The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-02-17 00:00:00

ffortigit anti Colontal fithiligcna.

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PRANCE—Bowe excitement prevailed on Thuraday
in Paris, in consequence of. number of arrests having
brentsuddenly made. The arrests were ordered tin pre.
✓ent desnonstratio• whet a lAree body o the
*talents Mb-oiled to make in favour of Poland. Some
1,200 to 1,500 young inia attached to the retools of
medicine awl jurisprudence took part ins manifestation
which occurred on their leaving their lecture-room.
We do not hear, however, that the denionatration went
beyond a few Omuta of •• Poland for ever ;" and if any
ipvater demonstration was really intended, the serrate
wade no doubt prevented it. The Temps 'simmer a
Impe that the youths who have been •rrested will not
long he kept no eionilnemeut. A. the story is told in
the Temps, it appears an extraordinary and unintellp
gable freak of authority to hare made arrests at all on
esch..• gra:and.
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POCAND. —The following exhortation, tiprinos of
the rebellion in Poland, hal been aldreeed by Victor
Hugo to the Hessian arm,:
"Soldiers of Hoven, become men again.
"That glory is now offered you ; seise it.
" Whilst it is still time, hewn.
If you continue this adage war ; if you officers,
who are noble-hearted men, but whom caprice can
degrade and cast away to Siberia; if you, soldiers.
Kids yesterdey, slaves to-day, violently torn away horn
your mothers, your betrothed, your families, subject to
the knout, ill-treated, badly fed.condemned for long years
and an todefinite term to military service, more severe
in Rums than the hulks in other countries; if you, who
are victims, bike a part against the victims; if, at this
holy hour, when vend-able Poland rises—at thin
supreme hour, when the Omit., is given you between
Petersburg, where the tyrant is, and Waraaw, where
liberty in; if, in this decisive oondiet, you are uninind•
tel of your duty, your only duty, fraternity ; if you
make coo:linos' dust against the Pules with the Czar,
their exeentioner and your.; if, being oppres-ed, you
have learned from oppression no other lesson than that
of •upporting the oppressor ; if you convert your misfor-
tune into your shame; if you, armed with the sword.
I place your blind and deluded strongth at the service of
despotien, an unwiedly and weak mounter that crusts,n
you down, Russians an well as Pole.; if, instead of
turning round and facing the butcher of nations, you
eowardly overwhelm by the ouperiority of your arms
and your numbers those herioe end despairing popula-
ems claiming the first of all rights, the right to their
country; if,ln this nineteenth century,you eon/mutilate ,
the aniamination of Poland if you do these things, I
know ye, men of the Hilesian army, that you will fall, '
which appears impossible, even lower than the bands of
the Southern States of America, and Tithe against you
the execration of the whole civilised world! Crimes of
violence are and remain crone.; public horror is the
penalty. Russian roldiers ; let the Poles inspire you ;
fizlit not against them. What you have before you in I
Poland is 1104 the enemy; It is example."
OREECE.—The refusal of Duke Erne... of Saxe I
Coburg to beooine • candidate for the throne of Greece
has produced a painful Impression. Tranquility pr. •
viols, but doubts are entertained in wine quarters
whether it will be maintained. A decree haa been I
paused by the Nation•l Assembly entrusting the Nue- I
tint. of Government to three member*, each of whom
will preside in rotation.
The Morning Pont says there is no truth in the latest
rumour with reaped to the Greek Crown. Prince Louis
of Hesse as not • candidate, nor is there the remotest
prospect of his hemming one. We believe we are quite
justified in saying that, ee yet, no proves. bas been
made toward. the solution of the difficulty which still
puules the statesmen of Europe.
A M ERIC A. —The Kangaroo which arrived at Queens- I
town on Thursday brooglit advice, from New York to
the 31st January. Vesiels arrived from the West Indic* I
report the Ciinfederate steamer Alabama within ikal
tulles of New York. The subject of mediation is die
cussed by mod of the journals, and forms the principal
topic in all circles. A report was circulated in Vdli-
ington that the Confederates had been detested at ,
Savannah, with hievy loss ; hot it wss tiaw vague to
receive general credence. The lbehatottol Despatat
warns the Democrats and Conservatives of the North
to dismiss from their minds the delusion that the South
will ever consent upon •ny terms to re-enter the
Union, and any that if the North allowed the South
to write a tionstitution, and gave them every guarantee,
the South would prefer the Government of Eng-
land orl France to re-entering the Union. The New
York Trtbate says the people want to see Government
make war in earnest. If the Nortlw can't make war, or
if they make war and fail, and sh•Il therefoie be sati4-
lied that the struggle is hopeless, people era: not wish
to sscertain if the Goverornent is equally incapable of
making peace. The New York Herabk and Times
favour the continuance of the war until the Union is
restored.

By the arrival of the China from New York. to
January 28th, we find that crimination and .r•-crimi.
nation is going on in regard to th. war. Then appears
to have hien greet disinclination among the officers of
the army of the Potomac to co-operate in General
Bornaide's late forward movement. Their 000 duct
amounted almost to insubordination. The general im•
prewion prevailed among the officers that the move-
ment would be a failure, and after it was ordered they
Protested against it. Although they obeyed the orders
they threw obstacles in the way of carrying out the
forward movement. Of one corps, numbering 111,000
men, only 5,000 appeared on the field. Thew were
under the corunr.and of one of the generals most
opposed to the advance. During the carrying out of
the inovernent • storm of unprecedented eeverity wt in,
and the pontoons became Sued in molt mud, where they
remained, making transportation impracticable
Altar four days' exposure to the storm the
troops returned to their stamps much diaoirited
with imlueuee numbers on the sick list through
exposure. The New Yuri. Herald thinks Hooker has
proved his fighting quelities, bat has yet to prove his
capacity to command 200,000 men. The same paper
believes that if General M'Clellan had been appointed
It would have imparted enthneiasm to the army and
eonfidenco to the country. The New York Triliace
thinks General Hooker's antecedent, justify the nation
in regarding his accesaion to the commend of the army
with satidaetioin and confidence. Rumours are current
that the army of the Potoinac will be broken up, and
sent to attack other points instead of Richmond.
General Hooker hoe changed his head quarters to •
different poeition to that occupied by General
Burnside. It is asirerted that 80 officers are
to be dismissed from the service for using
improper language in reference to their none.
nom, in connection with the removal of General
M Challan and the sentence on Fits-John Porter.
General Hunter has resigned the command of the De-
partment of the South. General M'Clernand's ecpedi-
ties has returned down to the Arkansas River to Napo.
leon, and will cooperate immediately with General Grant
for another attack on Vicksburg. General itosencrans
has advanced aome distanoe beyond Murfreesboro.'
The Confederates are at Tullahoma and Shelbyville.
General Longstieet has arrived there with reinforce.
inmate, and has superseded General Bragg. The Con-
federates are fortifying Gales...on, and occupy the city
with 7,000 men. The Confederate steamer Ovieto
eecaped from Nova's on the Ifith, destroyed the Federal
ship Eetelleon on the 17th, and was reported at
Havannali on the 21. t. The Geier, had 1,700 bides of
cotton on board. The Federal expedition, under
General Foster, sailed from Hatteras Inlet to attack
Wihnington. The Riassioad Exanitiner is dissatisfied
with the Southern military situatiou, sad urges •
further conscription, raying that if within the neat two
months seventy-live thousand men are not added to the
Confederate army in the south-west the Confederacy
will come to grief. The New York Tribune complains
of the want of unity of counsel in the Federal Cabinet,
and of the habitual disposition of President Lincoln to
disregard advice in matters requiring &Cabinet Council.
The wine paper further says that Lincoln's sell-will has
been mainly exerciaol in undoing and holding back
from the execution of what was bold and deciaive.