The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-01-26 00:00:00

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"It is sternly apparent that the want of soldier, '
will become, if this horrible war continues, a
daily increasing need with Government—a need
that even thousand dollar bounties will not at
last supply, and in the impossibility of recruitieg
truly after army, to the same monstrous standard,
lies perhaps the only hope of peaoe. Financial
ruin will not bring peace; it will rather prove an
incitement to, and an aggravation of, the war."
We are not without hope that the Schleswig-
Holstein difficulty may be settled without
actual hostilities. Although at first sight the
proposition of Austria and Prussia seems like
war, it is in reality an important step towards
an instant peace. They request Denmark to
withdraw the special Constitution of November
last, which the English and Russian Govern-
ments have also advised her to withdraw, as
contrary to the spirit and the terms of the treaty
of 1852. The Germans wish the Duke of
Augustenburg to reign as Duke, both of Holstein
and in Schleswig. They wish to sever the
Duchies from Denmark, and without a severance
they will hardly be satisfied. But Austria and
, Prussiaabandonor ignore the Duke of Augustan-
burg; they do not propose to dismember
Denmark; they say, "Revoke the improper
form in which you propose to govern Holstein
and Schleswig, and we will be content." They
have therefore withdrawn from the Federal
Diet, and taken the matter into their own hands.
They are willing, they say, to abide by the
treaty of 1852 in all Its integrity. But what has
wrought the change, by some so unexpected,
in the Councils of Berlin and Vienna 1 On the
17th ultimo Lord Russell addressed a dispatch
to the British Minister at Dresden, • copy of
which he was instructed to leave with Herr You
Banat, the contents of which were undoubtedly
communicated to the Governments of Austria
and Prussia. This dispatch, perheps the %,,isest
and best his Lordship has ever written,
says, "the entire basis of treaty arrangements
in Europe would be overthrown, if such an
excuse for the breach of a clear and simple treaty
could be admitted. Any Sovereign, when called
upon to fill his engagements, might say—" My
reason for withdrawal from such • treaty was,
that 1 have made another agreement with one of
the parties thereto. This other agreement has
been violated; my treaty with you is therefore
mill and void." The Court of Dresden will
therefore understand, that if such • line of
argument were admitted as valid, every existing
treaty wouli become waste paper. Here there
is no threat, but it says as plainly as if the
words were written—if the Governments of
Germany will not keep their engagements with us,
our alliance with them is at an end. But another
circumstance is perhaps far more calculated
to compel a pacific settlement of the question.
The Czar, it is said, has declared that if any step
be taken towards the dismemberment of Den-
mark, he will consider himself released from
the obligations of the treaty of 1852; and that
be will consider himself free to reassert the
rights of his home to the Gottorp portion of the
Duchies.

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Greece and England, we regret to say, are
arrayed in hostile position. Instead of shaking
heads, says the Examiner, they have come to
spar, and although no blows have been struck,
they have assumed an attitude of combatitive
mistrust one to the other. England has de-
clared that he must and will blow up the forts
in the instead of Corfu. Greece says we cannot
prevent your blowing up the fortifications for
which the lonians paid at least a part, but we
cannot be a consenting party. We cannot dia-
gram ourselves and depopularise King George,
by becoming parties to an arrangement that
gives us the island disarmed and modified. The
Greeks allege that they elected their monarch
on the understanding that the lonian Islands
were to be ceded to them. They could not
foresee this cession accompanied by humiliating
circumstances. They say they have been so far
tricked, and they must take care to right them-
selves. They will sign no treaty by which the
destruction of their forts and tho neutralisation
of the islands are insisted on as conditions. In
that case, says England, I must keep the islands.
That will only make your breach of faith 1110113
flagrant, replies Greece. Since you won't have
the islands by the only way in which we can part
with them, we are determined to keep them,
says England, and keeping them we shall pre-
serve the fortifications intact. The work of
destruction has, therefore, not been proceeded
with, and Great Britain is still saddled with the
maintenancee and government of a very recal-
citrant and oddly-placed set of subjects.
The Bank of land rite of disoount, which
was lowered from to 7 per cent, on the 24th
ultimo, was again raised on Wednesday to 8 per
cent. As on previous occasions, the Bank of
France has been, by seeking accommodation in
the London market, the immediate cause of the
advance. The timely precaution adopted on this
side the cannel appeared to have the desired
effect, and gold ceased to leave the coffers of the
Bank till the late reduction to 7 per cent. ; but
the danger now to be feared is that the Bank of
Franco, whose policy is, in all probability, under
the complete control of the Govermieent, will
buy large sums of gold at any price in the
English market, and thus compel the Bank of
England to resort to rates of discount con-
siderably higher than even the present high rate.
The Economist says:—" In the face of such a
demand as that of France, it is not likely that,
for a short time, money will be cheaper, and it
may very easily become dearer. Great caution
will therefore be necessary on the part of all
dealers in money. They must expect a speedy
return to low rates; and they must remember
that a lung period of dear money is sure to
destroy many weak houses that survive with ease,
even at the most extreme rates which last but for
a moment."

The discus non on the Address in the French
Chamber has been continued during the past
week, and although it has not been so exciting
as during the previous week, the boldness of
the opposition may well incline the Emperor to
dubt whether he has not more freedom of
debate than will be found conducive to the safety
of his policy and sceptre. It does not seem
very wise that the first use made of the
liberty accorded, or rather partially re-
store& should be the demand for more, the
denunciation of those who have granted so
little, and the menace that the nation has by
the late elections proved that it will not rest
contented with its present modicum. Least of
all can it be considered prudent to menace
the Government with the probability of
revolutions, if it refuses the summons of
the Opposition deputies. It may be perfectly
right to wish to obtain for France those elements
of a constitutional system of Government as
we in England understand it. It is true that we
think there can be no true or complete political
liberty without it ; but for the French Opposi-
tion to demand this at the outset, is to declare
open war against the Imperial system under
which they consented to become members of the
Legislative Chamber, and may not impossibly
startle the Emperor back from the career on
which he has entered with such tentative and
timid steps.
The head of the illustrious house of Vane, as
descendent of Sir Harry Vane—from whom
Cromwell prayed to be delivered—has.dering the
past week, been gathered to his fathers. The
Duke of Cleveland, who was a Conservative in
politics, and an opponent of free trade, was ex-
ceedingly popular in the North of England, where
he had large estates. He is succeeded by his
brother, Lord William Powlett, who, as heir
through his mother of the Duke of Bolton,
is lord of the manor of Bathwick, and a
very extensive landowner in Somersetahire.
By the death of the noble duke another
blue ribbon is placed at the disposal of
Lord Palmerston. If the noble premier lives
many years longer he will probably have be-
stowed the whole twenty-five of theme coveted
decorations. Fifteen of them have already fallen
to his lot. Another great noble—the Duke of
Athole—is also no more. His grace, as most of
our readers are aware, had long suffered from
cancer, and his life was protracted beyond all
medical anticipations. His death has excited
intense grief among his tenantry, and, indeed,
in all circles. A Scotch contemporary says :
Everyone knows the interest our Queen had in him—
in Ha Duchess and is Blair—where she first saw and
loved the highlands, when she and her husband were
In their first young joys, and where she west when
her friend and her husband's friend lay dying by inches
of that terrible malady against which he bore himself
so patiently, we may now my so aweetly—submitting
that fieree, restless spirit to the Awful Will, Nettiog
his house in rimier, seeing and oonsforting his friends,
remembering his people, not even forgetting his
Ayrshire cattle—waiting steadfastly and like a man for
the end. We all know that meeting of the quick,
honest, chivalrous, devoted chieftain with his sorrow.
laden but sympathising Queen—their mutual regards,
their brief, measured words from the heart. The dying
roan riling from his anal room and accompanying his
Royal mistress to the train—kiesing her hand and bid-
ding her, not witbont dignity, farewell ; and when his
monad and loving people stood Ana and awed, almost
roared, by something greater than Rolssty, when lie
with his dying lips raised the parting

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day, January 23.—Wheat ia bad asedition, and sold
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