The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-08-18 00:00:00

TNE INDEPENDENT ELEcTous or THE
SIORDUGH OF wEYbiouTii AND
NEU:GYBE REGIS.

Gawrunsan,--
TICE Now Reform Act giving an increased
number of Electors the piivilege of recording
their Votes in yem Borough at the ensuing Election,
necessitates the dirsolution of Parliament duriug the
preeent autumn.
. . .

For tl.e last nine years I have diligently attended to
niy duties in the Moose of Commons, and now offer
myself as a Candidate for re-election, trusting that by
your suffrages and support I may be once more placed
is the proud position of 'sting your Member.
Dunng my career in Parliament I have consistently
advocated tbose principles which I promised to support
•on my best soliciting your Votes.
I shall, if re-elected, oontinue to support the present
Conservative Government without losing my own
indepenclenoe. of action.

I would advocate by ail means in my power the con-
tinued maintenance of Church and State principles,
and of our Institutions, Civil and Rcelesiastical, at the
Name time without interference with free and religions
luatitutions.

I hope very soon to have the ',leisure of being in
W,wouth. when I trust I shall be enabled to personally
solat rout support-

the meantime I have the honour to be
Your moat faithful Servant,
111/11ERT BILOOKS.

Wooded, Park, firk August. 174. a:

TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECIMHW OF THE
BOROUGH or WEYWNITH AND
MELCOMBE BIWA

Ormnicr,_
THE time is fast approaching when the
bonoumble trust you so kindly reposed in me, by
returning we as your Representative to the House of
Commons, will be again placed in your bands. I hope
that my conduct while there has been such as to meet
your approval, and to obtain for ins • renewal of your
'confidence, by permitting me to have the honour of
Terre Waiting you in the new Parliament.
From the time I entered the House of Commons I
have honestly and consistently followed out the
principles I protease,' when I first sought your suffrages,
nod that will, I trust, be a guarantee for my future
course. I was returned by you to support Liberal
principles in that assembly. I have 'luny' dune so.
lly votes, given On all the First public questions which
have been before the Leplature, will bear witneu to
may fidelity to thou princtol,
The great question of Retrm has absorbed much of
the time said attention of the House, and the Act
passed last aession, moulded, as it was to • large estent,
or the
eliberral party. Lao
. oorrupond aouredarig natcre I.
access
popular power, it
to the
strength of the Constitution. Some of the objection-
able features of the Bill, however, still remain to be
improved in the future Parliament, 'ben I trust the
vexation and trouble ommaimud to the Compound
110w/wider, will be removed, ,11.1 Electors protected
from intimidet:!op by. the rote to

I have. vokil for tho aoliou of compulsory Church
Itates, and rejoice that this fruitful source of discord no
longer exist.; and I anticipate with confidence that
unity will be found whore religious strife Las bcdcro
waisted. - -

I have voted for the Abolition of the Lash in the
Army. • punishment which Ibelieve degrades and
brut•lizes without any reformatory influence : I trust
that this, together with the additional interest shewn in
our soldiers, will raise the moral tone of our army and
place that branch of our public defence iu a yet higher
atate of efficiency.

The condition...of Ireland is • subject of the 'caveat
eonsideratioia. The chronic discontent of the people
ban caused exoeptional measures to be taken fur the
public safety, and all thoughtful minds have been con-
sidering how to meet the evil. Ono fruitful source of
-disoontent being a Protestant Church establishment,
with the population mostly Homan Catholic, the
present Government proposed to give them religious
equality by " levelling up the Roman Catholic priest-
hood, and establishing • University for that body alone;
but this has been abandoned, and an appeal is now
made to din-establish the existing Church, instead of
endowing all others. I feel the time has arrived when
this should be done, not simply because • source of
irritution would be removed from the Roman Catholic
Iwpulation, but because I feel that for the interests of
religion, the Protestant Church should appear before
that people without the strong ; mindless fostered in
their niir.ds against her truths, by the position of
.ant•gonisin in which she is made to appear to them.
The Member, of the Protestant Church of Ireland
are numerically small in comparison with the ltoman
Catholic population, yet they represent the bulk of the
property in that country ; and I believe they have too
much love for their Church to allow it to decay for
not of support, especially when we see those who
ha,m hot little property, with credit to themselves,
sustair.ing their religions institutions. To think other-
wise would he • libel on them and • vends' to our
faith; wad by her distatabliabinent, I believe, instead
of there being no increase in the number of her members
for years in proportion to the population, she would
receive as impetus for usefulness which would soon
manifest itself.

The subject of FAuration must of necessity seriously
occupy the attention of the new Pailianient. It is one
of the most imperative of our social duties, and though
grave difficulties may surround the method of its
extenaion. yet I Lope the time is not far diatant, when
every child born in this kingdom ahall possess, at 'mat,
the udinieuts of education, without any violation of
Its religious principles.
The finances of our country will challenge closer
scrutiny than they have yet reseived, and everything
which a true mmoomy might magnet b. (arri.,l into
practice. Our army and navy most be kept in thorough
efficiency, but rooent infortuatiou shews that the public
simmer is wasted to an extent unimagined by those who
have not given attention to the subject. The time I
believe is not resents, when under the auspices of
snotber Government, the affairs of our oountry will be
both honourably und economically conducted.
I hoped to hare seen you before this, bet am un-
fortunately detained in London by severe indisposition.
At the earliest moment my physician thinks I may
travel, I ahall do myself the pleemsre of ooming anions*
you. I remain,
Your most obedient and faithful Servant,
FJJWAIIDS.

naiad August 3rd, 1868.
na, Burkeley-square, London.