The contest for Dorsetshire is becoming interesting. Mr. Hambro has
retired, and the contest now lies between the Hon. E. Digby, who represents the landlords, and Mr. Fowler, who- represents the tenant-farmers. Both gentlemen are Conservatives,. but the Liberals, it is stated, intend to vote for the latter. That is surely bad policy, unless the Liberals feel Mr. Fowler will represent them. Let the tenant-farmers learn by experience that they have no- natural tie to the Tories—who are not the rural party, but the country-gentleman party—and perceive that they have no hope except in alliance with the Liberals, the natural friends of all who are not content. If the tenant-farmers would become the bones of the Liberal party, as the old yeomanry were, that party would in ten years completely emancipate the land, and. make an estate as saleable as a watch. The Tories will not consent even to confine ground-game to recreation-land.
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