The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-09-26 00:00:00

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

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her life, than when lately resident at Rosenau,
engaged on one of its special missions. There
is a glen in the Grampians called Glenrnark,
belonging to Earl Dalhousie (formerly Lord
Panmure), and there is in the glen a shooting
lodge called Invermark, where the Earl gave
his last reception to the Queen and late
Prince Consort. Her Majesty as if impelled
to repeat the memory of this visit, actiom-
ponied by the Princess Helena, drove on
Tuesday, from Balmoral to the bridge of
Muick, and thence they proceeded on ponies
over Mount Keen into Glettmark. The
Queen passed the night, as the deceased
Prince had done, at Intermark Lodge, and on
Weddesday Morning retracted her rode baCk
to Balmoral. There the Prince and Princess
of Wales (whose residence of Abergeldie is
adjoining) and Prince and Princess Louis of
Hesse, each with two royal grandchildren,
last week, joined the Court eifele. A narrow
escape from an upset awaited the Prince of
Wales at the aforesaid bridge of Muick,
which is near Balloter, the cause of which
tourists who have seen any of the upper
bridges on the Dee will be at no loss to com-
prehend. The mountain river is liable to
enormous floods called " spaets," and the
bridges besides turning abruptly off the direct
cotirse of the road, are suddenly ridged high
above its level like the sharp roof of a house.
In passing over this steep and narrow bridge,
which has already been the scene of numerous
accidents, he Ivheela dr the Prince's carriage
for a coileiderable distance grazed the parapet,
and the heir to the throne was placed for
some moments in the utmost jeopardy. His
Royal Highness does not return till the 23rd,
October to Marlborough House, whence, after
only a few days stay in town, he will proceed
to Sandringham till Christmas. The Queen
will remain even longer in the North, indeed
until the first week in November, when her
Majesty will return to Windsor. Messrs.
Clayton and Bell of Regerit-street have sent
to Venice several eartoous for Mosaic pictures
of the sebereignB df ngland td b eieduted
by Dr Sillviati, and placed on their arrival in
England in the panels of the interior west
wall of the castle, one panel representing
King Henry ILL having already been placed
in the chapel. The walls also of the interior
of the royal mausoleum at Frogmore, the
burial place of the Prince Consort, of which
the foundation stone was laid by her Majesty
in March, 186113 are Adorned *Ali Coloured
marbles, these it is intended to combide *ith
frescoes and other decorations.
If.—Earl Russell has been, to use a common
phrase, "taken over the coals" by public
writers of all parties, on account of his last
published dispatch which relates to the
Gristeitt Convention, for the partition of the
Llanish plunder of the German Confederation.
With ho* little refieoft and justice the noble
earl has been in this instance assailed f4di the
use of language inspired by the purebt spirit
of constitutional liberty, let his words them-
selves attest. "All rights," says he, "old and
new, whether based upon a solemn agreement '
betWe:eil Sotdielgli,UF tiu the clear and precise
expression of the popular will, have teen
trodden under foot by the Gastein Conven-
tioe, and the authority of force is the sole
power which has been consulted and re-
cognised, Violence and conquest, such are
the only bases upon which the dividing powers
have established their contention." Is there
Id Wield:flan *lio does dot lie:eocl thole
sentiments so boldly asserted iii the face of
Europe? If so, we pronounce him unworthy
of the name. Earl Russell adda, "Ref
Mr4esty's Gate/lb:dent greatly deplores the
disregard thus manifested for the principles
of public law, and the legitimate claim that a
people may raise to be heard when their
destiny is called into question." But he con-
cludes by cautioning the Consular Agents to
whom his remarks are forwarded that his
dispatch does not authorise them to address
Obeettatiens fin the eubjeci to the Cute to
which they ate severally accredited, but is
solely intended to acquaint them in what
sense they will speak of it when the occasion
arrives" Thus the despatch which has been
so much lamented on, and which we are glad
to have abstained front eenaliring hr praising
until the actual text was before us, stands
simply in the light of a protest against the
gravest usurpation of modern times, at least
on European soil. This we say because the
King of Prussia has already taken possession
of the Duchy of Lauenburg, and has pro-
dabbed hiniself Duke. The hest ssaufante of
the soundness of Earl Russell's diplomacy
consists in the fact of the French Minister,
M. Drouyn de Lhouys having addressed to
his Consular Agents what his called an
"Identical note.'

Iti.--Theie are at leadt atleeta in
which we may view Fenianism its no paltry
matter. In the first place, it originated
among Irish emigrants in the United States,
which thows that theae must have carried out 11
with them a dutafteCtiOil Against did British 11
Government. Now, the millions of Irishmen
in America ought to be the fastest friends of i
the late Government, unless they had left its
protection with a sense of grievance. All
British emigrants in America ought to be so
many ties to bind that country to Great
Britain, and to make war between the tcito
nations impracticable, Yet this Is not the
ease with the Irish at least, and this ought to
set the British Parliament seriously and im-
partially to consider the reason of Irish dis-
affection, not only to prevent a secession of
Ireland, which probably will never become a
fait atee7repti, but to remove the danger of o
many inveterate enemies in a foreign state 8a
compact body ever ready to turn the balance
of war or peace against Great Britain. This
is one lesson to be drawn from Fenianism,
actually of more moment as regards the
expatriated Irish in America than the present
inhabitants of Ireland; for the former might
turn the scale which would bring upon Great
Britain a more formidable enemy than ever
Ireland could prove itself. But there is yet
another lesson to be drawn from Fenianism,
besides the necessity of conciliating Ireland.
In the latter country the "brotherhood," haB
never been strong. its native home has
been in the United States. Now, there
is something so anomalous in a great
power like that allowing an organized con-
spiracy to grow up within its territory against
another power, that we must seek for an ex-
planation. And we have it, shortly, in the
fact that the Americans, as a nation, are not
well disposed towards Great Britain. They
knew that the conspiracy might embarrass
her, and it would not hurt them, therefore
they let it go on to produce its abortive
resqlt. But even in the fact that America is
eo minded as to permit this developement
within herself of a conspiracy against the
British Government, there should be a warn-
ing, above all, when it is remembered how
'considerable an influence the very con-
spirators have in swaying American policy.
With America, (exclusive of Irish immi-
grants,) thoroughly frieruily, the British
Government might afford to laugh at

Fenianism, but with a redistti atganitlation
in America which there is nobody to toilt
down, and always ready to turn against Great
Britain, there is more to fear from America
than Irish Feuianism.

TV—The eourse of the Cattle Plagne baa
proved that Wo Cannot deal with it as a whole ;
it is one of the Almighty/a great judgments in
the face of which man's might is powerless an
his devices insignificant. But it has equally
proved the futility of attacking it in detail—not
exactly in Dorset or in Somerset, or wherever
the limited extent of the outbreak enabled exter-
min ition of the seeda of disease by the prompt
destruction of the animal—but in London and
Edinbitrgh the great centres of its virulence,
Where; in the latter instanee, Professor Dick
reports' that the !Mat:ninths kir Cattle hare
really been Very unsuccessful, 36 having died, and
Only One being likely to rebover; Whilst left to
theniselved, in the varidus byres, in different
parte of the City, 2g *ere reetiimring. these
capricious consequences Me only wait de Might
be expected to result from a disease of which we
literally knew nothing. And a correspondent
of the Agricultural Gazette suggests in his
dispair, (offering £5 towards the object) that 20
healthy beasts should be purchased and placed
beside some that are diseased and where infection
would be sure to follow, in order that one or
two being killed day after day and immediately
dissected i a presence of competent professional
men, some probable conception of the way in
the disease enters the sistern and progresses day
by day to its fatal termination might be obtained.
Now we at once enter our protest against an:.
wilful eztension of so terrible an evil, even if
good were likely to come of it, believing as we
do that the diagnosis of this cattle typhus is
already as well established is it ever ean be by
means of dissection. The only experiment
worth carrying out is that of isolating animals
with a view to their remedial treatment.—At
present all we know is that stimulants afford the
only chance of rallying them when prostrated by
the disease, Earl Granville's cattle were treated
with brandy and old ale. Professor Dick
says that much depends on taking a case
AS soon m the symptoms make their
appearande and gifing a quart bottle of
linseed oil with half a bottle of whisky, or from
half to a pound of salts, and repeating the dose
next day if the medicine had not operated, and
afterwards giving sulphate of iron (half-an-ounce)
night and morning. Our readers will not fail
to remark how closely this last recommendation
agrees with those of Dr. Shettle, of Cann,
Shaftesbury. Still it is not a little remarkable
that whilst these humbler efforts promise some
mitigation of the disorder, as if to show that
there ism) evil but is tempered with mercy ; it
in the combinations intended to (ape with the
visitation on the grand sctilb that threaten to
fail and prove abortive, whether in London or
in the country. Thus the subscriptions raised in
London for compensation to owners of diseased
cattle have not yet reached £2,000, and the City
Committee after contributing £l,OOO appear to
be upon the point of abandoning further prose-
cution of their project, on the allegation that
for some reason or other which they cannot
understand, they are thwarted by the do vernment.
Again, at Taunton, 2,000 head of cattle having
only been offered for insurance in place of
3,000, the proposed insurance association halt
fallen to the ground. In fact, it is now obvious
that indemnity will with &ID-laity be secured. It
is easy enough to blame the Juvernment. But
what ate we to say of theft efforts of the com-
munity at large being paralysed I And, granting
that the drilers in Elonneil are framed "so that
no magistrate could convidt tipOn them," the
Government, like all others, were at their wits'
ends when this sudden and serious calamity des-
cended upon us; they issued their Orders in
Pannell more in the trope than the certainty that
they might be tfhtlyed, for we fear that the law
which it is supposed gives riti.et to Inspectors
has little positive existence, and has been
invented for the occasion. But the bye laws of
most local Boards of Health, on the other hand,
embody fill powers in aid of the Government
pFde!oltlitl lie, wllieh are therefore good at many
points. We are are happy, however, to be able
to point to the adoption of energetic measures in
the tiotintY of Dorset for Bemiring, at all events,
an indemnity fund by indent! cif mutual Maur,
ILDCI3. West Dorset has organised a Mutual
Cattle Insurance Association by itself. But our
advertising columns hear evidence of a carefully
matured county scheme covering a larger area,
and still aiming only at the absolute limits of
suecess, fixed in this instance at the insurance of
11,000 head of eattle. With the exhibition of
such a shortcoming before them as that joist
referred to in the sister county of Somerset, the
yeomen of Dorset, there is no disguising, must
put their shoulders to the wheel, and secure
themselves mutually against possible loss.