The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-08-12 00:00:00

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FRANCE.—There pomes wonderful news from
Jejune*, and not the least wonderful part about them is
that they are true. It has been decided by a competent
'tribunal that a priest may legally marry in France, and
the 'rounds of the judgment are so cogent, says the
Paris oorrespondent of a London paper, tint he cannot
•commito the posdbility of their being overruled by the
. court of higher jurisdiction to which the ease will most
• certainly be carried. The Perignenx Court, in few but
.conclienve words, says that the Code Napoleon regards
. marriage its a purely civil contract, which all citizens
not expremly intenlioted are capable of making; that
• there is nothing in French law to prohibit a Catholie
; priest from marrying nothing to show that, by
. cowing into holy orders, he loses his quality or rights
. as a citizen; that the organie law on public) worship of
Germinal year X. is as silent as the code upon shim
important point; that, when the legislature is silent, it
is no part of the duty of the judges to seek, in moral ,
ani religious considerations, no doubt highly respec-
table, but without any root in civil law, for prohibitions
which that law does not contain. For the above
mammas the court orders the mayor who refused to cele-
brate the marriage of M. de Brim Lauriere, Rationed,
• with Mdlle. Elisabeth Pressanges, to proceed at once to
perform the ceremony, and to register the coatract in
• due form. But after tbe marriage has been performed
wi I net the mother church, who believes in the sacred-
'less of bachelorhood, have something to my to this re-
creant to his Vows?
ITALY.— Garibaldi, we regret to say, is almost •
proscribed fugitive a strange revers) for a man who
has eonapiered kingdoms as it were with a wave of hie
hand. What makes the matter more lamentable is
that the fault is his own, and his present condition
entirely of his own seeking. He cannot complain of the
inratitade of princes, and as for the Rattassi ministry
it was peefeetly competeill to General Garibaldi, in his
empaelty of • representative, to oppose it in Parliament
and in public, to organise an opposition, to demount*
'the subserviency of the Cabinet to Frenob dictation,
and to keep alive the popular determination to have
Borne sooner or later, in spite of the Pope and the
!Emperor. All this, and more than this, Garibaldi
might have done withoet forfeiting his reputation for
'comistesey. and good sense, or the respect and
. admiration of those dim have watched his career
with so many anxious good wishes. We had some
;hope that the Royal proclamation would have the
mffeet of restoring him to mender views, and of
monvisaing him that to stand in armed opposition
;to his Sovereign was alike suicidal and
'unpatriotic. But the hens of Marsala seems to be what
the Scotch term "fey"—labouring under some over-
; powering excitement and delusion, and bent uncon-
melons', on rushing apor his own destruction. The
'Government has already strained several points in his
'favour, partly no doubt to avoid.the consequences of 40
'unpopular a proceeding as his arrest, but also of a
'kindly feeling to one who has rendered such vast
services to the House of Savoy. The new Prefect of
Palermo sent messengers well known to Garibaldi with
the King's pxoeiawatioei, bat he refused to bear them,
and destined even to receive a letter from his friend and
former comrade in arms, General Medial. The end of
all this is that he is isported marching into the interior
of Sicily, with perhaps 200 or 300 followers, "pursued"
by the troops. Signor Rattami goes rather too far,
however' is his defence ot the Kieg's proclamation,
edam heaaserta that Garibaldi did not give the kingdom ,
eg Italy to Victor Pm.mineel, if his words are to be
Aitken an the common acceptation. But for Garibaldi
be never would have added the kingdom of Naples to
Ibis dominions, for if he had attemped it proprio mast,
.and without the road being cleared for him he would
have found the iron band of France stretched out
-,tretween Mai and the object of his ambition. The bide-
peiedneee Berge observes, touching the attitude of
'Garibaldi towards the Ministry—" We do not doubt
that the victory, this time, will remain with the condi-
•tuted authorities. But such victories are not to be
,gained twice, and if M. Rattasai hopes to exercise any
influence upon public -opinion much longer, he most
;make rip his mind to maned from the very agitation
which he is now opposing • moral force, sufficient to
• enable him to vended the Italian movement, by legal
to its necessary end. He must either persuade
ll'icamos to loin him in solving the interminable Roman
question, or be must solve it without, ant?, if need be,
.against her • otherwise he will be hurled from power
with coigns:ray, as having been nothing else than the
servant of foreign and preponderant influences. The
ehoine at a minister placed at the head of a maim of
'26 Maims of men can scarcely be doubtful in this triple
-alternative"
Roam, August 7.—The Disositeione of to-day nays:
. "Up le die present moment Garibaldi refuses to yield
to the King, declaring, however, at the same time,
that be will not light againat the Italians. The royal
troops follow him at a little distance, avoiding a
collision, Garibeldila objeo4 seems to be to reach some
part of the coast, and.to embark there. The rumours
of a project being on foot for a demonstration at Rome
gain consistence."

AUSTItIA.—A London evening contemporary give
special prominence to the following, from a Paris
correspoodent :—" It is alleged here that Austria,
hitherto deaf to the French Emperor's solicitations in
the matter of Italiaa ressignition, is undergoing the
more cogent pressure of the British Cabinet, and has
. alternative but compliance with what her only
!backer among the Powers urge* on her acquiescence.
'Berland has some claim OTOS her most ancientally,'
:this Homo of Hapsburg, the antiquity of who.,
.allianee dates doubt Less from the only Indy formidable
matempt ever RISA, 4141 her imatiesel minima* by Philip
:the Second and his Armada. In that business the
IHapabsrg of the day had a collabetor for the land
forces in the Luke of Parma, whose lineal descendant.
-*I/Tomah Elizabeth Femme, is the present Neapolitan
Pretender ; and to his sister was married, only last
moath, at Zurich, the reigning Kaiser's brother. 'Tie
a litter pill to swallow, though the actual King of
Italy's (Victor Emmanuel) inWier was an Archduchess
of Austria.
POL ABB.—AI-rimer oir Sag Lira OF ma MAR-
QUIS W ILIPPOLSIT. —At Warsaw, August 7, after the
Marquis Wielopoleki had quitted hi, earriage, and was
sheet to amend the great staircase of the palace in
which the Financial Commission bolds it. sittings, a
pistol was bred at kkii. The perpetrator WU seized,
but his name is ualmown. The marquis has not been
intared.
PERSIA. —CaPrtille OP IFURRA R BY DORT MA-
solisik—ConsuariNorus, August 7.—lntelligence re-
ceived here frees Taborets by telegraph, via Bagdad,
stakes that Dust Mahound raptured Farrah upon the
6th of July. He left a garrison in that icy, and
marched upon Herat, which has received reinforcements.