The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-09-21 00:00:00

Jordan anb Colonial intellignm.

FRANCE.

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Lord Pelmerston, before quitting Paris, left the liberal
donation of I,ooof. towards the purchase of the Eng.
tisk church in the hue d' Agueueau.
General Mumabon is expected to leave Paris next
week for Algiers. Count de hforney is at Biarrits.
Pould left Paris Tuuday for Tuba ; thence he
will go to Biarrits. The Emperor is to return to Paris
for a day or two, previously to going to the camp of
Chalons about the 20tb.

Paris has jtut been visited by the two Englishmen
who, of all men living, have given most umbrage to
France. Wellington was once • name of ill-omened
sound on this side the Channel, but it may be doubted
If even it has been more anathematised by Fronahnien
than those of Palmerrton and Stratford. Palmerston,
in Gaul reputed the prince of mischief-makers ; Stratford
the bugbear of French diplomatists, the target of the
French press—surely it was temerity on their part thus
to place their heads within the jaws of the lion, which
had so roared at them for many • long day. Yet they
have done this, and have been Oared to withdraw on-
hurt ; • feet even more strange than that Her Gracious
Majesty Queen Victoria vu permitted peacefully to
ateam'out of Cherbourg's harbour, indeed of being cap-
tured, manacled, and confined in some grim mountain
fortress, whither her faithful esquire, Disraeli, with the
loyalty and chivalry that distinguish him, would as-
suredly have wandered, • modern Blondel, and played
Upon his harp beneath the dungeon windows of his
Royal mistress. However, Palmerston the brouillma and
Stratford the arrogant have been and gone.
M. Saint-Mare Oirardin concludes an article in the I
Debate with the following paragraph :—" What • '
Wle is that of this English and American press I
it:movement I What vivacity I What ability!
Whore is it, or where is it not? What does it do, what
does it not do What a struggle! 'What combats
What apparent discord I What an action and general
effect on the march of society I Does it prevent any
good thing, provided it be a solid good, common to
many, and not • private good, confined to • few
privileged persons? What evil is not oombatted I
In England and the States the press often annoys and
vexes Individuals; but if the anoyanee extends to injury,
if the vexation becomes hurtful, the law is there, and
the tribunals fear not to allow to those who justly tom.
plain such damages as to discourage the malignant and
the envious. A. every one knows that he may be at-
tacked, so every one knows that he can defend himself;
and what encourages to such defenoe is that the indivi-
dual knows that be has to defend himself only against
an individual. In France, on the contrary, with our
universal centralisation, when one complains, it always
seems that it ha, to struggle against the State, and not
against an individual. In matters of the press private
action is rare with us. Public action everywhere pre-
vails, because, with us, everywhere also the State
prevail' over the individual."

PARISIAN floaniz.—A Pariah letter in the Nord of
Brussels has the following:—" Lord Palmerston, during
the last days of his residence at Paris, saw more than
once Lord Stratford de Radcliffe, Lord Cowley' Lord
Hoyden, Baron de Rothschild, and M. Thiers. hi. micro
came up from his retreat at Franoonville, where he is
completing the last two volumes of his History of the
Empire, to see the ex-Minister. At one of their meet-
ings, at the Hotel Bristol, Lord Stratford de Radcliffe
was present, and the conversation having turned on the
state of Turkey, hi. Thiel.' asked Lord Palmerston if he
thought the 'sick man' was about to die The English
statesman replied, aooording to his oustom, by pleasantry:
—' I was one day walking in the streets of London,'
said he, 'when a person told me that my pookethand-
kerchief was hanging out of my pocket, and that I should
lose it. Thank you, Sir, I answered, but I believe that
unless some one pulls it out it will not fall Well,
Turkey is in the same position; if she be not thrown
down she will, I am convinced, maintain herself per-
fectly ! "

THE EMPEROR AND THE LANDER.—BIARRITZ, Sept.
Th 13.—e Emperor, accompanied by his Excellency the
Count Walewski, the Prefect of the Landes, the Prince
de la Moskowa, Colonel Faye, and M. Mocquard, yes-
terday made an excursion to the Marais d'Orx, situate in
the middle of Landes. It is known that after the
signing of the Treaty of Paris, wishing to acknowledge
the services of Count Walewski, and to give him a par-
ticular proof of his satifaction, his Majesty made him a
present of these marshes : but, as their drainage re-
quires considerable labour, the Emperor, before deliver-
ing the property definitely to Count Walewski, under-
took to do so at his own expense, in order that this
act of munificence might not become a heavy charge to
the count. At Cape Breton the Emperor met the engi-
neer-in-chief and the engineer.in-ordinary of the de-
partment, who showed him the plans, the execution of
which will give to the numerous fishermen of that place
the means of engaging with more security in the fishery
which they carry on on those coasts, and will preserve
many private properties from the annual inundations.
As these expenses would be of little consequence in com-
parison with a result so advantageous, the Emperor has
promised that the works shall be commenced imme-
diately.