions being proved
Henry Derrick, 16, and Charles Davis, 19, labourers, Reform Bill, sad it could not be wondered
toweremrlotion.d at that with such antecedents generation after
111411arsl,Watd.Mtboinirnaebolit.x oArneigudroli, bee:don:enrol generation a system of corruption should grow tip
each sentenced to six weeks' hard labour, extremely difficult to exterminate. At last the Reform
Samuel Rabbits, charged with stealing eight pieces Itll of 1832 came on. It was hoped that by increasing
of wood, value 2d., the property of the Karl of Shaftes- the constituencies, introducing a great quantity of new
bury, at Wiribonio St. Giles, was acquitted. Tho blood, would puiify as well as strengthen the electoral
Court said it was a case which ought never body. Whether it did so or not as to this place you
to ha TO been brought before them, and that they did know better than I do. But whatever the effect of the
not believe his lordship was aware of the prosecution. Reform Bill of 1832 may have been, we don't find this
Mary Udall. It;. burglary. at Reasuiruiter, one month's constituency at the present time in • satisfactory state
hard labour and five years in a Reformatory. —(applause). I will tell you why. You have two
William Maidment, assaulting P.C. Moore, at Bland- members, of whom I trust, both to-night and through-
ford, six months' hard labour. out this electionj shall souk in no other terms than of
Dorcas King, 16, obtaining goods by false pretences that respect and reticence which which one gentleman
at Sherborne, six weeks. , should speak of another;'especially when that other
Frederick Bay, wounding Phoebe Dodge, at Port- gentleman is not present to answer—(hear, bear). If
land one month's hard labour.
Elizabeth Davis, 18. stealing watch and chain at tohnetehley
ecdznisfaterthyeourbortighLad membersw n we e
t.o rethreetuurledimyoonsu,
Corscombe, one month's hard labour. I resolution, recommending both of your members to
Hermann Zimmermann, 21, seaman, for assaulting betake themselves to any part of the world they thought
Elizabeth Taylor, with intent, at Winterbome Abbas, , fit, and they, in parsnanee of it— and I am sure they
four months' hard labour. I would not have absented themselves from duty without
This assluded the sessions. I your permiedon--should have gone, one to the Rost

and the other to the West Indies, or one to Timbsetoo
and the other to Kazuobatka, and remained thine to
the present moment, the voice of Weymouth in the
great councils of the nation would bays bees just as
strong, and just as important as it his been now
(cheers and laughter). Those who ems to that *mugs-
meet by which two gentlemen opposed to each other,
and no doubt most conscientiously oppued to each
other in politics, should represent you in the last Par-
liament dii this—to use • Perliamentory phrase. they
paired you off—(laughter)—not for • division, not for •
night, not • week, but for the whole Parliament—
(ipollone). Perhaps it would not be polite in me to
say you stultified yourselves by oonsutieg to such a
course; but, certainly, I may say. you nullified your
votes by assenting to it. Consider for a moment,
because we are practical inen, whether it was not no,
Let us take a few of the great questions that have
occupied the attention of the last Parliament.
First of all Parlisuientary Reform. 00e of your
members has been, I believe' and still is, an
ardent and sincere supporter of Liberal Reform; the
other gentleman was equally oonscieritiously and
acoording to his ideas until properly " clouted"
by Mr. Disraeli, an opposer of Reform, and the result
Nu O to that moment at any rate that when one said
'aye,' the other said "no,' so that really Weymouth
had nothing to say on the subject, or, what is worm,
uttered eontradiatory sounds, and its vote came to
nothing. Theo agaiu on the great question of Church'
rates, one of your members ardently and sincerely
supported the abolition of Cburch.rates, the other was
not of that opinion, and the result was that upon the
great question of Church-rates, involving as it doe., not
the mere question of payino • few shillings or pounds,
but a great religious Question, Weymouth was wom
than dumb, because it gave utterer'se to contradictory
exprsuions—(epplause). So again with reference to
the great question of the Irish Church, which occupied
some attention in the last Patliament, and will weepy
much more in the next. One of your members was
conscientiously of opinion that that church may be
safely disestablished and diundowed, the other thought,
with equal conscientiousness of opinion, that it ought
not to be disest•blisbed, and that it ongtit not to be die-
endowed, and, as to that Parliament. when the world
looked round to see amongst the votes what Weymouth
thought on the subject, it appeared that Weymouth
said "yes," and Weymouth said "no." And the world
wants to know what on earth Weymouth means to say
about itf —(applausi.). When I was a boy at school,
many Jean aro, one of the things I had to learn, and
I was especially disgusted with it, was heathen
mythology. In it was a person called Janus, and all he
remembered about that gentleman was this striking I
peculiarity—that whereas he had but one body, he bee I
two faces ; and it strikes me, in considering this matteill
that Janus, under the circumstances of the last Ymlla•
meet, would have made an admirable member for
Waymouth—(theers). You need not have troubled two
gentlemen to go there, because if they could bane got
Janus he could have said yes and no in the same body,
and his vote and influence would have been just as much
use to you as if they had six of one and half-a-dozen of
the other—(laughter and applause). I have talked a
little jocosely about this, but, tell inn, is this state of
thing. to be continued f—(cries of "no, no"). You say
"no," but there are some dosen people in this town
who say "yea," and the question is whether you or
they are to decide the question —(applause). I say,
with great respect to you, that the state of things I have
indicated, and which I presume to term ridiculous,
would have been continued, and would be continued,
but for the body widish has sprung up amongst you—
the Anti-Compact Association, and I say -and I say it
irrespectively of the connection in which I have the
honour to be placed in regard to that body—that what-
ever the result of this election may be, I think the
electors of this borough (and by this I mean not those
on one side or the other, but all) are very much indebted
to the exertions of those gentlemen —(hear, hear). But
one of ,the worst evils of the matter is this—l cannot
conceive, I have never yet beard, that there was any
necessity made out for such &state of things—(appleuse).
There might be certain circumstauces under which it
could be justified, because necessary; as, for it:181111M.
It is juot poschle. though not verisprobable, that *pow
atituency might he as equally divided between the two
great parties of the state that one and one would be •
fair representation. But I don't think that is the case
with Weymouth—(applause and cries of "no, no,")—
and, if it were, that does not meet my objection on
behalf of the Axti•Compact Association, that the com-
pact extends to the future, and is not merely in
reference to tie past—(cheen)—and, therefore, I say,
you are not in the least degree bound by it—(cheers).
Further, there is this objection to it, that it was not aa
arrangement made simply for the sake of pease and
quietness. elitch might to • certain extent have
ustified it. Bet, whatever the intentions with which
the compact wan formed (and I presume not to judge
harshly of any man's intentions), the effect of it was,
and would be to perpetrate that old, had, and oorrupt
state of things which it is the interest—and I trust
the desire—of every man present to put an end to—
(cheers). But.those who came to that arrangemeekseem
to me to bane made a little error in their calculations
by overlooking • material particular. They may
possibly bare thott;lit that the old electors would not
much mind it—they had been so long practically dis-
franchised, in the manner I have indicated, that really
they would not mind being disfranchised • little longer,
for like the e.sts of the old story, they were so accus-
tomed to the skinning that they rather liked it than
otherwise- (laughter and applause). But, they forgot
that besides time old onee, there were • lot of young
fry coming up, who had just assumed *heir skins and
were rather prowl of them, for they liked the look of
their glossy and shining coats—the compactors forgot
these new voters, who are disinclined to be deprived of
their votes, and the result bas been that just as the
ooinpact gentlemen were about to sleeve them as they
had been accustomed to do their eldere, they found all
of • sudden, the., young ones bad slipped through
their finger., and that the old ones evince • vary
decided inclination to follow them as swiftly as possible
—(cheers). I say this is the worst part of it. It is not
only you elderly sinners—of course! speak in a political
sense only—who were to be deprived of the franchise,
but the young and innocent babes, just born into
political life you know, who, when their rosy and
innocent lipi were about to be applied in order that they
might imbibe the milk of freedom—milk you know, not
sweetened by any "sugar"—(laughter)—for' the young
innocents ! they don't know what it is, and don't like it
(loud laughter)—just as they were going to take •
draught, in steps the comput and snatches the nipple
from them ; and, if it had not been for the Antiooompact
Association, these unfortunate young things would have
been left to perish—(lattghter and cheers). I think the
young voters have • right to complain to those gentle-
men, what was the use of your bollosing as von did so
long to get ue a Reform Bill, to add 400 or 500 to this
constituency, when you now try to deprive us of
exercising the votes Parliament has given us ? —(cheeee)•
They might address them in the words of an old epitaph
on an infant in a country churchyard, to this effect—
"it I no soon leas to be gone for,
I don't we slot I was begun for r

—(laughter). We have seen what was the state of
things under the old !system, we have seen pretty much
what is the state of things at present, suppose, we pass
on now for a moment to consider what it ought
to be in the future Parliament—(applause). As respects
the new Parliament, no Parliament that has been called
within the time of moat of us present will have to deal
with more important or menial:too' questions. Amongst
the most important of these is that question on which I
addressed you at such length at the former meeting
here, via., the Irish Church. I expressed myself so
fully, and, I hope, so clearly, on that occasion that I do
not at all propose to detain you in repeating the obser-
vations I then made. I hose nothing material to say
further on the subject. But I wish to say alfew words
in reference to statements niade, I know not if in this
borough, but in a portion of the public press, and cer-
tainly in certain portions of societielsewhere,,concem•
ing the framer of those resolutions on the Irish Church
—Mr. Gladstone—(applause). It is said by • portion of
the Press, and it hu been, and is, industriously circu-
lated in every society where it is likely to be received
with satisfaction, that Mr. Gladstone is an unscrupulous
politician, and in reality an irreligious man. I have
not the honour of being personally acquainted with Mr.
Gladstone. though I know him !pretty well politically,
tlirrefore I cannot speak with any personal authority, but
I can say this of my own knowledge that if you aro to
judge a man, according to the stood old rule, by his
companions, his friends, and associates, there is no rasa
of whom it may be said he has more sincere and religious
convictions than Mr. Gladstone—(cheers). It Is said
that having no religions opinions, and not caring about
the Church, one way or the other, although originally
an ardent churchman, he has introduced this question
with reference to the Irish Church ass mere party man.
Amongst those who were formerly associated with him
in Parliament, and who was one of his moat intimate
friends, Is • gentleman most distinguished, differing
entirely from Yr. Gladstone in reference to the Irish
Church, I mean Sir Roundel' Palmer; but that learned
gentleman has had the manliness to oome forward and
do Mr. Gladstone the justice to say, true it is I regret
Ur. Gladstone should have taken up those views—true
It is I differ essentially from him in respect to them—
but it is not true that he has taken them up now merely
because he is out of office, because years ago, when we
were in office together, we frequently discussed the
question,",and „then he told me he:felt that the dis-
establishment and disendowment of the Irish Church was
the only practical solution of the difficult Irish question—
(cheer,). When you remember that Sir Roundel' Palmer
has said that—and he, by*the way, is now • candidate
for the University of Oxford, and will, no doubt be
r. turned—when they remembered that at all event' Sir
Roundel' Palmer had evinced his devotion to the
church and the cause be has espoused, by surrendering
not merely the chance but the certainty of being Lord
High Chancellor of Ragland on account of those his
views—when they bad inch testimony to the con.
scientiousnus of Mr. Gladstone in the amine he has
taken no man ought to throw out expressions unless he
knows what is the truth as well as Sir Roundel' Palmer
—(cheers). But if it were not so—if Mr. Gladstone
were no bad and wicked • man as I believe him to be
conscientious, what do you say of the thousands and
tens of thousands in this country against whose religion
and orthodoxy none can bring the slightest imputation?
—(applause). And not laymen merely, bet high
dignitaries of the church? These have come forward
and said. We are members of the church, we eat the
bread of the church, we wish to support the church, we
love and reverence it, but it is oar belief that the course
proposed is the proper one for the maintenance of its
integrity and its saprernacy—(applause). I think I
may presume to say that the owner these base alan-
genan, shouldatteu attended
do
by i n
a this
re mat a bttoedr
y.
derous attacks upon private character cease the better
—(applause). I have observed with great gratification
that An eminent member of the present Government
Reading an amount of • Conservative meeting at
hCalheltaeatnedhamas, the le
e othertm day,
of respectable and eminent men who conscientiously
hold Conservative opinions, I observed amongst those
present was Sir Micheal Reach,' and one gentleman
having said in the course of his speech that Mr. Glad-
stone took up the subject of the Irish Church from
factious motives, Mr. Beach, referring to it—although
he is in the Government Mr. Gladstone is seeking to
dislodge on public grounds—said "I do not at all agree
with what that gentleman has saki: although I totally
disagree with Mr. Gladstone in respect to this question,
I do believe him to be aetuated by pure and
conscientious motives, and that faction has nothing
whatever to do with his oonduct"—(cibeers). That is
the course gentlemen should pursue towards each other,
and I trust that is the oonrse which will be f ollowed
In the fakirs not only eleewlisre bah is Ude bonnet—.

(applause). I will now refer to the sebjest of national
education. Now that the legislature bays ecinferred
political rights • pan the great body of persons who
wereanot previoraly posesmed of them, and who, there-
fore, have not been esersised to use theta thoroughly—
I will not ase the word properly; I think it is of the
Mutat Laporte:teethe! those who grow up to have the
exercise of thcee rights should before they agonise
them have such an education as will enable them to
use them wisely and well.(a'plause). They must in
foot be Wooded how to use the franchise. Do net
misunderstand me. Ido not mean they should be
*duo tied to vets for:. liberal or for a tory, but educated
seas to exercise a sound discretioc upon the subject and
So choose for themselves. Oa this queer:hi:2o educatien.
I avow that I have very strong and decided opiniom,
and they are in substance as follows : First of all,
that when the people are educated, or are to be
educated out of a national fund, which is rained
by the contributions of persons of all views of
religious belief, that emit education should be
essentially niasectarian —(applanse). Secondly, that
when the money is to be spent for the education of
pervons—whether boys or girls—who have for the most
part to get their bread by their daily labour, I say that
&sites being unseetarien, it should be practical. At
the same time that I say it should be eon:it:trades, I
think it should be religious—(hear, hear). In my point
of view, being religious and being sectarian are two very
different things—(applause). I would have every poor
child in this country taught and brought up in those
fundamental principles of our religion which are commas
to all Christians—(cheers) —but when that has been dome,
and they have been. well grounded in those groat truths,
I my that if afterwards any wish to engraft upon it any
particular creed or sectarianism, whether Lutheran or
Calvimistie, Baptist or Independent, Low Church or
High Church. Quaker or Ritualism, they :Mall only do.
it out of their own pockets, and not out of the common
purse of the nation—(opplame). I have taken oppor-
tuaitim whenever they have occurred to me. Of IrOin
into various public schools for the lower dames, and I
think the teaching ought to be made more practical
than it generally is at present. I do not
nderrnte any knowledge, but I think that
in reference to those who have got to work
early for their daily bread, that if we teach
boys to read, write, and cypher, and the general
element+ of the common knowledge useful and necessary
to us all, an far ea school education is concerned. we
have done enough in that direction. We might aim
give him some technical edusation, that is, if be was
geing into any panic:utile trade, or evinced any special
desire for any one breach of education, he should be
taught the common and elementary prineipks of that
particular branch of employment in which he was here-
after to earn his living—them, bear). I think that
under the present system a great deed of time is wasted
in the education of boys, in making them tell the height
of
sisnr, U, exact Imality of every town in the world, and
the precise date when every king of England come to
the throne—but I hope no one, on my canvass, will
question me on these points, for I am alrCil I shall be
puzzled to answer them all— (laughter). Ido not dis-
parage knowledge of that kind, but I say it often
occupies thus which, with reference to such persona,
might be far more profitably spent— (applause). So with
reference to the girls, lacy that thetr education ought to.
be praoticaL If it were I think we should not hear
the complaints we do from household and every
parish, that mistresses cannot get good servanta, and
that so very few men are happy in having thrifty and
Industrious wives. I would have the girls taught to
make shirts and darn stockings, and to cook a beefsteak
or a mutton chop without spoiling it; if they evinced
any remarkable capacity. I would advance them to the
making of a dumpling, and if genius, I would entreat
them even to make a rolley-poley (laughter and
applause). That is the sort of thing we want to teach
those girls who are to be domestic servants in outhouses
and the wives of laboluing noto—(applause). In my
judgment it is no use to educate men even in that way
—in the way they should be educated —especially if
afterwards you are going to confer upon them political
rights, unlace you alto allow them to ezerche those
rights fully and freely, and, therefore, I am an advocate
For vote by ballot—(applause). Now, my friends know,
and amongst them an old schoolfellow who its on the
platform, that thin ballot question haa given me a deal
of trouble. Seven or eight years ago I objected to the
ballot, and thought I never should be converted to it.
I thought, as a great many other persons have done,
that the ballot was a very an-English modeof proceeding.
for that is the sort of common way in which it is put. I
considered it would be very .nuch more desirable tbet
some steps should be by means of which the voter
should be protected in the exercise of his franchiae ;
but, having canvemed a constituency continuously day
by day for three weeks, my mental underatending on
the subj.t of the ballot was very considerably enlarged
—(laughter). I came to the conclusion that if it wer-
umEnglioli to vote in secret, it was still more era
Christian to compel a man to vote against lois will—
(cheers). I concluded further, that you not only want
to protect • man in the exercise of his franchise from
external influence*, but you also want to protect him
Limiest himself. It is very easy to declaim against
those who take bribe.: even Bubb Doddiegton called
them "low venal wretchee"—(laughter)—but, when a-
poor man is to use a common expression, hard up—
when the inevitable quarter-day is approaching, and Is
improvided for, the chink of gold or the natter of bank
notes, has a very fascinating effect upon him; but the
person who is to be blamed is not the unfortunate man
who, under such pressure, suocumbe to that temptation.
but the man who presents that temptatioo— (cheers).
It is a temptation than which Satan himself could not
devise any more strong; and when one considers the
extent to which in past times it has been applied
to the constituencr, the wonder is, not that se
many have fallen into it. but that so many have
resisted it—(applause). I want to protect such
• man not only from external intimacies, but
I from himself. He may be • eonseientious man—
he may feel the strongest repugnance to take the bribe
offered to him, but he cannot resist the temptation.
because there is nothing to stand between him and the
tempter. He falls, because he hes not that protection,
the ballot would afford him, because if there was the,
ballot the temptation would not be offered—(applause).
But bad and wicked as I think the briber is, there is
another person, who, in my judgment, is ten times
more wicked—a person whom I do not hesitate to
describe by one of the strongest words in this language,
and I think even that is too good for him—l mean the
miscreant who resorts to intimidation in order to
compel a men to vote against his will—(applause). I
care not whether it be landlord or landlady, brewer or
distiPer—llnughter acid applause)—l am making no
personal allusions—merchant or manufacturer, buyer or
seller, martgagee or money lender—l my that the man
who resorts to intimidation when he finds that he
cannot bribe, is one of the worst possible persons that
can exist in any smiety—(applause). We know very
well that this premiere and intimidation is not the lem
cogent because it is very frequently left to be under-
stood rather then to be stated, and I say that we
ought ,if possible to set ourselves against it as we do
against bribery, and that the best mode of doing is to
give both the person likely to be bribed and the
person likely to be intimidated, the protection
of the ballot—(cheers). With referees* to in.
tiraidittion there is this peculiarity about it, and
It is • very marked peculiarity and well deriervieg of
serious oonsideration, that many honest, worthy, even
religious person, who would shrink from offering • bribe.
sill net only intimidate, but, under certain cireurn-
stances, will deem it their duty to do so. It is a carious
thing, and why do they do It? In this question 0 tbo
Irish church many most religious and conscientMue
persons—ladies as well as gentlemen—who entertaining
the strongest possible opinions on that questiou and
thinking principles of the highest possible important).—
religious principles—are involved in the maintenance of
that church, satisfy their consciences, if indeed they
think seriously about it in this sort of way: Kr. A. or
Mr. It., the poor voter under their influence, whom
they have reason to believe will probably vote for the
disestablishment and the disendowinent of the Irish
church, is going to commit sin—going to commit sin
ignorantly because he has not been properly trained
and educated on this question ; and, therefore, we are
not doing him any wrong, but, on th, contrary, we are
doing right by ourown consciences and right by tbe great
principles involved, by directing his vote into the way
in which it ought properly to go—(applause and laughter).
That is the way in which they satiety themselves, and I
believe many are conscientious about it,but,l would beg
leave to put to such pereciesited to you thequestion which
was put more than • century ago by a very eminent man—
Chancellor Gascoigne, of Paris—on an occasion involving
• similar principle. (M what avail is it that God has
give to • man reason and conscience if he is not to nia
them? but is only to follow the reason and conesiesse
of other people l—(elteers). I would say to mob
persons, when you think you are jestified in. making a
man vote against his conscience bemuse he differs from
you as to the exercise of this vote. I ask you for what,
purpose do you think God gime him reason and con-
science, and de you not think it would be better
entrusted by God than directed by you?—(applause).
You are aware that for many years. the legislature has
been endeavouring to put a stop to it; sometimes they
have been very honest mid sincere about it, but unfor-
tunately on that as on every other question there have
been great varieties of opinion. Sometimes they have
taken no notice at all of the matter, and sometimes, in
• fit of intense indignation, they disfranchise a whole
borough bemuse some two or three hundred parsons
have been guilty of bribery. When I had a seat in the
House of Commons I applied my mind to the subject,
and endeavoured to effect something practical in the
matter. It appeared to me that when • commission
had been sent into • town or place and had reported
that so-and-so had given bribes, and so-and-so had
taken them—because to each revert them was
a schedule settikg forth the names of the bribers, the
recipients, and the amount of money, that there was •
very plain and simple way of dealing with the qeeetion ;
and I confirm that up to the present time I cannot
understand why the Bonne of Commons did not adopt
my
.proposal, which was this, and I moved it at a
distinct clause in the Bill which is now an Act for the
prevention of corrupt practices—that when a report
showing bribery was presented, instead of disfranchising
the whole of &borough, by which the Moment as well as
the guilty suffered, the very men, and them alone, who
had been guilty of eorrupt practices should be dis-
franchisei— (hear, hear). This might be deice by a short
Act of Parliament on receipt of the Commissioner's
report. I believe that would soon put emend to eorrup-
bon. The measure whleh had been adopted WS/ like
cutting down. tree bemuse one branch was rotten. But
by my plan the rotten branches would be excised, and
the tree made hale. Ido not hesitateto say that if you
bend WO to Parliament I shall have another try at
passing such a measure, and I trust that on a fatale
occasion I may be more suoceseful—(applause). There
is a mode by which it may be very much prevented, and I
would venture to suggest it to you and to other
constituencies too. There are in many places all aorta
of societies, and amongst ethers in this place you have
• society which has recently sprung up, and which has
worked very effectually—the Anti-Compact Society.
Now 111 tell you another which I think would do •
great deal of good, in which hoiseet and intelligent men
of both sides might unite together for one common
object without in the least degree affeeting or injuring
their political principles, or the success of their favourite
eandidate—l mean an Anti-Bribery and Anti-Intimiche
Don Society—(applause). It there were in every borough
• body of honest men who would unit. for that par-
pose In a society baoad on a broad principle, I believe
ilia result would be far more beneficial than any Ass of
Parliament anybody Can intrOdnan, sad I eintianly do
desire that somdbiag of that sort sboald take plato—
(applause). 1 so is !avow of tie Well La withal

point of view. It is commonly sad that the , oron
of the ballot is secret voting. I deny it. The re-siruci.ollye for the most hard-working clergymen in this diatom,
the practice of it-the principle of th. the bishop might put forward his claims with the
gmdoo, opinion 0. a ballot lit greatest certainty of being successful for he set an
the grelot excellent example to all his clergy, •n 4 there was um
question of economy I am um, going ;
for this reason, becanee I know by ; ' ate figures, thing wanting which ire Gould do by most untiring seal of
: mind and buy, to promote the temporal and spiritual
a clever man can so manipulate a lot
Peofr;;:erets.ts : wellbeing of those committed to his charge. lle
to mike them prove almost anythin
therefrom, nothing is more u tisfactorg he says, and thought it most desirable that the connection shoold be
y than to beer kept up between the clergy, landlords, and tenantry,
a long tlisaataiwn between two 'lee! r men u to the for the benefit of the labouring chose, We were
remit of n long string of figures.
quite Oar as to this questioo of mow Sat one thine is anoroaching • time when-if he might my an in the
broad fact admitted, and it is this, 'nay - there is 0r.., presenceof • nieruber of Parliament -tbe legislature
, that the preeent • would take steps for the education of the people ; snit
ltoveniment has spent three milli
their predecessor..
ho th.oliDlll now th...t the.
k frenchi•e hal been extended,
the Abya ar, inian w, more than
predecessor..l thee alearld be no longer ept as they had been without
Well then, I say, the way to test
that matter is this: hming • certaiu riegree of knowledge extended to them,
sob them what have you got to
alum for it? When but that we should use the means in our power to give
they have told us that I say they will be
justified, but thew such knowledge end intelligence ea shall tit them
till they have I wait for an explanation-(chetra). t, exercise the franchise properly and with due judg-
When I before addressed you I smoke on several great went-Omar, hear). Ho had been for • lung time, not
questions-the Irish Church. the University Test., curdy 50a clergymen, but as an inmeotor of mhoole for
change in the constitution'of the House of I,ols, 1:1 or Id years, conversant with the whole matter, and
notional defences, end eerie questions of that sort ;he might say-and be had mush pleasure in seeing the
goad ell I will Persume to lay in conctuoion is ehio- gentleman present (Mr. T. C. Saunders)-he lied latoly
you will be kind enough t o bear in mind, whichever read eu excellent paper on the subject, which was
party you may happen to belong to. that. ot the brought before the Wool club, and be was 'testified to
preeent time, the 'onto° is one which 111..4.'01 Tell find the subject taken spin such a very sensible and
Feet Principle.- I 'lout very much whether there has judicious way. He trusted the matter would be so
been for very man / Pius indeed a Parliament discumed by them all, and that whatever steps ere
which will have 'or deal with mob great, taken they will be such that the public at large will be
important, and lundatuental alterations as the 11011 e aka. Firat of all, and he said it no t nly u • clergy man
Parliament about to be elected. With reference to that but as • man, he hoped they would never sanction educe-
ted
Parlianieut, and with reference to those pf incipleo two tion beingse oat-si Irvin religion. Ile though t they must
host.'are now gathering and are &bout to enter into first of all teach people to be religions, and then teach
contlict-two hosts, remarkable for the energy, wialth, them secular knowledge It would not be right to
and strength they devote to their re.p, cove cum,. acquire km:mileage without acquiring that best of all
Each have chosen their captains; thew capaius ere knowleolge--the knowledge of God. Ile thought the
now putting on their armour for the battle, end at this way to teach them to be good labourers, good freemen,
very time the land is ringing with Mx souud of their end goal Englishnren, HY to teach them to be good
trumpets inviting every man in the land to choose for Chrislims-thear. hear). He thought the greet thiert
himself with reference to these princildes which is Ili. was to teach them first of all the knurwledge of the
camp. That is the aviation which leforo the election Bible (applaure). He trusted that with this view the
comes, and it will very soon be here, every man who subject would be taken up before long in Parliament,
loss any sell-respect, any reepeet for aaaaa principles, or and that some measure would he tossed of ;advantage
any 'respect for the interest of thie nation, ought to to the country at large; but, be would my most strongly
amide up lon. mind to, anal I do trust that before that that he was very such disinclined to consent to any.
day comes ell will do so. It may possibly be said that thing like compulsory education-(cl,l4mm). It was
in what I hem now urged on you, mpeciolly in them not with them, as with • thickly to mutual menu-
mancludiati observations, I have been • little inconsistent featuring distriot, where chilrhon coul:1 readily be in
but I have said in substance this There 10 00 reason the factory half the day end at school the rest. Poor
ethateseo why every elector, while voting for the children c rifting out of the factory were glad to get
vososerom candidate of his choice, may not at the into wheel, but all of them who eusployed young
mane time give one • vote-vote that is for the children in their Geld, knew that they were much more
Indepandent candidate, and in doing so. if you happy in the field., than, as ho believed, they would be
ooneider it, them is nothing inomaistent. This at that early age at othool ; besides. the- half-harmburough is in a peculiar po•ition ;it differs essentially system would be very difficult to carry out in country
from other larroughs is that respect, and will do at the districts. He thought they should rather urge pimento
ensuing election-it may not dose et any f atone eleation. to keep their children at school while young, and
Two great pi Maples are at stake at the game time, and proviale for them the best reboots they could. He had
you nay deoiults them both by the same vote. One been speaking to Mr. Portman on the subject, and he
principle i. the general principle of the legislation and could not help hoping that the bon. member saw the
government of the country, which 1 have adverted ti, matter in the came light as he did. In any legislative
end the other is the, to you, al:important principle of enactment concerning the Privy Council grants, he con-
the independence of your borough-(appleurre). And I sidered that the money eight to be dependent- not on
presume to my that with reference to that principle, the nisster holding a certificate, but upon ascertaining
you may very wifely if you think fit, whether MMg fry examination that the cluildren were properly taught.
or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, give flue one vote, He went into many scOools, not only those having •
and at the same time vote for your own candidate, ocrtifirated master, but such as were not, and
without in the leant degree compromising your he commonly found that while the amoral-
principles, bemuse if you " 'dump" uit is termed, your ficatol teacher did not attempt so much, he did
vote reckons but as our, and it will reekonoui one if you what he undertook much better than the other-(hear,
eplot ; thus you luny at once mimed the candidate of hear). Reading, writing, and uurithinetic, st• far as the
your principles and tha indepen•leut candidate who first four rules, eimple Anil compound, were better
seeks to establish the independence of your borough- tanght in many of these schools, than in the higher
(•rupleuse). I will not detain you longer. I thank you clam schools, where they taught history, geography,
veiy cordially for the kindness ai your reception, and I end many other things of very little use to them.
trust that my friends in this room will permit me to Tbe former gave a goal superstructure, upon which
p Ose on their behalf thst the rame kindness. the children might hereafter obi, and which qualified
courtesy, and patient fair hearing will be extended to them to take their place in society. lie therefore
the orh: r causlidues when tllOllO gentlemen address thought that such schools should be eligible for the
Pon---febeers). grant., and that the test u:f the teacher's competency
Mr. Go,lilLL proposed • vote of thanks to the should be the competency of the children-(hear, hear).
('hairman. He tru•ted that the fanner. throughout the country
Mr. Powroo seconded the motion. and stated thst be would t aka an interest in the matter, and that it would
inteuded commencing hie canvas at once, and be hoped be really carried on succes•fullo One thing he woulul
to be associated in that Work With the Hen. Evelyn say-and lie hoped they would not consider him narrow.
Ashley•-(cheas). On his return to Weymouth be minded - he 'should be very sorry to have the
found a letter from Mr. Ashley waiting for him, in business of education taken out of the hands of the
which he said that he (the Hon. Evelyn Aahley) bad no cleryman and put Into the hoods of a board of school
influence himself, but Ire was a Dorset man, and Ashley manager,. ; for he thought that the clergyman, living in
wee a wall-known name. If he (Mr. Powell) or tris the periah, was the hest jerson to take charge of the
adviara thought that he (Mr. Ashley) awl, be of wheels, and it would be foun•l es this was the one, suoh
the I,Art service to him, be would most gladly was the proportion of the attendance and aptness of the
ounce& one of the meetings and MOTO or second any children-(epplause),
oesehtion in his (Mn. Powell's) behalf -(loud modulo.). The CHAIRMAN then proposed "The Army, Navy
Ile Iset written to Mr. Ashley to thank him for his and Volunteers." He spoke in high praise of the
Itiednesa, and to say that he cimlul do him no great. r organization of the Abymunan expedition, but as to the
favour and afford him no greater service then by amid- navy lie thought the estimates might be reduced with.
Mg a few days here with him in calling on the electors out impairing its efficieocy. With reference to the
-(applause). So they might expect the Hon. Evelyn voluntr eta, he referred to the capitation grant, anal
Ashley here, and that he would ho preseut at their thought it would be • goal thMg if they could persuade
:next meeting-(eheer.). the obancellor of the Exchequer to increase it-(h,ear,
Mr. Bitoice, to acknowledging the complimeirt, sail hue) lie coupled with the tout the name of Captain
he had only done what England expected of every man F
-his duty --(epplause). Captain FARBER and Sergeant Duna responded.
The meeting closed with three cheer, for Mr. "The Lord Lieutenant and Magistrates of the
. County," was the next toast given by the CHAIRMAN.
Mr. J. H. Ceomiterr responded, sad expressed himself
favourable to ratepayers chosen by the Boards of
Guardians takieg put with the magistrates in the
financial buainese of the county. In conclosison he
proposed "The health of the County Members"-
iliPPleuee/
The Hon. W. H. B. PORTHAW, M.P., said he could
answer for himself that it .11,1 Magi gratifying to him,
and he heal no doubt it would be to his two colleagnes,
were they pro-soot on 63 occasion, to balm been
remimil on this the eve of their political &mem in the
very hearty and cordial manner in which the tomt
Mr. Caleraft had proposed lad been there received. It
wao gratifying to them, as rocking tha•ir appmval for
' past services, and also •• signifying • aioq.sition rin
their put to renew that confidence in them they haul
placed in them for many year.. If what they saw in
the public) papers was to be treated their politic.] exist.
cocoa. members of Parliament for the county of Dorset
was within • few weeks - be might almost say a few
days of its termination. but he hoped they should rise
like tire political phornixel from their mire., and
should proceed in solemn and decorous procession
around the town pump of Dorcheato, each mounted on
a noble steed, a girt with the :accustomed •wori and the
Frar• supposed to belong to the knizluts of the shire-
(laughter). lie was afraid it was some years .ince he
lad had the pleasure of meeting them, he was gait*
sure that it was his fault, but they knew [there were •
many meeting's of this character in different parts of
the county, and he and his colleagues endeavoured to
divide their favour,' as equally so they oould, io as not
to have any plue too long withoat the countenance
and sup(mrt, if it was countenance and support, of one
of the county members. Since laat he barl the pleasure
of meeting them there had been a great many very im-
portant events, and some particularly affecting this
agricultural interest, but as probably they would not
be very much interested in bearing about what bail
out, but would rather that he, if possible, ahoold give
them an insight into the future, he would deal as
briefly as be could with what bad gone before. In the
first place one of the events moat affecting the agricul-
tural interest since, be last met them was the cattle
plague. Thin county, fortunately, escaped, bat he hoped
that whenever • Chamber of Agriculture for Dorset
wan ostablished -and he saw by • newspaper that
I day there was an extreme probability of its being
established -he hoped a great pressure would be
put upon railway companies and not only by
that Chamber but by all throughout the country, to
provide some better accommodation for cattle when on
long railway journies ; to make sure the trucke are
better cleansed ;-that the cattle are provided with food
and water, without the sellers or buyers of cattle being
obliged to send men to look after them. He hoped that the
united pressure of all Chambers of Agriculture would
be brought to bear upon the conipenies,and induce them
to axiom a more humane and satiefactory syetem of
trestment towards the poor animals than at present
prevails. Ile thought that was • very legitiruate
subject for Chambers of Agriculture. There was
another matter concerning the agricultural interest, viz.,
the native or the peat season. The greater part of this
summer, and the very hottest time of it, he spent in the
north of England. He did not know whether they in
Doreet :Buffered so much as did the northern farmers'
Many of them in the north were hauling water for
their beasts five or six miles, and be limed one York-
, attire farmer ay that it went to his heart to hear the
beasts roaring for water in the middle of the night,when
he had none to give them. Probably many of them in
this part of the country were spared the suffering and
misery of seeing their animals almost perishing for want
water ; at the same time, he hoped they had been
consoled by the extremely good wheat herveat thie
peculiar season sent us, and that that may be some
alleviation of the had year which it has been for all des-
criptions of stock. He did not know whether the
markets were quite so bad down here, but he heard
in Lincolnshire, at the end of July, that a Weld
termer sent 1,000 lambs to Lincoln hobo mold, pricing
them at Is. GI each, but he could not find • buyer, and
one very large Lincoln fanner said that if he would
give him the lambs and ls. • heed for driving them
home, he would not have them, for he could not final
food and water to keep them for a week. He should
think this was probably a season which bad never had
its parallel within the memory of any present. He
would now try to look a little into the future. In tbe
first place there was one question which above all others
at this time occupied the political world, hot he
believed that at meetings of this sort it WM fortunately
not customary to introduce any political subject, which
divide very violently one party horn another;
thi great question of the Irish Church
Is. considered much to serions • question to dimes
at such &meeting, but hue should be happy to give his
opinion on the matter from the busting. at Dorchester,
which he considered • more fitting plus for it. He
considered it a purely party question-the greatest
party question before the country since he had had the
honour of being in Parliament. So he would dismiss
that to another occasion. There was one question by
DO means of • party nature, but upon which he believed
=my felt warmly. As they knew, be had supported
the motions for repealing the malt tax. A Committee
sat this year to see what could be dose to relieve the
farmers from that tax, and they agreed to • report that
It was very desirable* farmers ehould be relieved from
the malt tax, as soon as any tex could be found which
would replace the large revenue obtained from the malt
tax. He begged leave to observe that now they had a
Conservative Government. Some years ago when that
question was agitated they were under a Liberal Govern.
ment • he recollected remarking to Mr. Floyer at the
Ntalbt;dge Agricultural Society's meeting two years ago,
" Now'. your time to tell us what the Conservative
Government I. going to do with the malt tax." How-
ever, instead of doing anything towards taking it off
they have added three millions to the public expenditure;
anal ho did not see at present there was much warped
of the malt tax being reduced. However, he thought it
was quite the first tax to come off, and 110 should
Vealue to support the repeal as he had always dune.
I would next touch upon County Financial Boards. A
committee had get upon that question in the House of
Common., and the first
paragraph of their report was
to the effect that they mw no reason to think the county
r
finances at
been p ascot administered by the rnagintretes had
extravagantly administered. It went on to
say
that it would
Kobably be lunch more satisfactory to the
rstepayers if they were represented on the finance com-
mittee of each comity ; and, therefore, they suggested
that the finance committee of each county should be
composed equally of magistrates and ratepay re elected
one from each of the Board of Guardians. They went
on further to say that it was moat desirable
that • public auditor should be appointed, and that
one specified form of amounts slwald be published
far all tb• launtiseci goslaad, In tho sooty papers in

the most acieusible form. They added another recom-
mendation, viz, that the Clerk of the Peace should be
elected by Quarter Sessions. He had no doubt, which-
ever Government is in tower next Year, though he did
not pretend to say which it would be, they would
attend to the recommendations of that committee.
It was a committee very impartially formed,
and comprised icon of all shades of opinion.
He for one should be o.d to see represen-
tatives of the ratepayers elected, as he had indicated,
to take pert in managing the finance of the county, bat
he entirely concurred with Mr. Calculi in not expiating
any great decrease in the rate., end he should not like
to lay vary long odds that they. did not somewhat
lures... With reepect to education, upon which Mr.
florid had spoken, he was entirely opposed to a local
rate for the purlieus of compulsory education. H.
thought thin queetion of coppulsory education was a
very simple matter. It wax I'l4 thp—supposing they
had • labouring man with seven or eight children, the
two eldest boys aged 13 and It. and each able to urn a
few shillings a week ; were tbey to say to that man,
year children shell not go to emir in the fields, they
shall not tarn those few Bitillings to help meet the
family ampule., bet libel' go to ..'obeoll, and give up the
present certain edventage of Legating you to maintain
that large family, for the rake of prospective advantages
which some day. If they toil, out extiecuely clever men,
they may possibly obtain ?—(laughtu and hear, bear).
Ilia opinion was against legolattng in that direction ;
but if anything wax to be done in that way he thought
it would he best to say a boy should not go to work in the
fields before he was ten year. old, hut let them give him
what education they could up ti that age, and send him
to the night school after he depute work. He thought
there would be no great henbane in that. Helboped
he was flaying what was in accrirdanos with their views ;
if they did not agree with him he hoped they would
net him right. He was aware that many of them had
thought upon the subject—scene of them, and
particularly Mr. T. Sautel.•ra, much more than he bad
done, and he should be glad to
.hear anything from
gentlemen present, which would indicate to him their
views on the question. Ti' sey • boy Mould not go to
work till he vu 14 or 17c, but ghoul,' go to school,
would .be extremely arletraiy end impracticable—
(bear, hear). There was anetht•r point touching economy
in the public department'. Now perhap• lie should be
excited of not lasing a sufficiently strong partisan but
his own experience woe that the party out of office, if
it were the Liberal party, taunted the Conservatives
that they had spent too much ; and if it was the Con-
servative party out of office, they accused the Liberals
of not spending enough it was always the party out
of offiee, which found great fault with the way in
which the public expenditure was teenaged. He
believed great seeing might be effected in various
branches of the public expenditure, but he aboold be
vety sorry to see any foolish cutting down of either the
army or navy, or any of those departments which
could not be—if be might use a common expression—
fetched up again all in • hurry; and he hoped that
when Mr. Gladstone comes into officio, whenever that
may be, be would not adopt a sudden policy of reducing
everything merely for the cake of reduction, but would
consider where rial saving wield ho made, and at the
. seine time, the utmost poseible efficiency be maintained
—(applause). If some of the gentlemen present had
been w;th him dieing the last Neuson, bethought they
I would have felt that the expression "parliamentary ,
, language" meant a great deal of very had language.
He thought that never dtuing any seesealon since he
• had had the honour of a seat in Perlianient had he
• hoard so much personal &beat, Co much had language,
, used by one gentleman to another an in the last session.
It was language which could only be instilled as Par-
liamentary expressions, and was each that if need in
ordinary society would hove led to the most serious
rupture between the parties coneeined ; but in the
House of Commons it was supposed • great deal of
that wee fair. It WWI right there should be such strong
party feeling, and he believed that party was now
more strictly defined than it had been for teeny years.
Ile thought they had had no less than four or five
Ministerial crises during the last seesion, and people
were constantly saying "What are the Government
going to do "Will they go out r " Will they change
their policy r or " What will they do!" He recollect...l
eating • friend of his in the lobby on one 060151..0
what the Government were going to do, would
they go out ? and he replied Go out I they have not
the slightest intention of doing anything of the
kind : nothing but a squad of police would move those
fellows!—(laughter and applanw). His friend, Mr.
Gerard Sturt, used to taunt him and the Whigs in
general for their extreme pertinacity in staying in office
under difficult tin:turnstile:ea ; but be thought the Con-
',moire party bed been quite as much cobbler's-
waxed to their seats as ever the Liberals were—
(laughter). He did not mean to say that all the party I
ageed with Mr. Disraeli in staying in office so long as
they had done, for he believed they thought
the right bon gentlemen had sometimes rather
over done it ; but they mut all acknowledge
Mr. Disraeli had ahown wonderful talent as a
party leader, indeed, he thought there was no man in
the country who had shown the same versatility
as a party leader as heel done the present Prime Miniater
—(applause). He might touch upon • topic he saw
alluded to in • Dorchester paper that morning. He had
not the least knowledge of the author of the letter which
was signed "a Dorset rector," but he, somehow or other,
seemed to have taken a great fright, mil thought there
was going to be • very great contest in this county—
that he (Mr. Portman) was going to bring forward two
other candidates to oppose Mr. Gerard Start and Mr.
Floyer,end his reason for thinking so ems that he had seen
his (Mr. Portman's) address posted up in different plains
in his parish. He took thet opportunity. and it was
the earliest he could take, of endeavouring tv allay that
gentlemen's fears with regard to anything of the sort.
All he could ray was, if any other gentleman was coming
ferward in the Liberal interest it was entirely without
his knowledge, awl, for his own part, he was bound to
any freely, he Ili I not encourage him at all—(hear,
hut). Hs was perfectly satiefied to lot things go coin
they are. But, at the same time, the rector, in
Indicating bin great alarm at the prospect of a contest,
says that "no doubt the county would like to return
three Conservatives." Now he showed in that remark
that ne WY a little forgetful of a certain clause in the
Reform Act of lei?, which provided that in what was
called triangular or throe-cornered constituencies nobody
should have more than two votes. Therefore, he
thought the probability was, that if a third Conserva-
tive candidate wan brought forward and be
was the only Liberal. the third Conservative
would have could.. rable difficulty in turning hint
out, on account of the dual voting—(laughkr
and applause). Ile biged to remark that dual voting
was brought forward and carried by the Conservatives,
though lie did not mean to say it MU not supported by
inane Literals, himself amongst the number, bursas*
with worthy prudence he looked forward to a possible
question arising which might in some degree Neer him
from a portion of bis constituency, and be thought
there weld be no harm in his having the safeguard of
the dual vote, which would certainly ensure, so long as
there were only three candidates, the representative of
the minority, lie did net mean to allow for a moment
that lie was the repreaentative of the minority, but if
curcumetanors should mim to pet him in that position
bethought it wuld he no harm to have that safeguard
to fly to—(applause). Ile hoped that he said nothing
which would give offence to any gentleman present
(applause). He had endeavoured to steer an clear as
pouible of anything apociated with strong party feel.
lug, for there would be plenty of titre for that bye and
bye. He was told on one hand that the county candi-
dates would appear on the hustings at Dorothea-
ter, about the end of. November ,• and on the other
hand his friend, Mr. el..yer, said Parliament was not
going to meet till Chrirtinas; while Mr. Gerard Start said
be dare say the Liberal party would "run into them"
about February or March, but they were root going to
give them "• chance: before Christmas—fflaughter). So
taking those two authentic* together he did not think
the dissolution was quite no near at hand as some of the
people would bays them believe. However that might
be, he trusted that if they did him the honour, as he
hoped they would, if returning him to Parliament as
one of their membere, he should continue to receive from
them the tame favour and the same support which they
bad hitherto accorded him, and which encouraged him
in again offering himaelf as in candidate for the repreeen-
tation of the county ;and he truated the reception he had
always met with at meetings of this description would
be continued to him, and he assured them they would
always find him ready to do everything in his power to
advance the interests of the county be loved above all
other counties be had ever Dtoll.—tbe county of Dorset

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—(applause).
Mr. PINNY, in the absentia of W. C. Leery. E•q.,
the hon. secretary, through illness, gave some informa-
tion respecting the society, showing that it is progress.
tog in the number of its members, and is increasing its
balance at the bank. There is now • balance of
£27 4a. bd. He then read the list of award' published
above.
The CH111111•X next pve "Bacons to the society,
and the health of it. patron and vioe-patron, the
Eta of Eldon and F.. J. Weld, Esq." Referring again
to the subject of education, the bon. member said he
entirely agreed with Mr. Bond as to the desirability of
the teaching for the poorer classes being simple in its
character. They should teach them thoroughly to read,
write, and do sums, and then each one must trust to '
himself for niaking.his way upwards from that solid and
good foundation which had been so laid (hear, bear).
He believed that the pictures in the old school
books, representing an old dame, on a high camp
school, with a birch rod in one hand and her
spectacle, in another, illustrated the kind of school
which was not bad for affording learning of the
sort he had described. He was entirely of Mr.
Bond'. opinion that they might overdo education
in the present day. Having taught boys the
rudiments, they must depend on their own abilities
and opportunities to push themselves forward, and to
acquire those higher branches of knowlege which in
some schools it is now thought necessary to teach at
the beginning of education- (hoer, hear).
Mr. J. H. CALMAT'', who was called on to respond
on behalf of the Bociety, referred at length to the
objects and results of the association.
After the health of 'The Judges" had been given
and answered,

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Mr. FRULAND FILLITIR raid : Mr. Portman,—
I will ask your leave to propose • toast about which I
feel naueh hesitation, whether I am entitled to the
honour of proposing it. The health of the Queen her
Majesty, has been given this evening ; I now beg to
give the health of your own queen, I give " the health
of Mrs. Portman, wife of the chairman, and daughter-
in-law of Lord Portman, and the late Lady Portman.
I also call on Mr. Eyers to aseiat me with his very best
most musical honours.
These accordingly were enthusiastically given, and
joined in by all present.
Mr. PORTMAN said that Mr.. Portman would feel
had her health proposed and
been, ,g ed when inform of it by 111113.
drunkmoch est igi et d
hadf or h
lie
also thanked the meeting himself for it—(great
applause).
. .

The name of l'ortman, says an esteemed correspondent,
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the county more esteemed and respected at Huallaga,
Wareham, and in the neighbourhood where is known,
than is 11r. W. IL B. Portman. still 000 of our county
members.

Other toasta followed, and the evening wee spent in
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was enhanced by the performaac• of two singers mad •
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