The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-05-29 00:00:00

oSfIN(TATION OF A BIRD*RNYE VIEW ON
THE IMPENI.ING WAR.

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TO the Editor&

So, for the sake of a few seaports, Europe moist be
consultor, and crippled by war! Poor seaskind
poor ! Is there no power on earth, no
congruis, no court of equity, that can prevent or
et, p 'hie ltalo Germanic atinggle For their gory
banquet the furies will have their millioneof victim.;
devastation anti ruin will reign everywhere, like they
did under Attila with his Huns. Bet Attila and his
ruthless hordes were repulsed near CiVona, and
there is now an ominous camp at that very spot.
Thu,. the ohject of the present quarrel is dispossession
of the Ductile. matched from Menmetk under false
retences and calkers, and also the possession of the
V. nettan province snatched from Italy. The Danish
tioclins are intlispematile to Prussia for her navy,
as V.-hiee is indispersable to Austria for her own.
Therefore neiiher wield take any amount of money
to. them. This double mirdian knot must he cut by
the sword ever recideadvm. Shall England and
France quietly wait for the issue? Austria may
becomeSo powe.fal if she could command both the
Baltic and the Adriatic. Then Italy would vanish,
and be given up for ever to partition, superstition,
end brigandage. On the other hand, if Prussia gains
the Duchies, and Italy Vtnioe, then the Austrian
navy is destroyed, and Austria diamenilwred.
"fairish then for Protestant Prussia and heroic
Garibaldi! Still Prussia would be the thief and
Vietor Emmanuel the honest men. As nations, the
Italians and the Prussians are more intellectual.
Rot the Auetriens are in general a finer ram, or
rather ramie, of men ; not ao refined and ruled by the
stick. Altogether they constitute the three most
musical nations in the world, and they cannot live
in harmony, because their rulers are quarrelling
stout a few esaprirta for the sake of developing their
reainvtive navies, jest ea Russia incurred the
I 'rinieso war for the smite of securing the Black Sea
f,r herself. Meanwhile blood mast flow in torrents,
m it were, to float their ships, like the boat of the
King ~f Dahomey. Bat loth Austria and Prussia
reckon without their hod, and sooomplioe in their
rester ~nd time honoured burglary of Poland. I
ii.eso Russia, the colossus of the north, who will
soon interfere, in order to take some material
guarantee, north, west, or south, perhaps putting
the Danish Duchies under her special patronage.
Than England and Frame most interfere to prevent
Ramis from tenting the Danubiaa provinces, Greece
or Constantinople, and ultimately driving the
Euglieb from India, to snatch the United State,
driving both English and French front America.
Fancy then three or four millions of armed men
ravaging and blasting the earth; and making confu-
sion worse confounded. In the midst of all this
pondenioniwn we would me the revolutions of 1848
re.enacted with merciless Red Repablicane,Socialista,
and levellers. What makes me fear the terrible
consequences of the costing struggle is the thought
that the burglary of Governmenta will find demo-
cratic initiator,, as an incident occurred to me some
years ago. I received on a ...biter day the visit of
one of tbe exiled Red Republicans. He was cold
and hungry, and though I was not of his persuasiois
I clothed and fed bun, as I should have wished to be
tweed myself. Al parting, the poor misguided
man, to show his thormah gratitude to me, said
be had inscribed my name among the deserving
citizens who were to receive some day, moiler or
later, a Republican reward, that is, no title or vain
hot ours, but • substantial estate, meaning that after
the great battle of nations there would be a general
cuifideracy of Republica, and • Redistribution of
Seats (not that harmless change contemplated by
attietone now), but • real redistribution of estates,
like that one achieved by William the Cooqueror, of
flu 000 seats. "For," added m• guest, " all the
rich that will not recognise the Red Flag shall have
their estates confiscated, and the faithful Mtisens
will be placed in their location, sod as you bays been
so kind to • leading republican your came will be
among those who *hall have the first pick." What
• fine prospect for me! Tbe poor fellow did not tell
we bow the ownere could keep their meta. His
offer was prompted by his sufferings, and I pitied
him the more. Just think how many millions of
sufferers will be made by this general war, and how
many starvelings! 0 male made lames!
A NO LO•FIiENCH.