The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-04-18 00:00:00

cession of partnerships since 1863, and the con-
sequent complication of the several estates and
accounts threatens to entitle the creditors of the
successive firms instead of a uniform dividend,
to dividend at unequal rates, and may probably
occasion litigation the extent and issue of which
it is impossible to foresee. Money, as we pre-
dicted, has been a drug in the market at 24 and
even 2 per cent; the Joint Stock Banks ate
working at 3i to 1; the Bank of Englan
Directors, on Thursday, met of course vnthoutrig
thinking of reducing the minimum rate
.which
discount has now reached.—After a trial,
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rather trials of several days duration, condign
punishment has overtaken the city burglars con-
cerned in the extensive silk and jewel robberies
—in the shape of terms of twenty, fourteen, ten,
and seven years' penal servitude; and the papers,
in furious leaders calculated to please the civic
powers, lash out in aggravation of these sen-
tences, by which the most flippant of the con-
victs seemed to be overwhelmed.
V.—The sensation news from abroad is de-
cidedly that which comes from America by the
Australasian. Believe it or not as we may in
detail, it will turn out we suspect substantially
that the Southern Confederacy is crashed by the
overwhelming force of Federal' in the field.
That this should not have happened ere now is
the only marvel. Ever since the successes of
Sherman at Atlanta, since his extraordinary
march down through Georgia, his capture of
Savannah, exploits resembling only the proud
boast of that Closer of whom the French Em-
peror is the historian—" I came, I saw, I con-
qured," it was easy to foretell what was coming.
In fact it must have surprised the world and
been a far harder thing to anticipate that the
descendants of the men of Bunker's Hill and the
old war of Independence, the Sergeant Drills and
Martinets of Washington's conquering armies,
should have taken four years of constant defeat
and disaster to learn of new the art of war. That
they have had bad generals, and that Sherman
is the only one amongst them who has at all
approached Lord Brougham's memorable con-
ception of the powers of combination and
generalship evinced by the elder Napoleon
• when he speaks of him as moving and
marshalling great armies, and subjecting them
to controul like a single machine or a domestic
implement in his hands, may be Bo far true;
still the opportunity which has now been afforded
the other Generals Grant and Sheridan of driving
the armies of Lee out of Petersburgh and Rich-
mond, and occupying as it were at one blow
I both these points of contest, either of them the
Ilium of the war, will reinstate not only these
officers but Meade and others who are following
after them in military renown. Of course if
the knowing people in London refuse to accept
the accounts received in their full integrity, it is
not our place to accord them implicit reliance.
But it is quite manifest that the North at
length is master of the situation. People at
home connected with our North American
colonies will be pleased to hear that Mr. Seward,
in making a speech on the subject, has said that
if England acts fairly towards the Northern
States, Canada will not be molested ; for although
Mr. Seward will put his own and not our inter-
pretation on our conduct, and although we have
never acted other than fairly, and in strict
neutrality, it seems to be considered on all
hands that concessions which touch our national
honor may have to be made in the case of the
St. Alban's Raiders. The indemeity money
given by Canada has indeed been paid to the
robbed banks, but the accused after having
escaped one form of trial are about to be dragged
through another, and it is only in prospect of
those proceedings that Mr. Seward foregoes their
extradition.—We have some more authentic
information respecting the alleged Siberian
plague in Russia. It is no stranger—but the
"recurrent fever" which more than once has
attacked the lower orders at Belfast and else-
where in Ireland, when it may be remembered
that the sick were laid out in tents and ministered
to in the ,midst of a fearful mortality.—Spain
has had an emeute or disturbance in its
capital—not an unusual thing we suppose
—yet we in enjoyment of British freedom
wonder that the Spanish Government can
feel strong enough to hold out language
like this to an angry populace :—" The govern-
ment is firmly resolved to maintain order and
will not suffer questions to be debated in the
public streets which should form the subject of
quiet discussion in the Chambers. Every
endeavour will be made to conciliate modera-
tion with energy and activity; but if disturbers
of the public order have recourse to arms, force
will be met with force—steel with steel." And
all this about the removal of a professor from
his post in the university Really one does not
know whether the threats or concessions of
despotic powers are the more childish and con-
temptible. The Russian government for
example has just made "a concession" which is
reported to have yielded great satisfaction. It
is this—hitherto an individual caught with a
cigar in his mouth in the streets of St. Peters-
burgh might be fined a rouble ; now he can walk
and perfume the streets without being marched
off to the police office; but whether this be a
tribute to the "plague" or the people remains
rather an open question.—The Emperor Maxi-
milian already promises to cause Rome to
repent having given him such a length of tether.
There in not such another priest-ridden country
as Mexico on the face of the Globe; and until
the arrival of the Pope's Nuncio, the new
Emperor found things intolerable. The
Nuncio, the day of his arrival avowed
that he possessed certain powers in
some matters, in others he must refer
for instructions to the Vatican; the next day he
professed to pumas no powers whatever. The
Emperor, however, thinks the country weenies.
tically misgoverned and inclines to toleration.
This the priesthood will by no means permit.
To the credit of Maximilian, however, he has
read them a lesson concluding thus :—" Suspect
if you will my Catholicism, Europe has long
known my sentiments—the holy father knows
my thoughts; the churches of Germany and of
Jeruaalem,that are to the Archbishop of Mexioo
as to me, bear witness for me on this point.
But just and good Catholic as I am, I will also
be a just and liberal prince."

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