The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-03 00:00:00

NOTES OF THE WEEK,

I.—The Court is mill in the Highlands,
alternating its attendances in eratbie Church,
for the Court it traaltionally Presbyterian
in Scotland—With tours in the Grampians
and pic-nics on their tops. Green granitic
mountains are those Grampians, so famous
from the name of "Norval ;" and the Queen
appears to delight in breasting them by the
aid of ponies and the instinct of guides;
the latter faculty we call nothing else mid
nothing less; for if, gentle reader, you had
once been enveloped in It mist on Braemar,
you would hardly find one of your seven
senses available, whilst these guides some-
how supplement the human capability with
the faculty we have described. Great balls
and gaiety has distinguished the sojourn of
the younger branches of the Royal family in
the north; but Abergeldie, and not linhhoral,
has of course been the steno of these dances
in which the Scotch more than all people
delight. The ball given by the Princess of
Wales appears principally to have been got
in honour of the Prince and Princess
uouis of Heim. As noticed by our London
correspondent, the ex-Royal family of
Bourbon has had an addition to its circle.
Recent purchases also appear to have
rendered the Duke d'Ainaule one of the
largest landed proprietors in one of our
English home counties. Before he tould
hold property, the Duke had necessarily
become a naturalised British subject.

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IL—The Fenian affair is less surprising in
itself than in the strange facility with which,
Stephens and Geary excepted, its dupes have
been caught. As a dissolving view, Irish
rebellions are become "fine by degrees, and
beautifully less." The 1)8 was something
like a rising, and if the plan of the battle of
Armagh had not been shot away at the samt
time as the head of General St. Rule, is
might have turned out something like a
revolution. But the '4B was a mere storm
in a teapot; and this of 'B5 not even that.
The American papers assume a etrions tone
concerning it. They profess to have known
all along about it, but affect astonishment
that "the movement" should ever have been
regarded as other than a joke. When we
know, however, that Irishmen fight quite at
much in jest as in earnest, the meditated out-
break loses a good deal of its jocular aspect
to those more close at hand. The real
intention of the Fenians was to organise in
America an anti-English conspiracy, which,
in the event of a war betwixt the two
countries, might favour the insane ambition
'to wrest Ireland from the English. We use
the expression albeit the remarks abuse it;
for, as throughout many centuries the low-
land Scotch, as their names imply, have been
quite as Saxon in blood as the English, so in
Ireland, we apprehend there is scarcely to be
found pure Celtic blood, or pure Irish of any
race, proud Milesiem or red-haired Iterne.
Still there is necessarily a meaning attaching
to the cry of Ireland for the Irish; and it is
this—"lreland for the peasantry." Even the
priests have been thrown overboard by them
Fenians, because, if we understand aright,
the doctrines propagated by the journal called
The Irish People, the Roman Catholic priest-
hood was no longer to have dominion in the
military despotism of wrong-headed ignor-
ance intended to constitute the Irish
Republic. The truth of this has been
strongly shown in the indignant remon.
strances uttered from the altar againet the
Fenian movement. And this is the grand
distinction betwixt the past and present of
Irish discontent, with a strong arm of a
powerful executive to protect the life and
property of Ireland against its lawless out-
rage and aggression, the priests know well
that the existing government tempers its
action with constant consideration ler the
material welfare of a perverse people, Some
years ago there appeared iv. Blocktdocitl's
Magazihe a sketch depicting the coveted ,
evacuation of Ireland by the Sassenteh) and
the effect of actually leaving the country to
the so-called "Irish." Tramp, tramp, went
hosts of armed men the army was with-
drawn from Ireland; the peelers followed;
Ireland was left without military or police
protection; capital no longer felt secure and
could remain no longer; trade and manu-
factures followed; tranteN tramp, tramp,
Saxon artisans were crowding to the shores
to seek more peaceful, yet busier workshops;
splash, splash, splash, the last revolution of
the paddle- wheel, the last skimmer of the
departing sail conveyed the very last Saxon
from the Irish shore, and Ireland was left
alone in its glory I The result was a miser-
able isolation, such as has been perhaps
before in the old Celtic times, and would be
again under the misrule of Fenianism.

111.—The Cattle Plague is undoubtedly a
terrible pestilence, although we have all been
slow to believe it. And really the tl-overn-
ment, kept well-informed by Its veterinarians
has exhibited fully stronger signs of alarm
than the country. Two new government
proclamations have put the climax to the
repressive measures about to be employed—
the one extends the provisions of the Orders
in Council respecting cattle, alike to sheep
and .pigs—the others empowers the local
authorities to close the (little markets of
their reep/ective towns for the next three
months, In order to guard against the spread
of infection by the promiscuous assembt
of sound and diseased animals,
regards the fir" of these steps, our readers
already know that it hats been induced by the
suppos-d and adeged extens on of the Cattle
Typhus, or a d s'ase of kindred typho'd
form to sheep. Pigs were already known
to be liahlo to typhod di./o/d.rs, and
hence whiu3t they were about it the
Privy Council appear to hive thought
, as well to include them also under the
sweep of their ordonnan v. although, with
exception of a few faint grunts from West-
meath, the pigs of the United Kingdom
have given no cause for alarm. And as for
the sheep, we may be wrong, but we do con-
fess that we are much slower to believe in
the access of the epidemic. in their case
than in th., -‘ which it has
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