The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-07-12 00:00:00

A TORY JUBILATION.

RiellT HON. NS. CAVENDISH Blrrifs.cs's LITTLE Titt PARtv.
An occasional correspondent of the Northern &Au
gi. ea a spitted account nf what be heads" Elteacirdin
affair at Wbitehaven,—Bet Ilam let It owe,, In i ther words
Tory faatiewee in honor of the R•tht Hon. Mr. George
Cavendish Bentincles retwo for the Borough. From it we
extract the following :—Whl•ebarea is a tom whah.o
pace ; it IA remarkable for havaig been subierteg to a
viailant and persist-at Tory domination for I vent
generation/. It is r.markable for being the dirtiest, most
diesgresable, moat cramped. and cro.ded town in the
kingdom. people being obliged to build upon every inch
of ground they already pomeseed, as leases .ere not io he
bad. or had upon the moot !ever te m., " the Castle"
wishing to Lisp Vre town within manag. able limits. It
la also reaterkable for a suburb call .4 "The Gins," •11
the collier' are buddl-d together in hovels of the mo.t
mug Table d-ocript•on. Wblthh•Ten is alto remark
fur b...ing reorierente d by Mr. George Cevendish Bent n -k.
who, for h,ra.atag IL,. Cbadmine'd last Goveremesi_oot
by arguments, nor eloquenc-. fl .r liSlTA36l—w•a, under
ALoir,,doc.Beraete.Goens fl -
be
cremis trdmed
was
thloo ;eh
ti7fr:gdb:eci:utJialklyign.s..
resemblance in character and
.culture
former holder of the office. Whiteh teen, 'her-for,., h:
ay
1 tetiv claim to be one of the most remarkable borougho in
the kingdom, but (oh, those bur) it is olipreng awe, from
Castle control. At the Irish Gourd, election, as one may
c al it, of 1803, there was a splerribi attempt made to "cure
the borough tor the Liberal.. Mr. Bodineit won gait% wa
be feast did not "coral round" after that eleetiee But
at the last election Mr. Bootjack wa. within an ace of
toeing thrown out. The Castle teek fright; the party was
slermad S 'loathing most be done. The 1.44 'cam.
round," but not t o close upon the elecion. Ho +ever, it
has come and gone at last. Its salient features were rum
and beer. Mr. Stiviere avowiel that all spirituou, liquors
were vanity. But when preimal by Samuel Weller as to
the pa, t:cular vanity he preferred, ea presaied • prefer. nee
for rum. "The Castle" seem. to have thought that this
alto was the taste of the miners' wive.; and unfortunately
some of the People appear to hays teen no wieee than
"the Castle" in the matter. Os the afternnons and even'
Inge of both days the street. of Whit:haven pies-oted a
truly horrible appearance. Fight. woe mild and improv•
lag . xbitations in c moparisou to most of be scene,. One
man, when asked how many fights had triton place, said
a hundred at leapt. Boy. and young girls were curried to
the infirmary almost dead with (look. Mothers were
seen leading their little childr,n home druag. M n and
women were lying to the gutters drunk. Upward, of a
saws men and women were mitred rolling and yeliing
thew rin • space not larger than an ordinary room, in •
state of filth and obscenity that had better not be
descrilod. The correspondent concludes with the follo..
tog eeustic obeeraations :—" You do things differently in
Darlington. Your rich men dispense so rum to thu poor;
but they build convale.cent bonnie for them, and msintain
institutions for training orphan girls for useful poritione,
provide scholarship. lot grammar reboots, libraries for
'illus.. and rend Chrietisn teachers abroad among the
people. That's all cant and haintor, you know. Me
people that do theme things would—at least some of th-rn
would—disestablish the Church. The Tories on this sibs
of England shudder at the idea; that would un-Christsatie
the country, a thought at which they turn pale. Tee,
want, they say, above everything sloe, to beep England a
Christian land; and the wickedness of Ditsonters is to
them appalling. Singular very, that you, with year
tichools and mi.sionariee, shoula be un•Chrlstianising the
country, and that we here should be oil &ling the b0.r.1
by voting for Cnurch and State, and giaiog • lavish surlily
of rum and beer.'