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

TO HE ELECTORs_ op THE COUNTY OF

DORSET.

GESTLXNEV,
II ECi respectfully to inform you that I
c t•nd again tff.rng myself as a Candidate for
your uffracer at the approaching Election.
The proceedings of the Parliament now about to be
dimolv e t have been of more than usual importance.
Mean:, effecting great changes in the governing pow' r
of the country have been passed, if not with the
hearty co-operation. at least with the general oonenr.
rence, of all parties. They were, I freely admit, of •
more esteneive character than I bad previously con-
sidered desirable; but the difficulty of finding any
resting place short of that which ha; been establisheo,
anti a strong sense of the damage which must seems
to the State from is coma. rot agitation ter further changes,
led me to believe that ,42 the whole Her Mvjeary's
Government were right in proposing those regulations
foe the representation of the people which. with some
alterations, have. now become law. .

Tha new Parliament will have matters of no lase
weight and magnitude to deal with.
Questions biretta' the connection of the Church and
State have Owl's, and that moot justly, called foith
the strongest egpressinn of opinion and feellng from all
&wises of the community. Whatever may be the effete
on the Roman Catholic population of Ireland, it Cannot
be dinied that the aboltion of the Irish Branch of the
National Church as by law established will be a severs
injury and discouragement to the Protestant inhabitants
of that part of the Kingdom. On that account, and
because the change would be a 'antra littion to some at
least of the principle. on which the National Ch•reth
rests in Kogland, I shall oppose to the utmost all such
measures of subversion„

In this, as in other matters o grave political
impottsoce. I believe that the iietinn of the present
Oovemment will be more in socornanoe with the true
interests of the country than any (bateau be substituted
for It.

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Under ita plasm* the position of England, in
regard to the Continental Powers, as well u in ita
important relations to the great Tram.atlantic Republic).
has been materially raised. The services by land and
sea Lave been advanced in efficiency ; and, if at, resift
ha. not been attained without some inerease of expendi-
ture, it I. fete to observe that no additional taxation
has been incui red in consequence, acid that the lexitintate
question for discussion is whether the cost has been
greater than the value of the improvements in the two
great branches
.nf.national defence,

as re• former Parlisinents,
- effort. will be dirreed,
to resist any atiempts to inereese, by additiooel hordes*,
the tagetion evalusively of real propm ty, to remove from
it cli such charges as are rather of general than special
obliption, and to enlarge the bees of amis./mot, aa
far as may be consistent with the preservation of had
management.
On the grounds above mentioned, if I have the honour,
as I coefideutly trust, to be Apia elected, as your
rveresentative in the House of Commons, I propos. to
give tbe present Ministry an independent but cordial
support
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient and faithful Servant,
JOHN YLOYEIL
Stafford, October 14, 1188.