The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-04-19 00:00:00

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FRANCE.
Paws, Thursday, April 14,2 22 p.m.
It is meerted that the Emperor will shortly leave tor
Lyons. A memorandum from Count Ituol, hostile to
Piedmont, is spoken of. Bente§ hare declined to 674.
40e.

The intelligence from France is filled with reports of
the movement of troops and preparation in the naval
arsenals. On the 10th, the ifoadeur printed a decree
ordering the apportionment among the departments of
the 100,000 conscripts for this year of the c'lasa of 1858.
It is remarked that, while in ordinary times 80,000, and
sometimes even 40,000 only, are apportioned on the
present occasion the whole contingent is called out.
There ts a limiter drain on the naval service. What is
more, If. Witte (the principal director of the Victor
Emmanuel Railway from the French frontier to the
foot of the Alps, through Savoy), has been ordered to
bold in readiness the means of transporting a little army
to the frontiers of Italy.
The Conference on the Danubian Principalities remains
dimmed. At the opening. M. Musurua, on behalf of
the Sultan, denied that Colonel Couza pciemeed the
legal qualifications indispensable to his election sa Hos-
podar of Moldavia; and protested against the illegality
of that election, as well as against his second election for
Wallachia, which was effected by the introduction of
armed bands of peasants,•and the intimidation exercised
bj them over the people. He appealed to the Powers
whose representatives signed last year the Convention
for the organisation of the Principalities, to maintain it
in its integrity.
The city of Paris, in consideration of M. Lamartine's
services to the country in 1848, has made him a present
of • liandioine house and extensive grounds in the Bois
de Boulogne. M. Lemartine has lately refused to accept
• residuary bequest made by an old maiden lady to whom
he WIN a stranger. His friends say that he will nut take
advantage of the ill considered bequest of an iiiiiignia-
tive woman to deprive her relations of an inheritance
•upon which they had justly reckoned.
The Siede, speaking of the pert to be taken by France
at the propoeed Congresa, says "The Roman method
Is, we will admit, our ideal. Should our representatives
present themselves before the Congress with a sword
concealed in the folds of their toga they will carry the
day; if they are only half conviwxd, they will assuredly
be defeated."
The confusion in the political situation which was
noticed as the leading feature of Wednesday, was worse
confounded on Thursday. It is evident that diplomatic
negotiations are going on anything but smoothly. We are
assured that Lord Cowley laud Count Welewski, after a
long dispassion on Thursday, separated with the con-
viction that very MIMI differences of opinion exist
between the two Governments, and that the great fall
in the Boone, otherwise unexplained, is attributable
to this eircuinstanoe. We learn from • good source
that a treaty has been concluded between Belgium and
Holland for mutual defence in case of war breaking out.
It is agreed between the high contracting parties that in
certain given eventualities • joint army of 120,000 men
shall be set on foot, of which 180,000 are to be furnished
by the King of the Belgium, and 40,000 by the King of
*gland. In consideration of this difference between
the military contingents, the King of Holland engages,
at his own expense to tit out a fleet, to be stationed in
the Scheldt and the Meuse.
General Fonti, of the Piedmontees army, who was
charged with a military mission to France, has left
Paris for Turin. General Fonti had several interviews
with the Emperor and Prince Napoleon.
In consequence of the increasing importance of the
port of Marseillesa Comniiaary-General of the Imperial
marine is to be stationed there, in place of • simple
commissary.
The camp at Cubs is to be composed of four divisions
of infantry. The agglomeration of troops in Lyons is
so great that it has been found necessary to send detach-
ments into the departments of the Aisne and the Zaire.
Five thousand more troops have arrived in Marseilles
from Algeria.
General Renault has left Paris to take the command
of his division at Lyons.

ITALY.
TuaiN, Thursday, April 14.
The Marquis d'Aseglio left this morning for Paris.
charged with an extraordinary mission to the Govern-
ments ot Prams and England.
•

Rost, April 13.
The death of the King of Naples is hourly expected.
Public, prayers are offered up in the Churches for His
Majesty.

Milan Reinforcements continually &MVO moan and Pavia,
Two battalions of Croats appeared in the former city
recently.
The volunteers for the Piedmontese service are now
said to number 10,000.
In Rome there is much agitation. The Papal Govern-
ment is preparing an official note relative to the proposed
Congress, to be addressed to the great Powers. Paso-
porta are given by the Roman authorities to volunteers
for Pidniontese service from the States of the Church,
but with the intimation that they will be regarded as
exiles.
The King of Naples appears now to be in a hopeless
state of disease. The Hereditary Prince is said to
occupy himself much with public business, and there
was an expectation that he would soon be appointed
Vicar General of the kingdom.
COUNT CAVOCI'S STATEMENT.—Two new diplomatic
documents from the hand of Count ('scour have
appeared. One, addressed to the Marquis d'Aseglio,
the Sardinian Minister in London, advocates the Sat-
dinians' right to enter the Congress. The other is more
important ; it is • memorandum addressed by the
Pieduiontese Government to the British Government.
in reply to a request from Lord Malinesbury for a state.
meat of "the comp/aim,a which the Italians have to
bring forward against Austria, either on account of her
domination over the provinces which she possesses in
virtue of treaties, or in consequence of her relations with
the States of Central Italy, the abnormal condition of
which is admitted by all the Cabinet* of Europe." To this
request Count Cavour gives a precise answer. He des.
critics the state of Lombardo-Venetia in forcible terns ;
shows how the weight of Austrian influence prevents
the people of Panne. Modena, and Tuscany from obtain-
ing representative institutions; points out how for-
midable, in a military iemse, is the encroachment of
Austria upon other states; and proposes the following
change as a wan* of warding oN war and revolution,
ash so,ving, for • time at least. the Italian question :
" By obtaining from A list ria—not in virtue of treaties,but
in the name of the prinaiples of humanity and of eternal
justice—a national and separate government for Lom•
hardy and Venetia. Bv requiring, in conformity with
the letter and spirit of the Treaty of Vienna. that the
domination of Austria over the States of Central Italy
should cease, and, consequently that the detached fort.
constructed outside the walls of Placentia about,' he
destroyed; that the Conventon of the 24th of December
1847 (giving Austria a right to occupy Panne and
Modena at will), should be annulled ; that the occupa-
tion of the Romagna should cease; and that the principle
of nonintervention should be proclaimed and respected.
By inviting the Dukes of Modena and Panne to give to
their people institutions similar to those existing in
Piedmont, and that the Grand Duke of Tuscany
should re-establish the constitution to which he had
freely consented in 1848. By obtaining from the Sove-
reign Pontiff the administrative separation of the pro-
vinces beyond the Appenines, in conformity with the
propositions communicated in 1856 to the cabinets of
London and Paris."