The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-04-06 00:00:00

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Soreign anti Colonial /ntelligence.

FRANCE.

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PAR;, Thursday Evening.

Two telegrams received this day have caused eon•
slelerable uneasiness at the Bourse. One, from Berne !
states that, according to a verbal statement made by
Dr. Kern to the Federal Council, the French Govern-
ment will withdraw its exequatur from all the French
consuls in Switzerland, unless the new ones are received.
It is obvious that the French government sees, upon
reflection, that under the excitement occasioned by the
Orsini affair its diplomatic agents carried the passport
nuisance to an absurd extent, and one which, though
annoying to other countries, must be especially injurious
to France herself. It is announced that more reasonable
regulations are to be made with regard to England. and
in one form or another the pretensions to which Swit•
zerland rightly objects will be withdrawn. The other
news, which has a more serious aspect, is that
the Neapolitan government has seat back to Sardinia
the last note sent relative to the affair of the Cagliari.
People talk at once of the probability of war between
Piqmont and Naples. The Piedmontese government
has doubtless assumed a very energetic attitude on the
subject, and may probably go so fas as to withdraw its
ambassador; but there is much reason to believe that
it will not go' further. At the Bourse, extreme de-
pression prevailen on Thursday. The Rents fell 35c.
for cash, and 50e. for account, closing at 69fr. 50c. and
691 r. 40e. Mobilier fell 17fr. 50c. The Lyons railway
fell llfr. 25c. (the dividend being considered unsatis-
factory; Orleans, life. 250., and the other lines from
2fr. 50c. to sfr.
The elections at Paris for supplying the places of the
late General Cavaignao, and of MM. Carnet and Good-
chaux, are fixed to take place on the 25th inst.
The state of the relations between the French and
Swiss Governments is beginning to be viewed with some
uneasiness in Paris. The fatality that was near bringing
about a rupture with England seems to be present on
this occasion. From Berne the following telegram of
Tuesday's date has been received :—" The French
Minister bas again insisted that the Federal Government
shall establish Consuls at Chaudefonds and Basle, on the
ground that those Consulates are indispensable for facili-
tating the visa of passports for French subjects as well
as for foreigners in Switzerland."
Marshal Polissier will leave for London on the 12th
of April. The Marshal's income will enable him to
make a greater display than any Ambassador since the
time of Louis Philippe. 300,0001. (212,000) a year is
the salary allowed to the diplomatic representative of
France in England; 100,000 f. installation, on an aver-
age stay of three years, making about 33,0001. a year;
a sum of 100,000 f. a year which was voted to support
his rank as Duke de Malakhoff ; his pay as Marshal,
40,0001.; and his salary as Senator, 30,000 f.—which
make s total of over 500,000 f., exclusive of his allow-
ance as Knight Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.
The Duke has, therefore, a sufficient income to support
his rank liberally.
General Espinasse, Minister of the Interior' will, it is
said, make a tour through the departments in the course
of the present summer. This visit, or visitation, is, no
doubt, to see that all is tranquil in the country as well
as in town.
A private letter from Switzerland announces that the
Cantonal Council of Beale, as also that of Neufchitel,
refuses to receive the new Consuls, and that the Federal
Council of Berne has charged Dr. Kern to make known
to the French Government the feelings of reprobation
which the new measures relative to passports have pro-
duced among the public. Indeed, so great is the excite-
ment, that it is thought it will be almost impossible to
carry them out.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs is said to have ad-
dressed to his agents abroad a circular relative to the
question of passports, modifying in a certain degree the
measures originally adopted.
A deputation from Macon, appointed to arrange the
affairs of M. de Lamartine, composed of the Abbe
Naulin, M. Lacroix, President of the Civil Tribunal of
Macon, and M. Chamborne, waited on General Espi-
nesse to request permission to open • subscription in
favour of their illustrious townsman. The General re-
plied to them in writing that he had been permitted by
the Emperor not only to authorise the subscription, but
to place His Majesty's name at the head of the list.
"The Prince," writes General Espinasse, " who has
struggled for ten years against the excesses of dema-
gogues, does not, and never will, forget the services ren-
dered by M. de Lamartine to the sacred cause of order
in 1848, and all the misery and disgrace France was
spared by his generous energy."
The preliminary examinations into the late outbreak
at Chalons are almost concluded. It is said that seven
persons will be sent before the next assizes of the Saone-
et-Loire, at which M. Delacuinne will preside. The
prosecution will be supported by the Procurear-General.
The trial, it is expected, will lead to some serious dis-
closures relative to secret societies, particularly on that
of the Marianne.

ITALY.
On the proposition of Cardinal Antonelli, as ad
interim Minister of War, the Pope has named three
Generals. One of them is M. Vincenzo de Gregorio,
Colonel-Commandant of the First Division, who has
now been placed on the retired list after 62 years' ser-
vice, with the rank of General. He is replaced in his
command by a General recently promoted, Don Em-
manuele de Gregorio, a Spaniard. The third General is
a Swiss, named Francois d'Ellger, Colonel of the Staff.
He is to have the command of the second military divi-
sion. The Pontifical army has now nine Generals
either on active service or with honorary rank. There
has also been a distribution of decorations of the Homan
order Piano to the French army of occupation. General
de Goyon assembled the troops near the Forte del
Popolo, and after an appropriate speech delivered the
crosses to those to whom they had been awarded."