The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-04-08 00:00:00

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FEANCE.—The employers in the manufacturing
districts of France, we learn are making great efforts,
and it appears, considerable sacrifices, to keep their
bands in employment. They suffer, as a matter of
course, as well as ourselves, from the dearth of cot ;
and it is said they are selling their goods at, and even
below cost price, in order to raise the wherewithal to
pay their Lands. Di adopting this method they will,
no doubt, think they are establishing • claim on Govern-
ment for compensation in better times, as thousands
of idle men in France, stimulated by the sting of
hunger, would constitute an elenieut of great danger
to the powers that he. The wheat crop in France is
reported as particularly fine, and the crops generally
look promising.
Napoleon has ordered a reduction of 32,000 men to be
made on the effective strength of the French army. The
101s1 and 102nd infantry regiments are also disbanded,
and 3,200 horses are to be sold. This is at lta,t a
partial lightening of the nightmare that presses upon
the breast of European industry.
The printers of Paris are striking, or are about to
strike, for an advance in wages, the most skilful work-
men earning about three shillings and twopence daily.
They should get the nation to strike for liberty of the
press as the really effectual remedy for their grievance
ITALY.—The Italian Ministry, according to the
Morkiteur, has at last been definitively constituted.
katassi is President of the Council and Minister of the
Int tier; Durando takes the Foreign Affsirs; Matteacci,
Publ a Instruction ; and Consoiti, Justice. In the
other derma tmeuts tin VI is no change from the original
prop? miler.. _

AMERICA,—The City of Washington whish
arrived at Queenstown oh Wednesday, left New York
on the 22nd North. By her advices we learn that the
rejoicings at New 'York on the reported capture of No.
HI intern, *Me pretuatute. The contest was being con.
tifitieti, without any decisive result. The Fetlerils, it
Pa la* hail silenced an the guns on the upper battsry
Of the fort and dismounted one gun on the island. The
t!unftderate force, however, was strong and strongly
fortified, with casemates to their batteries and 70 guns,
room of them of the largest calibre. According to a
Nash, ii. despatch, Mr. Commissioner Yalu bad
arrived at New Orleans, The Monitor, it is said, WAS
etll waiting for the Merrimac. A correspondent of
Vie New York Times states that reports have teen
brought to the Federals by deserters to the effect that
Vie Confederates were evacuating Frederick-korg and
Frepariog to burn the bridges at Rappahannrck River,
also that large bodies of Confederate, were g. jog down
the James and York Rivers to Norfolk. The 'sum cor-
respondent says there are no fortibinteions at Fredericks-
burg. or between that piece and the outskirta of Rich.
mond. Teti thousand volunteers had been demanded
by the Governor of Mississippi, that functionary having
stated in his proclamation that the Legislature had con-
ferred upon bin, the power to draft all necessaries. The
Governer of Louisiana had also issued a proclamation,
in the acme of Beauregard, calling for 5,000 men to de-
fend the Mississipti Valley ; and Beauregord had
Issued a proclamation from Fort Jacksou stating that
lie would accept all troops that offered for ninety days.
We Isom that the Senate Judiciary Committee had re-
totumnded the pains of Lincoln's resolution for
pecuniary coot eration with States desiring the emanci-
p..tion of Vieir slaves. In Savannah and Tennessee the
Union feeling has manifested itself by the enlisting of
6,000 men, lately rebels, of course, either combatant
or non-eomba'ant, into the Union army.
CONFIDE/1,A1% AMUSCIIIENTEI.—It would appear from
documents found in the abandoted Confederate comp at
11611111 SIS that the soldiers had not been without their
amusements. The 22nd ult, was celebrated by a grand
boll, the tickets for which were charged 10 dollars. In
the cauip several effigies, bearing different inscriptions,
such AS "Waiting for erten," "Looking for signals,"
" Old Abe," "A Yankee." Arc., were found sus-
pended from poles in various parts of the fields. Several
letters, not ef • very amiable tenure, were also left for
the special perusal of "Lincoln's hirelings." One was
wr;tten in a rather friendly mood, stating that they
had had • good time in that camp, and hoped
that the Federal boys would enjoy it to the same extei.t.
At another of the abandoned camps the following docu-
ment was found in o hut the entrance of which was
tl.rough a coffio, placed on end, with the invitation to
" in i"— If any Yankee should occupy this
hut I would inform him that It has cost me much hibour
and some money. I have had a good time in it, and in
order that you may hate the camel leave you, for your
amusement, two ribs of • New York Fire &nave, for
castanets. Yours, Jim Fawns ni."
During the discussion on the bill for the abolition
of slavery in the district of Columbia Senator Doolittle
(it leading Republican) declared he would favour no
emancipation scheme which did not provide for the
colonisation of the Negroes. Mu argued that in the
temperate zone the Caucasian race would always dominrin.
'• In the tropics," maid Mr. Doolittle. "the coloured
lace is dondiamt. This is Nature's law. The
repugnance in America to living side by side with
Negroes is not, as claimed by come, mere prejudice,
but a true instinct of Nature." He contended that
e‘ery Fledge of the Republican party in 1860 was
aqainst interfering with slavery in the States, and that
they could not emancipate slaves. It was their duty
to encourage emigration to Hayti and Liberia, and they
should look at a map of the American continent, and
chreet legislation for the good of all races and all man-
kind.

THZ Tintes CORESPONDENT ON THE AMERICAN WAR.—
Dr. Russell, of the Times, in referring to the new taxa-
tion torture to which the Americans are about to be
subjected, soys—" As was supposed, the tax on flour
has been rejected. Canada will not gain the fortune she
might have expected in case the impost was retained.
The manuafacturers of hooped skirts for ladies, who
employed no less than 20,000 persons in the city of New
York, are up in arms against the tax on their particular
commodity, and have prepared a remonstrance, to be
thlivered by a deputation at Washington. The Baltimore
San and other journals are working up the heaviest
artillery against the newspaper tax." On the recent
Canons duel bttween those doughty mail-clad knights—
the Merrimac and the Monitor—the same gentleman
rsays—"The common remark is that the naval supremacy
of Great Britain is disposed of, and that no town can
be rendered safe by fortifications. It certainly is a
matter to talk about and think over. If the Merrimac
could be fitted up by the Confederates and effect such
enormous mischief, what could not be done by • ship
built for the porpose ? The pilot turrets are weak
points In the Miasissippi gunboats the pilots refuse to
take charge of the gunbxtts after the recent experiences
at Forts Henry and Donnelson."

Dr. Roamll, of the 7 imes, writing on the 17th ult.,
sits hi 'Clellan must fight, and as speedily as possible.
his army, it is said, was felling back on Alexandria
ad Weshington for the purpose of attacking Richmond.
The read to that city, it is added, has been discovered
not to be by MaIIaSKIIIS.

MEXICO.—The Mexican eomplication seems to hay.
come to an end. Vera Cruz adyices state that the
agreement entered into with the Allied Commisaioners
bad been latified by Juarez, at eolidad. The French
and Spanish troops had left for Tetuaean ml Casaba,
and the British troop., it is said, were about to embark
for home. A portion of the Spanish contingent was
about to proceed to Cuba, and the French reinforce-
ments were expected to return without landing.
Negotiations for the complete solution of the difficulty
were to commence at Orizaba on the let April. That
solution, it was expected, will be entirely pacific, and
ample guarantees will be Owen for the future. The
unsettled state of the country is indicated by the fact
that the American bearer of despatches was murdered
between Vera Cruz and the City of Mexico..—By later
adrift* we learn tbat the British troops had embarked,
with tte exception of 200 men, who were to remlin.
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JAPAN.—The position of the British in the capital
of Japan seems to be the reverse of pleasant. A letter
from H.M.S. Charybdis, now at Jeddo, states Hist the
officers were permitted to land only for the purpose of
going to the residence of the British Minister, and when
going there they had to be armed to the teeth. Without
• special invitation from the Minister they were not
wrmitted to enter the city, and when they did go an
a mei escort went with them. No one was allowed to
enter the shops, and the Minister's residence was pro-
tected by a guard of thirty marines. The Japanese
Government is faithful, it is said, but their nobles and
their numerous armed retainers were truculent and
agg ressi ve.

C ANA DA.—The Governor-General of Canada, in his
addles. to Parliament, passed a high ealogium on the
late Prince Consort, and referred specially to Her
Majesty's expressions in the Royal Speech with respect
to the loyalty of the C 11111144.1211. The Governor con-
gratulated Vie country on the satidaatory condition of
its trade, notwithstanding the aontinuance of the civil
war in the United States, and he referred to the good
intentions of Mother England with regard to the best
of her colonial offspring.