The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-08-23 00:00:00

EXPECTED FLIGHT OF THE Ep
The Daily .News publishes the luI1o,*.•
telegram :
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BRUSSILR, Wednesday. —lt is report... 4 t.
Empress Eugenio has sounded the Belgian
through the French A mii.,asador,
if, In 0111111 of nece.si,g,
through Belgium to Raglan I. The 11nowtr, it
iu the affirmative.

E MARCH (,P EVFNTS.
It is a fact to be recorded in )'istory, ld
instantaneous the spok, once kind'. .1,
the full II .me of wsr. that, throe ....kg le.fure
of Ss:whin* the Peace society of Pei• ..,••••••
th
deputies to Saarbriick to celebrate art
held there by the corresponding so iet,
was held at the station, one of the flrstnlsce,, i,";k
and, else, that the first shot fired upon
open town, be it temorribered—wa,
fir' bY the '1,4
Imperial himself. The Prussian sohiora hay;
I. re, reehristeued the hill where the
y•s:c.l, which I ought to have mentioned sty 1.
the Speikerherg, •• Lulusberg,"l,Att 6,41 'zit 4
be is known by. v
THE PA RA LINN OF WAR : A WARNI,:.
Ab mt tells us of the long fib, of woubl.d,:
be. the roads, of r.:giinents 01114 out in ilytzr.,•
order and returning in • few hours with Lif,
numbers an! none of their array; ho
stoppage of all bu•iness and the paraly j,
even to that ef the market-women ; of
rumourr, inc.asant panics, and uniyot,,4
even he fsils to convey anything lilts, the Iftin:ll7
such suspetution of natiouel tiru
utterly are such things beyond our ../H..rh.t.n.
wont by the lesson. l'wonty ysara
cannot woe. ice them. hut we inu-t he blind it„L
we do rot
were first urged to set our house in ordsr by 614.4.
invasion drawn from history already
fashioned. We now read the wsrning with ~47
eyes. in our own days, and on the ...14,1e•
OW own.

ENGLAND AND THE FR A NCO.PItrisIAN A.,
The panditl feeling with which the wit i 4 •••
continnelito Increase with cacti Hew aco•ott
and the lessening hope of a speedy teittim.r,,„.
ever the opinion may be all to the character •
niencement, thin e ais iderpread ,
mutterings of the French people, aril an eliroi.is'
that peace could be concluded on tumor that
vela° no Lasting bitterness or humili.oi,,n.
commercial people in this country it would
fur such a sentiment to be absent. For eighty.,
the steady growth of mercantile intercoara.
a &ha. e of mutual contiili nee and reitart
ciourplosely obliterated tlio akt.t.tgonistl4;
of the previous generation, awl at the
enabled the two nations. Land in hand, to mak,.ltc ,n
strides in material progress. In thole c0tn.,...,:*.
also, it is not forgotten that the Emperor
was vlisay4 the leader in the IDIaTCII towan'a
and that, whatever may be the judgment of
bin policy, ill other respects lie will he rem•
the ruler by whom the wonderful capocity • f
•
Britain and Franca for the enjoyment tith, 7
tirSti first acknowledged and developed.
A NATIONAL

The Timts holds teat the right way to pr. pin. I.
invasion (which we must always regard so,
to follow the example of Prussia, and mikri
a soldier. 'nig it to be done by reviving sr,'
the militia to its full dimensions, vigour, roll -
It woull interfere a little with hu•ine..,

thatpleasure which is now thought touch none:up 1.
tbh buoneat. It would intorrupt many arrat.g.•
It would put many people more out g.l the, „
they iuite like, but it would do them good r .
Let it be granted that there might be harm .
good in it. But we poesesti a few thing. ta,rt:
I.lllCh aa a country, property, liberty, and it..;
WhlLt is worth having is worth preser.:..:_.
Switzerland is calling out or ready to call
adult male population to defend her
valleys, we may think it to great effort to re ;

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much smaller prnportion or nor pceple ti...t ..,...
neo.sasry to &foul these Isles.
FRENCH DESIONSITATION IN /Mr.: -

A demonstration took place at Limerick or. 7: .
nL:ht. to celebrate the French success. iL N.
parseled the etreets with tricolour aud lighted tsr
The police seized the tar barrels Awl •
Stow% were thrown and twiny police wruiljr..
rioters were at length dispersed. The dicturlxilise:i.
till midnight.

WAR NOTES.
A tappiement to the oa:ctle cnt.!:&illt
notification of the hlock.de in the North s. a.

The Mylia. of Lirerp,iol. has been fr.
bo•r.led by a French ironclad off the Elbe.

allowed to prheted.
Recent evert e seem lo have given a Ire-h
bippophagy. The Genate de L.,,ge I•aye
butchers wan MAI horse-meat excludvely liashr.!
battle•fielilt to buy honed knit in the eri,NL,.
which hAve taken place, and to find goof you.:
prematurely rendered uhfit for nee, and f
Intended for something betr.r than supplying br.:
11110111. The trade in hone-fl,sh is eltelViir.4 at L.-.
Several citizens of WlNlelllbPurg have ti-en •
firing on men who lay wounded in the =arm, bed...a
walls.

l'Aris is now c.overfd by a hoe of def,neo
1,000 gur.s. .

h.• Kin of Prussia has ordered the eiptur.4
I,u.es to he di.twu in triuu-ph
Linden t.,

Whatever may be the necessities and severifss ei
horrors of this war, there is not • member of the
Society, nor a Hamanitarian in England or , •
who kso prufourelly moved by the sufferings • .
on the people and so averse from war for it. ea, •
as hid lloyal Highness the Crown Prince of Pee --
Times corsyseonderat.
The etitrence to all the localities about the re !
Cherbourg is interdicted to every one in pl•in
even when accompanied by an officer of the nave.
A creiser of the French fleet has eatieur...l
Straits of Dover a veined laten with contratee.i g •
it.e captain declared that he was to lac.l h.r.:;.
Normandy on • signal from the coast aumetteu.„;
breakie4 out of • revolution in Paris,
es•inioation of Marshal McMahon bagr;.
afforded the Baden soldiers some att.tiseimn!. T:et
II 44is great abundance of articles of f, mat. t.'
dressing-cases, rouge•pots, powder, 3n4
of which it is evident th•t they did not fore, ths .irse
lug apparatus of one lady only ; there were, evil t•:7
iieveral of the fair see •itiched to the gener.ii'd
Most of the Berlin papyri say that peace iv.
concluded only at Paris. Several English
eiuriers have arrived at I.l,rliu, ansi return,: *.7
England.