The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-10-13 00:00:00

foreign anO Colonial intelligcnre.

DENMARK—A Copenhagen paper states that a
treaty of alliance between Denmark and Sweden bas
now been concluded, and will be signed in • few days.
Differences between L•nimark and Sweden, it is stated,
were not the cause of the delay, which arose from
Sweden wisl.ing to first inform the Western Powers of
this step. France has replied in • very friendly and
encouraging manner to the note of the Swedish Govern-
ment.

HOLLAND.—M. Victor Hugo has just passed
through London on his way to Guernsey after • Conti-
nental tour. When the distinguished author passed
through the Darby of Luxemburg (Netherlands). on
his way, be was received in the town of Vianden with
great enthusiasm, and an address was presented to him
by the Philharmonic Society, to which he delivered •
graceful and feeling reply.
BELGUIM.—The King of the Belgians, who is about
to melee a journey into Italy, is expected to have an
interview at Baden with the King of Prussia. We wish
it were possible to hope that King Leopold could induce
• gloom of good senae to penetrate the military head-
piece of his Prussian brother.
MADAGASCAR.—Our French friends are making
desperate efforts to gain a footing in Madagascar. They
have presented an ultimatum to the Queen, but the
latest intelligvnce from the island shows that the French
diplomatists had taken refuge on board the ships, their
lives not being safe on the land. The French journals
continue to attribute the refusal of the Government of
Madagascar to ratify the treaty made with M. Lambert
to the hostile influence of Mr. Ellis, the English mis-
sionary. They say that the Queen is • prisoner in her
palace, and they insinuate that Mr. Ellis is her gaoler
AMERICA.—The accounts of the condition of the
coloured population who have been set free and trans-
ferred to Washington, or who are retained under the
protection of the Federal armies in the West and
elsewhere, are still of • sad description. The following
Is from • Federal journal :—A, letter from Vicksburg to
the Cincintiati Gazette describes the contraband camp at
that place, where the negroos are perishing in large
numbers, for this reason among others, they are to lazy
to cook their rations :—"You will see but few able-
bodied men here; they are serving in some capacity the
country. Old men and infirm once are seen in all parts
of this strange melange. Go there when you will,
and ball of them will be asleep. More than half of
them are invalids. The reason is plain, too; their
food has been changed entirely, as well as other
things as essential. Government issues to them ra-
tions, which rarely receive the necessary preparation
Cr. they are eaten. Too lazy to cook them—nor need
we be surprised that it is so; they have never been
taught self-reliance. Another profited by their labour;
another cared for their wants, too. Now that they are
left alone they suffer. It moms to me there should be
persons to look after them. There are one or two
general agents, but there should be several, and persona
of large, humane sympathies. The morhlity among
children livery great. Lately we were paring, and saw
five dead ones laid together in the shade. On inquir-
ing we learnt that they had died only an hour or two
before, and the negro in charge said be should mend
them off as soon as there waa a toad." The shove
picture is not very bright.
The 1116DRII which arrived here on Thursday brings
news from New York to the 27th September. It would
appear that the disappointed Federal,' are looking about
for some one on whom to throw the blame of the recent
disaster at Chattanooga, and Roeencianx declares that he
is not in fault. The general in command "attributes
the loss of the battle to General McCook's disobedience
of orders ;" but on the other band it is said that on the
second day "the Federal army suffered much from the
absence of command, Romanerana haring returned to
Chattanooga before the engagement was over." In
addition to the absence of the commanding °Ricer, two
corps commander. were not at their posts. It is also
stated that the defeat of the Federal army was owing, not
to deficiency in numbers, but to inefficient tactics ; and
it is heralded as • discovery that General Thomas saved
the Northern army from utter annihilation. In singular
contrast to this admission is an assertion in the New
York Times of the 24th, that the details which they
publish of the battle corroborate the previous telegram,
" announcing substantial names to our arms." Ordi-
nary people look upon the lose of 10,000 men and the
complete rout of the remainder as a defeat instead of •
"substantial gnomes." In fact, the description of the lest
parte( the battle, published lint nightfor the first time in
this country, reads like the story of Bull's Run. "The
rout on the centre and the right was now complete, and
even the exertions of General Rosencrans and his staff,
who, with drawn swords, attempted to restore order,
were of no avail. Streams of demoralised uncontroll-
able men fleeing towards the rear, were all that
remained of a large portion of the army. After the
fatal break, our line of battle was not again reformed
during the day. The army was, in fact, cut in two;
and Thomas, with his indomitable corps, remained alone
upon the left." Yet this is what the New York Tines
calls a 'stibetantial success I"

The Standard says Manhattan (who, we are sorry to
may, has met with an accident that will probably prevent
his writing for some weeks) thinks that Roeenerans will
be attacked again and terribly defeated, and looks on
the Federal prospects as more !gloomy than at any time
since the war commenced. He reports a very curious
fact as to the disposition of the exemption money in
New York. He says the fund is used to buy slaves in
Maryland and Virginia, and to mind them as substitutes
to the war