The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-11-27 00:00:00

THE AFFAIRS OF ITALY.

TIIL Two bICILIF.S.

The Sardinians have resumed active operations before
CI eta, and' 'bombarded the suburb* on the 12th. The
N mpolitan troops are reported to fight resolutely, but ,
father resistance is almost paralysed by the insubordi-
▪ tion of their chiefs, whom defection is daily iricreas.
in 4.. Colonel Pianelli has also surrendered a battalion
at Chasseurs to the Pieleinontese. Under them cir.
et ,natances, notwithstanding the assertion of General
A loa, at Manville., that Frencis 11. will defend him.
at f to the last extremity, the time of his departure is
p. Mably near at hand. Should the King. however,
p. rsiet in his course, and his forces keep their allergi-
a, se, the Sardinians will not very easily take the
to tress, if the Abordear de la Pate be correct in
▪ ting that there Mai been no change in the instruction
to Adutiral Du Tinan, and that his orders are, while
is tintein.ng the most strict neutrality, to prevent any
at of l.u.tily by sea &gaited llaets.
The Dowager queen of Naples, with the Princess and
yr ung children, Ime gone to Rome, and taken up her
re
.ideuce in the Quirinal.
it is said that the Dritish Government has intimated
to the Frencii Government its inter.tion of recognieing
ti n new kingdom 14 Italy. The Emperor of the
F. .inch has signified his willingnees to j.iito in the
cc ognition, provided it be postponed until the King
oil Naples lam; evacuated Gaeta.
Ten Neapolitan battalions remain outside Gaeta
bi,:ause there is no room for them in the fortress.
Ti.eir General offerel to surrender to General Fauti,
er:lu rejected the proposition.
Esperu announces that the Pielmonteire Govern-
= ut las sent pre.eing orders to immediately fortify.
• Rocca d'Anfo, rn Lake 'dr°, in the Alpe of
L.•mbardy.
.\dvicee from Palernm stater that fresh applications
les ye juid been ii,s,le to the commandant of the citadel
of Messina for the purpose of inducing him to retire
from the ilice with the Neapolitan troops under hie
or '.ers. Ile was tolel that the vote of the Sicilians ha '
be .ided the definitive fate of the island, and that the
Bog of N.ples, shut up in Gaeta. tel ceased to
re ;:n. General Fergola replied that he only knew
th- orders which he Mel received, sod that lie 1,00.1
no: surrender the citadel until King Francis II
ordered him ao to .h., and that if ma attempt were
is .le to take it by force, lie would defend it to the
Ist t extremity..

Flie lzzroi of Naples appear to he troublesome, and
11. Farina him reprimanded their leader.. The telegram
doe not inform us as to the cause of their dis iffeetion
be:ond the fact that they met in large ntimit-rs, and
sh muted "Long live Gorsbaldi !" "The Dictators Lip
for ever !" In fact, the nowi concerning the state of
EIE, Neapolitan kingdom grows worse every day. Time
no ctiouary movement in the provinces—se the French
Os remittent jeurnals, at least, inform ua—has broken
out afresh, and in not less than five provinces, with the
Abruzzi at their head, it has become necessary to pro.
skim the state of siege.
The Prassian Gazette states that is authorised to de.
dr re that the assertion of the Messwager du Midi that
%Prussian general had arrived on a special mission at
Geste is entirely unfounded.
It is asserted from Turin that the rumours respecting
a loan to be shortly negotiated by the fiardinian Govern-
s' rit r.re conspiletAy false.
The clergy in the Neapolitan provinces have paid
40 nS'E to King Victor Eininanuel.
A Turin letter says :—" It has been rumoured that
Freness IL. has received money from Russia. The fact
s true. but hot no political significance. Francis 11.
at Ruwisn funds, which he has sold, and the proceeds
lace b‘en sent to Gaeta."
THE PAPAL STATES.
'lime oecupation of Terraeins, the southernmost town
wf the Papal States, by the Piedniontese tromis, under
Is neral de Sonnaa's command, haa led to an altercation
,f seen the Pielniontese and General flovon at Home,
vto had iota...zed to them that Terracins must be
'emanated by them again. while Cardinal Antonelli has
m,tested against this new violation of the Papal
ritory.
A HiallEary 00M1HifElOH composed of French and Fier-
linian officers, and presided over by Generals Ooyon
*ml Ciablini, will settle the questions arising from the
mtry of the Bourbon troops into Roman territory. T'on
muuaberi tated at di teen thousand.
. . . .

Tn from Turin allude to an exchange of lettera
mimes the King sad the fluty Paler, having for its

object " an amicable arranreinent" of their little .11(6-
cultica." A g the eondit;ol4 propo4rd is one Ili"
the Pure should abandon the temporal NO vereizeity in
favour of tlie King. receiving a civil :tar of 5,001.0110
leer". ond 110.(1/0 hero. (im cacti Cardinal, with a place
in the Senate of the Kittgdom of Italy. Both Pope and
King would ;wide in the Etcrnul City, °lie at the
Capitol, the -.alter at the Vatican. This Is prokil.ly
ft
were fancy 'ketch, tit which we way expcet to have
many brought bcfore the public rye pending the ductua-
lion of thus moat difficult question.
Thr archiveo of the Itusainn Legation of Turin have
jual been sent to Koine. where those of the Neapolitan
li:inbaitay will Also depos:tell. The protuction of
ihrdinian suhjects in the Austrian States. which
been confined to the Imperial begati.in of Russia, has
been trait/Arra to that of iiactich and Norway and
Vienna.

THE GARIBALDIAN VOLUNTEERS.
SANTA MANIA, near CAPUA, Nov. 16.
A correspondent of the London Express saye:-1 am
happy to say that the Titration of the southern army
disbandment has been eatiefactorily settled since my
last. Count Cavour, who is at once is clever politician
and a man of justice, saw directly the blunder General
Nana had c ttttt witted by publialting an order of the
day, which wan tantamount to • peremptory dieband-
went of Garali.ililee army. ninth although • clever
general, has brought from Spain all the harehttees which
distingubthed the Spanish generals of boils the Carliat
soil Christina Parties. Full of red-tape notiona, he
atreke to apply to except hie circumstanceo the rake
which would be adopted in calmer times. Hence the
decision which ha pereuaded Victor Emmanuel to take.
An opportunity had been thus offered to the opposi-
tion arty, and, as the fact proved, it was not slow to
seize it. Better connsels have, however, prevailed at
Turin; and, as I told you before, the guru/ma of this
small but brave army will be kept as the nucleus of •
corps around whom flags will gather the volunteers
who shall be called forth to fight the lAA war against
Austria. Now that public opinion has thus settled
this matter, it is tube hoped that the general who won
the battle of the Volturno, and gave Sicily and the
Neapolitan kingdom to Victor Emmanuel, wil, be in-
duced to leave hie retirement at Caprera and come here
once more amidst his brave companions in anus.

THE WAR IN CHINA.
Foamy-Orrice, Nov. 24.
A telegramorcry imperfectly transmitted, was received
laid night from Suez, through Alexandria and Malta,
which states, on the authority of the China mail of
October lit, that hostilities had commenced in the
North, that two skirmishes had been fought with the
Tartar cavalry, who hail been repulsed, th:it the allied
army was waiting in a hostile position before Pekin, and
that negotiations hash been opened by the Chinese, but
not iu • supplicatory manner.