After so severe and protracted a contest, allow me to
congratulate you on the great and glorious triumph you have
obtained for the Liberal cause.
The victory is yours. I am the representative of it. I feel
deeply the proud position in which you have placed me, and
I hope to prove my gratitude by a zealous attention to your
interests and by a faithful service in that cause which you
have sent me to the House of Commons to maintain.
I would fain hope that many of those who have in this contest
been opposed to me, will on future occasions be numbered among
my friends, and I trust that now the battle is over, all
unpleasant feeling may cease.
Gentlemen,
I remain, with heartfelt thanks,
Your obedient Servant,
FREDERICK H. W. G. CALTHORPE.
_Central Committee Rooms, Stourbridge, February 23rd, 1859._
The vote on the New Reform Bill having caused a dissolution, the
following addresses were issued:--
TO THE ELECTORS OF THE EASTERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF
WORCESTER.