The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-03-05 00:00:00

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THIS DAYS If Lairirra

MARK LANE.—TaIs. DAT.

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Whost ham soI4 very slowly sod is la. low Ir.
elsoopor. Barley quilt, bet _NWT lit_tadY• Oats, with
I rather beton badness., *a- as• di* wash.
slow of ulo at Late rota. Boat" pew uzi.
altered. Flour dull, sod drooping.

METROPOLITAN °Aril& Tau DAY.

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About C 02,5 bola& larlading about 700 for.ign.
Truk Quist, at ,fie ed.. to 61, and aboot 7,500 sheep.
Trade grow, at bt &I, to 71. 6d. Cares, me&
la to tla IA big.. 31. 64., to li. 6d.. per eight
At Deptford there were Lio besets, and 7,000
sheep.

DORCHESTER SATURDAY'S CORN
MARKET.

The grain trade Ins been dull in tone. English
wisest was sparingly offered. Foreign in fair supply
supply. Other sorts ol grain unaltered.

THE HEALTH OF MR. RI7SICIN.
Mr. Ruskin has stly improved in some respects
sines yesterday moas.

ILLNESS OF VISCOUNT CLYDEN.
Viscount Clytien is lying seriously ill with cousin.
tion of the lungs at Eton College. The quern drove
to Eton last evening to enquire alter his WWII).

THZ WAR.
RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.
Sr. Perszastrao, Thursday, 6 p.m.
The Loudon telerrams announcing the appointment
of Lord Naplarri_of Magdais as Commander of ea
with Sir Garnet Wolinley as
=licittataff7C'producing great excitement here,
as proving the warlike and hostile designs of the
English Government.
THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
ST. PITIIIISIIZO, Thursday, 6 p.m.
No direct news has yet been received here that peace
has been concluded

Coxerewriaorts
Threwfifths of the Rumian peace condition. have
been socepted,and it is expectsd that the treaty of peace
will be signed on Tuesday next. The question of the
boundaries of Bulgaria is the cause of the delay in the
nagotiatlouL the Russians claiming the inclusion of
Salonlca and lledeagatch within the new Principality.
The question of the Turkish fleet has not yet been
arranged, but there appears to be no founion for
the tumour pointing to the possibility of the alga&
bons being broken .ff.

lin Wan LID ENGLISH DOU.NDIL
What En land wants and must have is, the
not a secret to be gradually revealed.
Makr are just ticse vital points upon which this
country neither can nor will make any nom:argon.
The first of them is the freedom of Constantinople,
the mooed the freedom of the Straits, and the third
the freedom of the people in the Valley of the Nile.
Constantinople cannot be Russian. The Black Sea
cannot remain shut op. Egypt cannot be left a half.
ruined reseal State, in the hands of a powerless
Sultan. Upon the first point there is little need of
protracted discussion. Our own belief, stated from
the of the struale, is that the Importance
of Ctislitnatndinople is fonly exaggerated. utis
In vale to hops that the British peoigplill take that
to view, vain ignore the fact that is not ours
yet, and vainest of all to deny at the RU111163
Government has killed for Itself the possibility of th:s
Notation. That Gore, nment has pledged itself to the
lips not to annex Constantinople, and if It broke Me
even with the extorted assent of Ennis, it
17,7 JP earn a reputation for faithlessness which woad
make the whole world its enemies. No treaty woad
be possible with such a Power. The contingency will
not, we feel sure, occur; but occurring, the British
representative must resist it with the most emphato
statement that Great Britain bolds that concision to
be impossible. The demand means war at any price.
Upon the second point there is even greater unanimity.
Any demand to close the Straits to all war ships
except those of Russia must be resisted, if necessary,
by • long Inv. It would be simple madness to allow
It, for the concession, apart from its unfairness, might
at certain moments nearly paralyse this country's
action. Oar own belief is—end we state It frankly,
In spite of its utter unpopularity—that as the years
pees on, a necessity stronger than prejudices will
drive Russia and England into a hearty and enduring
Asiatic alliance. But to ensure that alliance, Eng-
land must be able to hurt Russia, if Russia infringes
on her right., and with the Black Bea closed, Eng-
land could warmly hurt her. The Baltic is unwrap-
dble for five months in the year, and for the remain-
ing seven may be so policed by a German navy as to
maks war there without German consent the most
difficult of operations. We must be able in the last
resort to appear in the Black Sea.
The Elswick Ordnance Works have mired an
order from the Government for 800 torpedoes, to be
manufactured with all possible speed. The factories
at Woolwich are also turning out large numbers of
"fish" torpedo.., but which are said to be superior to
those which Mr. Whitehead is manufacturing for all
the world at Fiume.