The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-09-10 00:00:00

and Conti! Cxprtss
TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 10. M.

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

Dime Womb and disavowals from the Imperial
parties to the Salzburg meeting, made to all whom
it :may end some whom it may not wooer°, bare
that event of much of its significance. Yet =IP •pectdate upon what • Frenchman would
,call the E.nropean situation. Qui s'excliae s'accuce,
it is said ; and if the monarchs of Primo and Austria
Sad it necessity to. disavow and explain so much
respecting the motive, and oinnunstanoes of their
personal otioferenos, they acknowledge thereby that
there wita good ground for th•eurnziess ofjournalime,
in the condition of Europe and the mutual interests
of the two empires. If the emperors did not disease
this or that question, or !mote to. this oe that umler.
standing, the question stall mamas, bog the nader.
standing has yet to be arrived at—that is
aIL
Everybody seems to think that Frame and Austria
mina of neeenity form a league together %Ming
Prussian and Rus.ian ambition and nobody believl. in
the last canard that the French paper La Situation
bay Leen firing—to th• effect that Austria and Prussia,
be,. entered into an alliance, on th• understanding
that the firmer is to favour the latter'a designs In
South Germany and to reoMre a few otiose of Turkey
in compensation. But all these extravagant
speaulations show us what a muddle European
affairs Cr. in, and how brief may be the calm upon
which the continent appears to have entered, now
that the long-winded Cretan and the abort-live.l
Spanish insurrection are practically suppressed, and
that Garibaldi seems in no hurry to lead hie red.
sbirted followers into the cholers-etriokies Papal
Stake. The mho, however, may laM long enough
for Wyld or Stanford, or some other enterprising

hydrographtt, to publish • map of Estop' to an
prement tranaitiocal utato before a pairs' remove-
Meet of atietboars' isodatarks oomtneooss.

The bop; so fondly cherished lor the past few
days asi the faith of a telegram from Constantinople
lelthosei the source was open to grave 'on In Um;
matter of reliability, have been completely destroyed
by a telegram from the MON city contradicting the
Scat glad intelligence, of the release of the Iml-im-
prisoned Abysms= captives, and it now seems that
we must fight outlay to their prisons, and tutainate
their suspense and aslngry by rescuing them or—let
, it not be concealed— puesipitnling their speedy death
at the bands of the serosious Theodore. The
Government have suds the preparations for the
campaign with great rapidity, and it is expected
that all the vessels chartered for transporting
the troops will have left the Mersey by
Wednesday next. It is an expedition forced upon
us by every feeling of humanity, but the
'more the prospeots of mining On war in this
African Mexico are examined, the less promising
they appear. It will be a fight against a deadly
climate which eves India cannot match. There
are indeed salubrious highland districts; but
before they °an be reached, some three hundred
miles of desert and swamp will have to be crossed
, —a waste and howling wildness, over which water,
as well as provisions for 10,000 or 15,000 men and
followers will have to be carried, where mule
will be destroyed by the lidos fly, and malaria
play havoc eves with the hardy Sikhs. Such a cam-
*lra is truly ' a leap in the dark," with small
chance of coming up with the African Caligula, who
will, of course, never meet our troops

It would appear from the eorrespoodence between
Lord Stanley and Mr. Seward, respecting the
Alabama claims and the recognition of the Con•
federate. in the remit American war, that our
cousins screw the Atlantic are disposed to pick •
quarrel with us. The American minister very un-
reasonably alleges that the Sumter, the Alabama,
the Florida, the Shenandoah, and other ships were
built, named, armed, equipped and fitted out in
British ports; the fact, proving the contrary, as
clearly pointed out by Lord Stools,. 'rake the cue
of the Sumter, for example. It was, originally,
an American viellei, which escaped from the
Misissippi • while the Alabama, the Florida,
the Shenandoah, and the Georgia, though un-
questionably built in British dockyards, were clan.
destined, taken to ports beyond die jurisdiction of
our Government, said there manned and equipped.
The Alabama (about which the most noise has been
made) wee unarmed and unequipped when she loft
England, and received her armament and equip-
ment, her commander and crew, in Angra Bay,
Azores, • posesesioa of the crown of Portugal. But
notwithstanding what may be said in our defence,
our Government, for the sake of paths, has agreed to
submit the dispute to arbitration. Still, the
Americans are not satisici They now raise another
qoestion—they charge us with having, by our
precipitate recognition of the Southerners am a
belligerent power, helped to raise them, in the
prosecution of an unlawful armed insurrection, to
an eqiility with the United Staten Here again
Lord Stanley shows bow amply the events occurring
in the United States justified the step taken by the
British Government. Mr. Steward hers occupies
entirely fresh ground, and asks our Government to
submit the course taken by it to arbitration I It
is much to be regretted that questions like these
should be raised, without reason, and that attempts
should be made to fan into a flame all the embers
of ill.fcaling between Great Britain and the United
States which can be raked together.
Congresses, conferences, and meetings of all sorb
are being held just now—from the International
Pesos Congrom at Geneva, which aims at construct-
ing • democratic "United States of Europe," in
spite of the few millions of armed men enlisted
in support of the present date of things, to the
forthcoming Reform ate at the Crystal Palace,
which Earl Rumen and Mr. Gladstone have been
invited to attend to receive felicitations upon the
Parliamentary achievements of Earl Derby and Mr.
Disraeli, tboogh it does not seem that edam of the
Liberal leaders porpoises thu to snatok away the
palms which the Conservatives have stooped to
conquer. Than we have tha British Association i oseesion
and hobbies of all kinds being trotted up and down
in its " sections" and converaazionee ; while
the Pea-Anglican Synod will follow very soon,
with its great amembly 1 &ebb, Irish, Scottish,
Colociel, Americus, and miarionary bishops, who
will douticis settle to their own satisfaction, if to
nobody else's, the Ritualistic question and extinguish
Colenso and his arithmetic in half • dozen regula-
tions. Meanwhile the Welsh have been bolding
their national gibbering known se an Eisteddfod, which
aims at fostering Welsh literatore and poetry, and the
Scottish flighlan.lers have also had their national
gathering at Braemar, very diterent in character to
that of their Celtic cousins, and very successful, it
would appear, in spite of the absence of Hr
hlajeety and the Prince of Wale.. It ill • wonder,
by the way, that his Royal Highnees is not secured
for the Eisteddfod by the loyal people of his
principality, who deserve such recognition se mach
as the Gaels.

We have not been taken by surprise in the matter
of the tradeslunion disolosuree beforethe cow m isai on at
Manchester. After Sheffield, it would take something
more to surprise us than brutal violence, arson, and
malicious destruction of property, planned, directed,
and paid for by trade societies. The worst anticipa-
tions of the greatest enemies of trades unions seem
now likely to be fulfilled. It is very strange, how-
ever, how all these things could have been carried
on in defiance of the law, and much of the intimida-
tion with perfect impunity, f3r the law requires no
amendment in such matters, but only ho be enforced ;
and to this end it seems necessary to take trade
societies out of their present estra.legsl or outlawed
petition, and, while protecting them for their legiti-
mate purpose., to keep a strict supervision over
them for the prevention of abuses.
The returns from all parte of tho country relative
to the harvest have been lotiked forward to with
interest. Mr. Beadsmen, who, as in former years,
has gone very carefully into the question, says, as
the results of his investigation, that "taking the
grain crops of England and Scotland, he estimates
the wheat crop to ho fonder average, barley ten per
cent, above average, oats fifteen per cent, above
average, beans • full average, and peas much below
average." The reports from foreign countries are
Dot so favourable. A deficit appears more and
more clearely in the French harvest. In the east of
the French empire the deficiency, is considerable,
and at Strasbarg prices have advanced, notwith-
standing the arr.val of German and Hungarian
wheats. The deficiency is also clearly established
in the moth of France, and Marseilles wilt this year
be the centre of large commercial operations in
cereals, which have already commenced. The west
and the north of France tre also less favoured than
had been expecte-A. Germany, Russia, and the
Danubian provinces appear to be the only parts of
Europe which have reaped more wheat than is re-
quired for the consrimptinn of their inhabitants, and
ills in these districts that P, oh wheat merchants
will seek to supply their requirements.