It is both instructive and amusing to read the Advertiser’s reports of the speeches made from time to time at the “Working Men’s Conservative and Constitutional” meetings at Portswood. At the last of these gathering (at which I am credibly informed the large and influential number of 22 persons was present) the chairman, after dilating upon the great, but for my part I don’t think very praise worthy victory of the Tories in preventing Mr. Sheriff Rogers from “planting a lot of trees round about the houses at Highfield,” launched out on his favourite them, – the drainage question. He “held in his hand”, said Mr. Furber, “a copy of the original petition, and he found not a single resident in St. Denys signed it.” Well, what of that, a friend has suggested to me. Why not have added the fact that out of the 36 inhabitants of the tything who did sign it 31 are Tories, including such men as Messrs. Wigram, Bolton, Bullen, McCalmont, Pinsent, Maund, Ives Fist, etc. I cannot help thinking that gentlemen who put themselves forward as leaders should tell the whole truth, and if this is done, and blame is attachable to any, there is no doubt it must be mainly attributed to the Tories that Portswood is to be drained.
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GRO0420 India: Henry John Pinsent: 1812 – 1894
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GRO0420 India: Henry John Pinsent: 1812 – 1894