The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
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DORSET COUNTY EXPRESS

DORCHESTER, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1839.

HONNSTS AUDAX.

Tim Deputation appointed by the Tuscan
National Assembly to offer the sovereignty of
that Duchy to the King of Sardinia arrived at
Turin on Saturday, and was received by His
Majesty on the same day. Count Gherardesca,
on behalf of the National Assembly, having
offered the annexation of Tuscany to Piedmont
as the unanimous and unconditional resolution
of his countrymen, the King said that he re-
ceived their wish as a solemn manifestation of
the will of the Tuscan people, who, after having
"made the last vestage of the foreign domina-
tion in Tuscany to cease," desired to contribute
to the constitution of a strung kingdom which
should defend the independence of Italy. But
the accomplishment of their wish could only take
place by "negotiations which were about to
begin on the affairs of Italy." His Majesty
intimated that the question could only be decided
by a Congress of the European Powers, and
added that he would support their cause before
those Powers, "becoming himself strong by the
rights which were given him by their wishes."
The effect of this answer is that King Victor
Emmanuel, without admitting Tuscany to be a
part of the kingdom of Sardinia or committing
himself to the assumption of its Sovereignty,
accepts the office of representative of the Tuscan
' people before Europe, and reserves his decision
as to the acceptance of the offer made to him by
the National Assembly. From Parma we learn
I that the result of the vote on the annexation of
that Duchy to Piedmont was 63,403 votes in
favour of the annexation, and 506 against it.
The elections have since been concluded with
admirable order, and the opening of the Assem-
bly took place on Wednesday with great solem-
nity. Accounts from Bologna state that the
National Assembly of the Romagna on Tuesday
unanimously adopted a resolution declaring that
the inhabitants of the Romagna will no longer
submit to the temporal government of the Pope,
and on the following day, with the same unani-
mity, agreed to a motion for the annexation of
the Legations to Sardinia. The Assembly at the
same time authorised the President to present
an address to the Emperor Napoleon and to
King Victor Emmanuel, expressing their sympa-
thies for Venetia, and offering to make pecuniary
sacrifices in her favour. Meanwhile the Zurich
Conferences, after a succession of interviews and
discussions which have led to nothing, are virtu-
ally suspended. Austria has called upon the I
Emperor of the French to fulfil the Treaty of
Villafranca by the restoration of the Grand
Dukes, and has refused to admit the principle
that the people of the Duchies and the Legations
have any right to choose a Sovereign for them-
selves. If, however, the difficulties attending
the restoration of the Grand Dukes should prove
to be insurmountable, Austria, it is said, has
intimated that she would prefer the nomination
of Prince Napoleon as King of Central Italy to
the annexation of the Duchies to Sardinia.
Prince Richard bletternich has been sent to St.
Saureur to propose another interview between
the Emperors of France and Austria for the con-
sideration of these questions, and the Castle of
Ahrenberg, in Switzerland, is said to have been
selected as the axne of the interview. The
Monikur of Friday last, in an article on these
complications, states that as the Grand Dukes
will not be re-established by force, Austria will
be freed from her engagement to grant large con-
cessions to Venetia. It expresses strong doubt
whether a Congress would obtain better condi-
tions for Italy than the Treaty of Villafranca,
and concludes by saying that the only way to
resolve the difficulty would be War, but "Italy
must be aware that France is the only power
which makes war for an idea, and France has
fulfilled her mission."

By the last mail from the United States we
Learn that the American General Harney has
taken possession of the Island of San Juan, or
Bellevue, in Puget Sound. This island is
claimed by both nations, and is important to
this country in connection with the new colony
of British Columbia, inasmuch as it commands
the entrance to Fraser's River. It is not known
whether this seizure was the result of orders
received from the Government at Washington,
but as it has occurred while a detachment of
British Engineers was actively engaged in !sur-
veying the country and fixing the boundaiy,
there is reason to apprehend that it may lead to
another boundary dispute between this country
and the United States.

THE complication of the affairs of Italy has just
been invested with a fresh and most formidable
difficulty. It is now announced to the world by
the Moniteur, says the Times, that one of the
conditions of the Treaty of Villafranca—not
only a condition, indeed, but that one which
stood in the high position of being sine quit non'
—wan the return of the Archdukes. Large
COneellsiCilll to Venetia were promised by the
Emperor of AUSTRIA as the equivalent of this
engagement, and the Emperor Naroixox seems
to have accepted both the one and the other in
the spirit of amiable generosity which found its
way from the heights of Solferino, in face of
the great Quadrangle, to the quiet armchairs of
the parlour at Villafranca. If the slave who
ought to remind conquerors of their mortality be
sometimes absent from the chariot-wheel, he is
never miming from the Council Chamber.
There he speaks of fruitless victories, of treasure
wasted, of life squandered, of programmes falsi-
fied, of promises unkept. The Emperor NAPO-
Laos accepted the condition that the Archdukes
were to be restored as the price of concessions to
Venice, which we must be content to know were
large," and which possibly extended to some
recognition of public existence and personal
liberty. But it appears that the destinies of
Italy were intrusted, not to the Emperor of
Feameg, but to men who had more at heart
little partial sumo/Ines than the future of their
common fatherland. Those bad citizens and
P'l'7 politicians by objecting to the restoration
of the Archdukes, have obstructed instead of j
developing the consequences of the Treaty of
Villafranca. The result of their efforts is boldly
stated to be the perpetuation of the right of
Austria to do as she likes in Venetia, which
under happier auspices might have been placed
in the proud position which Luxembourg enjoys
in regard to the Kingdom of Holland.! The
"fix" in which the Euraimut of the Faxiscu
now finds himself is most extraordinary, and
' the difficulty is as to the mode of escape; for
it is certain that the Archdukes are not to be
reinstated by foreign forces. This "part of the
"Treaty of Villafranca is not executed." It

was, then, an article of that Treaty that the
Archdukes were to march into their old capitals
at the head of French or Austrian legions.
Let Italy be thankful that she is saved from this
curious conclusion of a crusade which was to
make her free to the Adriatic. Let her rejoice
in the breach of this famous Treaty, of which
we know little as yet, except the breaches,
because it saves her from the Archdukes, though
it hands over Venetia to Austria, which is
absolved from all engagements, either of huma-
nity or concession, in regard to its helpless pro-
vince. The Tintra thus concludes—certainly, if
ever there were required a proof demonstrative of
the wisdom of the injunction to do no evil that
good may come of it, we may see it in the state
of affairs which has arisen out of the war of
France for an idea, and out of the Treaty with
which that war was brought to a close. France
has indeed made war for her idea, but when the
' Monikur tells us she has accomplished her
mission we must hesitate ere we can believe that
she sacrificed so many millions of money and
expended so much noble blood for the sorry
satisfaction of gaining some barren victories, or
for the brief existence of a lame and impotent
Treaty.

DORCUESTKR PITCHED CORN MARKET, Saturday.
—Our market was well supplied with all kinds of
grain, the trade ruled dull. Millers and dealers only
buying for their immediate wants.

Messrs. Baker and Ensor's sale took place on
Saturday laq. 56 fat and store beasts and MO fat
sheep and lambs were offered and with the execu-
tion of two or three lots were all sold. A large at-
tendance of dealers and butchers. There was a great
demand for mutton from 7th. to td. per lb. beef
I Is. to I Is. 6d. per score ; working oxen £l7 to
XIS Iffs. each. Messrs. Raker and Ensor opened
their new repository for the sale of horses and car-
nages, &c., adjoining the Plume of Feathers Inn—s
eery suitable place, with convenient stables. About
30 horses were offered, which drew a large attend-
ance. Ponies sold from XS to £l4 : cobs XIS
to £2i; good anal sounal cart horses from X:ri to X. 35.
Inferior description of animals no demand.

A goods train broke down on the Great Western
Railway last Thursday while passing Bradford Peve-
roll, near this town. The accident was occasioned
by the breakage of one of the axles of a wagon, and
the rails were torn up for a short distance, which oc-
casioned some delay to the passenger traffic.
REVISION OF THE LISTS OF VOTERS. E Platt
and .1. E. Holdsworth, Emirs., will hold a court for
the above purpose, at the County Hall, on Saturday,
the 24th of September inst., at 9 o'clock in the fore-
noon precisely, to revise the lists for Charminster,
Dewlish, Dorchester All Saints, Holy Trinity. and
St. Peter, Fleet, Fordington, Frampton, From
Vauchurch, Kingston Russell, Littlebraly, Litton
Chiney, Longbredy, Maiden Newton, Osmington,
Owerinoigne, Puncknowle, Swye, Wynford Eagle,
and other places.

DORM t !OUNTY HosrrraL.—The following appeal
to the clergy for their aid in promoting subscriptions
for this benevolent and admirably conducted institu-
tion has been put in circulation; and looking at the
pressing need of support which the benefimit opera.
titan of the Hospital entail, and to the fact that this
want must for the present be supplied by "special
exertions," we heartily hope that the several parishe.„
when applied to, will respond liberally to the call
made upon them, and thus give effect to Christian
sympathy in one of its best and noblest aspira-
tions :