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

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1859.

HONE.STE AUDA X.

The Emperor of the French has addressed a
letter to the King of Sardinia, in which he defi-
nitively lays down the principles on which he is
prepared to settle the Italian question. His
Majesty proposes that Italy shall be composed
of several independent States, united by a
Federal bond, each state to adopt a particular
representative system and salutary reforms; the
Confederation to ratify the principle of Italian
nationality; to have but one flag, one system
of Customs, and one currency ; the directing
centre to be at Rome, and composed of represent-
atives named by the Sovereigns from the list
prepared by the Chambers, in order that the
influence of the reigning families suspected of
a leaning to Austria may be counteracted by the
element resulting from election. The Emperor
proposes that the honorary Presidency of the
Confederacy shall be vested in the Pope; that
Parma and Piacenza shall be ceded to Sardinia;
that the Duchess of Parma shall be called to
Modena; that Tuscany, augmented perhaps by
a portion of territory, shall be restored to the
Grand Duke Ferdinand; and that Austria shall
be called upon to recognize Mantua and Pes-
chiera as federal fortresses, and to complete the
nationality of Venetia as a purely Italian pro-
vince by giving her a separate representation
and an Italian army. Accounts from Turin
state that this letter has been very unfavourably
received in Northern and Central Italy. The
arrangementa which it proposes have failed to
give satisfaction to any party, and it is considered
probable that, if any attempt were made to
carry them into effect, they would rather add to,
than diminish, the complications into which the
Italian question is already involved.

Amounts from Madrid announce that a cir-
cular was addressed by the Spanish Government
to the Diplomatic corps on Saturday, informing
the foreign Powers that Tangiers, Tetuan, and
LruTache, had been declared in a state of block-
ade. The Paris papers state that though France
does not actually co-operate with Spain in these
operations the French army under General Mar-
timprey has invaded the interior of the empire
and seized the defile of A in-Tacouralt, in revenge
for the outrages committed by the Moors on the
frontier of Algeria.
Advices from New York inform us that the
insurrection at Harper's Ferry has been sup-
pressed without much loss of life. There is no
longer any doubt as to the real character of the
outbreak. Papers have been found in the pos-
'salon of the prisoners which show that it was in-
tended to be the commencement of a negro rising

throughout the slave states, and that several
well-known abolitionists had furnished the ne-
cessary funds. The whole affair had been or-
ganized with considerable deliberation and skill,
and a constitution and code of rules had been
drawn up, to which the conspirators were ni-
quired to accede. Apprehensions of a further
outbreak were current in the neighbourhood of
Harper's Ferry at the departure of the mail, and
the citizens were organizing companies for their
defence. The news of the insurrection had also
caused great excitement and alarm in Washing-
ton, and precautions had been taken in case of
an outbreak oocuring in that city. The San
Juan difficulty had been the subject of
discussion at several meetings of the Cabi-
net, and it had been finally determined to take
no further action in the matter until the receipt
of despatches from General Scott. The latest
news states that Lord Lyons had received des-
patches expressing the satisfaction entertained
by the British Government at the conciliatory
course which Mr. Buchanan had adopted in
sending General Scott to the scene of the dis-
pute.

Ax article in the Times of yesterday (Monday)
on the Press of France is one of peculiar interest
and remarkable force, as it bears upon the
activity now displayed in this country to put
these islands into a proper state of defence.
The French Press has long been unfavourably
contrasted with the Press of this country in
respect to its freedom, and the wholesome
influences such an institution ought to
exert in any country. But upon a close
examination into the nature and offices of
the French Press, however much one may
condemn its servility, we find there is in it
not only something which ought not to be dis-
carded as worthless, but which, properly con-
sidered, will serve as a very striking indication
as to the course which this country ought to
take in the way of self-defence. The incessant
tirades of a portion of the French Press against
this country are taken, very naturally, to repre-
sent the views of the French Government, and
that Government is absolute. The French Press
being silenced or forced to speak by the order of
a Minister of the Interior—" writing only up to
the point that is permitted"—must be taken as
enunciating more or less accurately the views of
the Government. This conclusion is inevitable,
and by slow degrees it has forced itself upon the
conviction of the British nation. Things evil
have in them a spice of good, if only we would
be at the pains to extract it ; and this way of
viewing the feelings and dispositions of the
French Government towards this country_..
viewed even through this servile Press—reveals,
by the very intensity of its servility, indications
of the utmost importance to the peace and
security of these realms. It is therefore not
surprising, as the Times says, that the
hostilities evinced towards England, coupled
with preparations of a more formida-
ble character elsewhere, should have pro-
Produced their natural results- "They haTe
sueeeeeed," adds our great contemporary, "in
doing what nothing else has ever done—what the
ripe experience and immense authority of the
Duke of Wstuxerox himself failed to do,—that
is, in convincing the people of this country of the

absolute necessity of being armed and prepared
at all times to encounter foreign war, come
it from what quarter it might. They have
doubled our Income-tax, and they have at last
convinced us that we must garrison this country
with at least one hundred thousand effective
well-trained soldiers They have set us
forming Rifle Corps, whose members are already
counted by hundreds of thousands, and may
soon be reckoned in millions. They have set U 3
to regenerate our navy, and to maintain a
Channel Fleet in time of peace, and when we, at
least, are conscious of being actuated by the very
best intentions towards all the world, and of
desiring nothing so ardently as to devote our
undivided energies to peaceful industry and
COITIRMITOB. Then there Are the ARMSTRONG
guns, which we are manufacturing by hundreds,
and the rifles, which we turn out by thousands,
and yet far too slow for the demand for them,
and the drilling and the competition and the
training at Hythe, and all the din and prepara-
tion which make England a place like the
England of ELIZABETH or WILLIAM 111., hardly
to be recognized by one who dwelt there in the
halcyon days of WILLI4M IV. or the first fifteen
years of Queen VICTORIA." Then, as an
antidote to the possible superabundance of
vanity in the French Press on the score
of their own remarkable powers, the
Times well observes—" Let hot the French
journals whose labours have been crowned with
this remarkable result exult overmuch. If they
have succeeded in alarming us into taking those
means for our protection which we ought to
have taken long ago, they have done this not by
their own strength, but because they were
believed to speak the sentiments of a Power
much stronger and more formidable than them-
selves." We will bear the abuse of these hire-
lings, but act upon the warnings which are
indirectly, and perhaps unintentionally, conveyed
by them.

DORCIMSTER PITCHID CORN MARKET, Saturday.
—At to-day's market the supply of wheat vu short,
picked samples were taken at about Ia per quarter
advance, and others realized the same aa hat week.
Barley and oats no alterations.

ELECTION or TowN COUNCILLORS. —Tho retiring
members of the Town Council, Mr. Andrews, Mr.
Ensor, Mr. Stanton, and Mr. Mason, were duly
nominated for re-election, according to the provi-
sions of the recent Act of Parliament, and there
being no other nomination, these gentlemen were
on Tuesday last returned as duly elected.

THHATRICALS.—The officers of the Royal Engi•
neers and the Bedfordshire Light Infantry have an-
nounced their intention of_giving an amateur per-
formance at the Townhall, Dorchester, on the 25th
inst., "the proceeds, after payment of expenses, to
be devoted to the purposes of the Dorset County
Hospital."
SOUTH WIXTERIC RAILWAY.—It will beseen that
special trains will run from Dorchester and interven-
ing stations on Tuesday (this day), on Thursday,
and Saturday next, whereby an opportunity will be
afforded of visiting the Great Eastern steam-ship at
Southampton at very moderate fares, including steam
boat and admission on board.

THE BISHOP OF BRIsRANE AT DORCHESTER.—
The newly appointed Bishop of Brisbane, (Dr. Tuff-
nell) on Monday evening delivered • lecture at the
Townhall, Dorchester, in connection with the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts, and in order to bring before the public the
claims of that portion of our colonial possessions in
Queensland, Australia, over which he is to preside.
The chair was occupied by the Ven. Archdeacon
Buckle, and there were also on the platform with the
Right Rev. Prelate, the Hon. and Rev. W. H. Scott,
Rev. J. A. Templer, Rev. J. Morton Colson, Rey.
James Hicks, Rev. J. P. F. Davidson, Rev. Charles
Tower, and Rev. Williams. The Bishop gave a
variety of interesting details as to the pressing want
of spiritual aid in the colony; and urged, with more
than the usual force, the great obligation of a
Christian mind to bring home the blessings of the
Gospel of pardon and peace to those who had sinned.
The Chairman then conveyed the thanks of the
audience and himself to the Bishop for his able and
instructive address, hoping that the Lord would
prosper his work, and wishing him God speed. The
meeting then sung Heber's Missionary Hymn, after
which the Bishop pronounced the blessing, and the
snm of 4;7 ss. 341 was collected at the floor.

Bonoutut Potter, Monday. (Before John F.
'lodges and llobert Gerranl Davis. Esqrs.)—Jessie
I,odye was summoned for non-payment of poor-rates.
Promised to pay in a fortnight. Time allowed.
l'rrdes irk Judd and William Gromi, two ap-
prentices in the employ of Mr. Moudey, were sum•
~,,, ned for absenting themselves from their work on
Piddletown Fair-day. Mr. /doniley sustained from
pressing the charge in consideration of their promis-
ing not to be guilty of the like conduct again ; but
stated that in consequence of the boys having
absented themselves on other occasions, he should
certainly be obliged to punish them if they did so
again; and the Bench stated that in that case they
would be sent to prison. Discharged on payment of
the summons.
COMMITTED TO DORCHESTER GAOL. -To Hard
Lubour.—Jolln Jones, vagrancy at Poole, 3 calendar
months ; William Welch, the younger, assault on police
at Code ('astle, 3 weeks; William Coshead. absent
without leave from H.M.S. Mars, at Portland, IS days
hard labour and 10 days solitary ; George Adams, strik-
ing the leading stoker on board H.M.S. Blenheim at
Poitland, 214 days ; Gerratt Isstliam and Henry I).
Newbury deserting Hero, the first 3 calendar
months and the second 2 calendar months ; Luke Harris,
stealing apples at Stalbridgc, 10 days; John Dodge,
stealing a bladder and lard at Weymouth, 1 calendar
month.