The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-08-25 00:00:00

foreign anti Colonial intelligence.

Gors.F:trniAnNirCE.tim—..h.Tliehdd.p.w.d.ifoispuili:ere.ani.n...qouirucii.cesutonitittak.twthedlialTerritis...
Although, says the official °rpm, those immure' were
but temporary and transitory, yet the Government, us
soon as it heard of them, Saved &notions that they
should be revoked.
SPAIN—The democrats of Madrid have requested:
permission to hold amsetong preparatory to the elections,
hut the request had sot been granted on Tuesday. Thie
statement moods somewhat carious in England, where
we ere accustomed to meet when and where and for
what object we pkese. These small telegrams which ,
some to us from other nation' are the marks which show
no bow vest are our privileges as competed with other
people's, in spite of the littha grievances that we soma.
tisoes grumble over.
RllBBlA.—Aocounts Iron. St. Petersburg, resaired at
Brehm repremet the Doke of both Franco and England
to EU& as thoroughly eourteous and pacific in tone,
though the Enflish communication is somewhat re
-
Nerved. The six sedate are again urged with
isereared emphasis, mad • hope is expressed that the
&MAUI Government may adopt sash smasures in regard
to Poland as will lead to the restoration of pesos. If
they do not, the Powers herin4 done their utmost in
the muss of humanity, on Russia will rest the lemon-
Stehle of whatever evils may hereafter/1010e.
INDIA.---The mail from Bombay brings abundance
of details coneerning the capture of Naas Sahib. A
certain Wad Brahmin has tarried Queen's evidence, and
declares that he met with the prisoner three years ago,
sad at his request has been travelling about the errantry
with him ever sines. They passed an beggars, sad
sometimes as lases% tra • over a wide extent a
territory. At some plasma Nana made himself
knows, while at others he preserved his Incognito, but
towards the latter sad of his journey he seems to bare
become emboldseed by impunity, aad waa openly enter-
tained by the thief natives of the district. Thme is
still • diversity of opinion se to whether the right man
lase bees *aught; the Time. of ladies considers the
fillsodisallsa as sesspisie, whik the Bombay Gazette
iesislslastlisitit• Identity is not satisfactorily proved,
mei that the story of the blind Brahmin i as, vary
doubtful re. . . . .

Richmond Zrostiner says that
Ullll fres track of tb. Mzs.t railroads has ben ton up
for the purpose oh ires-planig • stin-boat.
Nommen rioters have bees tried and °portend in
Nov Fork, an sestesesd to terms of imprisonment
nwringtrau 3t°lssieara' The draft in Wanscrion has boon oespkted. It
gives an seem's** of 3,702 white an 1,250 coloured
conseripta. Guards have boss planed oa all the roads
and riven leading from Wellington In order to prtvent
ormeoripla from
toCZsNolikestrbidosseer Florida, writes that up
iall, ha had destroyed 3,700,000 dols. worth of
Northern eommons, sad had eluded 13 Federal cruisers
sent to
.destroy hiw.. - .

The New FOY* Herald imeclodes that Lee is preparing
another bloody campaign against Washington, relying
epee superior numbers to defeat Need* In the Dent
battle, and asa oonasqusmee to capture Washington. "Ii
is known that • portla. of Brogg's army renifoned Lae,
sod that be J. rutting troops or an Important move-
ment, and it eats hardly be doubled that this movement
will be Northward." The Herold farther thinks that
the fear, of the Cabinet for the safety of Washinetoo will
prevent Heade attacking LW, and that the policy of the
rebel Government will be to attempt to blot out their late
reverses by striking • blow at the army of the Potomac.
The Lamm steamer, 011 y ollifew York, whish arrived
at Qeeenelown on Tuesday morn* brings farther
Intelligence from the Empire City to the 14th instant.
Up to that time the Wed reseived from Charleston was
to the 4th, when the siege was still programing. The
Bodoni' Steamer Donald's wee within 500 yards of Fort
Suter, sad Gilmore's batteries were expected to opes
Ire from Morris Island in a few days. A newspaper
sorrespondont, writing from Baltimore, says that by the
middle of August General Lee's army will be ineressed
to 150,000 men, with 900 pieces of artillery, and that if
Heide bee not thee adveneed, Lee will assume the
offensive. Needs, too, has been reinforced by the
junction of& eons of 15,000 men detached from Grant's
army. The article which lately appeared in ooe of the
Washington papers niprasentmg as imminent a war
with England has been semi-officially, and in the most
unqualiied manner, disavowed by the Government.
President Davis has issued a spirit-stirring, patriotic,
and determined &direst to the Confederate army, in
which he plainly declares that the only question at issue
in the struggle is victory or subjugation. Victory, be
says, is within their grasp. They have only to stretch
forth their bandit° move it.
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--
The feet slippers now to be placed beyond all doubt
that a Fresish ousel of war had captured and carried
Into Vera Crus an English schooner with a largo of arm.,
which had cleared from Liverpool to Matamoros. Is this
the vessel to which Mr. Adams gave • permit • few
mouths ago to secure bar from @sitars by the United
Btates navy, and were tbe arms she carried destined for
nee by the Mexicans against their French invaders?
NEW ZEALAND. The Intelligence from New
Zealand is so far satidactory, that it confirms previous
amounts of the defeat of the Maoris.. by General
Cameron ; neverthelesa fears are entertained that we
shall be ',On involved in a war with the natives,
whom no .*mges can bind, and no concessions pearly.
If we are driven to it, it ill to be hoped that we shall
make speedy and Dare work.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Butwroc, AUG. 15.
(Before Mr. Justice Will., and • Special Jury.)
Lion,. SeoGoon.—Mr. Coleridge, QC., and Mr.
Stock were for the plaintiff; Mr. Kerslake, QC., and
Mr. Beni for the defendant.
This was an action for slander, the declaration alleging
that at the defendant Lad imputed that he had had o
intereoures with the plaintiff, whereby she Ind been
treated with lees kindness and hospitality by her friends,
and that a person to whom she was engaged to be
married bed in consequenee refaced to fulfil his engage-
ment. The defendant pleaded "Not Guilty," and a
justification. Tbe damages were laid at £2,000.
Mr. Coleridge, in opening the cam, stated that the
plaintiff was about 25 years of age, and ma Me daughter
of a widow living at Woodberry, Devonshire. The de-
fendant was between 30 and 40 years of age, and lived
at the sante place,and carried on the business of a farmer.
The plaintiff and defendant were originally engaged to
be married, but in °postgame' of discovering Stogdon's
drunken habit", the engorement was broken off about
Lady-day, 1862, arid the plaintiff refused to receive his
addressee any longer. BM subseqmently became mimed
to:a Mr. Pidaley, and was on • visit with bins to Exeter
in February. Tb. dheadiust met them in the High-
/Meet, and there said that he would expose the plaintiff,
and made various imputations upon her olisidity. The
SPAN eveniag the defendant attempted to fora) himself
into the same earring* with the plaintiff at the railway
station, bet was prevented by Mr. Miley. He then
masted the insulting remarks he had previously made.
Almost immediately afterward; Mr. Flood, the attorney
for the plaintiff, wrote to the defendant, stating that
he was Inetneloi to tate proceedings to recover damages
for the slander, but giving him to underhand
that it an ample apology was mad* nothing further
would be heard of the matter. No reply was mide to this
00111131Milati011, sad thereupon the writ was Imue4 and
the declaration delivered, to whim the defendant had
the audrielty to plead that he was mot guilty, end
further that the etatemeals be had made were true in
substaoes and to faeL At bet own suggestion the plain-
tiff bad undergoes ea examinatioa by Dr. Brent, one of
the morn eminent seediest men of die neighbourhood,
and be was preheat, prepared to state that he had no
doubt whatever that no connexion between the plaintiff
and defendant, or anybody else, had ever taken
The defendant was told this in order that be might::
retreat the unmanly statements he had made and offer
an apology, and if -Ise did not the learned counsel (Mr.
Coleridge-) gave him notice that it would be his duty by
and by to address the jury in a different style from that
which be was then adopting.
The plaintiff, in her exeminatMo in chief, corroborated
the opening statement of Mr. Coleridge. In erose-ex-
ansiciation several letters from (be plaintiff to the
defendant, onielied in affeetionate language, were pet
in, but Men was not a mUskille in an of them which
justilled the aspereime en the rsdea,aetar. She
positively denied MO then was my inundating' foe the
eistemente made remeating her by the defendant.
Ni.. Cheetahs Leah, the mother of the plaintiff,
Ni. Mary find" Mr. Elias Maley, Mr. John Mayers,
sad Dr. &mt, gave evidences cookniatory of the plain-
tire am.

larslake, for the defeentant, remdaded tb. jury
that the make was brought at the election of the plain-
tiff, sad staled that, the action having been so brought.
the defesdaat, though be isqed the seesesity of
tablas web • morn, felt bound to place the plass whieb
bad been beard upon the record, and to the truth of
'bids be would pledge his oath.
The defendant eel called, and swore positively that
he had had sonsezion with the plaintiff on many ores.
ekes, the int being on " the fourth lit=lien /de before they
beams peeps* seemed." He other dales
and where iniereoaree had plate with mush
Is the arum of his examination Yr. Justice Wilke
Inquired if any shorthand writer in Court was takiag
notes of the defendant's evidence.
Xr. Coleridge replied that • gentleman wee so engaged
ow baled( al the plaintiff.
I. eramaramisation the defendaat prevareated eon-
siderably, and it was with difffealty thus straightforward
answer could be intrusted from him.
James Lang, alehouse, formerly in the employ of the
plaintiff's mother for sir weeks, was called to depose
that he had seen the plaintiff and defendant several
times in etaations whisk If true, left no doobt as to
intercourse baring taken place between the parties.
Croes-emeolmed: Had never mentioned what he
had seen to Ifn. Lee* or say of his billow-servants.
Told Mr. Clark, defendant's attorney, alit ea Tuesday
lama

—Bwasaiwismsd Illantioaed th. mates lasi winter to a
man Duna Hawkins. .

—War Harry, -•
dearer servant in the employ of
Yrs. LerAs, rated that re bad men the plaintiff and
defendset in an Improper position as one ixession about
Lady-day, 1861 ; but oil r nes-rasoination mid she did
not mention it to Mrs. Lars or any one at the time, nor
bed she done so till the other day.
Mr. Kerslake having summed up the doleadant's
oar
lir. Coleridge replied oe belt& of the plidotiff in a
powerful spark in whir las reemented with emphatie
warnseriess as lie wanly &trek made by the drab-
diet es the dhusneller of the plaintiff, and oar UM jury
to give isheinnlisl damages.
Tbe lour& serniffs eprob was resolved with applart,
whisi wr sappremsd.
Th. warmed Moe anrassol_ up, °hearing to theft
was no doubt sit, the allapd slanders having been
oared ; sad the only question for the jury was
wirier they believed the plaintiff or tbo delendar.
The jury found for the piaintiff—Daasaws. 110.
Kr. Justke Win« informed the defeare time bed
there bees a erimisal assize in %idol be wield us-
quariourly liar committed hint for kW for porbry ;
bet be should call on him to enter into neemdaress for
11100, to appear at the Gloesetter arra, to answer any
rasp whir might be referred salmi Wm.

BOICIDO Or • lill•DIZ11.--Clear1e Wright, 31 yaws
a Ms, *mad with the wtlfal raptor of limaseel
I$ Oldham, as the Sad at Jim, aswiwifttsd
Maillaiwtakta ow Maris/ manias Dwalawall
was head ampaithiat is a In Yamaha( bilda An kr •
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