The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-11-29 00:00:00

ENGLISH OPINION ON Tlid EA.STERN
QUESTION.

Earl Russell, Earl of Shaftesbury, and Y-. B. A.
Freeman have published letters on the Eastern ques-
tion• Earl Russell not unnaturally reverse to his bill
for giving the Crown more authority to call out the
militia. He says the Ministry cavilled about the terms
of his measure, but they consented to take power to
embody the militia in ease of an emergency. Without
pretending to know the legal mewling attached to the
word emergency, it seems to Bari Russell that when the
Minister of • great Power assumes on behalf of his
Sovereign the right to aet aside and abrozate • treaty
which binds seven of the chief States of Europe, an
emergency exists The Earl of Shaftesbury is seriously
disturbed by the liue of argument adopted by Kr.
Mill, wbo, it will rememberei lays down • principle
that before a Power proceeds to carry out the terms of
any treaty which may chance to bear its name, it
should carefully consider whetter the conditions which
it stands pledged to satisfy are such as it would oonsent
to re-indorse; because if they are not, the Power may
decline to discharge its obligations. Lord Shaftesbury
fears that if England acts noon this principle in the
present cue, and by her example other Powers are in-
duced to regard the Treaty of 1856 in the rams light,
there must be considerable difficulty in bringing the
ear between Fraicoe amid Prussia to a conelusion.
E A. Freeman enters • protest against jeopardising a
single li,e, or spending the smallest coin of English
money, in any quarrels which Russia or Turkey may
choose to get up in the Black Sea. He uses he that
the Crimeau war was neeilees and unrighteent, and that
its real object warn to establish the position of a usurping
dynasty.
Earl Russell, in a letter to the Tints points out that
England's object is not to maintain the administration
of Turkey, but to keep Russia out of Constantinople,
With an embodied Militia, he would be disposed, if
the Cu.,- asks for • conference, to grant it; but says, I
he proposes to set aside the 1856 treaty by force, let us
meet him with force, and the sooner the Letter!

The new Bishop of the Orange Liver Free State,
Attire, is the Rev. Allen B. Webb, rooter of Aeon
in nett, ner -.Leamington.
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On Wednesday being the miniver's.; of the execution
of the Yrnehestar Fenian', bands paraded the streeti
of Cork, playing the "Dead /larch" in Saul.
Miss Buthatimi, an elderly lady, travelling to Newton
Abbot by the afternoon express on Wedneeday, was
seised with illness in the train, and irel before the
could be removed to the Globe hoteL
The Captain Itelief Fund now amounts to about
£40,500. A gum of 1:4000 ia stol required to make
suitable proaigion for the widows id orpluns of thaw
who polished in that vessel.

At the Westminster police-pool , on Wain( iday, •
footman was iionicitert of having endeavoured to obts'a
• situation by means of • forged chime, ti. Els was
loci 00, IP ith Use alti.pative of it -es months' impri-
sonment with hard hboar.

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