The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-03-29 00:00:00

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b &mica iu re &tons of the two nations

Another batch of papers, relating to China
has been published, and forms a blue book of
200 The papers cover • period of 18
months, from September, 1862, to
the present month. They include a variety of
subjects, showing how difficult is the task we
have taken in civilising China. There are
constant quarrels between the Chinese Govern-
ment and our Consuls respecting their evasion
of customs' duties, and sometimes on account of
more violent proceedings on the part of our
merchants. The desertion of the Burgeviue to
the Taepings, the tortures inflicted by the Im-
peralists upon their prisoners, after an action in
which the English troops assisted the former,
and the violation by the Imperialists of the
pledge which Major Gordon gave to the Tamping
" Wangs" at Soochow, that their lives should be
spared if they would surrender, occupy the re-
asunder of the volume. These papers wind up
with an indignant despatch from Major Gordon
at having been made the unwilling accomplice
in this treachery, and with the Queen'aproclama-
tion withdrawing the previcitui permission for
English subjects to enter the naval and military
service of the Emperor of China.
There seems every reason to believe that the
tide of emigration from Ireland has set in with
• force which has rarely or never been equalled
since the exodus during the potato famine some
15 years Br. From Drogheda we learn that
the numbers leaving the port weekly is
"astonishing and alarming." No less than 200
left on Monday week. In Sligo "the numbers of
emigrants is on the Worms ; not a day
but numerous families are passing through
town on their way to the ports of embamation
for New York." In Mayo "the daily average
is from 50 to 150." The Mayo ConstituNoss
notes some curious and interesting facts in con-
nection with the present exodus—firstly, that
the majority of the passages have been paid in
America; secondly, that the existing profusion
and consequently dimished value of paper money
in the Federal States tends to vastly increase the
tide of emigration from Ireland; and lastly,
that the tenantry on the better lands. of the
country are remaining, while those who have
hitherto existed on the inferior lands are amongst
the most numerous of the emigrants.
The death of Lord Aberdeen, which took place
on Tuesday the 22nd, was on the following day fol-
lowed by that of another nobleman, whose name,
like that of Lord Aberdeen, derives its promi-
nence from the preceding peer who bore it.
Lord Ashburton, the second nobleman of that
title, had, just like the deceased Lord Aberdeen,
for his father a statesman whose name will be
recorded in history. The first Lord Ashburton
was British Minister at Washington auriug a
critical period, and to him we owe the unsatis-
factory treaty by which the boundaries of Canada
were defined, and Great Britain was cheated out
of a large territory by forged maps and Yankee
'cuteness. His son, whose death we have now
to announce, for a time took part in politics,
but latterly, like the first deceased Lord Aber-
deen, devoted most of his spare time to social
science. The latter, it is not generally known,
fitted up a portion of his London house as a re-
formatory. The former became prominent some
time ago by his strenuous advocacy of
, the teaching of "common things. Lord
Ashburton was born in 1799, and was edu-
cated at Oriel College, Oxford, at which
university he took classical honours. Being a
member of the great mercantile house of the
Rulings be easily obtained • seat in Parliament
and • place in the Government. He represented
Thetford, where the Barinp and the Grafton&
divide the interest; Callington in Cornwall before
it was disfranchised by the Reform Bill, Win-
chester end North Staffordshire. At Winchester
he was defeated in 1831, but successful in 1832
and 1835. In 1837 he was at the head of the
poll for North Staffordshire. He held the posts
of Secretary of the Board of Control and Pay-
master of the Forces under Sir Robert Peel.
In 1835 he was elected a Knight of the Legion
of Honour on account of his service to commerce
and in 1860 he was chosen President of U.
Geographical Society.
The Rigsday at Copenhagen was closed on
Tuesday, by a speech from the Throne, in which
the King said that Denmark still stood quite
alone. He was ready to do anything to °but' •
an honourable peace ; but the period was distant
when the country would be compelled to submit
to • peace based upon humiliating condition*.
The King afterwards left for the seat of war,
and was at Sonderburg on Wednesday. On that
dsy the bombardment of Fredericia, which had
ceased mince Sunday, appears to have been re-
wined; for we are told that part of the town had
been set on fire by the shells frian the allied
batteries. The commandant of the fortress had
been summoned to surrender the place, and had
refused. According to the latest letters from
the seat of war the connousde against Duppel
has not jet produced any serious result.