The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-09-19 00:00:00

NOTES OF THE WEEK,

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I.—Tez QIIIEW has been followed north
by the Prince and Princess of Wales, who
left Marlbo;ough }düs bi Fiiday ebenitig
Ahlitieldib, and took their departure by
railway, in presence of a large crowd sf
spectators assembled both within and without
the Euston-square station. We do not,
Chronicle these movemente by any means as
,aniatter of form ; and if it be asked why,
Wtlek after Week we. pepsietently take notice,
nib, and of affairs' an remote froth'
the ostensible purpose of papers for the
people, we are only sorry to say that we must
point to the signs of "She times and the
shadows of coming events as only too sure
indications of the deep interest in there
matters which MtiSt at this moment be
Wronged in every bredilt that fbtains tine spark
toygty. the blessings, which according
to Mr. Roebuck, as quoted last week in this
*ape, we owe to the constitution under which
,live, are after all not lightly to he
!Seemed, or loosely. trifled with; and be the
Idly of Fenianism in Ireland what it may,
teefact lita oilstones, Ake fact that+
• titists * klculated tetindeittla
' the peaceful domesticity of the British hearth,
and perhaps disturb . relations with distant
Powers, toust, to say the least, create an
anxious and uncomfortable • feeling in -the
public mind. Fenianism in Ireland can be
easily enough put ' down I and the "Irish
Itelptilillti" Ia datilled to lie ittfengled lii ittl
birth. But there ilf something in the at-
tempts made and countenanced in America
to provide the successors of Smith O'Brien's ,
Cabbigilvirden rising, With arms and money.
The Yankee dighes this i At. pertion of our
United States territory threw off its allegiance I
and levied war on the 'Central authority, and
Britain iicoell "that pOrticiii tiB beili-
' gerentrdte; SW a *Sinn pf the B4thai
domatis revolt, We will do the name. They
, are not the people to perceite the difference
in the, We, Which id preekiely this :—We did
tint fitment ,ad lictiitt4i Stintherti
rebellion es they are seeking to do the Fenian
delusion in unhappy Ireland, Undoubtedly
the population of the Sister Isle has rapidly
declined within the last fei7r years, and instead
of seven millions of the finest peasantry
boasted of by O'Connell, the census can
scarcely now 'how more than live. Assuming
that two millions of Irishmen at a red hot
temper of disaffection have transmigrated to
America and really conssitnte, so far as not
"kilt" in the wars, the Fenian brotherhood,
"ale and indivisable," which means to claim
Ireland tar the Irish, and rule it by a "Re-
public," modelled on the American and if
possible without the' slave feature it may be
only -wisdom sna prudence insteid of
that makes our Prime Minister irispair
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