The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-09-22 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF LATE NEWS.

The Index, the Confederate newspaper, published In
London, ha. • letter from the South, stating that
President Davis and his !advisers have "finally deter-
mined upon the weep of soon withdrawing the Con-
f. lent/ repreaentative from Engluid, and that, anises
• change occurs in the present hostile attitude of the
British Ministry, the order of recall will go out before
Congress meet. in December." The writer further
states that if Mr. Mason is sow withdrawn, the Con-
federate government will not be the first, "at least
under nut 'resent adminktration." to seek a renewal of
diplomatic intercourse. "If you have anything to say
o. ihso-after," it is added, "you will bare to send to
listasod•
the r ply of the Rumlan Government I. France, on
the Polish que.tion. is published In its osachisions
and epi it it is identical with that addressed to England
by the seine Power on the WWII subject
The Russians have sustained soother defeat attire
hands of the Polish patriots
The Finish Diet ha. been opened by a speech from tb•
Carr, but his Imperial Majesty does not seem to have,
ref. rred to the subject which must have been nearest
his heart, namely the Polish insurrection. At all
erenta no mention i. made of it in the telegraphic
summary of the spear we have received. It is .tated
from St. Peter burg that eleven iron-plited gunboats,
with turrets, will be completed by next s
Tim Great Eastern has once more got to
but,, although she met with no casualty hermit, she
hae been the maw of a very nerion• casualty to soother
vowel. While off Cape allif on Friday night she min
down a ship named the Jane, bound from Liverpool
I'. Quebec, and two of the crew of ilte latter were killed.
by the collision.
Three powder mills at /3edfoat, in the vicinity of
Hounalow, blew up early on Saturday morning, to the
great alarm of everybody within hearing of the explo-
sion. The property destroyed is said to be great, bat
only one person, fortunately, was injured.
A review of about a thousand Voluntaries was, oti
Saturday. held on that part of Epping Forest known as
Wanstead Flats. The Deputy Inspector of Volunteers .
superintended the evolutions, which were tolerahip well
performed, and were witnessed by • great number of
persons, estimated at fifty thousand, who pressed in a
moat uncomfortable, and, indeed, dangerous way upon
the troops.
A reward of no less than £lOOO is offered for the
arrest of one Sigismund Dietricheen, said to be guilty
of obtaining over CIO 000 of stock by means of bookers'
cheques. He got the stock, raised over £5OOO in money
on it and at ones absconded, and up to the present
time there is no clue to his whereabouts. The money
in in bank-notes, but only two of them, making up
£lOOO, have been paid into the bank from money
changers in London, who gave smaller paper for them.
Death has been very busy in the upper ranks within
the last week or two. In the penalise, we have to add
the name of the Marquis of to three of the
Earl of Beauchamp, and the Marquis Townsbend.
Among members of the House of C•5111900s, we have to
record the decease of Mr. Ellice the "Neater of the
Whigs," who has sat in Parliament for the bet 45
years. It was only last week that Mr. Ellice delivered
a telling little speech again-t those of hi. brother
Parliamentari.ns who occupied so much of the pelvis
time in endles. tall lag and his own pelted'e has invari-
ably supported his professions. Although one of this
mo-t influential members of his party, he has bean,
content to occupy the b .cle treasury benches, listening
attentively to all argumentraddresend to the Hopes, bet.
very seldom obtruding his own views upon it. He took
• leading share in the preparatiao and carrying out of
the Reform Bill, and though an active politkan, he had
ateadfastly refused office for the last thirty Tears..
Artiste have to lament the demise of Mr Charles
Robert Cockerell, Royal Academician, in his 76th yenr
while the Parisian finerateurs finds gap in their numbs;
by the demise of Alfred Victor, Count de Viguy,
noveliet, pamphleteer, poet, and diamatist, at the
age of 61.
The seat of one of the members for Sheffield is
threatened at the next remeral election, and the (needs of
Messrs. Roebuck and Medfield have had • meeting with
reference to the subject. A prmies of support was
given to both gentlemen, but one elector objected to the
Confederate sympathies of Tear 'em. Mr. Roebuck has
written to a friend in She Meld intimating his haunt/on
of standing spin when the election oomes round.
A vile old woman hes been convicted at the Thames
police-court, of a savage assault. She is on. of Mae
worst women even in that woret district of the metro-
polio, and her chief means ef bvelibood appears to be
telling fortunes, oat of whirls the wee*. The
report of the enteesdent's of this estimable old pro-•
phetus is not uninteresting
An attempt to assassinate the Remise General Berg
was made on Saturday As he was driving through a
.üburb of Warsaw. an Orsini bomb was throws from
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wow which killed-one of the general's suite, bat he
himself escaped uninjured, The perpetrator managed
to escape. Several engagements between the Poles sad
Roarians are reported, but except in Doe installer in
shish the Pole. are said to have beau seeessefall
'nit is not named. Tbs Russians are said lobe haildng:
eleven iron-plated gun bosh; with turrets.
The neer from Mexico is to the 15th ult. Iliranion
had declared his allegiance to France, end (Immesh
Fore, had made biro commander of the lifeline forces.
The United States and Ceptral American Ministers bad
nti mated that they would continue to reserniae the
Juarez Government till otherwise inatremed hy their
Government. Jaunt is supposed to be at Wa-bington.
.acogniro, and in communication with the Government,
for the nurses of taking measure' to expel the Freak'.
The Penis has brought news of much importance,
and very favourable to the Federal cause After a
most gallant defence, in which they rewind a very
desperate assault, and a fierre bombardment by laud
and sea. the Confederates appear to have been over-
powered at Fort Wegner; and a telegram from Cape
Race announces the capture of the whole of Morris
Island, and 10 gune In East TlllllllOllllO We hear
of the taking of Cumberland Gap and the capture
of Knoxville by Burnside. and the abandonment
of Chattanooga by the Confederates The latter
was in was probably taken by the Confederates
eith the view of advancing on and overpowering
ttarnside, bet Romnerans apeman to have lost no time
a taking pose aeon of that strops Confederate position.
rhere is sere little news of Gemeral Lee's army. The
Mew York Times stases that three of kis brigades bad
vela sent to setae's.' General Bragg'e army, but this
we oonokke very donhtfuL There was • good deal of
neiterseat at New York concerning tha eapook4 go.
.ptars of the iron-clads from Liverpool, mad we.
E.gl.el was advocated lf they were set stepped.
too., we NSW, gold at 32 per ant. premium; and
.4.,etesy Chan bed emseheled his lose of 50 milks
hula" with the busks.

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