The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-05-06 00:00:00

foreign ttub Colonial intctligcnce.

FRANCIL—The Paris correspondent of the lode pen
dence Beige gives cutrency to the rumour respoctmg
the intervention of France and England in American
affairs. It is said that the recent journey of Count de
Morny to London was connected with this important
subject, and that within the last three weeks M.
Thouvenel sent instructions to the French Minister at
Washington, requiring from him a detailed report as to
the pretensions of the South, and the demands of the
North. The fact of the French Minister having left-
for Richmond is not ,unnaturslly coupled with this
rumour as giving it an air of probability. Our Govern-
ment will, no doubt, be questioned on the subject one of
these days..

M. FOold, it is said, has concocted a gigantic pro-
ject of finance, by means of which he expects to
raise six hundred million franca, we persnine, in ready
cash, for the conversion of a whole army of obliga-
tions.

PRUSSIA.—It is said that the primary elections at
Berlin are entirely in favour of the Liberal party, and
the telegraphic intelligence announces that the same
result has taken ',Lice in the provinces. The Amax
Zeilung hints that, the Liberal party having exhausted
themselves by this last effort, the time iC new
come for causing the Chamber of Deputies to evaporate,
while the Berlin Review declares that the independence
of the judicial order and the liberty of the press have
become a curse to the sountiy, and the only means
of saving the State is to suppress them.
ITALY.—The euthusiasui of the Neapolitans with
reference to the visit of their King to Naples does not
subside. From several districts congratulatory addresses
have been Beet in, and hie appearance at the theatre
the other night was the signal for an enthusiastic
demonstration in his favour, The decree for an
amnesty for political offenders had been signed, and
orders have been given by his Majesty for the return to
their owners of all articles pledged At the Mout de Pieta
for sums under four ducats.

HUNTING THE BRIGAND-9.—A cominunimtion limn
Naples of the 24th, in the Debats, says :—One cannot
help feeling a sentiment of pity for the handful of
brigands at the Capitanate, who have, since the 14th,
been vainly endeavouring to find a mode of reaching
the Pontificial States. On the 16th they were sixty in
number, all on horseback, when they crossed the
Biterno. Being pursued on the Trigno, they passed the
Sangro on the night of the 19th; on the 21st they ar-
rived at the entrance to the plain of the Cinque Maglia,
in the Abruasi ; on the same day they were beaten
below the Roccavaso by the 6th company of the 38th
Regiment, when ten were killed, several wounded,
twenty-seven horses killed, and twenty-two taken: the
remainder of the band took the road to Campo-di-Jove,
in the direction of the ford of San Leonardo. A
despatch from Salmona of the 22nd, at six in the even-
ing, 'Lies that the fugitives wet& then reduced to thirty,
that they were wandering about in the valley of the
Morrone, and that the troops and the national guards
were occupying all the points of retreat, and the avenues
of the Marsica, which the fugitives were trying to reach.
A despatch of the 23rd, at ten in the morning, from
Chieti, says :—" The brigands, reduced to twenty.two,
have been again beaten near Campo-di-Jove, and have
taken refuge at Monte Morrone. The troops are pur-
suing them." Another telegram from Aquila, of the
23rd, at thirty-five minutes past six in the evening,
says:—" The brigands are still flying. All the passages
are guarded." Small groups of them have been seen in
the environs of the wood of Oration. They have gone
in the direction of Ascalona.

THE HERZEGOVINA. —The Vienna papers of
April 30, publish a telegram from Ragusa, according to
which Hussein Pasha, haying attacked the insurgents,
had been defeated with a loss of 2000, men, 1,000 horses,

four pieces of cannon, and large quantities of aniniuni-
tion and previsions.
AMERICA.—MANUFACTUEED WAR News.- The
attempt to make intelligence throughout the Federal
States a close Government monopoly does not seem to
work without inconvenience. As nothing is allowed to
appear without the sanction of the Federal War-office
it unluckily follows that the War-office is responsible
to a great extent for everything which does appear.
The Northern news uianufactory was not satisfied with
creating a tremendous victory out of the escape at
Pittsburg Landing, but it actually went so far as to
kill General Beauregard in the fight, and to destroy
34,000 Confederates in the pursuit. Happy is the
country which can thus create its own victories by a
line of type ; and still happier the belligerent who
can destroy the mast formidable of his enemies' Generals
by a stroke of the pen. While a salute of 100 gulls, a
Thanksgiving in all the churches, and a fiction dis-
seminated through all the newspapers can work the
effect of a real victory, what need of rubions
loans and exhausted levies? The greatest victory of all
is this great victory over the credulity of mankind,
which is only the first of many great campaigns yet to
be accomplished in this tempting region of romance.
But the brightest inventors have their detractors.
These obstinate Confederates will not, even at this
moment, admit they have been beating. Although they
have the clearest evidence of the Thanksgiving having
been offered up, although they have official documents
to prove that they have been put to flight and terribly
cut up, and although it has even been broadly inti-
mated to them in the organs rot the War Department
that Corinth itself had been taken yet still these
besotted rebels will not believe; and they continue to
declare that the Thanksgivings and the salutes have been
ordered, not in triumph for signal victories, but in
gratitude for an unhoped-for deliverance. The most
unreasonable person, however, is General Beauregard.
Our Correspondent says, "A report of General
Beauregard'e death, at the battle of Pittsburg Landing,
is obstinately persisted in, though the Southern papers
have published a despatch from him claiming a victory
on the second day's fighting," General Beauregard is
evidently a man who deserves no quarter. The official
newsmakers of the North behaved with great modera-
tion towards him at first. They only took off his arm
with a cannon balL But the ungrateful General, not
appreciating this reticence, continued to uphold the
integrity of his person ' • so Mr. Lincoln's Government,
provoked beyond all patience, put him to death—in all
the New York papers. This Beauregard's obstinancy,
however, is proof alike against indulgence and severity.
We remember nothing like it except that celebrated
case of Dr. Partridge, who continued to publish his
almanaok and to exclaim that he was alive after "Isaac '
Bickerstaff, Esquire," had given • detailed accohnt of I
all the circumstances of his deed', The town laughed I
with the wicked Dean and his friends, who continued
for years to argue that the ingenious Dr. Partridge was '
not the less dead because he had continued to publsh
his almanack ; and poor Partridge bitterly complained
that he could not walk the streets without the little
boys running after him and exclaiming against him that
be ought to be ashamed to show his face abroad with-
out having paid for his funeral expenses. General
Beauregard seems toybe in thelsame awkward predica-
ment. He may be in some point of view living and
even victorious; but at Washington and New York lie
he has been pronounced to be de jart, defeated and
dead. Poor man he does what he can. He writes
depatches declaring that he has 36 guns and 8,000
prisoners, the results of the Pittaburg battle, in his
bands. On the day after that battle he sent a flag of
truce to settle terms for burying the dead. But the
flag of truce was not allowed to go back until an
admission was extorted that at least General Beaure-
gard was slightly wounded in the arm; and, if such an
obstinately vivacious individual as this would admit,
even through a trumpeter, that be was wounded, Ms
self-evident that he eau be nothing less than atone
dead. If any one will take down the volume of Swift
which contains the argument of haze Bickerstaff upon
the parallel controversy, he will see at once the cogency
of this reasoning. For ourselves, we are Perfectly
prepared to admit that Beauregard is dead. The press
of Federal America is now the voice of the War
Department ; the press "obstinately persist" that
Beauregard first had his arm shot off and then was
killed. News from America is now an official matter,
and this is the news. Beauregard may exclaim as much
as he pleases, but for all newspaper purposes he is
dead, and there ought to be an end of him. If he is
going about the lines of Corinth and pretending to be
alive, it is very indecent of him.—Tintes.
The City of Baltimore arrived at Queenstown, brings
intelligence from New York to the 19th of April. Up
to that time no decisive event had transpired. General
Beauregard holds his entrenched position at Corinth,
and the Federal Generals Grant and Buell have not
ventured to attack him. So at Yorktown, in the
extreme east, General hi 'Clellan is brought to a dead
stand before the Confederate lines A strong de-
ministration was made from the entrenchments upon
the Federal left; but, according Northern accounts,
they were beaten back by the Federal General Smith,
who commands in that quarter. In other quarters
what success there is inclines towards the Federal armsi
The Burn nder of lidand No. 10 has opened the way on
the Mississippi to General Pops end Commander Foote
as far as Fort Pillow, 70 miles above Memphis. At the
mouth of that great river the Fedends have overcome
the obstacles in their way so far as to attack Mount
Jackson and Fort Phillip, which guard the approaches
to New Orleans. In Western Virginia General Banks
has captured Mount Jackson, and a great battle is ex-
pected in that direction. The Potomac fleet has passed
up the river, and taken possession of Rappahannock;
and in New Mexico the Confederates have been beaten
in a skirmish at Santa Fe. The great ?ointa of interest
still continue to be at Corinth, at New Orleans, and
most of all at Yorktown, were General li'Clellan and
President Davis command respectively in person, and
where the fleets, as well as the armies, are concen-
trated, though there latter have not lately dis-
tinguished themselves. The Merrimac is occupied
repairing the damage caused by the bursting of her
large gun onboard, and the Federal gun boats attempted
to shell Yorktown, but it is admitted without effect.