The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-09-10 00:00:00

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FBA NCE.—At a banquet given by the Prefect of the
Montpelier department. M. Michel Chevalier delivered •
speech in reference to the remarks of Lord Palmerston
at Dover last week, of which the following is a arm.
nary France is honoured and respected abroad;
the I. only feared by the enemies of progresA and the
adversarial of civilisation. France is considered in the
world as the principal repreeentative and principal
champion of weal and political progress. She inspires
admiration and sympathy in the people who hope for a
happier deathly, and receive+ marks of the hatred and
distrust of men animated by the insidous of another age.
He regretted that speeches recently delivered obliged
him to range on the tide of the latter some misiatem of
their nearest ally, and renowned for its love of liberty
and progress, towards which the Emperor has loyally
toads advances honourable to both parties. and *hien
merited a better welcome and • more sympathetic re-
"maw"
ITALY —The arrsapreent has been definitively
made in the Italian Ministry by which Baron Itteseoli
trawlers his ministerial functions to the tiepartment of
the Interior. For the present Baron Rkssoli retains
labia charge the portfolio°, Foreign Affair., which will,
it apt tan tolerably eartais, be molded before long to
the Coast Arms. The latter discharged not long since
an important diplomatic service at the Court of Ili*
Zmperar Napoleon. Baron Ricasolt will retain the
Presidency of the Cabinet. As we have already
mentioned' the ostensible muse of this ministerial modi-
fication is the &feriae, of opinion between Minghetti,
tato Minister of the Interior, and his collimate upon
the eahlea of the Naples Liantenantey. But various
rumours amigo quite other easses, the most generally
aecopted hang that Pãcseeli while managing the foreign
affairs did not Ind himself very harnioniotaly situated
with regard to the French Court In any ease, the
department for the Interior is at preemie the most
important for Italy. Illinghetti was a failure in the
o; mad the aoseptence of it by • man of Ricseoll'a
nerve aad dotermination may be regarded as fortunate
for the ettientry. No change in the general policy of the
Cabinet will takes/mei
SPAIN—The Spanish /pow gives as to understand
that Smith doss net moth to keep her army idle. The
preen/ Mato of things is Europe, says our contem-
•fer, "de as 10 Nadu it necessary to evacuate
nayn—en honourable terms—in order that the Spanish
troops nay be poseentrahaii. The hint is significant;
but with whom is Spain Row going to war? Is she
going to light for lb. Pepe or simply desires to lead
him troops?
GERKANY. —Particulars have just come to hand of
another Motto-German row. The mane, this time, is
laid at Heidelberg. According to one story PUN
English tourists being prmsnt at • meeting of members
of the National Verem, one of their number, excited
by the speech/a end the
beer combined, thought proper
to exhibit —his loyalty by giving the health of the
geese. The proemial was, however, treated with con-
silence by the Venda MO, and the sitting
quietly seMi midnight, when the English.
men were set.apoa, and had to beat • retreat after •
desperate light The other aecount is that the English.
mon misbehaved thetuselves throughout the entire
evening by insultiag gestures and remarks; that when
the national bed was sang they in it with
groans and hisses, and that this ter LT.= forcible
eatodsion. The following 'nada( the Englishmen
sthetered hi greater oneshers, and prootoded in • body
to the ham% where the sittings were held, but the
inmates haring adopted the pendoatial course of
sagietpating their arrival by closing the doors, they
WIRT haialked at their obfecit of renewing the quarrel,
end had to retire. The neat day the tourists quitted
the town.