The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-07-19 00:00:00

MURDER

OF FOCRTF,EN FRENCHMEN IN
CIN
pi:nil/Li_ Pi, *es secolt4 Paition publishes a tele-eam data
"l°l 25. vi 4 Eitchks, which says 14 Frenchmen
haTS Wax morticed at Tien Tait..

PRA.NCE AND I'RUE3SIA AT WAR.
Ou Friday afternoon, on the assembling a the French
Malabar*. the Government declared war against
Prfontleahitaie_ poln.titi o
he.,:tafterffeidorts.made to both Row. setting
Prance complained of the
King of Prassia's onnsent to the nomination of Prince
Bobensollem to the Spanish throne. The King replied
that he gays his consent as chief of the family, and not
sa Sovereign. Fringe repudiated the distinction. Then
the Print)e withdrew hie candidature. But French ans.
gentibilities were wounded, end the King was asked ta
esiCalle that, should the Crown be again offered to the
Prime of Hohenzollern, he would refuse his authoris-
ation. The King refused, and terminated the conver-
sation with M. Beneditti by saying that he would in
this, as in all other things, reserve to himself the right
Of considering the circumstances. On Wednesday after-
noon King William waa walking with Count Lehtdorff,
his adjutant, in the Kugarten at Ems, when M. Bene-
ditti accosted him and preferred his last demand. The
Ring turned round, and ordered Count Lehndoeff to
tell M. Beneditti that there was no reply, and that he
would not receive him again. This France could not
brook. Great was their surprise at the King's conduct.
The communication ends, "We learned that Baron
Werther (the Prussian ambassador at Pati..) had
received orders to take his leave, and that Prussia was ' arming. Under these circumstances we should have
forgotten our dignity and also our prudence had we not
made preparation. We have prepared to maintain the
war whinb is offered to Ira leaving to each that portion
of the responsibility which devolves upon him. (En-
thusiastic and prolonged applause). Since yesterday we
have called out the Reserve, and we shall take the
necessary measures to guard the interest, and the
security, and the honour of France." The aim of France
Is well known. She Claim, the left bank of the Rhine
On the other hand, Prussia has often proteated that if
she was ever driven to take the tell against France she
would not lay down her sword till the ancient German
Provincea of Alsace and Lorraine were restored to the
Fatherland.
On Thursday right and Friday morning thousands of
young fellows marched about the streets, singing
snatches of the " and shouting "To
Ber in l" The police did not interfere, and the people
In the safes generally applauded. Warlike cries were
made before the residence of the Prussian ambassador.
North German merchant vessels are warned of the
dolmen arising from war, and advised to make for
Air. men,

Belgium and Holland, the countries most imme-
diately espo.ed to the trampling of the contending ho4l,
have lost no time in declaring that they will stand on
their independent rights and the inviolability of their
territory. But there is hardly a precedent nf a war
being waged on the Rhine without the intuudiate
occu-
patlon of those fertile plains. Austria, under the
influence of Von Benet, hastens tt &clam that he will
keep aloof from the strife so long at two combatants
alone are in the field, but "not it a third Power takes
part in the struggle "—an intimation which seems mtinly
armed at Denmark or Italy, should tho-e states look
upon the concentration of French and German ('rats
on the Rhine as a favourable opportunity either for en
inroad into Schleswig or an attempt upon Peter's
patrimony.
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Austria has lately established a permanent camp in
the neighbourhood of the Prussian frontier.
Itusaia in the last few days has keit studiously aloof.
Her inspired papers, to", have had but little to say
upon the question of the day, though what they did say
was hostile to Piussia. It was the St, Petri-.burgh
Goln, which net Vie story adiat of the King of Belgium
having concocted the Hohens illern nomination—that
story which was no eargetly caught at in Paris—and
alleged in proof that Belgium had forfeited its right of
neutrality. Prince Gortachakoff, on Thursday, came
to Berlin, from some German watering-place, and had
1111 interview with I 'tow Ilismain,
"A Muscular Peec.nisk.f' in The Tines suggests
that England should declare that in the event of an
outbreak "She will sweep the seas of every stick
afiiiat belonging to the Piiwer who first takes the field."
King William of Prussia arrived at tbe Palace at
Beale, at a quarter-past id on Friday night, and was
received with inidircribable enthusiasm. Upwards of
100.000 persons were a.seinbled from the railway station
at the Brandenburg G.t. to the Palace, cheering and
singing the National i.ti.iti, The promenade linter.
den Linden was illuminated and decorated with the
North German and Prussian flags. King William came
forward repeatedly to the windows of the Palaoe,
saluting and thanking the crowd. Public feeling is
most enthusiastic and determined. Addressee have been
received by the King from the merchants of Bremen
and Stettin, exisessing readiness to make the utmost
ascribes for the defer.oe of the country, and giving
anliteeal to the most energetic steps that may be taken
for the preiiervation of the national honour.
511114811.9 PAINDAT. —The French are at Theonville,
near Meta. The Prussians have occupied a French
village peas LOl4lll. enconnter is expected to take
plass to-day.

GREAT EXCITEMENT' IN I'AT2IR AND
BERLIN.