The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-05-11 00:00:00

fHE CAVE OF ADULLUC

Lieutenant Cornier, RE.. the officer in charge of the
survey of Palestine, reports the recent discovery of the
city and cave of AduHam. M. Clermont Benneau
last year the name of Ayd el Mieh attached to a ruin in
the ''Shepliehh," a low country of Jetta!). The slut has
now heen visitde and thoioughly examined by the survey
party, the coneludon arri %%%%% at being that it is the
veritable site of Adullam. If this he agreed upon, fresh
light wi I be thrown on the principal seines of David's
outlaw life. Aril id Mieh is placed in a commanding
position in the presumed Valley of Elali, where David
killed Goths's, and in which the Philistines always had,
unless barred by strongholds such as this, an open high-
way, a mile broil, tip which they could make their forays
on the fertile corn-lands of Judah. It lies halfway
between Soeoh and Kraals, and about eight tuiles north-
east of Belt dibrius. The ruins c prise the usual con-
fused remains of dwellings, with wells still open,
aqueducts, tomb,, bill (err-arcs for cultivation, and rock
fortitkations. Withant the walls and on both aides of
the valley are a series of caves, still used as dwelling-
places or stables, in which abundant room naiad he found
fir David and his followers. Photographs have been
taken IT Lieutenant Kitchener (who has hueme.led the
late Mr. Tvrwhitt Drake in the survey). and doubtless the
ruins will he sketched and planned by LieutenantConder.
The district in which the party are now engaged has
yielded an abundant harvest of Biblical names, the lista
those recovered by the expedition in this neighbourhood
exceeding in number all those found by previous travellers
together—a fact illustrative of the value of systematic
researeh.

A FRENCH SCARE.

"A French Scare" is the title of a letter scarcely less
alarming than the war article of the Berlin Post, and
which is supplied to the 7- • by a French correspondent.
The writer says the most serious minds believe in an im-
pending danger, in a latent menace, in that vague and
terrible bell.tioll hil.ll is expressed in the :words " some-
thing brewing." The fact is, that politicians coining Irons
abroad, as well SW those at Ii who claim to be wen-
n:fel-used, assert that peace or war is about to depend on
the interview of the German and Russian Emperors.
There is no doubt a powerful party in Germany, corn-
prising the whole military element, which says Germany
concluded a had treaty, that live milliards have already
returned into the coffers of France, that Belfort is a thorn
which enters the tle-h of Germany, that military France
is re-organising itself; while on the other hand Germany
is not richer than before the war, she cannot long support
her present armaments and there never wai a more pro-
',Rions moment than the present for .ecuring Germany A
long term of prosperity, a long era of peace. They pro-
pose to secure this by entering France; marching to Paris,
taking up • position on the sheltered plateau of Avon,
whence they could destroy the capital or sign a new peace,
depriving Frame of Belfort, limiting its active army, and
titling it 10 millards in lkt yearly instalments, with interest
at 5 per cent., and without the option of paying it off
Caner; Paris being only attacked in the event of France
ref u6ing to sign such a treaty.