The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-11-03 00:00:00

TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF THE
BOROUGH OF WEYMOUTH AND

11E6 Li:

_Grrectitax,—

rrHE tune is fast approaching when the
1 honourable trust you so kindly reposed in me, by
returning me as your Representative to the House of
Commons, will be again plated in your hands. I bops
that my conduct while there has been such as to meet
your approval, and to obtain for ma a renewal of your
confidence, by permitting Me to have the honour of
representing you in the new Parliament.
From the time I entered the House of Commons I
have honestly and oomistently followed out the
principles I professed when I first sought your suffrages,
and 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 always done so.
My votes, given on all the great public questions which
have been before the Legislature, will bear witness to
my fidelity to those principles.
The great question of Reform has absorbed much of
the time and attention of the House, and the Act
Itnit session, moulded, as it was to surge extent,
otrt:hodepulfiasheporal y
corresponding
nadicougnsiidnecrable tofetehs:
wer, with a
strength of the bonstitution, PLuse of the objection-
able features of the Bill, however, still reniain to be
improved in the future Parliament, when I trust the
vexation and trouble occasioned t. the Composed
Householder, will be retnove.l, and Electors protected
from intimidation by the rote by Ballot.
I have voted for the abolition of Compulsory Church
Rates, and rejoice that this fruitful source of discord no
longer exists; and I anticipate with confidence that
unity will be found where religious strife has before
existed.

I have voted for the Abolition of the Lash in the
Army, • punishment which I believe degrades and
brutalizes without any reformatory indttenee : I trust
that this, together with the additional interest shown in
our soldiers, will raise the moral tone of our army and
place that branch of our public defence in a yet higher
state of efficiency.
_ _ .

The condition of Ireland is • subject of the gravest
consideration. The chronic discontent of the people
has caused exceptional measures to be taken for the
public safety, and all thoughtful minds have been con-
sidering how to meet the evil. One fruitful source of
discontent being • Protestant Church establishment,
with the population mostly Roman Catholic, the
present Government proposed to give them religious
equality by "levelling up' the Roman Catholic priest-
hood, and establishing • Gniversity for that body clone;
but this has been abandoned, and an appeal is now
made to dis-establish the existing Church, instead of
endowing all others. I feel the time has arrived when
this should be done, not simply becamee a ieeree of
irritation would be removed from the Roman Catholic
population, but because I feel that for the interests of
religion, the Protestant Church should appear before
that people without the strong trejudices fostered in
their minds against her truths, by the position of
antagonism in which she is made to appear to them.
The Members of the Protestant Church of Ireland
are numerically small in comparison with the Roman
Catholic population, yet they represent the bulk of the
property in that country ; and I belle,e they hive tee
much love for their Church to allow it to decay for
want of support, especially when we see those who
have but little property, with credit to themselves,
sustaining their religions institution& To think other-
wise would be • libel on them and • scandal to our
faith; and by her die-establishment, I believe, instead
of there being no increase in the number of her members
for years in Proportiou to the population, she would
receive an impetus for usefulness 'lsiah would soon
manifest itself.

The subject of Education most of necessity seriously
occupy the attention of the new Parliament. It is one
of the most imperative of our racial duties, and though
grave difficulties may surround the method of its
extension, yet I hope the time is not far distant, when
every child born in this kingdom shall possess, at least,
the rudiment, of education, without spy violation of
its religions principles.
The finances of our country will challenge closer
scrutiny than they have yet rectivod, and everything
which a true economy might suegtoit he 'Anted into
practise. Our army and navy must be kept In thorough
efficiency, but recent information shows that the public
money is wasted Loan extent unimagined by those who
have not given attention to the subject. The time I
believe is not remote, when under the auspices of
another Government, the affairs of our country will be
both honourably and economically oondrioted.
I hoped to have teen you before this, but am un-
fortunately detained in London by toyer. indisposition.
At the sarlieat moment my physician thinks I may
travel, I shall do myself the pleasure of coming araccipt
I remain,
Your most obedient and faithful Servant,
HENRY IDWARLIS.
Dated August 3rd, 1868.
63, Bezbaleyetquate, Leaden.

QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION
OFFICES,
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QUEENSLAND EMIGRATION.
NEW LAND ACT, IRA.

GRANTS OF LAND OF 80 AND 160 ACRES.
LAND by free selection, from 40 to 10,880
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per Acre, payable in ten annual instalments of I. 6d.,
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160 Acres at a quit-rent of 9d., and 6d. per Acre for Eve
years, when they become entitled to the freehold.
Free passages are panted to Female Domestic demists
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persons.
JAMES WHEELER.

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