The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-11-25 00:00:00

foreign anti Colonial intritigcnce.

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FRANCK—Napoleon and. his new Foreign Minister
evidently consider themselees snubbed by the joint
replies of Russia and England. Wishing to pay the
part of pacificator to America, end a general interferer
everywhere, the Emperor of the French must be very
much climerintel at getting the cold shoulder turned to
him by two such Powers is England and Russia. The
Paris correspondent of • London journal says that the
refusal of Russia especially has produced great vexation
at Compeigne, because sue!. • refusal waa altogether
unexpected. The pain caused by the refusal of Eng-
land will no doubt he mitigated by the balm which the
Abetting Herald has administered to the hurt mind of
the Emperor. That journal, which professes to repre-
sent the Tory opinion of the country, has proneutioed
the despatch of Earl Russell to be churlish to the
extreme. The country generally has taken a somewhat
different view of the matter,
Italy now knows what she has to expect from the
Policy of M. Drouyu de l'iluye j and the public of
Europe know what judgment may be formed Of that
Minister'e liberality and. wisdom. La Frunze did not
exaggerate the stern And even arrogant character of the
manifesto addressed by the new Foreign Minister to
I the Government of hely. M. Drouyn de l'Huys sets
up on behalf of France • claim the like of which
' probably never, in all the history of modern diplomacy,
found expression before in words so distinct. It is
Phil ply the claim of France to intervene by armed force
, between the Sovereign and the people of a foreign
State,until such time as • condition of things agreeable,
not to either people or Sovereign but to France herself,
and France alone shall have been brought about; and
to intervene for ever if this condition be never attained:
Nay, snore; the very nature of the condition is not
stated or even hinted. The right M. Drouyn de l'Huys
elem. is a right to keep down the Roman people by
French bayonets just as long as the French Gotein-
meat likes to do no. Can any one state when a inedern
di3Ooniatist ever claimed such a right before?
ROMAN CATHOLIC PA6EANTIL—The Archbishop of
Tours, in a more harmless way, has bees making
himself the subject of sarcastic articles in the Paris
journals by his late efforts to arouse the devout spirit
of the Middle Ages. Monseigneur, a year ago, at the
cost of several million franca, had a basilique erected in
honour of Saint Martin. This new church was last
week conseerated, and the consecration celebrated by
a religious pageant, in which se'veral bishops joined,
senougel whom were Mgr. Pie and Murclleoanloup.
In short, no trouble was spared to excite the pious
enthusiasm of the townspeople, or to warm their zeal
to such a degree that an appeal for more money to buy
altar-pieces, might be successfully made. A procession
was at the end of a neuronic made throughout Tours
in full medieval style A great many young girls,
deemed In whet were three centuries ago called biblical
costumes, took part in it. One was the Queen of
Sheba, another Saint Veroncia holding the traditional
towel, A third the penitent Magadelen, a fourth Salome,
and a fifth Phoebe carrying a bag of letters from St.
Paul to the brethern. There was then • cluster of
angels with wings of crimped muslin, and a St. John
the Baptist, with a lamb and cross. This saint was
personified by a boy about eight years old, who wore a
crimson tunic, a cord round his waist, and a crown of
thorns. His cross was very heavy, and the child shed
unfeigned tears as he called ont to his mother, who
walked near him, "Mamas, porte-moi ma molt."
AUSTRlA.—Advices from Vienna state that the
reduction of the Austrian army is going on regularly,
the cavalry regiments at the present moment being
re-formed. A considerable number of horses will be
sold. The Bth Austrian Regiment of Cuirassiers
(Prince Charles of Prussia's) obtained in 1619, for
gallant conduct in the thirty years' War, the honour-
able privelege of hever being disbanded. The Emperor
reantie joeeph, respecting that concession, has ordered
that the regiment in question should notbe subjected to
the reductions which are now being effected in the
Austrian grmy.
SWITZERLAND.—The Swiss journals state that the
Helvetia has just elected General Garibaldi an honorary
member of that society.
AMERICA.—A NEGRO LYNCHED AND BORNZD.—
The Baltinore American of the 3rd November has •
letter from Dalton, Caroline county, giving an account
of the lynching of a negro, under arrest for the
outrage and murder of a little girl, daughter of Edgar
Plummer. A large number of excited people came
into, town, surrounded the gaol, forced opened the
doors, took the prisoner, and hung him. *bile sus:
peuded fifteen bullets perforated his body, He was
cut down and his throat out by the infuriated mob. The
holy was dragged through the streets, and finally taken
in front of the negro church, where it was cat to pieces
and burned.
An expedition, consisting of 12,000 men and several
gunboats, has left Newbern, North Carolina. Its deed-
nation is unknown,

The owners of the cargo of the barque Laureate which
was burned by the Confederate steamer Alabama, have
protested before the British and Portugeee contuls on
the ground that their British and Portegese nationality
was certified by the consuls' certificales which were
shown to Captain Semmes.
If reported that the French Minister at Washing-
toe has protested against several mits of General
Butler towards Frenchmen at New Orleans, and hu
demanded the release and indemnification for Mr. Held.
sick, now confined in Port Jackson.
STIUSITRE TOE THE CCMPEDEHATErr.—The fleet of
firstmlasa steamers that have been pnrchased in this
country for the purpose of running the blockade are
leaving gfadually. The swift river steamer Roby, 120
tons, and the splendid Belfast mail steamer Giraffe,
MO tons, sailed on Saturday afternoon from Greenock.
They have both undergone a stretigthepiu outfit for
the passage. The Ruhy is commanded by °attain
Gregory, has twenty two men, and nail, ih fuel. The
Giraffe is commanded by Captain Duguid, has fifty men,
and takes out • valuable cargo in boxes,, ,and
packages (containing "Gregory's pills," it is said), and
over £13,000 worth of leather boots, £4,300 worth of
niedieinea, and £6OO worth of surgical instruments.
The Giraffe also takes out thirty passengers as they
are styled; but these are said to be more useful than
ornementaL —Glasgow Morning Journal.
STEAHERE Ton THE SOUTH. —We understand that in
a few weeks there will sail from Liverpool two more
steamers for the Confederate‘. These vessels will be
iron built. and fast sailera, either under steam or
canvass. Both these ships are new, and there has not
been much secrecy involved in building them, although
it has been stated that they are for other than the Con-
federate Goverornent. The Isle of Man Steam Ship
Company have juet sold the fast paddle steamer Douglas
to parties interested in the success of the South, and
will, we believe, leave at en early day, laden with a
valuable cargo, for a blockade-running expedition.
Several gentlemen in Liverpool and Manchester have
bad their lingers desperately burnt by the capture of
the steamers Anghe and Scotia, and the loss of the
Minim—to the extent, it is reliably stated, of £250,000.
The victory of the Democratic party in the elections
for the State and City of New York is greater than was
at first reported. The majority for Seymour in New
York and Brooklyn was above 40,000. The majority in
the State was upwards of 8,000.
Skirmishes of no particular importanee are of daily
occurrence. A snowstorm, unprecedented for its
violence within the last 20 years, commeneed on the
Bth November in the evening, and continued for 24
hours. It extended from Maine to Virginia and Ken-
tucky, and must have impeded the movements of the
rival armies.

The depredations of the Confederate steanier Alabama
upon American trading vessels continue to excite alarm,
Among the vessels seised Is one belonging both ship and
cargo, to British owners, who have notified the fact to
Mr. Archibald, the British consul at this port. Mr.
Archibald has telegraphed to Admiral Milne on the West
India station.

The premium on gold continues to oscillate between 31
and 32.

The foreign relations of the Federal Government are
generally believed to be inc delicate, if not unsatisfac-
tory, condition. Rumours of a change in the Adminis-
tration have been current ever since the election of Mr.
Seymour.
GREECE.—In many of the principle towns of Greece
and the Archipelago, public demonstrations continue
to be made in favour of Prince Alfred of mgland as
their future king. The demonstrations have greatly
alarmed the Anglophobio journals of Paris, and be
Nord possibly in the interest of Rousanoff-Leuchten-
berg, grapples with the objection presumed to exist
against any choice from among the ferrules of the three
protecting powers of 1830. The Russian writer
questions the existence of any snch stipulation, save
in a declaratory protocol which had sole and distinot
referetce to that special transaction in which Greece
was simply the recipient of a Sovereign imposed on the
kingdom from without; but no such exercise of pro-
tectorate is involved in the present case, where the
country is called on, in the full possession of its own
independence, to one it in its full plentitude, without
let, hindrance or limitation, The Parisians are daily
entertained with accounts of the Hon. Mr. Scartlett's
untiring canvass among the Greeks on behalf of Prinoe
Alfred, and the Debate gravely anticipates, not the
cession of the lonian Islands, but the annexation of
°TWO, with its isles, to the Septinsular protectorate
of Great Britain.