The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-02-24 00:00:00

foreign anti Colonial Intelligente.

POLAND.—A telegram from Cracow brings news
that the Polish insurents had attacked )linohow and
bctit repulsed. It is adihd. however. that the town was
snlisequently find. On Tuesday night a body of the
iosnrgrut. enUrcd Gems, in Austrian-Y.41m1, without
resistance from the inhabitant.. It is aurwiiiod that
they were puroui d by the Russian troops. The same
telegram mentions • report that the Bowden. bad been
beaten by I.3ngiewica, who had in the eugagemeut rip'
tured some cannon.
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The Petra, no very reliable authority, • Idle
anucuncing that the inaurreciion is spreading, adds
th it the military commanders of the provinces of
Lithuania and Volliynia had refused to send the rein-
forcements demanded of them by the authorities in
Poland. Their reason is, that they want all their troops
to defend their own provinces.
T'he Chief of the Revolutionary Committee at Warsaw
has published • manifesto designed to guide the course
of the rebellion in that city. He forbids workmen to
leave their workshy. in Warsaw, or students under
eighteen years .4 age to quit their schools, and psrti-
euleelv warns the iohabdauts sitainat any idle demon-
strations. When the moment for insurrection in the
"Old arrives, the inhabitants, it is announced, will be
solemnly called upon to arise and unite in their country's
canoe. For the present tranquillity is declared to be
needed in Waraaw. The Chief h•s also addressed an
otficial tammiuniestion to the Prussian consul in the
Poiiali capital, complaining that the latter had displayed
seal in the Russian interest, and assumed • hostile attl.
tude toward+ the insurgents. The Chief expresses •
hope that the Consul will pursue a more equitable
worse in feature to save the National Government the
necessity of taking energetic measure, against him. This
bold and resolute manifestation d es not show as if the
Poles had any idea of anceumbing to the anus of their
enemies. bolted, the only news we have yet received
since our last publication regarding the setive move.
meats of the insurgent. reports • new sneer.o on their
palc In the capture of Rollin. The story of Langiewires
dsffe"tppears to have been entirely without foundation.
NEW ZEALANI).—A letter just received by our
correspondent at Plymouth nays:—" The Maoris have
consented to allow a steamer to be placed on the
Waikato. A tribe has also offered for sale to the
Government 50,000 acres of laud, with five miles of the
most disaffected district. This is an evident proof that
the forbearance and firmness of our Governor, Sir George
Grey, is working most powerfully. The first named
eoncession is considered to be • greater vi:tory than
10,000 solders onuld have won in twelve months."

of N.'. South
Wales, as we learn from the Sythery Zapi re—those of
them at least who have subscribed to the Lancashire
Distress Fond —hay, been in a precious temper, in con-
sequence of some misunderstanding that had somehow
arisen with respect to the application of the funds. Our
Sydney contemporary says—" The publication of one.
respondence carr.e I on in England between Sir Daniel
Cooper, Mr. Hamilton, and Sir J. Key Shuttlewortli,
relative to the application of funds subscribed here for
the relief of the unfortunate sufferers in the manufac-
turing districts of the mother country, has aroused such
a storm of indignant feeling in all sections of the coin-
usunity as has seldom before been witnessed." It pro-
ceeds to my " indignation would be a tame word to
describe the sentiments of the donont, when they learned
that their money had been handed over to Sir Janice
KA), Shuttleworth, to promote certain educatiocal
crotchets, of which nob.ely knew the precise partice•
Lori. This was bad eneugh. But when the subscribers
were told, in the letter of Sir James Kay Shuttleworth
himself, that, in addition to education the money wits
to be devoted to the 'maintenance of order and the
subordination of the population' of the mother country,
no word short of fury could properly be applied to the
feeling' of the majority of the people of Sydney."
People in England will see at once bow mistaken on this
matter the inhabitant. of Sydney have been, and the
mistake is the snore to be regretted, as it would appear
from our Sydney contemporary that it hu had the
effect of considerably stopping the subscriptions to the
rs lief fund.

VICTORIA.—The Colonial Government of Victoria
have voted a sum of !ZOO, to be •ppropriated towards ,
providing paseages to Melbourne for young women !
willing to undertake domestic service, and a few married
couples, to be selected, under the direction of Her
Majesty's Emigration l'ounnissioners, (roe among the
distreosit operstiVelt in Lancashire and Scotland.
PRUSSIA.—The question of Prussian interference
in Poland came before the Prussian Chambers on Wed-
nesday. Herr Bismarck was s.ked if the Government .
had concluded a convention with Wises engaging to
assist in the supprension cf the Polish insurrection.
The Minister declined to answer the question, but sub-
sequently, in the course of the discussion which ensued,
he declared that the Government followed • Prussian
and not a Russian, policy. The meaning of the declaration
is not very clear. lie dewed, however, most explicitly
that there was any truth in the statement of the
that any foreign Powers had mado representations to
Prussia on the Polish question. Tne Lily!ral ;arty in
the Chamber afterwards introduc.ol • resolution de.
claring that it is in the interest of Prussia not to side
with any party in the Polhill difficulty, and that, there-
fore, either of the centending parties entering Polish
tereWory aliould he disarmed.
AMERICA.—The Morning Ikrahl, referring to the
rumour that the French Government is di,po.rd to re-
gent the blockade of Charleston as at an end, says, as
no news can have reached the French Government
beyond that which is in the possesdon of the English
pulokie, the report is probably premature. The Freneh
papers end letters of Tuesday are silent on the subject.
The Awning gazalc says the statement of the afiair
off Charleston is by far too Me.gre to justify any
Government in taking any decided action upon it. The
distance a Federal reinforcing squadron would Lave to
come precludes the idea of it. arrival so soon as re-
ported, and the absence of the blockading aquadron was
!more extenffixl than has been stated. In either cue the
information by the Arabia is incomplete.
A Charleston correspondent of the leading journal,
writing on the 18th ult , says that the city could not be
taken without an enormous farce attacking aimultsne-
cushy by sea and land, and that the attack, even in that
came, would have to be conducted with desperate valour
before it could be sect:cote!. In addition to the two
iron-clads already completed three others were in an
advitneed state. Am to the blockade scarcely • night
passes but a vessel goes in or out of t'harleston,
inington, Savannah, and Mobile. There are vessels
which have run in and out fifty times, and scarcely had
one shot fired at them. One large firm. Fraser and Co.,
always olicit General Besur.gard to select anything
from their numerous cargoes at his own prior. The
eorrespondent states that everywhere throughout
Itoseasia the most astonishing and almost incredible
amity prevails. . . . .

The 11- e Iry brought by the Edinburgh which arrived
on Thursday. is pro:okingly sileut on several pointo on
which information is desired, more especially with I
regard to the recent naval engagement off Charleston.
There is no news from the Army of the Potomac, except
it be that the state of the roads prevented it from doing
anything. The Confederate force at Galveston' Texas,
had taken possession of Sabile Point, captured the
United States ship Morning Light, and • number of
guns and a quantity of war material. The Confederate
General Macgruder had issued • proclamation, declaring
Galveston open for commerce, and the Federal commo-
dore had issued • proclamation,which declared Galveston
and the whole of the coast of Texas to be in a mate of
blockade. With regard to Charleston it is said that
the Federal authorities refuse toadmit that the blockade
was ever raised; and the capture of the place is urged
as the beat and quickest method of avoiding controversy
with foreign Powers. It was supposed that tbe attack
upon Charleston had actually commenced. It is stated
that Federal Colonel Stuart, the chief of the cavalry en
M'Clermusd's staff at Vicksburg, while making •
reconnaingoice with 200 men, was shot and deserted by
them. He bad important papers with him, hearing
upon the Federal plan for the capture of Vickehurgb.
The chaplain of the United States Senate has been
cursing his enemies and those of their natty who pay
his salary, and asking the intervention of a miracle in
favour of Hepuialieen liberty and free inatitutione. He
asks the Author of Nature to suspend for • time the
" very processes of physical nature," if it be His will,
in order that the North may annihilate the South. In
another part of the same prayer he speaks thus of
those of his countrymen who are praying for peace :
" If it roust be war—which we do moat earnestly and
sadly deplore in iteell—we pray Thee that it may be
speedy andeffeetual war; and, 0 Lord, we pray, if
Thou wilt hear our petition, that the foolish gib-
berish of those who profess to follow the illusion of an
unholy peaog may be for ever stiffed, and we pray that
this great people may be neither blinded nor deceived
by the fatal influence of such insane comic:lt 0
Lord, silence for ever the tongue that shall wag with
such madness and folly ; yet ea pray Thee that Thou
wilt give on Thine own peace, in Thine own time and
way." Such language aldreseed to the Supreme Being
Founds strange in the years of the people in this
country.
In a letter from New York we read :—"The anta-
gonism which esigat betwean the Congress and the
' people of the North on the subject of the negro is re-
markable. The Congress is as much an assembly of
theoriate as the first French Convention, while the
people are about the most practical and oroasie people
in the world, and despise and oppress the negro in a
manner which the nations of Europe ought thoroughly
to understand before they praise the North too mods
for its supposed love of negro freedom, and condenin
the South too emphatically for the blot of slavery on
its escutcheon. Congres-Ipassel • law for petting freer
all the slaves in the district of Columbia, whether they
belonged to loyal or disloyal owners. And what is the
result to the negro? He is free, no doubt; but hash.
the rights and privileges of a free man? And can he
emert the social position to which true liberty entitles
him if he be honest, industrious, well-behaved, and law-
abiding? Mr. Horace Greeley, who ought to be an
authority on the question, reports in the negative.
"Among the whole comber—over 60 justieea of the
in Washington"—says yesterday's Tribune,
peace in
recently could not be found one to issue a writ
on the plea of a coloured man for the arrest of • white
man who had stolen his property; end it is cosioesled to
be impossible for • coloured citizen to prosecute in
either one of the courts • claim against • white uma.
Even their testimony ma excluded from the courta, in
plain violation of the laws passed last summer for their
protection."