The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-09-27 00:00:00

curious illustrations of the principle of freedom
from their deliverer& The Co=nandar-in-
Chief of the Austro-Prussian forces in filleswig
has issued a proclaniation prohibiting the cir-
culation of petitions and the collection of signe-
t'', under penalty of the rigorous infliction of
the law. Indeed, the Prussian Government
appears bent on ca_rrying out a war of extermina-
tion against all Danish institutions in North
Bleswig, where, oat of a population of 200,000,
there is scarcely to be found a single German.
Out of eighty-five Danish clergymen in that
district, all, save two, have been driven from
their homes; the prisons are crowded b persons
who have dared to express an opinion in favour
of annexing North Bleswig to Denmark, while
the myrmidons of Prussia possess full license to
Germanise the inhabitants by modes of action
Earticularly agreeable to men like Von Bismark.
The semi-official journal of Berlin declares that
the armistice with Denmark his not been con'
tinned for a longer period because the Danish
cabinet "protract. the pesos negotiations," and
a threat is held out that the German poweis will
"adhere strictly to paragraph 1 of the protocol of
the armistice, whereby hostilities can be resumed
at any time after six weeks' notice." The
correspondence which took place in August
between Earl Russell and M. Bismarlc has been
published. The Isrussian premier grounds a
claim for moderation, generosity, and fairness, on
the fact that the German powers did not demand
a part of Denmark Proper. Lord Russell re-
plies that the war was neither justifiable nor
necessary; that it was a mere aggression, and
that the peace IS merely the consummation of
a work of violence. The dispatch in which Von
Bismark replied to this last communication is not
made public.
The Russian papers are in ecstatic, at the
conquest of the Caucasus and the emigration of
the people. The Macon/ Gazette, a paper of
some MALIN:IOe, Pr
The Complete asid dednitive establishment of Remise
dominion as the Caucasian isthmus has not only pre-
vented owls dangers (from frame nod England). but, it
may be mid, has already dmided the future in our
favour, by destroying even the possibility of rivalry on
our Asiatic frontier. The whole of this frontier, from
the Danube to China, now quite ewers. Cimino-
SUMMAR which are ephemeral is the life of • nation.
such as the Eastern war, may ham weakened as • little
in the Bleak flea ; but on this point let us be measured,
while waiting for events, by the diplomatist of Con.
stenthiciple whom words we have quoted, and who knows
well what he says when he declares that, "this sea is
beecimlng geographically Russian." The possession of
the Catawba isthmus, strengthened permanently in
stir hands, shelters Central Asia not only from the
action but from the irreverent gaze of Europeans. By
the &nal conquest of the mountains, the army of the
Caucasus ban become free i we may dispose of it, and
the limits of Russian dominion in Asia no* depend on
the will of Remain alone.

We regret to learn that there are signs and
portents of a bad winter for the factory opera-
tives in the cotton districts. The amount of
employment has been considerably diminished
during the past fortnight. In Stockport alone
seven of the mills hare been closed, and some of
the largest establishments, lately in full employ,
are now only working short time. Two mills
were closed last week at Wigan. The relief com-
mittee in that town, owing to the want of funds,
ate reducing their expenditure; and, as a con-
sequence, the number of applicants entirely de-
pendent for aid upon the guardians of the poor
is increasing.
The drafts of the Leeds Banking Company
were refused on Saturday the 17th inst., by
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., their London
agents. The paid-up capital of the bank is stated
at £llO,OOO, with a reserve of 4.130,000, and a
fixed note issue amounting to A:23,076. The
bank, it is thought, will be wound up, though
until the committee make their report nothing
certain can be known, either as to the actual
position of the bank or the prospects of the
liquidation of its losses The cause of the failure
of this bank was the issuing of acceptances, and
giving indorsements in a most reckless manner.
Reckless banking like this must be stopped
sometime, and the sooner it is stopped the better.
In consequence of the stoppage of this bank,
some seven or eight large firms in Leeds have
already suspended business, some of them with
liabilities estimated at £lOO,OOO.

DORCHESTER. -- Prrcurs Coax litaurr,
Saturday, September 24. --Then, was a largc quantity
of wheat on offer at to-day's market, which sold at
6d. to Is. per quarter under last week's priceu
Barley in good supply, and attracted more attention
at is. less money. Good.catusold at late rates.

CHORAL FISTI;A L. —On Ifooday, October 3, • festival
of perish choirs will take place et All Saints' Church in
this town.

-1711-iiiitATHEZ. —The reeding of the thermometer at
Dorchester for the pest week is as follows :