Unshackled by Party ties, and entirely independent of any individual influence, I earnestly solicit your Suffrages, and though confident of the result of this Contest, I trust the friends of the Liberal cause will not relax their exertions.
I shall continue my endeavours to become personally acquainted with each of you.
I have the honor to remain,
Your obedient Servant,
FREDERICK H. W. G. CALTHORPE.
Perry Hall, January 31st, 1859.
EAST WORCESTERSHIRE ELECTION.
MR. PAKINGTON AND PUSEYISM.
The father of Joey Grimaldi, the famous clown, was an Italian, who bore the name Delpini and followed the avocation of a dentist, in London, where it was his lot to reside in 1780, the year of Lord George Gordon’s “No Popery” riots. All foreigners then fell under suspicion as Papists and cut-throats, and the harmless tooth-drawer, when the infuriated mob were firing the dwellings of known or suspected Romanists on all sides of him, followed a custom which obtained in those days of terror, of labelling your house with an inscription signifying either devotion to Protestantism or hatred of Popery. So Delpini chalked upon his door, in the best English he could command, “Good people all take notice, dis house is a true Protestant.”