The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-01-06 00:00:00

foreign MO Colomat intrtligenct.

ITALY —At the Court levee hell at Torin,lsst week,
the King al Italy entreated parliament to put trust
Is him. So soon, lie said, ea the pacilleation of the
Southern provinces Was achieved the national cause
would be fully triumphant. Due this man that
Rome will be neared ae the capitsl of Italy
J APA N.—The latest advices from Japan shot that
that country, like China, Is in • state if revolution.
The reforms reeently proposed by the iltb.gvnt were
directed especially against the bombs, and the latter
have proved too pored's' for the reformers. The
changes now in prose,. will affect foreign countries,
the ministers of which •re directed to proored to Kalbo
sad onnimeyiieate with the Emperor himself, begot* tlet
Datnoia and the military powers become conteutrated,
It In reported that the Regent haa been murdered.
DENUAKK.—The recent note by Earl Russell to
lb. Deniab Cabinet respecting the Schleswig question
hu been stigmatised in several quarters—we think
tn. ustly—as unnecessarily harsh. Ramie, it ia sold.
has 11140 addressed a despatch to the same Court, on tbb
tame subject, still more vigorima in St laegbate, urg-
log upon Denmark the 500eptant:4 ef the Britiah pro-
gr".Te• .

Alf ERIC A. —OOlOllll ACCOUNT Or Tan LAYS
BATILL —By the Southern journals Berneide's loss in
killed and bounded is estimated et 17,000, whilst the
Conftderate Ines is said to be 500 killed and 2,500
wounded. Theme estimates are nonofficial, but, so far
as the Federal loss is concerned at least, they mete to
be more reliable than the racial reports. The litter
state that Burnside had 1,400 killed and 5,010 erotoded,
bat the fatal and minor cautalties of such • day's fight-
toga. that of the 15th eh, mist, we should think. have
been much more *trees, The Confederate pickets. it is
said, are once more advanced at Fredericksburg to points
near the hank of the river. Their entrenchnoects have
been iecreased behind, and they have been thro*Ll4
up new ride pits on the left of the city ft ureticle lost
eight hundred prisoners in the late battle. That
general has reported his defeat to the Washington
authorities, and describe hie retreat acre* the river as
a military neceesity. Neither property nor men, he
says, were !net in the retreat. The result of the WU*
has again roused the popular feeling in the North
against the Government for its management of the ern,
and • publie meeting has been summoned in New York
—which, however, teas been postponed—for 511, purpose
of letting the Government know how, according to the
popular opinion, the war ought to be conducted. The
Senate he. ordered an inquiry to be made into the feet.
of the disaster at Fredericksburg, and some one will,
no doubt, he bulged metaphorically, if not otherwise.
The Federate have sustained a repulse apparently at
Kingston, North Caroline, and the Confederates bad
attacked Plymouth, in the seine State, driven out the
Federate, burned the greater part of the town, and also
a Federal vestal lying off It. Rumours were current
respecting the resignation of Seward and Burnside, but
they have no official confirmation. Fighting was
in progress oft the kfuniesippi, and Gen. Butter had
been lawn a aeries of new alma§ respecting the con-
cise* of the unhappy Venom over who* the chances of
our have placed him. The Army Appropriation Bill,
amounting to 731,000.000 dollars, for the support of
the army till hese, Iff&i, had been pared by the
Senate. _ . _

TUE Prterair. Paran. -The New York journals
have a happy knack of comforting themselves under the
heaviest disasters that befall the Federal armies. On
the 15th ult. the Tribune, writing without a full
knowledge of the events which bad taken Owe, spoke
of • seeming triumph of the Oonfederates, sod the
possible contingency of Burnside being compelled to
retreat aerma the kappshannotit, es the greatest iris
fortunes that covild happen to the Pe lora muse. On
the 17th, after the eight of Burnside was known, the
same 'menial says :—" We have by telegraph the grath
lying announcement that Oes. Burnside has regained
hi. old position on this side the Rappahannock, there
to recruit his energies for the next onslaught on the
enemy, wherever and whatever that may be. While
we do not ignore and eannot forget the great public
lose and the wide-spreisd private sorrow which are the
multi of this last movement against the rebels, we see
is it inneh cause for public satisfaction. After a year
of inaction, except when forced to give battle, the Army
of the Potomac be. taken the offensive It is a great
gain when our grand army sees that the work before it
to be done is to crush the rebellion, and not simply to stand
on the defensive against the rebellion, lest it crush ea
General Burnside hos proved that he .1, earnest, and
that his earnestness is backed ly soldierly qualities, in
first crossing a river and attaches( the enemy in formid.
able entrenchments, and, failing to oarry these, which
pr meal stronger than he had anticipated, in recrossing
the same river, taking all his wounded with him, with-
out the loss of a single man, than securing again a posi-
tion whence he cannot be dislodged, and where he may
tithe measures at his leisure for the neat movement.
Prompted. of deci.ion and celerity of movement are
indispensable and high citadels in a general, and the
events of the last few days should give the country re-
newed confidence in General Burnside."