The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-02-25 00:00:00

foreign anb Calontal intelligence.

FRAM-M.—The completion of the free trade policy
still proceeds in France. On Thursday the Aloniteur
published • decree admitting, free of duty,into France,
rough and purided oast iron, old iron, bar iron, hoop
iron, sheet iron, steel in bars and sheets rolled by heat,
and rolled copper in a pure state or alloyed with other
metals, when coining from abroad, and destined for re-
exportation after having been converted in French
workshops into ships, machines, apparatus, or any
work in metal. It is stated that nubile feeling in
France is strongly opposed to the system of endowing
newly emoted nobles out of the national purse. The
50,000 trances given to General lionisation on being
created Count de Palikao, for his services in China,
were even grudged.

PRUSSIA.-4, contemporary says it is in a position
to state that at an early date the Kingdom of Italy will
be formally recognised hyjProssia. This step is stated to
have been produced by the attitude of the Liberal party
In the Representative Chamber at Berlin, and by the
position which Austria has assumed towards Prussia
with reference to Federal reform, From the mine
authority we learn that the oomutercial treaty between
France and Prussia is on the point of being con-
cluded.

HIINOARY.—In Hungary, matters do net wear •
very different complexion. There is only this diatino-
ilea, that the hatred of the people is evinced in • calm,
studied, systematic manner. One incident will serve
to show the temper of the country. The Govern.
merit has had the greatest trouble imaginable in finding
a Chief on the Comitat of Hindi+. At length the son
of the gaol governor declared his willingness to assume
the office, hot he immediately found himself abandoned,
isolated, and shunned by his friends and acquaintances.
At length his fortitude gave way to this exhibition of
opporn and tiontempt. Twice he begged to be
allowed to resign, but was refused. He threatened to
commit suicide; still be was refused. The sight of his
wife and children restrained his hand for a time, but
even this influence gave way to the overwhelming
Dense of the scorn and shame he had incurred, and
after three futile applications to be released from his
responsibilities, he terminated his suffering+ by blowing
out his brains. Surely, this is a terrible and significant
lesson.

HE CASSELL,--.Th• anarebial condition ef
Mame remains unaltered. The Chamber wan dissolved
before the supplies were voted; the people consequent/0r
refused to pay nay tenet vlke Elector ordered loom-
smiths to break open the drawers in the hone.a and
take any money that could be found; the sturdy
workmen declined the task ; and men had to be brouAl
from Cassel to execute the order. The Elector and hie
subjects ire exasperated against each other to the
highest degree, and there does not seem to be any
proved of an arrangement of the "difficulty."
AMERICA.—By the city of Washington await
which arrived on Thersday. we learn first of all that
seven Federal gunboats, under the command of Clow
modore Forte, bad attacked Fort Henry, which, with
Fort Donnelliont guard the road connecting Memphis
and Columbus with Bowling Green, and conimand the
navigation of the rivers Tennessee and Cumberland.
After • severe fight, although • short one, lasting only
one hour and a quarter, the Confederate General
Tilgliam and sixty prisoners surrendered uncon-
ditionally. The fort contained guns and offered
• determined resistance. The boiler of • Federal
gunboat exploded (during the fight, we suppose), Wise
thirty men. The Federal land force did not arrive until
after the fight, but the cavalry proceeded in pursuit of
the fugitives. The Burnside's expedition was still
anchored in sound, but was preparing for • for-
ward movement. Gen. Beauregard, it is stated, we,
at Nashville. A rumour bad been in circulation at
Fort Monroe to the effect theta riot had occurred at
Richmond, and that the rioters had shouted for the
Union. The representatives of the Federal States were
still busy ;With the ways and means, trying in the beat
possible way to an exhausted exchequer. The
Senate had a bill atithorising an additional isene
of 10,000, dollars of demand notes as • temporary
relief until the Treasury Note Bill can receive the
eonsideration of the Senate. The same number of
dollars had been appropriated by • bill for the tionstruir•
tine of iron gunboat.. The Home of Representative*
had added an amendment to the Treasury Note BIU,
making paymest of interest on Government Bonds
optional in coin or paper. The amendment was eon.
damned by a number of the New York journals, and
its passage through the Senate was deemed unlikely.
The report brought by the Europa respecting the Nies-
tion of the "legal tender" &ease by the House ef
Representatives was incorrect. It was passed by alive
majority, The New York Clamber of Commerce bad
pasted a resolution declaring that no system of taxation
yielding lest than 150,000.000 dollar. annually is,
adequate to meet the exigencies of the Federal (lover.-
'neut. General Price, it was supposed, would wait 1
an attack et Springfield. The adnuanon of the Sumpter
at Gibraltar had roused the ire of the New York Times.
The rights of that vessel, uys our eontemporary, by the
proclamation of neutrality, were void after having burnt
vessels. According to the international law no capture
at sea is legal without the decision of • prise court;
therefore the Sumpter is a pirate.
NOVA SCOTIA.—The gold fields of Nova Scotia are
by the latest accounts affording evidence of being
remunerative, and it was believed that rich gold veins
extended from Cape Canso to Cape Fable, and far
Inland. A letter from the district !aye :—Claims of
three-quarters of an acre, which end SW, could not be
besight for lees than 12,000, and some ate calculated to
be worth £lOO,OOO. Two barrels ef quarts (621 Its) im •
claim near ours yielded £46 of pure gold, via., Poss. IS
is hot likely that the richest places are yet found. One
man at Tangier picked up in the stones in the third
5 RP. aCfeto.livis. IluuLatsuattak Asa 40 one.
nee claim in one day, and it is found the deeper they go
the rieber it is getting.
.INDIA.—A fine gold. field has been discovered in
India, in fine Mahratta country, by • gentleman
acquainted with the Australian geld diggings, and •
company has been formed at Bombay for working the
district.

SIERRA LEONE.—Anarchy prevails in the English
colony of Sierra Leone, at least so it is said by the Pays,
which adds thu twenty English soldiers have recently
been killed in • struggle with the native