The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-03-07 00:00:00

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Map ity has been vaccinated. and wishes the
fact to be generally known.

Peace for • tnie is now ensured. but the terms are
so severe towards France that we can only look upon
the cessation of hostilities as an armed truce. So now
er r have the hart of thofe invocations and thanks•
luring' to the " Lord of Hunt." with which the
CI ratan Enirernr 1134 astonished the world. On .
But lday the Emperor " with • deeply•move.l heart and
wah gratitude to the grace of (led," informed the
/Impress that the Preliminaries of Peace were sigma.
On the next day, announcing tho fact to his nm.liew
the Czar, he said, "Prussis owes it to you that the war
did not enter upon extrema diinensiuns " The rear
replied :—" I am happy that I could prove my qmpl•
thy with you as • devoted fiiend." Euio;.o will, no
doubt, take note of this interchange of courtesies.
We are reminded of a story told by John r.ater. ,
lithe essayist. On bearing of the piety if the Emperor
Alexander of Russia, he is reported to have said,
•• No doubt, air, he Was a pions man, and t likely
said graoe after he swallowed Poland." This to the
Emperor of Germany's last message to the Empre,s
on March 2 :—" 1 have just ratified the em,clusion of
peace, it having been accepted yeet,rday by the
National Assembly at Bordeaux. Thom far is the great
work complete,whieh through seven months victori us
battles has been achieved, thanks to the ysi•mr, deco•
lion, and endurance of onr incomparahle ermy in all
It. parts, and the willing sacrifices of the whole father.
land. The Lard if Hosts has every wii.•re vi.ibly
blessed our enterprises, and therefore, by His mercy,
has permitted this hoeourable peace to be achieved.
To Him be the honour ; to the army and the father-
land I render thanks from a heart deeply m,yet."

The Treaty of Pesee wee signed on Febrully 2.. ai a
was ratified by the National Assembly on March 1 b)
546 votes to 107. On the same day :4),(00 German
soldiers entered Paris, taking up their pmation at tie
gates of the Tuileries.
The terms of peace are as follows

1. Trance cedes to Germany a fifth part of Larrsine,
including Mete and Thionville, and Alsace less It,Hort.
2. Franco is to pay E 283,000,000 in oash-1:40.0o0.000
in 1871, V. 0,000,000 in 1872, and 00,000,000 in 1873,
pith 8 per cent interest on the last instalmcnt.
‘r 3. German troops will be maintained in Fr.iiice at
Abe oast of the nation until the whole of thii war
- indemnity I. paid.
itatillration deeds were exchanged at Versailles on
the sight of Marsh 2, and the evacuation of Paris wits
oompielnd In the forenoon of March 3.

Ws, too, are suffering in person on account of the
Franoo•Prussian war. For it is said the French
refugees who hurried over to the metropolii in crowds
•isr bailors the investment of Paris, brought with them
mob of the epidemic of small-pox, which, in rpite
bqkaale re•vaccination, continues to sad

German army has reached London at Lest a
sif It. On Friday It London became swore of
.41111000 of i number of mllitary-lookinA foreigners
slothes, who turned out to be men on leave
rn the German forces quartered in the north-west
Franco. In default of joining in the partial explor-
ation ei Paris by a portion of the German •rmy,
those strangers appear to hove organised an expedition
to the other giant city of the civilised world, end
they excited no little attention as they .troll ei about
the stteeta, parka, and other public places.

The Government scheme of Armyßeform i, obanxious
to at least two parties, from its at ofiCo frt
abolition of purchase and the increo..., of the cloy
estimates Now that peace is restored on the c
neat, people, aa at the Birmingham meeting, are already
beitnniog to objeot to the extension of our military
system, and complaint will be more general when the
Amin of augmented taxation begins t be kit.
4fe
Leal Taxation, ably brought before tbn flows° of
- Commons by biz' Massey Lopez, requires early
Oen. There are a host of questions cor,n.!cied with
local taxation claiming attention, and we are glarl to
note that the main reason which 1...1 the lintt
postpone the subject was the implied promise of Mr.
Gladstone and Mr. Goschsn that a Bl'l sirotriol be
framed to deal with the whole subject.

It would not do to inquire too curioualy into the
antecedents of those who hare apartmante at Hamp-
ton Court Palace, at the country's expense, or to
Inquire rigidly what is the amount thus expended; but
few will begrudgo Mrs. Cowper Coles having apart-
mentsat the invitation of the glom. The death of Ipr
husband by the capsizing of the Captain, • vessel ho
bad designed, will ho fresh in the memory of our
• readers.

Mr. Childers has come beck, it is stated, on the snm•
mons of his chief, to hairnet his friends bow to defend
him if be be unable to defend himself; but his official
days are numbered, and Lord Kimberley is pointed to
ea likely to sneered him, Mr. Fortescue at length
attain i the obieot of his ambition by taking his lord.
ship's *as.

An evenino contemporary says it bas been stated as
a notorious fact any time during the hist six months
in publie circles, Lad within the last few day. in
Parliament, that the anthoritiee of a ecrt forri,,n
State have exact facies of the nectien.l
drawl.. of our armour-clads. How, it is &shed, had
those been procured!

The Mansion House French Relief Fund his been •
snooess. The enormous amount of £llB,OOO has
been contributed—a munificent gift from one nation to
an unfortunate neighbour. But, after all, what is, say
the eighth of • million in coniparison with the amount
which France has bound herself to pay to Germany
within three years. Two hundred millions to an eighth
of a million is as 1,800 to 1. Oot of their distress and
impoverished resources the French have to pay just
1,600 times as ninth as our benevolent contribution for
their relief. The more we contemplate the idea, tho
more monstrous it seems.

Mn. Tarpey's Food fortune in getting :winkle I by
the Central Criminal Court jury almost as or, in
company with her husband, she succeed"l in making
off with Messrs. London and Rydor'a diamonds, has
excited • good deal of gossip. The Married Women's
Property Act may be • very satisfactory statute, but it
is evident any lady who follows Mrs. Tarpey's example
will desire that the law may always remain giving the
husband all responsibility, and lesaing tho loving wife
simply to obey. Mrs. Tarpsy was generous enough to
say, when she was first taken into custody, that the
robbery was all her planning, and that her husband bad
nothing to do with it. However, the sympathy of the
jury and the Court was with the poor lady in trouble,
and she was found not guilty because she acted under
the *melon of her husband.

Notwithstanding the depressing effects of the war,
the export trade of the oonntry during Vie past year
considerably exceeded that of any prrecoling twelve-
month. The agars', as retarded in the 1:,a7c1 of Trade
returns, are almott incredibly large, tho total value
being set down at £199,640,C)0, or nearly four times ex
mush as the yearly average before the repeal of the Corn
Laws. Compered with recent yeers, they show an
Improvement of 5 per cent. over 1,o;”, and of 11 rwr
cent. over 1868.

The directon of the Bank of Erie land have raised the
Militia rate of discount from 21 per cent (at which
It has stood for upwards of fire months) to .i per cent.
The inerease, which wee fully anticip,ted, we fear,
only the first of a long series of advances, the monetesy
depletion of Francs by the Germans being certain to
cense • drain of bullion from this cnintiy.

"Property ham its rights;" that nobody will di.pate,
but whether they extend to the length indicated by
the following letter by • Merionethshire landlord no one
of him tenants, many will queltion :—" I shall be
extremely displeased if yam do not vote against a
School Board in Arthog parish, and do all in your
power to oppose It. You must boar in mind that if
you oace impose Ito. the parish it can never be got
rid of. Be phased also to remember that you will
have to pay the rate, and I think you god the rates
and tames sueleiently heavy already. It will, how-
ever, always remain • charge on the farm, although
you might leave. The land is mine, end from me you
derive your vote; I think, therefore, that I have a
right to defend my own property.—l 6111, your well.
wisher and landlord," dm.

Puna hie a Doug about the birth of the Hippo-
potamus, with a wonderful Cradle Charms :
A pooty itUc tiddy litle funny little•lotaniva,
Such e little ducky ob • darling hippopotamus ;
mamma se' baby, Wut • lobly blab lot am '
Hip hip hip Hooray ! for de little Illippopotamii.
The death of the young hopeful is given in a P.S.,
under date February 25 :
De nigger which hub wrote nut. shove areasin• lyric
nab suddenly been took and thraw'd in wicked hysteric ;
De iicanniny Isotarnus had since alasonotiolated
Din =sot like Sir Robinson,q must darefore he pug-

Thera are Many curiously careless letter writers in the
eountrY. The Postmaster-General's annual report
states dust last year the returned letters nunaliered
3,854.73 k La b 10111•90 of nearly 40,000, of which
311,630 bad been destroyed or were in hand, the re-
mainder hare been returned to the writers or re-issued
so corrected addresses: Of these letters, nearly 15,000
wars ported without any address at all, among them
bang 256 containing money to the aggregate amount
of nearly 63.000.

The National Ellie Amu:Matt 3n h. fi Led (ho Wimble•
don ISUPOting to commenee on July l 0 Not only the
stability, bat the progress of the Volunteer movement
Is showa by the fact that the 'urn of 111,171 has been
the credit of the society during the part year,
Eted toan Inatome of 0,000 above the receipts of the
previous year. If by the shie of this be put the fict
that 1,100 alders aad won of the artillery Volunteers,
II !fr. Cardwell stated in the Hoomt of Commons on
Fritts night,reosived lOs • head is the expense of their
• at Shoeburyness, " the very satisfactory
remits of which had been laid upon the table in the
reports promoted to the House," we see that the
Volunteer faros Is steadily maintsioiog itself, without
fool or excitement, and that It n 0.4.14 but proper
esoosragickerat and organisation to make its valuable
elmmot of our natioual military streogth.

IL Marx, editor of Dobrott's " Peerage ' is
&bong to blink
_out a work entitled "The School
Roord," 11, whift win appftr " briof biographic al
sketches of the members of the new whoa boards."
Bow Wally Interseting I Photography and thu
Uhis=
sobeitsge bays mash to &newer for in Nisting as all palmate and n rii
onnoirs of 00natil•
sad the bed coatis= somas to bo growing.
Yeakahi el satathees of UN Schad Hoards! What
mat? Peiran pitatorsPbx 01 all the people who
voted for this.
elosald I.
liteastat•

Dark Blem le the Ws cii now mapaine. Why
net have may Ober colour represented in
_sue? Hewing Dm* Bhc why not hare Liyki
Green? Pak Yellow; wooM do for a cynical serial,
Brae Pink for a paha macadam, and Ifrairel Tint
ace • pehtteaska that did no know its own mind or
as& of the public. We earl plass in imagination
Dv* M
'hum, raMdkc Browns orre ams ee, Prcna gm, Lamp sal a (km °Wars.