The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-05-01 00:00:00

NOTES OF THE WICKS.

I.—IT IS SAID THAT THI Qtrazx has I
given Bushy Park Palace, which formerly
belonged to ueen Adelaide, to the Duc de
Nemours an his family. Of course, Her
Majesty, has a right to do what she likes
with her own, and this palace undoubtedly
belongs to the Crown for the time being;
but whatever we may think of the liberality
of the Queen, or the amiability of thcOrleane
family, what will his Maieath the Emperor
of the French, say to this P It is another
I istanoe of the strong friendship which exists
betireen our own Royal Family and that of
Orleans, which has been manifested in so
many ways ever since "Mr. Smith" arrived
in this country, a fugitive from the French
throne. And those who have the hontlut or
knowing any members of this family, cannot
wonder at it. Whether it be that "sweet
are the uses of adversity," and that they have
exercised a refining and sublimating influ-
ence, or whether it be that the family are
naturally amiable, need not be curiously
inquired into; but certain it is that all the
members of the Orleans family are greatly
beloved in the circles HI which they move.
A CIIRIOIIS SIDS ISSIJZ has
arisen out of the A ustro-Prumian dispute!
Whether Prussia or Italy concluded a treaty
of alliance or not, the latter kingdom is now
almost as much involved as if Ate had done
so, and Austria has found one of her latent
embarrassments springing up into an active
one. She has been arming on both sides of
her territory, it seems against Italy, u well
as Prussia; and she is now engaged in a
similar dispute with the former as with the
latter power. But while Austria and Italy
are disputing whether they have armed
against each other—who was the first to arm
—and which should be the first to disarm,
Prussia has forced herself into this quarrel
also, pretending on the one hand that the
armaments in Venetia are ultimately directed
against herself, and declaring on the other,
that she cannot allow the Italian army to be
crushed. This development of the Audio.
Prussian quarrel, is regarded here as rather
favourable than otherwise; it direete atten-
tion from the original matter at issue, and
thus gives time for passions to cool, and
expedients to be devised with regard to that;
while, by showing that a war must almost
necessarily involve other European powers,
it gives those the right and the interest to
intervene for the preservation of peace more
actively than they could while the quarrel
was confined to German soil.
ILEIBUILING-CAST mkzoarri much
as it may have. taken many Sanguine specu-
lators by surpnse, is in our opinion, all that
was to be desired upon the Frr_nehise Bill.
in other wiiniA, it was neither to be desired
that the Ministry should lose, nor win, luring
so nearly lost, however, it depends upon their
own construction of the, vote of Friday night
what effect may be
'lyen to the "sense of
the House."
Still, it strikes us forcibly that
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the ministry
and ill all r Jbability (if insincere in their
project of n.'".st have known and expected
may have planned that
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though not perhaps calculating on. so
dope_ .ould Curb out just about as they have
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- I usiToW majority. To pleasie the
parties by whom the reform measure has been
forced upon them, the Government may have
put it to the present teat, which is certainly
one adequate to justify them either in ad-
vancing or reeedmg, either in prosecuting the
measure or withdrawing it, eithw• in insisting
upon its being owned in its integrity, or