The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-02-16 00:00:00

„foreign anb Colonial Infringing.

FRANCE.
The Mini/ear of Tuesday publishes a circular from
General de l'Espinasse, the new Minister of the Interior,
to the Prefects : of which the following is an extract :
An execrable attempt hes opened all eyes, and has
revealed to us the savage resentment and the culpable
hopes which still glimmer among the ashes of the
revolutionary party." Of that party, Monsieur le Pre-
fet, we must neither overrate nor underrate the strength.
Ita odious attempt has alarmed the country; we must
give it the pledges of safety which it requires. Discre-
tionary or superfluous measures are not the point in
question. What we want is • watchful, incessant
surveillance, ready to prevent, prompt and firm to sup-
press, always calm, as power and justice should be
fact, our populations, who have been justly alarmed,
mast be reassured that the good need have no fear, and
that the wicked must tremble. This is the most im-
portant part of my teak, and this is why the Emperor
selected me. France wishes the maintenance of order,
respect for the institutions established by her suffrages,
• firm suppression of plots against the Sovereign she has
elected, and this she shall have." "To attain this end
I rely upon your energetic co-operation, as you may rely
upon ray support. We have a mutual gaarrantee in my
devotion to the Emperor and in yours."
THE REFUGE QUESTION.—A Paris letter, in the Nord
of Brussels says :—"The document which the French
government has drawn up on the subject of the refugees
is not • ' note, ' properly so called, but merely a series
of directions to its representatives at London, Brussels,
Turin, and Berne, to present observations to the govern-
ments of those places on the subject. In sending these
directions, the cabinet of the Tuileries has ceded to the
wishes of all the European Powers, and especially the
German ones. The ministers accredited in Paris, and
the personages sent there to congratulate the Emperor,
have all insisted on some measures being adopted. The
King of Sardinia, like all other sovereigns, has mani-
fested a firm determination to expel from his States the
agents of a criminal propagandism against foreign govern-
ments ; and there is reason to believe that the revolu-
tionary press in Piedmont will be for the future subjected
to a more severe surveillance, The King of Wurtemberg
though on a sick bed, has written to the Emperor of the
French to say he will take part in any measures that
may be adopted by the powers, to protect the Continent
against attempte of the refugees. In addition to the
communication made by Lord Cowley, the Queen and
Prince Albert, who are frequently in correspondence
with the Emperor, have written to his Majesty letters
full of touching interest. There was at one moment a
question of sending the Duke of Cambridge to Paris, but
the Queen and the ministers thought it unnecessary, on
account of the extremely cordial understanding exist-
ing between the two Cabinets. Letters from London
state that the Prince of Prussia, in the name of all Ger-
many, represented to the English government the neces-
sity of giving to France and. Europe some guarantees
against the manceuvres and plots which are organised
under the protection of British hospitality."