The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-01-04 00:00:00

tulip anb Colonial intelligence. 1

FRANCE.

Y. DE MONTALEMBEKT PARDONED A SECOND

The Alosiiieur publishes in Da official oolumn the
following paragraph :

The Ein—pero-r, renewing his find decision. has remitted
In favour of M. de Montalembert the penalties defini-
tively pronounced against him by the (our Imperial of
Paris on the 2lst of December. lslli4. His Majesty has
also remitted in favour of M. 11ouniol, Director of the
Corrapmedara, the imprisonment to which he was sew
Wooed by the judgment of the 24th of November.

A labowrse hewer! It is done this time without war.
cam. We (the Times) see the hand of the master him•
self, and not in his worst manner This time at least
the act of grace, however meant, is free from the touches
of those wLo are but too " willing to wound," and is not
spoilt by any of those inveterate jokers of whom it is
saisi," Daunt tant fait d'esprit n'en out
Now it is probable that the erdarrese is the Empomr
himself, and it is done in a gentlemanly tuition. What
• pity not to have waited till the appeal was heard, And
M. de Montalmutiert definitively condemned ! All would
have been spared much trouble, and the Government
the mortification of something very like defeat. M. de
ontalembert was not. I believe, greatly alarmed at the
pruepect of three months imprisonment, but it was nut
very cheering to spend the rest of his life within the
grasp of the Law on Public *entity. The Illimiteme has
taken time by the forelock; it has not waited, as people
supposed it would, for either the Ist or 22nd of January ;
and if the choice of the 24th of December cover an allu-
sion to any great anniversary, I am unware of the fact.
It is • reasonable delay after the expiration of the time
allowed for appealing to the Court of Cessation. Neither
party made a more in that direction ; amid so for the
present ends " this strange eventful history."

The French journals unanimously condemn the Presi-
dent's Message, and, according to the Tones," the Court
of the Tuileries has within the last two or three days
caused Lord Derby's Government to be officially in-
formed that in CAW England 'should think fit to aka
any measure* to counteract the American policy Mai-
cated in certain passages of Mr. linchanan's speech . she
may rely upon the support of France ' to the utmost
extent.'"
. .

The country seems to be quite prepared for wsrfare.
The entire army contingent for the year ia ordered out,
according to the laderemdomer Be/ye, which says, "the
Christmas holidays will, perhaps, be somewhat saddened
in the country villages and in the factories by the depar-
ture of 100,030 recruits to join their regiments." An
army of 30,0110 men near the Italian frontier is spoken
of.

THZ CONSUMPTION OF MCAT IN YRANCII. -It
appears from an account recently published that the
consumption a meat in France. which in 1812 only
averaged 17 kilop. for each individual per annum, ia
now 84 kilns. In comparison to the number of
inhabitants the consumption is greater in the towns
than in the country parts. Paris consumes 10 kilop.
each person more than any other place. Next in
quantity comes the north of France, where the average
Ii 84 idlers. each ; the two provinces of Poitou and the
LIMOS/MR are those which 1:011111111S the least, the
quantity being only 41 kilop. It is singular that in the
departments where the most meat. produced the oon•
gumption is the least.