The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-11-08 00:00:00

Jordan anb Colonial intelligence.

FRANCE.

The article of M. de Montslambert in the Correapou-
sou I, of which the prosecution of hat year and the offi-
cial warnings that periodical has received have greatly
increased the circulation, was published separately in
the form of • brochure or pamphlet. (We give some ex-
tracts in another part of the Express.] 'rhe arertiase•
mess, not to speak of the talent of the eloquent author
of the paper, was the hest advertisement the publishers
could have and the most succeseful means to excite the
curiosity of the public. This, however, has been
stopped, for the brochure has peen seized. The date of
the original publication in the Corresomokint was the
With of October. The arerlisseuunt was issued on the
:Slat ; we may conclude, then, that there was sonic de-
liberation as to whether any measure of repression
should be adopted; probably the original intention was
merely to have the article answered in one of the semi-
official papers. The Minister, however, appears to have
decided for the arerfisserneni. One of the reasons al-
leged for this measure was M. de Montalembert's having
characterized the policy of England in Italian affairs as
"ignoble" and it, perhaps, was desirable to show thus
that the alliance with England was not impaired. But
even this compliment, if it was intended as such, will
not tliminish the repugnance every lover of the freedom
of the press must feel at such a mode of answering an
adversary. It is rather curious that this time last year
M. de Montalembert was prosecuted for having praised
England and English institutions, and now one of the '
causes assigned for visiting hint with official indignation
is his having, after a passage where eulogy is not want-
ing, made use of a terni which. strung as it may be, is
zugslcrate in comparison with the opprobrious epithets
flung at us by the lin irers or the Go:ette 'Sc France.
Paris was visited on Tuesday evening last by a severe
gale of wind, which blew without intermission all night.
A chimney was blown down in the Rue Favart, and
there is in several street' fragments of elate, tiles, and
wood torn front the roofs of houses.
l'rince Napoleon arrived on Thursday week at the
l'alais Royal, on his return from England. We are told
that "he appears to be much satisfied with the attertion
he received from all classes of persons with whom he
came in contact."
The cholera is, it appears, increasing in intensity
among the French troops on the Morocco frontier.
Several officers have fallen victims to it, and the total
loss in every rank is stated to be over 1,500. This may
be exaggerated, but it is certain that the loss is consi-
derable for the time, and that there are serious appre-
hensions of the pestilence spreading. The death of
Colonel Latent, commanding the Engineers, was on
Friday announced.
The Duke of Padua, Minister of the Interior, has re-
signed his office. The Aluniteur states that ill health is
the cause of this, and it seems that 11. Billault is ap-
pointed the Duke's successor.
It is declared in a semi-official journal that "the
statement that France has supplied Spain with resources
for operating against Morocco is not correct. France
does not co-operate with Spain in her operations against
Morocco." But • communication from Brussels states
positively, in the face of this announcement, that the
Spanish Minister, M. Mon, "has made a request for ma-
terials of war, to which Marshal Randon, Minister of
War, has given his consent."
THR WIATHEI is FRANCIL—The Courier de la
Gironde states that the weather has been more severe at
Bordeaus during the last week than has been re.nein•
bered for many years. On Monday the wind was so •io-
lant that fears were entertained of damage being done to
vessels on the coast. Bayonne was also visited two days
ago by • violent tempest. In the Allies de Souders
two trees were blown down, and several others were in-
jured in the Place d'Armes. The mast of the signal.
tower was carried away, and the Louis, front Lannion,
freighted with oats, lost part of her rigging, and was
otherwise disabled in entering the port. Likewise, a
frightful hurricane visited Besancon three nights ago,
and raged without intermission for five hours, doing
considerable damage. The wind was 110 stormy that in
many houses it shook the furniture. It was accoinpanied
and followed by treinenglgois rain. The Naha l'itUivie
of Lyons states that the recent rains have greatly raised
the waters in the rivers in that city. The I:110110 hiss
overflowed the stoneyards on the quai l'unibalot, and
the Soane has flooded the towing-path near the Pont
Nemours and covered the dike erected to protect the
workmen. The saviors received fngui different quarters
ACM to forbode an early xii.ter. Rather heavy falls of
snow have already occurred in the Pas-de-Calais and
Brittany, as well as in the neighbourhood of Rouen,
Ilavre, and Antwerp. A letter from st. Gervais-les-
Pains also states that so ninth snow was never remem-
bered in the Alps at this waren. Mount Punnet and the
other mountains round Salina, in the Jura, are likewise
covered with snow.

The French Nliiitter of justice lately male his report
on crime in France, and gave the abstraet of it in the
columns of the .11,,otilritr. The Minister took this OCCiI.
111.11 to make some instructive contrasts betwixt' crime
in France and crime in England, in the course of which
the Toni Chancellor was described u presiding at the
Old Bailey!