The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-09-06 00:00:00

THE WAR AND TRAM

Thai/cos.:mist reckons upon the effect whioh • collapse
in Frsuce would exercise upon the trade with this
country. "There commonly is a very large balsam
owing from EnAland to France on the direct trade
between the two. We always owe Fronce much money,
and we poy her by drafts on other ouuntrits, to whom
we sell more than we boy from her. And in a time of
disaster this is • great advantage, since we are the
debtors and not the creditors; we hove to pay more
than we have to receive, ant w have,to • great extent,
the h toff to say—in our loan to. It will he quit,
understood that we are nut saying that we shall not
sulT..r very much (rein the collap-e, though only
temporary, of so great and near a neighbour as France.
There're budneus eonnirtion s of bank and other a_encies
which may canoe conederable present inconvenience if
not great ultimate loss ; and these are not shown in any
table of t 'ports and imports. Still, it is in *nch • case
comforting to know on which side the primary matter
of debtor and creditor—the great trade balance—
ordinarily hex, and that balance, far more than any
other single Call4r, determines how much • collapsing
country may hurt us by not paying—how much, in a
word, we are to 'prove upon her estate for.'"

Tint ItOBBIBT BY • MZILCII•IIea SO!f. —A few
weeks ago the son of a Liverpool merchant named
Agasin eloped with a young lady, and took with him
L'2.300, the mollies of him father. They were followed
to the Continent, brmght home, taken before the
magistrates, and committed for trial. It •as alleged
that some members of the ladies family were privy to
the robbery. The whole of the accused were tried on
Friday at the Liverpool session. Agacio and his wife
pleaded guilty,and tne others were disobarged. Sentence
was deferred.

HOLLOWAY'S PILLS. —Diarrbioa and Bowel Cam.
plaints.—These maladies are ever present, and if left
unattended frequently terminate fatally. It should be
everywhere known that both cholera and diarrhea&
originate in the presence of some utdigested subatanee
in the stornaeh or bowels' r of sortie deleterious matter
in the blood, and that Helloway's Pills can expel either
with ease and expedition. ilea combine in a surpris-
ing degree purifying, alterative, regulating, and
strergthening qualities, and thus exert over every
internal organ the wholesomely controlling indigence so
necessary for subduing extwasive action in the human
frame. Holloway's medicine may be advantageously
taken as a means of keeping the blood pure and the
holy 000 l—the only practicable plan of maintaining
health in youth, manhood in old age.

A !logo PoR THIt PULPIT I—Last Sunday, • parish
minister on the West Coast, while preaching the after-
noon sermon. had some occasion to make • reference to
the Fresco-Prussian war. In dealing with the subject,
ho quoted the following verse from • song gelled
" Jeanottte and Janet," that WAS popular some twenty
yeard ago :--
"0. if I were King of France,
Or, what's better, Pope of Rome,
There would be no fighting men abroad,
Nor weeping maids at home;
All the world should be at peace,
Or, if kings must show their might,
I'd Id those who make the quarrets
1k the ouly ones to fight."
Winding up an eloquent peroration, this verse, though
oat, ootning in so pat and apropos, bad an excellent
effect, and those ptesent eonsideced it an eztrentely
happy hit. —lnverness Courier.
MoUItSING FOR PARIS AND BERLIN.—I met the
otior day at Brusrols • commis voyageur for • house in
Ghent that provid,s mourning. He told me that •
Loudon firm, in the earns ghastly line of business, had
contracted to supply a how,e in Paris with SIX Mow
toad mourning borterta and sixty thousand yards of
crape within the next fortnight. and that at Berlin the
orders given were far greater. A Prussian doctor told
me the other day that during the present month the
German army had lost in killed and wounded 150,000
men ; sni in the Saxon dividon that' fought at Stoney
to-day there are WO men suffering from fever, aguit,and
the most severe bowel onntplaiuta. After these fearful
facts, let us bleat the fate that made England an island.
—Letter from Sedan,

TIIIIIISTT itiVADIK6— if the German army in its march
on Pans hu occasionally gone short of sausages, it is
probable that no army was ever before enabled to in-
dulge in so much drinking of champagne. Pink or
white—champagne of the hills or champagne of the
river banks has been all the same to those thirsty
warriors ; but every requisition has demanded extra.
vagant quantities of this exhilaratier fluid, and there Is
no reason to doubt th 4 there bas also been • 'topsider-
able private consumption ; we can only hope that it has
always been paid for at the strict rates of exchange for
converting silver groschen and th,lcrs into sous and
francs, established by King Willi.em'a proclamation.
The needle-gun itself has probably been chary of its
pooping' as compared with the wired corks of Eoernay.
Whet might be done in this way by three hundred
thousand tired and dusty line and Landwehr in those
famous caves in the rock of Chalons, which are reported
to boll three millions of bottles, is a problem wbuth
thole, the amp of the imagination like those sounding
calculations' with which lecturers on astrunomy:astonish
rustier audiences. It is cumin that the Paris Figaro
has never thought of attributing the Crown Prince's
mysterious delay in the champagne country to this
cause. Three million bottles of genuine champange are
clearly capable& interfering with the "resolute march"
on Paris even a larger army than King William has
brought with him. Who knows but that there may
have been moments when a sudden attack upon these
rude** invader+ would have found them fumbling help-
lessly at the breech of their needle-guns; or utterly
unable to foliow General Trochees maxim, Miler hula
The lato King of Pru,sia's passion for Cliquot was long
believed by the vulgar to paralyse the powers of the
Pitt•wian executive ; it would have been curious, indeed,
if the came indanniaing liquor had once more been
foUnii to exeroiw a pared& tullitenvit upon tits delikialat
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