The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-07-26 00:00:00

Prep ant Colonial Intelligence.

FRANCE.
ARRIVAL _OF THE EMPEROR.

The A/nail's' of Monday states that :—The-Emperor
arrived at the Palace of 81 Cloud, by the railroad de
critairre, this morning (17th), at 10 o'clock. His
Majesty was received, on alighting from his cerriap, by
the Empress and the Prince Imperial. At noon His
Majesty heard mass in the Chapel of the Palace, and
immediately afterwards received Prince Jerome, the
Princess Mario Clotilde Napoleon, the Princess Math-
ilde, Prince and Princete Lucien Murat, and Princess
Ila, their daughter. The member' of the Privy Coun-
cil, of the Council of Ministers, the Grand Of Boors of the
Crown, and the Officers and Ladies of the Household
had also the honour of being received by the Em_peror.
Ilia Majesty enjoys the most excellent health. Thot
the Emperor wished to remain unrecognised during
rapid journey lie has just accomplished, yet everywhere,
after he mooed the frontier of France, the people. as-
scuilded on the different points of his route, and haled
his return with the warmest acclamations.

On Tuesday last the Emperor received at St. Cloud
the great officers of the State, and his Excellency, M.
Tropiong, the President of the Senate, having delivered
a congratalatory address on the Emperor's return.
The Emperor replied as follows :
Gentlemen,—Finding myself again in the midst of
you who durinf, my absence have shown so much
devotion to the mpress and to my son, I feel first of
all the desire to thank you, and then to explain to you
the motives .of my conduct.
When, after a successful campaign of two months,
the French and Sardinian armies pitched their camp
before the wags of Verona, the struggle was evidently
on the point of undergoing • change in • military as
well as in a political point of Mew. I wee
fatally
obliged to attack in front an enemy intrenthed behind
great fortresses, protected against any diversion on his
Ranks by the neutrality of the territories which stir
rounded kiss; and in commencing the long and sterile
war of sieges I found in presence of me Europe in
arms, ready either to dispute our MOMS or to enemas
our rollers's.
Nevertheless, the difficulty of the enterprise would
neither have shaken my resolution nor stopped the
enthusiasm of my army had not the means been out el
proportion with the results to be expected. It was
necessary to resolve boldly to break through the hereins
raised by neutral Stentorian, and then to accept the
on the Rhine as well se on the Adige. It came
attorlit to swept everywhere the support of molutioti.
More precious Weil must have been shed, and enough
ha been idled already; in • word, to noosed it was
necessary to stake what no Sovereign ought to stoke,
=WI the independence of his country is in danger.
If, then, I stopped short, it was not from weariness
or exhaustion, nor from abandonment of the noble cause
I wished to serve, but because a louder voice spoke
within my heart—The interest of France.
Do you imagine it cost me nothing to put • break
upon the ardour of my soldiers, who, excited by victory,
snaked to advance 1
Do you suppose that it cost me nothing publicly in the
bee of Europe to ended from my programme the
territory which extend. from Mincio to the Adriatic?
Do you imagine that it cost me nothing to behold
noble Illusions destroyed in honest hearts, patriotic)
hopes extinguished?
To serve Italian independence I waged war against
the pain of Europe. As woe as the destinies of my
musky were imperilled I *included peace.
And can it now be said that our efforts and sacrifices
are • pure lose? No. As I mid in my farewell address
to my soldiers, we have • right to be proud of this short
campaign. In four combats and two betties a powerful
army, inferior to none in organisation and bravery, has
been defeated. The King of Piedmont, once styled the
Guardian of the Alps, has seen his country delivered
from invasion, and the frontier line of his States
extended from the Ticino to the Mineio. The idea of
Italian nationality is admitted by its warmest opponents.
All the Sovereigns of the Italian peninsula understand
at least the imperious necessity of salutary reforms.
Thus, after having given a new proof of the military
power of France, the pesos which I have just concluded
will be fruitful of happy restate; the future will reveal
them daily more and more for the happiness of Italy,
the inguenoe of France, the quiet of Europe.

The following telegrams have been received at Mr.
Iteuter's office

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PARIS, July 18, 12.48 p.m.
The Ronne opened flat. Rentes at 681. 74e., and feU
Immediately to 681. 500.
3.29 p.m.
Rentea dosed 681. 25c. for both money and account,
being a decline of Mc. in the former, and 60c. in the
latter came, since Saturday.
Tendency very flat.