The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-04-27 00:00:00

Joreign anb Colonial inttlligenct.

FRANCE.

Marshals Magnin, Castellano, and &repay d'Hilliers
are at present making a tour through the departmenta
placed under their command. They have been every-
where well received. Marshal Canrobert has concluded
his inspection. Marshal Magnan, who for a long period
oonimanded the Department of the North, where the
number of fortified towns and military establishmenta is
coneiderable, and where military ardour is universally
diffused, was particularly well received.
According to returns lately prepared at the Ministry
of Marine, by order of the Emperor, France will possess
in the year 1.859 an effective force of 150 war paddle and
screw steamers of great speed, independently of the
mailing ships of war fitted with screws. These 150 war
steamer' will be composed of 'hips of the line, frigates,
corvettes, and cutters. Neither gunboats, steam trans-
ports, floating batteries, nor fireships are included in the
number of MO.
M. Reyhell, Chief Engineer of Hydraulic Works,
mil M. Danny de L'Orne, Director of Naval Construe-
Cone, have been sent to Cherbourg by order of the
Emperor to asoortain the precise time at which the new
dock can he opened.
The trial of men arrested in the Rue do Bentier, on
Jan. 18, was concluded on Wednesday. Four were
acquitted; the remaining eleven were sentenced to
various terms of imprisonment varying from eight days
to one year. Privations of civic rights, surveillance, and
fines of 100 francs were added in soine oases.
The Emperor and Enipreas recently proceeded, with-
out escort, to the Boulevard de Sebastopol, to visit in
detail the subterranean works which are being executed
beneath that great thoroughfare. Baron Reutemann,
Prefect of the Seine, was in waiting to receive their
Majesties at the top of the temporary staircase formed
nearly opposite the Roe Ste. Appolline. The Prefect
was accompanied by M. Michel, inspector-general of
municipal works; M. Belgrand, engineer-in-chief of
sowers; and M. Michel Greyvaldinger, contractor of the
works. Their Majesties descended into the galleries,
which they walked through on one side as far as the
ltue Is Ponceeu, and on the other as far as beneath the
Boulevard St. Denis. The Emperor, on again ascending
to the Boulevard de Sebastopol, inspeeted with great
minuteness the different machinery employed to aocele-
rate the work, and particularly that for preparing the
cement. An immense crowd had assembled before their
Miijestiee departure, by whom they were hailed with
loud cries of "Vive l'Empereur I" " Vivo Pimp"-
rutrice I"

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CANARD&—A Paris oorrespondence in the Indepen-
dence Beige asserts very positively that the Queen of
England is going to visit the Emperor at Cherbourg this
summer on the occasion of the opening of the railway
there. The Duke of Malakoff, it is said, is charged
to present the invitation, and Lord C,owley'e cowl has
been taken in order that he may be in England to make
the necessary suggestions and arrangements. The same
correspondenee says that the project of assembling the
Toulon and Brest fleets at Cherbourg has been aban-
doned by the Emperor in order to avoid giving any
shadow of offense to England by a display of force so
near her coasts. The two fleets will meet for their cus-
tomary evolutions off the Isle of Hyeres. This change
is represented to be a eympton of satisfactory relations
between the Courts of St. James and the Tuileries.
It is said that additional pollee agents are appointed
at one of the stations of the Northern Railway near
Paris, for greater efficiency in examining the passports
of persons coming by that line to Paris. The same
has been done at Calais, Boulogne, and other ports on
the coast.

The Consiiiutionne/ contains the following article on
the acquittal of Simon Bernard —"The: acquittal of
Bernard has excited deep indignation in France, and
the lively expressions of feeling of the Univers on the
subject have been understood by everybody. Neverthe-
leas, we must remark, in strict justice, that this is not
the nimnent to attack the Times, as the Univers his
done, since that journal supported with energy the Con-
spiracy Bill, denounced the assassins, and vindicated
England's honour. We will not dwell at any length on
such an acquittal, which throws an unheard-of scandal
on public) morality; for what honest man in France or
En.:land could entertain a doubt of Bernard's guilt We
will merely inform those of our neighbours who
desire the maintenance of good relations between the
two countries that if, by misfortune, the address pro
winced by Bernard's eounsol—that address which was
allowed to team with calumny and insults against the
Emperor, against the nation which elected him, against
the army, and against our institutions—were circulated
in the towns, barracks, and rural district' of Franca, it
would be difficult for Government, with the best
intentions, to stay the consequenee' of public indig-
nation."
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IHE RELATIONS OP FRANCE AND ENGLAND.—In how
poriloue a position the Emperor Napoleon stands every
mad toile numerous stories. Think of that stilled groan
—" Vire la lapublique l"—whioh rose from the Bps
of 200,000 Frenchmen as Orsinra bead fell of into the
bltaket There ix need of plenty of tried soldiers to keep
down that mob, or there will very quickly be an end of
the Empire. And how I. the Emperor to keep well
with the anti-Britleh soldiery, if lie Insists on pretending
that he playa the part of the humble, dependent, and
eubmisitve idly of England On one side, agulf—aban-
doninent by the soldiery and the fall of his dynasty ; on
the other,linother, gulf—war with England. Apparently
lie mat choose between them. In the event of a war
with England the china, are that at first mous would
rood with France. Her army is much larger and better
disciplined than that of England ; her capacity for throw-
ing MOAN) or 200,000 men on the British shore in the
enure° of • few hours by means of steainvenels and
berrying them to London is undoubted; and if the
inamouvre was undertaken vigorously and swiftly at the
outbreak of • war, the immediate result would probably
bu aiteeteedul, Of course, In ammo of time it would be
as impouible for 100,000 Frenchmen to maintain them-
Helves in London as it would be for a like number of
Englialtinen to occupy Perim, or Frenchmen to hold Now
York ; In course of time the invaders would be ignomi-
niottely expelled. But We would ho but the least part
of the reprisals whieli England would forthwith under-
take. Bite would at woe proceed to organise and sub-
Mitilie Ohl Itlirtliliiollllll of France and Europe. Through
the exilea who would linaten home to take part in •
revolution, she would gutter a few millions of pounds
at erling throughout Pula, Rouen, and Lyons, and the em-
pire would be overthrown in six weeks. Ouch is the
inevitable primped in the event of a war between France
and England, and the only question is whether the pre..
sure which the artily and the agrioultural deuce are
exereixing againet the Emperor, in consequence of his
adherence to Great Britain and to the English alliance, is
silliluiently powerful to mako him 'perceive that the evils
we have olusuribed as certain to follow a rupture with
ENlatiti are, after all, lead than those which lie would
have to encounter by retaining their friendship.
The number of travellers arrived at Marseilles during
the month of March last amounted to 5,218. Among
Elwin the French figure for 2,457, the dartlinians for
1,129, and the English for 587.