The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-07-03 00:00:00

Klerset &until express.

TUVIDAY. JULY 3. PIM

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

So the Russians are arrays the Danube, and the tng
of war has begun in real earnest. When the confla-
gration shall cease, it is pnibable there will be no
Sublime Porte to pity or patronise. The Greeks are
quite ready to dash in at the propitiouv moment, and
this affair about the embarist laid on Turkiiih arms at
Corfu is already blot% ins up a luarrel between Greeks
and Turks which can end in only one way. The
Turaiphil party are PO completely crestfallen, that
they are beginning to alter their note. The Pall Mal/
Gtvelte, that never! i.es an opportunity iif lashing the
71.40, wrote a leader the other night echoing the
sentiments of the Times in prat.. id Austria for her
discretion in keeping out of th:s war. They see how
the wind Noe, and are beginning to turn their sails
accordingly.

The war has been slugiTish hitherto; but now it will
be sluggish in another way; for, to repeat the Hoodian
pun, the little slugs will send food to the worms.
The Czar's grandiore proclamation to the Bulgarian's
is polite enough at the present Juncture. and
may minciliste such of the inhabitants as have not
laaiu maroacred, if they require conAliation. Roumania
will not lie driven into absolute despair at the gradual
departure . 4 her guests, or rendered violently jealous
by the transfer of their attentions to their friends
across the water. Recent imlitical utterances in
tostria anil Ronny"' .m to show that partiripation
in the war is reganied by them as a very probable
contingency ; and. assairifir glv, military preparations
are being conducted upon a barge scale. Ilut Austria
is not without its doniestie as well as foreign anxieties.
The Tyrol is one of the oldest appanages of the Duchy
of Austria, awl it has fro.) time immemorial been
posaessed of extraordinary isilitical privileges. In
questions of taxation, or, rather, of the dimribution of
taxation, ant in other limal matter, it in self-governed,
MO (let it rejoice Joseph Arch) agrieultural labourers
are represented equally with the higher classes in the
Provincial Parliament. The Tyrolese, for some reason
or other, ale far from 'mini siviAnii They
demand an extension of their privileges The
demand has been r( fused, and their deputies
have withdrawn from the Austrian Reicharath.
The mischief .4 the matter is that the Tyrol has
Italian li-arnin 4,, which Victor Emmannel would very
much like tm gratif v. "II Rey Snlanturino" has
deferred his visit to England on acc tunt id the Eastern
war, thriu,h it is exceedingly ilitfivult to Pee how the
interests of Italy are iserimpily affected by the quarrels
of Russia and Turkey. Sardinia joined in the rimean
war, not from any obligation, lint to aecnre an alliance,
which afterwards expanded Sardinia into Italy. Is
it not possible that in the event of Austria assisting
Turkey against Russia, Italy would form an allianoe
with the ("sat% and carry war into the dominions of
her ancient enemy, in the hope of securing the Tyrol,
and theiefry rendering Italy a c implete geographical
unity? The Tyrol is not of Well a poniervaiiin to he
much coveted. Its soil is too tinproloctive to maintain
its inha),itants, who, therefore, for the most part, set
out in early youth, armed with barrel-organs, &c., to
make their living urn a world, whose eyes they
delight with their picturesque costumes, and whose
ears they torture with excruciating sounds. They
continue to amass c msiderable fortunes, and invariably
retire as egon as circumstances allow to their beloved
Tyrol.

.
Mr. Ward Hunt seriondy unwell, and has been
sent off to Hamburg by his physiciani. rmnour
is repudiated that this time the Pirat Lord must resign.
It was distxessing to see him in the House on his last
appearance there, and it must have struck pity into
the soul f the most discontented old nut whose
vocation in Parliament is to badger the Admiralty. I
Melina to thc cpirlion that Mr. Hunt will see the
session over, and then resign, but if there were any-
thing like a atreoo of Lustaess at the Admiralty it
would not be easy to go on with the First Lord
disabled. Let us hope that Dibdin's "sweet little
cherub that sits up aloft, and cares for the life of poor
Jack," will look after him at present; for what with
an invalid chief, officials at loggerheads with each
other, and ship that won't swim. the British navy is
in a far from hopeful plight.

The Tnrki,h Parliament_hts lieon wnt home with

a o.:0;7y brial hint that it Will probably sown be called
together untler, perhaps, happier circumstances. The
general impres.ion is that this points to a speedy
peace, and it is understood that Prince 'lento, the
German Ambassador, is to be called upon to use his
friendly ofliee to secure fir Turkey better terms than
she mold get for herself. The integrity of Turkey in
gone, but what about her stmorainty over
Egypt It io a serious question for the holders ..f the
Tribute Loan, for the first 'torten which lottfyitt would
throw ..ff would be her liability to remit three quarters
of a million oterling per 21111111 U ti the Porte. This
crnshing load womb] never have Item 'admitted to,
hut for Ismail's ilesire to secure the sticceosdoot bi his
wins, and for this entl he woo willin, his poor Fellatio
About,' be pleased to triiet the ring of 1'ao11:14 in
Constantinople. The Klielive is sure to extricate
himself from the bargain at the first opportunity, and
Ile pntbably will not have to wait long.
Mr. Glaolotone has miter ot;11 his rewtlve never again
bi assume the lemlership iii hio ;may. Politie tl
activity has become, however, a necessity if his
heing, and while he liven he innot be the real chief of
the Liberals. A rumour hat got into print that he is
at the bottom' if the Ritualistic League for the separ-
:atom of Church and State. If wo, he has severe.'
the last tie which Isound him too the Conservatism of
his youth. ii qUIIIIVIEIIII inalattis al• Pio!

La.t year 71i.900 per.. 114 were arrested by the police
in the 'Metro', •Ha Th.., number seems enormous even
for a isusalati..n of fur million., awl making all fair
deduction: for inist dies and repititions. I h ns: the
nielanelloly fast will be sedniously lane-wiled at the
Caxton Festival, that no fewer thus .seif printers or
other', c umectel with the press, made an invoinntary
appearantv. This average of offence oon,pares
favourably with that of other professions. The
powers 1 the H....s must be 11.1111C,Ilarly oillll/11101114 to
the police ; and perlials, the stern gum:di:ins of osier
athise with that American minister whose
anghter was courted by a young printer. and who
took as his text Im Stinday the words : " Lord, have
mercy upon my daughter, for she ii grevionsly toe.
mented with a devil."
Anucs.