The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-09 00:00:00


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anb oJ,ontat intelligence.
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FRANCE.
The committee ordered by the Emperor of the French
to prepare for publication the Correspondence of Napo-
leon the First is about to issue the first volume of its
interesting labours. The Emperor himself has revised
the press. This first volume is said to contain • great
number of hitherto unknown documents.
The French Government has decided that all passports
for France shall be finally vised by • French consular
official.
General Changarnier and General Bedeau have per-
mission to return to France.
In its unofficial columns the Afoniteur publishes the
report of the committee appointed to collect and pub-
lish the writings of Napoleon I.
It is stated that Lord Malmesbury has already
answered the despatch of M. Welewski. His reply, of
coarse, expresses • desire to cultivate the best relations
with this country, and to remain in alliance with her,
bat it declares that the right of asylum shall be main-
tained intact. It is not said whether the suspended
Bill will be taken rip by the new Government.
The Moniteur publishes an Imperial decree, bearing
date the 24th of February, to the effect that on and
after the 31st of March next the law of 1829 is abro-
gated, and the butchers' trade in Paris is free. A re-
port from the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce
explains the motives which have dictated this impor#
ant measure. The report exonerates the butchers of
Paris from wilfully putting • high price on meat after
1854. It attributes it to general causes; among others,
to the increased consumption of animal food, and to the
development of labour and public prosperity. The re-
port adds :—"Free trade in butchers meat in Paris
could not offer any danger to the public health, unless
it compromised the supply for Paris and the healthy
state of the meat offered for sale, unless it caused a rise
in the price of meat—that most necessary article of food
—or too great fluctuations."
Letters from the departments mention that arrests
continue to be made in considerable numbers. At
Strasbourg, Mouilns, Perigueux, and Bergerac persons
were taken into custody on Wednesday. The orders
are severe respecting the winehouses and cafés, over
which the strictest surveillance is exercised, and those
places of public entertainment where politica are talked
are to be closed the moment they appear to present the
slightest danger.
K. Hubard, the advocate who was arrested some days
back, has been set at liberty. A manufacturer of chy-
mical ingredients at Boulogne-sur-Seine has been
arrested. In some Nees parties taken into custody are,
after a brief detention, set at liberty, not the slightest
charge being made against them. The arrests are made
by order of what is called the Administration, the Per-
fect, &c. How long these summary proceedings, said to
be in consequence of discoveries recently made of • con-
spiracy having extensive ramifications, are to last it is
difficult to say. The proprietor of the Hotel de France
et de Champagne repairs to London in consequence of
a summons to that effect. He is to give evidence in the
proceedings relative to Bernard, and particulary as to
whether this person was seen in that hotel, where Pierri
and Rudio lodged. Orisini is reported to be as calm
as if he was mire of the commutation of his sen-
tence.
Dr. Kern had on Friday a conference with the Min-
ister for Foreign Affairs. The subject of the conference
was the new passport system and the consuls lately ap-
pointed to carry out the system. The matter is arranged
between the two Governments.
There have been seven new consuls appointed in Ger-
many and Switzerland to carry out the new system of
passports.
A circular from the Minister of War, dated the Ist
inst., requests colonels of regiments and generals com-
manding divisions and sub-divisions not to grant in
future any leave of absence except for special reasons.
Previous to this leave was granted without difficulty.
ENGLISH SUBJECTS DYING IN FRANCE.—An un-
married Englishwoman named Brown, who, after long
residing at Boulogne-sue-Met, had taken up her resi-
dence at Paris. died in the hospital de la Charite in
June, 1854. She was at first supposed to be in distress,
but it turned out that she had left securities worth
more than 300,000 f. The government took possession
of the property, but her brother and two sisters—Mr.
George Brown, Mrs. Worth, and Mrs. Munro—brought
in July, 1856, an action before the Civil Tribunal to get
it back, and as they produced letters of administration
from the Perogative Court of Canterbury, the tribunal
granted the application. On Saturday the Prefect of
the Seine, acting as representative of the Government,
appealed to the Imperial Court to have the decision set
aside, on the ground that the letters of administration
were not sufficient to prove that Mr. Brown, Mrs.
Worth, and Mrs. Munroe were really the heirs of the
deceased, and that they ought formally to have estab-
lished the feat in the manner required by English juris-
prudence; but the Court confirmed its formerjudgment.