The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-06-15 00:00:00

Jortign anti Colonial Inttlligence.

FRANCE.

The fourth sitting of the Cenrerenee which is occupied
with the organisation of the Danubian Principalities
took place on Thursday, the 10th net., at the hotel of
the Minister of Foreign Affairs..

A report WU current lately that Manbal Pelletier
had been recalled, on amount of certain courtesies
which were exchanged between him and the Duke
d'Aurnale in Hyde Park. The rumour is without
foundation.

The French Government is arming the Mediterranean
coasts. The inauguration of the port of Cherbourg,
which was to have taken plate in the middle of July,
has been postponed to the 7th of August.

The health of Marshal Bosquet will not permit him
to go to Toulon to &mums his military functions.
Marshal Bandon is spoken of as his suocessor.
The Monitenr has the following:—" The Emperor has
had the pious idea of securing to Franoe the possession
of the habitation where the Emperor Napoleon I. ended
his da , and of the tomb where his ashes reposed.
tine itself with the august solicitude of His
Imperial Majesty, the Legislative Corps has voted an
extraordinary credit of 180,000 francs to be placed at the
disposal of the Department of Foreign Affairs. The
acquisition of those precious ruins is now an seem-
plished fact. On the 18th of March last a decree passed
by the Legislature of St Helena, and ratified on the 7th
of May Wowing by an order of the Queen of England,
conferred upon the Emperor of the French, and his
heirs for ever, the absolute right of property in the
domain of Longwood and of the tomb of Napoleon I.
Thus, thanks to the willing intervention of the Govern.
ment of Her Britannic Ma esty, those sacred localities
where incomparable destine. were fulfilled belong hence-
forth to Franw.
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A number of candidates for the Hospociarship of
Wallachia and Moldavia, are now in Paris. In the first
place there is Prince Demetrius Qldka who, if not
interested for himself, may represent his uncle, the
present Caimaoan of Wallachia. Chiba, the uncle, has
the reputation of being a man of honesty, and politically
dovoted to the Porte; hence lie Ii not a favourite of
Russia, which Power intrigued for his overthrow when
he was Rospodar. There are here In Paris several
%yards, amongst whom are the late Hospoder Bibesao,
his brother fitirbey (late Hospodar of Wallachia) and
Michael fßourdas (late Hoepodar of Moldavia).
While the farmers in the neighbourhood of Paris are
complaining of the want of rain, the accounta from the
provinces are more cheering. A letter from Smut
dales that everywhere in that arrondissement the crops
present the most favourable appearanoe. This state.
merit is oonfirmed by the reports addresaed to the Sub-
Prefect by the Consulting Chamber of Agriculture.
They announce that the harvest of the present year will,
from present appearances, be extraordinary in respect to
the abundance, precocity, and qualityt of the produce.
The rye has wood through the flowering
favourably, and the wheat Is beginning to form ttre":
As for the vines, if the present weather lute, they will
lower under the most favourable oirouinstanoes.

There is one unfortunate fact, says the Timm, which
will forte iteelf upon our attention in spite of the very
best exertions we can make to persuade ourselves that
the political atmosphere is quite u clear on the aide of
France se we *mild desire. For what purpose, or in
what quarrel, against whom, or for whom we know
not, France is undoubtedly arming on e sails, with a
method, system, and a deliberation, truly formidable to
all her neighbours,—whether, like ourselves, they hive
the good fortune to be sheltered from the impending
storm under the umbregeous branches of an entente
cordiale,—whether, like Belgium, Piedmont, and Spain,
in the consciousness of their inability to resist, they
listen with no unreasonable trepidation for the first
howl of the coming tempest,—or whether, like Austria,
they know not how soon they may be compelled to fight
for their dominions against • brave and well-disciplined
enemy. France is certainly arming, and arming both
by land and sea. Her army, already large, is undergo-
ing considerable increase. She is just on the point of
completing a railway which conneoto all her military
stations with the fortifications of Cherbourg, a port con-
structed at enormous pains and at vast expense, and
posseuing every facility that skill can devise for the
simultaneous embarcation of very large bodies of troops.
France is besides, busily engaged in the construction of
• great steam fleet, armed and propelled on the very
best and newest principles at present developed by the
art of war; she is gathering up her colossal strength,
and would appear to be on the eve of some vest enter.
prise, in the prosecution of which that strength is to
be put forth to the utmost. Not only is the military
element studiously strengthened and inereued, but it
ie beginning to wort a predominance over civilians
which shows itself more and more every day, and
naturally makes us anxious about our relations with •
country in which the balance is so completely pressed
down by the superior weight of the military alias. We
cannot believe for a moment that the enormous prepare.
tions which France is making are intended for defensive
warfare, for there is not the slightest symptom of a
wish in any quarter to attack her. Her form of govern.
anent agrees entirely with the notions entertained by the
Governments of the greater part of Europe, and we in
England have long learnt to renounce the Quixotic no-
tion of forcing our own ideas upon other nations. If
France is happy we are content she should be so in her
own way, and desire nothing but to lee her great,
peaceful, and prosperous. Why, then, is Franco
arming If we grant that the army is increased for the
purpose of insuring domestic tranquillity,on what ground
are we to account for the corresponding and content•
poraneous augmentation of her fleet? The navy has
always been a favourite tone in England, bemuse,
among other reasons, it is • force which cannot readily
be used for the purpose of coercing the people. In
France the mine principle must apply, and we are et •
loss to know for what pacific purpose • large steam navy
is being prepared. France has but few colonies, and
those of inconsiderable extent. She 11/11 no large foreign
°miner°e to protect, no refractory India to reconquer
and reorganise. She lies nothing to fear from • descent
on bar onaste front any foreign Power. Why, than, is
France arming and augmenting liar navy?

PLOTH AGAINOT THO EMPZIOR OV THZ PAUNCH.—
On Friday (the 41h) fourteen men were tried in Paris on
a charge of having formed • secret political society for I
the esaiumination of the Emperor and the overthrow of
the Government. The charge was proved, and was, In.
deed, admitted by the accused, and it also appeared that
the society was in communication with refugees in
London. The best mole of assassinating the Emperor
had been discussed in the society, and the conclusion
come to was that his Majesty's carriage should be
stopped when he was out driving, end that then ho
should be attacked and killed. Three of the amused
were acquitted, and the rest were condemned to fines of
from RS to EIS, and to periods of imprisonment, varying
from one month to eighteen months. The scouted were
all, with one exception, workmen. On the day pre•
vious to this trial, • rumour circulated In Paris, that
another attempt had been made at Fontainebleau to
assassinate the Emperor, and that several Italians were
concerned in it. This statement was afterward('
softened into an assertion that some parsons were as•
covered fabricating grenades ; and that in turn gave
plane to • story about three or four suspicious persons
having been arrested. The Sardinian Government is
said to have given notlee of the movements of six per•
sons who were on their road to France from Rome.
Four of theme are in custody ; the other two have es.
()aped. On Wednesday a Frenchman, named Legendre,
was to be tried by the Correctional Tribunal of
Boulogne, on a charge of conspiracy. He was arrested
In March last, and In the folds of his cravat there were
found two oopies of a "letter to parliament and the
press," signed by the revolutionary committee, Felix
bat, &mon, and Talandler. Legendre had been
travelling about In France for two or three years, his
ostensible busineu being to obtain orders for "patent
hygienic) horse•bite." It is reported that he has made
revelations touching a new attempt on the Emperor's
life, which was to have been made this month. He, him
self, it le said, was asked to take charge of a fulmina.
tiug bomb.

SPAIN.
The Queen returned to Aranjues on Saturday from
her excursion to Alicante and Valencia. It appears
Her Majesty did not quit the hist•mentioned city with
much regret, as Her Majesty's reception there was not
60 cordial nor so sympathetic so elsewhere, though an
immense crowd thronged the passage from the lending
place to the residence of the Count de Cervellon, where
apartmenta had been prepared for her. A Cabinet
Council, at which the Queen presided, met on Sunday at
Aranjues, and perhaps the telegraph will soon announce
that the temporary measured permitting the free intro.
duotion into Spain of foreign corn are to be prolonged
to the end of the year. The Ministers have on that
point complied with pub/is opinion. A slight esseuteor
rather a procession of itadente, who wished that their
vacation should begin 15 days before the date fixed by
the new Law on Public Instruction, viz., the let instead
of the 15th June, has • good deal amused the town. The
students traversed the streets, under a suffocating at-
mosphere (which prevented them from studying), with
umbrellas and immense fans in their hands. A few of
the more clamorous were taken into custody, but tea few
hours wore set at liberty. It is superfluous to say that
politics had nothing whatever to do with this affair.
By the Madrid papers we learn the particulars of an
unfortunate occurrence at San Domingo. The civil war
raging in that republic finds Baez in possession of the
port of San Domingo, which his rival Santanna is besieg-
ing. The batteries of the latter, whether intentionally
or otherwise, fired upon the foreign shipping in the
port, nearly sunk • Sardinian vessel, and seriously
damaged • French and Spanish vessel. Spanish ships
of war have been despatched to the place to demand
reparation.