The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-10-25 00:00:00

DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHEBTER, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1859.

HONESTE A UDA X.

Tx. Treaty of Peace between Franco and Austria
was signed at Zurich on Monday by the Plenipo-
tentiaries of the two Powers, and now awaits the
ratification of the respective Governments. It
is based upon the provisions of the Convention of
Villafranca, and contains little beyond them
except the settlement of the Lombard debt, on
account of which Sardinia is to pay the sum of
ten millions sterling to Austria, in addition to
the sum of two millions and a half to France in
re-imbursement of her advances during the war.
It provides of course for the cession of Lombardy
to France, with the exception of Mantua, Pes-
chiera, and as far as the frontier line fixed by a
special commission, the limit of which is already
known ; and it declares that the Emperor of the
French transfers the ceded portions of Lom-
bardy to the King of Sardinia. It states that
the rights of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, the
Duke of Modena, and the Duke of Parma are
expressly reserved by the contracting Powers,
and that the "tranquility of the Church and
the power of the Holy Father" are to be insured
by tho two Emperors uniting their efforts in
order to induce the Pope to carry out a reform
in the administration of his States. The treaty
also pledges the Emperors to "assist with all
their power in the formation of a Confederation
of all the Italian States, with a Federal army to
watch over the defence of the interior and exte-
rior of Italy. Venetia, which will remain under
the rule of Austria, is to form a part of this Con-
federation, and to participate in the rights and
obligations of the Federal Treaty. All persons
who took part in the late war are to be secured
from attack either in their person or their pro-
perty, and are to be allowed to remain unmo-
lested in either country, the new Government
undertaking to respect their rights in regard to
pensions and invested property. The Treaty
concludes with a stipulation that it shall be
signed and ratified, and the ratifications ex-
changed at Zurich within 15 days. Meanwhile
the Emperor of the French has received the
deputations of Tuscany, Parma, and Modena,
and is said to have assured them that though he
will endeavour, in the spirit of the Treaty, to
secure the return of the exiled Sovereigns, he
will not employ force or permit force to be em-
ployed by any other Power to effect their re-
storation.

With respect to Spain and Morocco we learn
from intelligence from Madrid, dated Oct. 21,
that General O'DoNNsu. announced at the sit-
ting of the Cortes on that day, that the Spanish
Government had ordered its representative at
Tangier to take his departure. At the sitting
of the following day Government declared to
the Cortes that it was going to war with Morocco.
This declaration, we learn, was received with
great enthusiasm; and all political parties, the
Senate, and the Congress, have offered their sup-
port to the Ministry. All the newspapers are said
to express the same patriotic feelings. It is asked
whether the French ruler is in any way con-
cerned in the quarrel, and whether • diversion
may be anticipated on the aide of Algeria. The
notion that Queen ISABELLA and her powerful
Minister would not embark in such an enterprise
without the countenance of the French
EMPEROR is widely diffused, and it is not easy to
say how far it may be justly founded. But,
should war break out, as seems more than pro-
bable, in spite of the good advice of England to
the new ruler of Morocco, it is thought that
neither this country nor any other has canoe for
umbrage or right of interference.

APPREHENSIONS AS to the peace of Europe are
still widely felt; and although no very definite
and substantial reasons can be met with in
support of these fears, they are nevertheless
entertained. It is idle to deny that this feeling
is based upon mistrust of the FRENCH EMPEROR
—upon the " inscrutable" nature of his policy.
The TOBeA fully recognizes this state of things,
and finding it hopeless to deny its existance thus
comments upon the fact :—" Without any obvious
cause, gloomy anticipations are prevalent on every
Continental Bourse, and men feel a disquietude
which they cannot account for, except by
saying, in vague phrases, that the condition of
Europe is unsettled. That this state of things
is likely to come to an end cannot be hoped.
The breaking out of the war in 1853 has changed
all the relations of the European Monarchies,
and that international understanding which had
been the work of 40 years and a generation of
great statesmen has come to an end. Truly,
the beginning of strife is like the letting out of
water. What would we not now give for the
golden days of Louis PHILIPPI and Lord
MELBOURNE, when national defences oust eleven
millions instead of nearly thirty; when "Peace,
Retrenchment, and Reform" were the watch-
words of Continental despots as well as of plat-
form orators at home I From more than one
capital we receive news of the oppression which
weighs on men's minds. War with Austria is
scarcely over when men of business in France
are beginning to whisper of new complications
into which the inscrutable policy of the Emptito•
may lead his half-unwilling subjects. A few
months ago excitement, and even alarm,
existed in England as to our future relations
with our most powerful neighbours; these have
been lulled for a time, but in Paris there still
seems to be • dread that a year or two may
Wing a renewal of the drama which was played
out in 1889."

DORCHINTEIs PITCHED CORN M•RiET, Saturday.
_Our market was thinly attended to-day, with a
a short supply of all kinds of grain, the trade ruled
inactive at barely last week's rates.
The death of the Rev. Henry Hushes Still renders
vacant the rectory of C-kt*i.toek, in the county of
Dorset and diocese of Swain. The annual value of
the hying, according to the clergy list, is 41510.

WHOLESALE DESTRUCTION Or SMALL Bums.—
An esteemed correspondent having noticed in our
account of the meeting of the Winfrith Farmer's
Club, the proposition there made for the wholesale
destruction of small birds by poison, expresses
much concern that such a step should be taken, and
puts in a word on behalf of the sparrows from Kirby
and Spence's Entomology, which says that "a single
pair of sparrows, having young to maintain, will
destroy 3,360 caterpillars in a week."

Nought so vile that on the earth doth live,
But to the earth some special good doth give.