The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-16 00:00:00

Jartign anb Colonial fnttlligence.

FRANC

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The Monitenr of Tuesday last publishes the following
in its non-qificica columns :—"At Chalons-euratene on
Saturday night, about 9 o'clock, some 40 individnala
suddenly attacked a small poet of infantry, which they
took by surprise. They then took the direction of the
railway station, shouting 'Vice la Republiac "The
Republic is proclaimed in Paris I " The Ilepnllo is
everywehre I" Citizens of Chilons, to arms I The
stationmaster, an old soldier, assembled the men em-
ployed at the railway station, and drove back the rio-
ters. From the railway station the mob proceeded to
the bridge over the Saone, the head of which they
occupied, to prevent an alarm being sent to the bar-
racks. The officers of the garrison, who had hurried to
the Sous-Prefecture to seeertain what the tumult wee
about, cleared the bridge sword in hand. The troops
socthgturned out, and the mob soon ditP•rowl- Before
ht 15 of the more conspicuous ringleaders were in
Itiaimpouibletodisguiaethefactthat the trade of
FT&ncelznotatpreeentinuheslthy ietateucouldbe
wished. The unfavourable influences which act on com-
mercial affairs IWO of two kinds—the one political, the
other financial. The consequences which have resulted
from the attempt to assassinate the Emperor on the
14th of January are more disastrous than could have
been anticipated. Thence sprang the violenoe of the
military addresses, which caused so much displeasure in
England, and produced • misunderstanding between
the two Governments, which has resided on the various
markets throughout Franoe, and caused a derangement
in mercantile affairs.
di Nobody ;ears but that the pre-
sent difficulty will be pe arranged, and that the
former friendly relations will be re-setablished, but it
will require • inner time to restore that confidence
among commercial men which can alone give elas-
ticity to commercial transactions.
The Prime of Oude has had an audience of the Em-
peror of the French. It is said that his Highness " pre-
sumed" a little too much. The ambassadors from the
two Kings of Siam have also been received in state by
the Emperor ; and Prince Maharajah Dhuleep-Singh,
ex-King of Lahore, has arrived in Paris. The mit= of
Oriental princes and statesmen into Paris begins to be
remarked..
A change in the ministry of Foreign Affairs is an.
ticipated.
Crowds of people have on several days assembled in
the Place de la Roquette expecting to see Orsini and his
fellow convicts executed. The appeal, however had not
yet been decided.
THE CASE OF Int. HODGE. —We are Wormed that
since the Emperor Napoleon made the demand of the
Sardinian Government that they should surrender Mr.
Hodge, on • charge of being implicated in the conspiracy
to assassinate the Emperor; Sir James Hudson, the
British Ambassador at Turin, has written home to state
there is not • tittle of evidence even to justify Mr.
Hodges arrest. The "papers," we are told, have bean
laid before the Attorney-General; meanwhile Mr.
Hodges, who 'suffers from pulmonary disonder, is not
unlikely to be killed by the confinement while the
learned- Attorney-Oeneral and Lord Malmesbury are
"communicating."
Paris is beginning to experience, to • very consider-
able extent the results of the new passport regulations
regarding the admission of British subjects!. More-
over, hundreds of foreigners have left the cat%
Orders are out to the 20,000 mayors of the various
communes in Prance to deliverno passport without the
personal attenienee of the individual, whose personal
peculiarities are to be carefully depicted, in downright
pre-Raphaelite style, without any 1.:16'191.d attempt at
high art.