The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-10-17 00:00:00

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to contend is, whether he is bound to refer
the demand to arbitration; a topic on which
he expends a vast deal of speculative discus-
sion, evidently apprehending that to concede
the form of settlemont by arbitration, might
imply the concession of some foundation for
the demand. This was on 30th August.
Mr. Adams again promptly replies within
three weeks time, on 18th September last,
and in a more solemn tone than ever, as if
the main difficulty with the South having
been settled, he could aitord to give a trifling
little quarrel with Great Britain—some
serious attention, and to press it to a more
determined issue. As in the case, however, of
the famous discussion on the Right of
Search, he ultimately waives the pretension
of being in the right, by saying that the
recognition of the South as belligerents, was
an unfriendly act of ours; that the blockade
was a mere presumption, instead of a reality,
and was the consequence not the cause of
British policy. But on the whole, he seems
inclined to excuse the conduct of our Govern-
ment on the strange ground that it was
" precipitatel" and the whole bubble
explodes in a good scolding, administered to
this country for luke-warmness in the
"righteous cause" of the United States.
No doubt, this is the key-note of Mr. Adams'
instructions; and he does not omit the
chance of saying to Earl Russell himself,
" Thus diddest thou." " And yet"
he says "in the midst of the gravest
of our difficulties I cannot forget
that your lordship was pleased in an official
published dispatch to visit with the severity
of your but too weighty censure the greatest
political meisure of the lite lamented presi-
dent." So ends the matter so for as Mr.
Adams is concerned, although we are not,
quite so sure that Mr. Seward, who is said to
be collecting and iMiting particulars to con-
stitute the articulate items, may not even
yet send in his little bill: At all events
taking this discussion of liabilities for con-
sequences incident to the American war, of
which we can so sompletely wash our hands
along with the still more absurd pretences
on which American sympathy and aid of the
Fenian outrage against the queen's authority
in Ireland appear to be based, we cannot
help thinking that it looks as if, had the
occasion served, the Re-United States would
not have been sorry to fasten a quarrel of
some kind upon us.
IL—A WAN of ettermination against the
of-tribe, even geology and the remains of the
Boa Lonytfrons, assure us may not be waged
in vain. It is the largest boned animals of
every race that are the most apt to become
extinct. The earth beholds libthing tilde of
the Mastodon, the air of the Dodo, or the
waters of that Leviathan mentioned in the
most ancient perhaps of all the books of
Scripture—the book of Job. This teaches
the lesson of a tendency which ought to
render us chary Of Othboiriiiiig iti aiiythlng
like wholesale destruction of our noble
cattle tribe.. Yet what are we doing?
Saturday's papers contain reports of the ap-
pearance of two 'Welch Drtiferd before the
Lord mayor, glad to obtain £5 out of the
poor-box, or some similar fund, to bear their
homeward expenses, after having lost their
whole herds of cattle with which they had
left their native mountains a fe* weeks Since
valued at from A 2,060 to k 3,000. These
cattle were attacked with the plague at
Barnet Fair; 197 of them were lost; and
the owners--Simon Williams and John Jones
—had to expend their last farthing in burying
them under the Orders in Council. Nor is
this the °lily ekampie of wholesale, and yet
we would fain hope, not inevitable destruction
at this moment before us. At Friday's
meeting of the Metropolitan Cattle Plague
Committee we see that it was stated that last
Tuesday fortnight, a herd of cattle, on landing
at Har*ieli, Were Stopped on account of' ONE
animal, which was supposed to have Binder.
pest. Of the herd 108 were killed in con-
sequence, but the owner of 1.0 of them had
the option of allowing his lot to undergo
quarantine, and be trailed himself of it. he
ternaticable thitig is Oka *hliet the other 98
*ere immolated to the prevailing panic, the
10 in question were a few days ago sold in a
state of perfect health in the Metropolitan
cattle market. After times will surely think
us insane. Another bit of eiperictice was
contributed by a Greenwich co*-keeper of
whose 22 milch toWa 10 had died, and four
More hectithe se seribitslyill, that is a cidinier
rrittot he sent for the knacker, but the
knacker was too busy to kill them for a
couple of days at least. That respite saved
them. The cow-keeper himself began treat:
ing the pthir ilifeCted animals with drinks and
such other remedies as he had long been
familiar with, and they may now be Seen
grazing in a field With other tid*s Slid
Milk abundantly. Mr. William Jones,
one cow-keeper more, of the classic address
of 3, ew-street, Whitechapel, out of 30