The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-12-30 00:00:00

foreign anb Colonial intrlligettre.

GREECE.—Prince Gortscliakoff hss addressed a note
to the Russian representatives abroad, denying that
Russia had ever an intention of putting forward the
Duke of Leuchtenberg as • candidate for the Greek
Throne. It is as well it did not, or it would have been
terribly chagrined at the result; for it appears that out
of 8000 citizens of Athera who voted at the election
only one vote was given for the Duke, while Prince
Alfred obtained 7994; five voices were in favour of
Atidel-Rader! The election is now all over, and every-
where it has been favourable to our young Prince, and
the public opinion of Greece persists in the choioe and
entertains hopes of all obstacles to it being yet re-
moved.
La France asserts that two of the Great Powers are
not in favour of the lonian Islands being ceded to
Greece, maintaining that the present protectorate of
those islands was established in the interest of the
European equilibrium, and that if this protectorate
were to cease they would become a permanent focus
of insurrection. The Jeernat dr Jt. Perer4sr. in an
article replying to the opinion of the Natiessisfe and
La France, says :—These journals have ascribed to us
an absurdity, and we wish to say that if England is at
liberty to renounce the protectorate of the lonian
Islands, it is for Europe alone to determine their subse-
quent destiny, and to do ea with the same considerations
for the common interest which on a former occasion
confided the protectorate of those Islands to England.
Besides the English Government has also adopted this
doctrine when calling the attention of the Powers who
signed the treaties of 1815, and of them who have subse-
quently agreed to them, to the question of the resaion
of the lonian Islands to Greece.
RORK—The Papal Runic° hiut remitted to M.
Drouyn de Lhu,e's the sum of /0,000 francs, sent by
the Pope for the poor workmen of the department of
the Lower Seine, at the name time stating that his
Holiness regretted that the state of his finances pre-
vented him from sending a more considerable offering.
His Holiness, however, wished to testify his sympathy
for the French people, and his gratitude for the tokens
of devotion which he received from France.

AMERICA. —EFFICTEI OF THE WAR. —ln Southern
Indiana, Southern and Central Illinois, the greater
portiou of lowa, and all of Missouri, agricultural pro-
dune is worth next to nothing; while all over the West
the prices of cloth, of sugar, of molasses, of salt., of iron
—all the great necessaries of farm and household
economy, save only breadatuffs and meat for man and
food for animals—have in some cases doubled, in others
quadrupled in price. In the localities that we have
mentioned a bushel and • half of corn will buy bat a
pound of sugar, and three bushels of corn, or a bushel
of wheat, only eqval in market value a pond of common
coffee. Cotton cloths and coarse woollen fabrics—
articles wholly isdispensable among farmers—are sold at
enormous figures. In large distncta of the country,
the bushel of wheat that would once buy air yards of
coarse muslin is now paid for a yard and a half of the
same goods. While this is true of merchandise, the
priors of labour have increased so enormously that on
thousands of farms the grown corn crop is not worth the
bare cost of gathering and preparing it for a market.
And, is addition to these disabilities under which the
/armors labour, increased taxes are a certainty that no
.power can ward off.—Chicago Tribsine.
COMMENCEMENT OP THE BAWL! AT FELDER/CIO-
BMW. —A private telegram, received in Liverpool on
Wednesday through the Hibernian, states that intelli-
gent* bad arrived from Fredericksburg, dated 13th
inst., 11 a.m., announcing that a battle commenced at
9.15 a.m., by General Reynolds attacking the Confe-
derate infantry, and that the Confederates immediately
opened a heavy fire from their batteries, which still
continued. The news is confirmed by the arrival of
the City of Manchester. Ou the morning of the 13th
Federal General Reynolds engaged the Confederate
infantry; and the attack, we are told, was immedi-
ately responded to by Confederate batteries of heavy
artillery. After a considerable period the Federals
were repulsed, bat haviag been subsequently reinforced
they returned to the charge, and were again repulsed..
This wan au the left of the Confederate position. On
-the right the Federal!, commanded by Franklin, seem
to have been more fortunate; the Confederates having
been driven back about a mile. In a subsequent attack
made by the right of the army of the South., the latter
is. said to have been again repulsed, with the loss of
400 men. On the night of the battle the Federals under
Franklin are said to have occupied the ground on
which the battle had been foaght. Two Federal
generals, Jackson and Bayard, were killed, and five
were wounded, the loss on both aides having been, it is
reported, great. Forty thousand Federals were engaged
on the 13th, and the whole of General Lee's army, it
was thought, was at Fredericksburg. The battle was
not renewed on the 14th.

THE SHOELESS SOUTHERN SOLDTERS.—The Richmond
DiapatcA gives the following extract from a letter
written by a soldier in A rmistmul's Confederate brigade:
We had quite a fall of snow here yesterday, and it
remained on the around very well, not beginning to
thaw. My feet are perfectly naked, and I have to
tramp over the frozen snow with bite of old blankets
tied over them, which keep constantly coming off. We
are about marching ; tents are struek, baggage packed,
and we are *tending out here waiting for the order to
fall in." "Many of our soldiers," says the same journal, ,
-" in this :Rate are without shoes, and almost in rags.
An officer who took part In the late conflicts in the
eastern part of this State told no a day or two since that
when the order to advance on the enemy was given
scores of ragged and shoeless veterans responded to the
order with shouts of enthusiasm, and on their bare feet
marched for miles through the snow, six inches deep,to
meet the invader. He had been in battle before, but he
aas never so roused as he was on this occasion by the
sublime courage of these barefoot boys,"
New YORK AND TRH LANCASHIRE DISTRESS.—In
reference to the New York subscription for the Lanca-
shire distress the Times correspondent says:—" The
appeal of the New York committee to the American
people is written with good taste and good feeling, and
carefully avoids the insolent assumption of superiority
which disgraces so large • portion of the American
press. Such a document goes far to prove that if the
spirit which animates the great merchants and bankers
of America could animate the press, the ' politicians '
the bulk of the people, and the Cassius M. Clays, the
cold diplomatic relations that now exist between the
two countries would be replaced by • cordiality that
would render war impossible between them, now and
hereafter. Some of the donors are not so discreet or so
friendly as the committee. One of them a noted
millionaire and 'dry-goods man,' has subscribed the
handsome sum of 10,000 dollars. His cheque for the
amount was eloquent, and made no mistake; but when
he took it upon himself, in the letter which accompanied
the gift, to state that the operatives of Lancashire can
never return to their usual avocations until the North
has subjugated the rebellions States, and that the
people of the United States are certain to accomplish
that object, he only made manifest that his political and
economic foresight were not equal to his benevolence.
It may happen, though the great dry-goods merchant is
not aware of the probability, that Lancashire may here-
after draw the cotton she requires from India, Egypt,
Australia and the West Indies' and the certainty of
Southern imbjugation is not, perhaps, so obvious either
in Richmond or in Washington as it is in the com-
fortable counting-house of the fashionable emporium,
Broadway—whence the subacriptioo emanated."
STATE or THE SOUTIL—Mr. Mary, a famous
American naval officer in the service of the Confederate
States, lees written a letter to the Times on the con-
dition of the South, and if the writer can be believed,
and he seems quite as worthy of credit as any of the
Federal authorities are, the eondition is a very favour-
able o as% He tells us the Beath is more than ever de-
term aied to have no re-union with the North; that
they have abundance of arms and food; that, notwith-
at+ nding the blockade, supplies have reached the
So,nthern State. in such abundance from abroad that
the Custom House receipts at Charleston for July,
ISO, were higher than they bad been for the corres-
ponding month of any of the last ten years. The spirit
of the South is described as excellent, and the feeling
to resist to the last is unanimous.

Ora REAL COMPLAINT AOAINEIT ENGLallo.—Now
'that it is settled that magnificent contributions of food
-will soon be sent from our shores toward the relief of
the British operatives. Englishmen can afford to make
• little effort to understand the real state of American
feeling toward them and their Government. There is
a great deal of misapprehension on the other side of the
water in regard to this; and it has bad the effect of
causing maltitiadee of well-meaning men to think us ex-
travagantly exacting and unreasonable. What, then,
is the real American complaint? It is not, as English-
men generally assume, against the official action of the
British Government. With that action thus far we
have no very great fault to find. It has been confined
to fear proosduree,—First, the acknowledgment of
belligerent rights; second, the proclamation of neu-
trality; third, the demand for the surrender of Mason
and .Slidell, and, fourth, the refusal to join France in
intervention. As to the first of these, it is true that we
believe the rinsing of the rebellion to the level of a
belligerent Power was improperly hasty—taking place
as it did within a fortnight after the intelligence of the
fall of Sumter. At least common courtesy, it would
seem, should have dictated • postponement until the
arrival of the new American Minister, which occurred
immediately afterward. Yet, whatever we may think
of the time otiosen, the recognition in itself *ea proper.
It relieved both England and our own Government from
ninny embarramments ; particularly in giving un-
questionable validity to our blockade, which, it is held,
is a riglit that can exist only Between belligerents, and
in ridding our GOVErtIMEM of all responsibility for the
depredations of rebel privateers. To get free from
other embarrassments we have ourselves been obliged
since to make substantially the same recognition of
belligerent rights to the rebels; The second procedure,
the proclamation of neutrality, was commendable. No
loyal America either expected or desired the British
'Government to be anything but neutral. True, the
proclamation has not been faithfully carried out. It
prohibited the supply of arms and ammunition to either
belligerent, and yet they have been supplied to both in
greet quantities. We have perhaps derived as great an
advantage relatively from this as the rebels, and do sot
complain on this more. In respect to the Alabama,
built, equipped,apwned and manned by British hands,
to prey upon our commerce, we do not as yet under-
stand that the vessel railed with the actual consent of
the British Government. It is said, on the other hand,
that the Admiralty undertook to prevent that gaffing,
and failed only through misteke, and that effectual
measures have been taken tb avert a similar misfor-
tune hereafter. We intuit this is so. The wrong is un-
deniable. The council of the Crown has already decided
this case of the Alabama to be a violation of interns-
tionl law. It is certainly contrary to what has always
been our own construction of that law. When, during
the Crimean war, the British Government complained
that Americans built and sold vessels for Ramie, our
Government replied that, while it was allowable to
sell and transport Munitions of war, it was not allowable
"to fit Out, svithin the limits of the United Staten,
a vessel to odtelfnit hostilities against toy State
with which the United States are at peace, ar to
Increase the form at any foreign armed vemel Mten-
sled for such hostilities against a friendly State."
In regard to the surrender of Mason and Slidell Amer--
fans are content. Their own government decided that
tateniestonel law etrictly construed, required it.
1}4&C.4 einongh, t1:01litt displeamire may have been
.?ectsioned by England's insisting upon the summon
use, uuder the peogitirwtremnstarrem .is more than
balanced by our satisfaction that she hi-is thereby com-
mitted herself irrevocably to the high American
doctrine of the rights of neutral', in denial of which

she fought her last war with us. The fourth set of the
British Government—its recent refusal to unite with
France in an attempt to Frees upon us an armistice of
courmi is well liked, Whatever may have been the
motives of the Ministry in separating themselves from
the French Emperor in this matter, the act itself in
welcome, and it shall go, as it ought to go, to their
credit. If, then, the official action of the Britit-h
Government thus far has done us no great injustice or
harm, what have we to complain of? How happens it
that there is all through the loyal section of the United
States such an intense hardness of feeling towards
England t The *newer is easy. It cornea from the fact
that, the great body of the upper and middle classes of
England, have, from the outset, throtigh almost every
organ of their opinion, not ceased to detains, malign,
and damage the sacred cause to which we have pledged
our lives and fortunes. The Foreign Secretary, Earl
Russell, took early occasion, in a public, speech, to stig-
matize the conflict on our part as a struggle for
"empire," while the rebels fought only for "indepen-
dence ;'' and, in his seat in Parliament, he did not
hesitate to express his " trust the North will at last
consent to a peaceable separation." Other members of
the Ministry have, time and again, used similar lan-
guage. Nine out of ten of the members of Parliament
and other public men of England have sided with the
rebels in their addresses. Ninety-nine out of a hendted
'et the publications of the kinddom—reviewst magazines,
and newspapers--have unceasingly directed against us
their sophisms, their aneets, and invectives. From
that source there has been from the start but one
constant stream of misrepresentation and abuse.
Because we have felt such abuse we have been only the
more taunted. We should have been despicable if we
had not felt it. No man worthy of the name will
quietly endure a vilification of the canoe he deems
sacred. There never was a holier object than that
which has moved the loyal 20 millions of these United
States to maintain this struggle. They cannot own-
posedly see it belied and maligned. It is iuipossible not
to consider this protracted abuse but as an exponent
of the feeling which animates the hearts of the ruling
classes of England. It is so taken, and it will be so
remembered, The inehlts and the injuries that are
dealt in the day of misfortune ate precisely these which
rankle longest in the memory. It isnot the official action
of the Government that has offended us; for that
action haa as yet done us no material injury, Nor is
it the official inaction of the Goer' nment ; for we
would not have accepted its aids in any form, had it
been offered. Nor is it the withholding of business
accommodations, even though Russia could borrow
money In London to help kat in the week of oroehing
Hungary while loans were refused the United States
that would have helped to save its free institutions.
Every man, the world over, has a right to manage his
business as he chooses ; nor is it the withholding of
moral sympathy even though it might have been
expected that • nation so closely allied to out own
in blood, language, literature, law, and religion, a
nation which originally forced slavery upon us, and
which afterwards made peculiar professions of hatred
to slavery, would have freely extended that sympathy
when slavery sought to strike down our national life.
Moral sympathy we do not want, unless it had come
spontaneously. Not is it the contraband traffic which
has been kept tip with the rebels from the Start,
though Frenchmen and Belgians, and Prnasians, and
all other people have abstained from all such operations;
remembering that Englishmen manufactere idols for the
heathen, and fight the Chinese for the privilege of
selling opium, we know how to make great allowance
for English greed. It is none of those things that
disturb us. It is the studied, systematic peisistent
reviling of our cause, which is to us as grand as liberty,
as sacred as the memory of our fathers, as priceless as
the national life itself—it is this chiefly which has
filled us with detestation and disgust. Among the
labouring claims of England there has being little or
nothing of this. They have instinctively appreciated
the real merits of our struggle, and under great trials
have acted nobly. They are remembered. The other
portion of England will also be reenembered. —New
York Tunes,

BEFORI GetiznatYrtan.-4 "returned prisoner"
6 contributing sketches to the Mississippian of life in
New Orleans under "Butler's rule." In his laat he
writes :—" All the world knows old Dr. Warren Stone.
He is celebrated for his great surgical skill, as well as
for his greatness of heart, independence of character,
and devotion to the South. This truly great man was
selected by Brute Butler as a 'shining mark' upon
which to cast the venom. He was accordingly arrested
and brought into the presence of the tyrant. The Doctor
walked up to Butler without waiting to be asked, and
said in an abrupt curt manner, 'Here I am, General,
and I want to know what I was arrested for.' Butler
looked at the Doctor from head to foot, and said con-
temptuously, 'I had you arrested because you are a
great rebel, and the influence of such a man as you are
is dangerous to the commanity. I shall send you to
Fort Jackson to get you out of my way.' The old
Doctor looked steadily into the repulsive, crooked eyes
of his wicked enemy as he indignantly replied 'Great
rebel, eli I You'll send me totF'ort Jackson, eh l I glory
in being a rebel. You can send me to Fort Jackson,and
be damned.'"