LORD DERBY AND THE CONSERVATIVES.
! The following letter has been received from Lord Derby 'by Mr Councillor Middlehurst, of Salford, who had written inquiring whether his resignation was to be understood as a severance of his connection with' the Conservative party in general •.—" Fairhill, Tunbridge, 20th April. Sir," — I thank you for your frendly letter of the 17th. As regards my^ recent withdrawal from the Lancashire union of Conservative associations, I do not see that it requires any further explanation than that which is supplied by facts which are already public. JL .have openly strongly, expressed ;my dissent from the: foreign policy of the Government. That policy appears in the main accepted by the party which calk itself Conservative, and it is expressly vindicated in the last report of the association from which I have retired. Ido not see how it is possible for me consistently to support in Lancashire what I have opposed in the House of Lords, and for the present, at least, I wish to hold myself free from all party organisations. — I remain, your obedient servaut, Derby. — Mr J. E. Middlehurst."
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5415, 23 June 1879, Page 3
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185LORD DERBY AND THE CONSERVATIVES. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5415, 23 June 1879, Page 3
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