The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-08-04 00:00:00

THE HON. W. H. B. PORTMAN'S LIBERALISM.
(rem the Standard).

The natural, and thereto= laudable Conservatism of
the Brigijah country gentleman kis just received a curious
illustration. Time was when tie entitled and titled
aristocracy were often opposed is each other as Whigs
and Tories, end when the long-decended spice With throe
thousand • year was habitually jealous of the meander of
his own country, were he duke, m:rsis, or earL &Stt
those times have sassed. The Wh tideless of the
British nobility is the shadow of • e. And the feel-
ings which occasionally node the Tory gentleman of sixty
yaws ago talk language something like Radicalism have
new, we fancy, pretty well submittal. His natural Censer.
valise feelings thurfore have fah pier. And in a speech
just delivered in the West of England-by Liberal county
member to his constituents we sec what litserulsasn must
inevitably mean in that class whenever they ere left to
themselves Mr. Perlman, webave no doubt, Is • iiberal-
minded man. lint Toricu in ..vwral are the truest
Morals. And it Is interesting to obey.= what he makes
of it when he has to comment on the politiml conditions
of
the period. In addressing the farmers of Donietahire
on W..dnesday evening he said there was little on ths Part
of the preseot Government to which he could hones*.
And had he been • member of the present
Osbiost he could scarcely have reflected more faithfully
their opinions on tke tonic' of the day. Referring to
Ute question of " compensation for tuiexhausted improve
-
mute," he declared himself opposed to the 12th clause of
.the Bill of Mews. Read and Howard, which Prohibited
Areedom of contract And this It is well known, was the
.olly one reason why die Tory party isst scission did not
(huh more effectual support lie thpuebt the 14.11-Tax
oughtto be abolished, but dust an ChancsTiqr of the Exilic-
loser =slid abolish it—a view of the %moth* which is
,harad by a great many Conservatives. fie slid not wtAs
110 MS the game laws repftled till • string's* law of ,
pass was enacted, which is only to say that lie would not
repeal at all, duce • harsher law of tresair would biwitti:
Cr* Elmeluglie toagatesrulitseulso% school And
as concerns the "valuation
.of property," he thought
.egosOng rights should be imeaued, but that assessment
.einagailftees would And it very ilighatAtllo; And this,
doo, wee a view generally expressed by supporters of
tie Government Evidently this gen is is Comer. '
web= to the backbone.
War is this all, On the vexed question of tirlatitsyttki-
nand labourer, which is one of peculiar ' In
Derestakire, Mr. Portman was thoroughly outspoken. If.
went, indeed, beyond the Ministerial view in saying that
the time bad not arrived for enfranchising the =dent
tura' labourer. With Mr. ()Israeli the question is one not
of time but of MOO& But Br. Postman's words imply
emget doctrine that the labourer is unlit for this
a doctrine which Mr. Disraeli took care
olM.dly to disclaim. On the subject of wages we are
mot sone we understand him He recommended a sliding
wale, Which would satisfy betas somber sad MAU. At that
MOM • sous of wages adjusted to the !mire of whaxt,
system hasjogg been in existence in AM Ilastega own ,
where the reWts of it are what we sea life doubt t
first sight it seam a very plausible proposes. lit,
mrinciple is the SAW' As that on which the tithe it
onimated. Yet it does net seem to have given maniac.
dim. This, however, is bessWe the marls. What we
+wishes: to call attention to was tie accurately Conserve.
give 'tincture of Mr. Portessies speu*. If these are his
esstiments, why does he cal/ himself a, lertind, which at
the present psowent, and under existing mei:instances is
only Radical iss disguise f We have no doubt Abet he
repressets truly enough the opinions of English conti
gentlemen, and Used few Liberal county members, w
getieired to legidate tor England, would be found to tbi
ofifferently. One speech .by Itself, perhaps, has no par.
Moshe significance. But fanny serve to remind us that
.Mr. Disraeli has many allies Lalew the Opposition gang.
'way, wed that the natural sympsthoce of county members,
.even whoa they call themselves Libenn, wiiit inevitably
an with the majority of their own order. 4,hsre will be
mow exceptions no doubt Some Liberal now 4gmbers
Mar be driven into Radical extremes just because otf„y
flis feel themselves isolated and under an obligatioa fo
pies mire than ordinarily strong reasons why they stand
dog tram their fellows. But these instances will always
be extremely rare, and county inembers who are now
Liberals only because their fathers or it-godfathers were
ong• Whip will pretty generally resemble Mr. Portman.

A ...bid Mr. 3. F. Williamson, a pupil of
I. oxygen, was
Foley_ of Dr. ...2.1f7. the dmer.V err, •of f
on at Hanoi,"ó. II hetuf, siesew i ux ey
delivered an &Mrs...
A marble statue of 8' • Th." Jaielt• 0'0,14 by irslAic
".111104forll SatntdaY VI
wehemiption, was unveheil
dts. Duke of Devonshire.
Zeta Letherton, of Tring, aged 111. ‘4irslls pow out
'
'AI Ike*
Lewes from Catalonia state that the Carlw - recently shot ilte Rawblican prisoners.
A farmhouse near Rathcormar, Dublin, was entered on
smacday by robbers. The farmer's wife, who was alone
la the house, waa murdered, and 1:20 stolen.
A lady of_
_good social position at Cambridge, Mi.
311, is charged with concealment of the b'rth
laraWkSin the statement of a charwoman. The body
was f in the watereloeet.
Tie Booth-Western Railway dividend is announced to
be at the rate of II per cent annum on the ordi
salamigogh of the comPemr being the same et declared
in yule last year, and leavings balance of about !Awn
gis• WituAls "Asia has non at Kklderminater, polling
mveteentore than his Liberal opponent. The respective
numbers
_were Fraser 1661, Lea 1318.
extlisoonivarY marriage is reported by the Rest
seems New. to have taken place at Jeelneon, the
nerammy being performed by the Very Rev. Achdeacon
n=in the =oe otihea large mnpcut. The
peir both to parish of Jemgt; hnt
is the fact that the bride ha, no artns, and
the =tiro be Placed en the third toe of her left foot,
the conclusion of the mama'e cemeer
she
lined
hokum the pea with her toes, in a Very
dthesalta. "The bride-has socuetonted herself to use
her needle, sad do may other useful thinp with her
SOIL