The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-01-28 00:00:00

Sorrign anti Colontal Intelligence.

AMERICA. —The Etna arrived on Wednesday at
Queenstown, bringing intelligence from New York to
the 10th inst., which, however, is, generally speaking,
of an uninteresting character. The great Masissippi
expedition was ready to leave Cairo, a portion of it
indeed had already gone southward. The expedition
wan to rendezvous at Hampton Road, and according to
the Boston Traveller, several divisions of the army of
the Potunieo are destined to reinforce it. As a matter
of course its destination is unknown, but from the force
of which it is eomposed. and the care with which it has
been prepared, it is evitent great things are expected
from it by the Federal Government. The Cairo
Despatch states that 25,000 troops are expected there,
and that on their arrival General Grant, with a column
of 60,000 men, will march upon Nashville, Grant
will, it is said, attempt a junction with General Bull's
form, and the combined army will then march 141411
New Orleans. The movement is boldly conceived, and
It was expected to be made within six days. This
army is no doubt intended to operate in conjunction
with the Miagissippian expedition. The Naval Com-
mittee had reported a bill forth. construction of twenty
mail-clad steam gunboats.

In referring to the sinking of the stone fleet in the
harbour of Charleston, the Bichweisci Whip says the
North has taken the first step towards making
Charleston an excellent harbour and an impregnable
city: Aoeording to Southern reports the Federal
troops had been driven book under cover of their gun.
boats at North Edict Island. Stevens, the Federal
general, was still in possession of the mainland near
Beaufort, and the Federal,, it is stated, had also been
successful is. several engagements in Western Virginia.
The North is to experience in a larger ineaeure the
pleasure of taxation for warlike purposes, the Congres-
sional Committee having resolved to provide 150,000,000
dollars by means of the tax gatherer, during the current
year.

The special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph
eayt, in referee°. to the surrender of kfason and Slidell
—latUe „ foresight is required to perceive that Mr.
Seward's hope and expectation are, that he will be
able to crush the South in the next two or three
mouths, and that his Ant offer to them will be, "You
hate England becauss she did no; assist you in your
hour of trial; we hate her ler divers other reasons.
Let me iota hands, and o«ecot our difference& by turn-
ing with all our force ufan our common enemy." It is
customary to say that the present moment will be ex-
tremely favourable for England to grapple with the
Northern States when their forces are engrossed by an
intestine foe. But unless the "present moment" is
vigorously seised, we shall learn to our cost that we
have a formidable enemy on hand, readier to engage us
than the American Union ever has been before, and
possibly backed up by the venom of the Southerners,
whom we have abandoned to their fate. There can be
no doubt that this is the present programme of that
large majority of Americans in whom hatred of England
Is the mainapring of action. It is • grave question for
&viand's statesmen to determine, whether they had
better "be just and fear not," or, abandoning the
Southerners to their fate, await a bloody and an
almost instantaneous war with an incensed, vindictive,
and powerful nation, prepared by twelve months of
energetic action for vigorous proceedings, and lashed
by many causes, of which England is the reputed
author, into unreasonable fury against the mother-
country. It is not my province to do more than call
the attention of your readers to the existence of these
rocks ahead, and to warn them that, in the hour of
trial, our Armstrong gams and Martin shells will pro-
bably abdicate their pride of plain, and we shall awake
to the consciousness that we are engaged in the
severest maritime struggle which the world has wit-
nessed since Britain first ruled the waves.

--
TEN BLOCKING-0P Or CHAJILVATOL—The Ship-
owners' Amociation at Liverpool, have received the
following reply, to a letter addressed by Earl Russell,
respecting the blocking-up with atone of Charleston ,
harbour. "Foreign-office, Jan. 15th. Sir I ami
directed by Earl Russell to acknowledge the receipt of
' letter which, on behalf of the Liverpool Shipowners'
than, you addressed to him on the 13th inst.,
_ his atteniton to the course which the Federal
Government of the United States have adopted for
closing the main channel of Charleston Harbour by
sinking there vessels laden with stone, and expressing
the fear of the Association that unless strong repre-
sentations and remonstrances are promptly made a
eimilm course may be immediately followed in the ease
of the other harbours of the Confederate States. lam
to request that you will state to the Liverpool Ship-
owners' Assmiation that the attention of Her Majnetes
Government was at ones attracted by the rumours
which obtained currency some weeks ago of and, a
'fours° as that to which you refer being contemplated
by the Government of the United States, and on the
20th of December Her Majesty's Minister at Wash-
ington was informed of the view taken of it by Her
Majesty's Government. Lord Lyons was told that
such a cruel plan would seam to imply despair of the
restoration of the Union, the professed objeot of the
war; for it never could be the wish of the United States'
Government to destroy cities from which their own
country was to derive a portion of its riches and pros-
perity. Such • plan could only be adooted as a measure
of revenge and of irremediable injury against an enemy.
Lord Lyone was further told that even a scheme of
embittered and sanguinary war such • moonily* would
not be justifiable. It would be a plot against the
commerce of all maritime nations, and against the free
intercourm of the Southern States of America with the
civilized world. Lord Lyons was desired to speak in
this sense to Mr. Seward., who, it was hoped would
disavow the illegal project. Now, however, that the
project seems to have been carried into effect at
Charleston, Lord,„Lyous will be instructed to make •
turther representation to Mr. Seward, With a view to
i
prevent similar acts of destruction n other ports.
(Signed.)—E. II /OSMOND."
The opinion is evidently gaining ground, both in
Europe and America, that the present unsatisfactory
state of the blockade of the Confederate ports will ere
long result in a complication of greater magnitude and
much graver character than that produced by the seizure
on board the Trent. The Federal Government has
itself virtually declared the blockade to be insufficient,
by blocking up the main entrance to the harbour of
Charleston, and the frequency with which the blockade
has been broken by ships of various nationalities 'hew'
that it is merely nominal. From the first therehas been
an important party in this country that have contended
that • blockade of such • character had no right to be
respected, but the neutral attitude we have assumed as
• nation in the American contest precluded the pond-
bility of Government affording any countenance to the
propositions which have from time to time emanated
from this recalcitrant section of the community. The.
blockade, however, is becoming no more effective with
the lapse of time, and the prospect of the blockading
party bringing the rebel States, as they are called, to
their allegiance to the Union seems as distant as ever. -
Accordingly, the opinion seems to be gaining ground
that the chief Powers of Europe will be compelled, by
the force of circumstances, to adopt a new line of poiley
with regard to the embargo upon the trade of the South. •
The Shipping Gazette of Monday, in an article., the
d correspondence rrespondence respecting the atone blockade at
tTarleston, says that the destruction of the harbourof
et port has produced such a profound impression in
?rano, that the French Government may find itself
Impelled by the force of public opinion to prevent the
further realisation of the 'illegal project" indicated
by this act, by raising the blockade. And if France,
says our contain porayn ekes action in this metter she
nen hardly do so alon d if she is associated with any
tber Power their P must be England '
A usually well ' ormed Scotch oontemposr•ry, the
Scotsman, states that lettem from New York and
Washington intimate the probability at Mr. 'Seward
resigning his °Mae, and the succession of Mr. ..Everett
to his poet. President Lincoln, it is afdrmed„ M desir-
ous of having more of his own way than Mr. Seward is
disposed to give him.
A New York paper, the World, in its impression of
the 11th inst., thinks the Rinaldo with Messrs. Mason
and Slidell on board, must have Rinaldo,
lost during in
storm which raged with such violenee on the Is 4 and i
2nd of the month. The vessel, indeed, may have steered 1
for Si. Thomas on leaving Cape Cod, but, says the
World, unmindful of the adage' Any port in a storm" 1
such • course would seem uncalled for and singular. ,
The death of Colt, the maker of the celebrated rhvolver
of that uame, is reported to have taken plane at Connec-
ticut, on the 9th inet

Prje.et

A 'despatch brought by the Norwegian, which arrived
et Londonderry on Thursday, states that Yr. Bewrrd
has telegraphed permission for the British troops, eit
route for Canada, to land at Portland, and pass through
Maine to their destination. This is a very friendly sot
on the part of the Federal Government.
PHI Suirrsit.—Atautaii, January 22, Evening.—On
Monday • prolonged cannonade was heard here, pro-
ceeding apparently from a distance about six miles out
at see. • A vessel was sighted this morning which ap-
peared to be the Sumter. It is Supposed that she has
✓ode bar ad venary.

FRANCE.—M. Fonld has issued his Budget, and,
looking at the very bad financial case he had to bring
before his eountrymen, it most be confessed he his made
the best of it. The French Chancellor of the Exchequer
establishes what he calls a great distinction between
ordinary and extraordinary expenses. The former show
an increase of 70,000,000 franca over the estimated
expenses of 1862. An increased expenditure of four
millions in the department of Marine and War is an-
nounced, but here increase means reduction, as the
effective force of last year was 21,000 men higher than
the present effective force. The average effective force
of 11361 was 467,000; this was reduced by the Ist of the
current month to 446,000; and by the let January,
1863, it will be redeemed to 400,000. The aggregate
credits in the budget of the Minister of Marine amount
to 168,000,000 francs for the ordinary and extraordinary
service, which we are assured is an important diminu-
tion in the expenditure of preceding financial years.
Coming to ways and means M. Fould proposes
to exonerate all who have nothing bat their
labour to depend upon for • livelihood from all
taxes upon personal property, and from all taxes of •
personal character. Every workman is to be relieved
from the tax of • patent for the exercise of his trade,
and the duties on valuables transmitted by poet are to
be reduced to one per tient. Certain modifications are
made on certain taxes as a means of increasing the
revenue, for the purpose of insuring the regularity of
those branches of the public service in which the esti-
mated expenditure may be exceeded. These are • new
tax on horses and livery carriages, which IL Torrid cal-
culates will yield five and a half millions of francs ; and
he expects to get ten millions from the augmentation of
the fixed dues and fees at the public; registrar Aloes.
The same amount is also expected as the result of a
' modification in the method of collecting the propor-
tional registrar fees; and homicidal's upon getting nine
and a half million francs from a proposed slight increase
on stamp duties. The stamp duties on bills of stook and
licensed broken are raised, and their produce is esti-
mated it 1,208,000 francs; and twelve and shalt millions
are expected from a fixed tax on bills of account receipt..
The total produce of these new resources is estimated at
fifty millions, which will leave • surplus of twenty
million francs, after the settlement of the Budget of
186 L With respect to the general financial situation,
M. Fould estimates the deficit at the close of 1861 at
1,008,000,000 francs. He suggests the propriety of
taking advantage of the present period of peace for
effecting the reduction of these immense arrears. The
extraordinary resources of the State consist of fifty-
seven and • half million francs, made up of the
balance in bonds of the ObLigatione Centenaries, and
ten million francs, the third annuity of the Chinese

men.

TURKEY.—The winter ia particularly severe this
year in almost every part of the Turkish dominions.
Various communications, while giving each its local
intelligence, agree in speaking of the unusual intensity
of the oold. There is every mason to believe that
Smyrna and the adjacent district will be well repre-
sented in the Greet Eviiibition.

frelaith.

Indemnity. These not being sufficient for the un- .
struotion of rail ways and other works of public ....
utility, M. Fould thinks the Corps Legialatif will •
got refuse to vote the means for such works—by an
segmentation of 10 centums per kilogramme of the GIMAIROUS CONDUCT....Th• O'Conor Don, M.P., hu
thrown open to the public his woods and lawns, to
duties on salt, which he calculates would produce
33,000,000 francs ; and a temporary augmentation on carry therefrom timber to whatever amount they wish,
where that is not available on other parts of his
the sugar duties, which be thinks would produce i
29,000,000. The extraordinary resources of the empirefl prØperty, he has given directions to Thos. M'Derinott,
would thus be 130,000,000 instead of 57,600,000, a ~ to purchase coal, and to supply every means to
might be raised to 150,000,000 frs, by the addition bi I make the tenantry comfortable. Be has given the
the credits unemployed in 1862. The publication f widows and orphans on his estate a Christmas boon of
the statement produced great excitement on the Rou 15e. each.
and a fall in the funds. Ultimately, however, the I MR, WILLIAM S. O'BRIRM.—A.t the last meeting of
perturbed spirits of the money•changers became the Newcastle (County Limerick) Board of Guardians,
trumnilised, I Mr. William S. (YBrien resigned his position of chair.
DENMAltK.—Arrangementa are going on with great man, which be has held for a long period. In the
course of a very feeling and suitable address he said :
activity, as if on the eve of war ; and, if credit may
" g Actin under the advice of several very able lawyers
be attached to the Flyveposten, the idea is in contain.
end ef several experienced friends, whose advise has
lation of occupying, on the Ist March, the lines of the .
y
been reinforced by the earnest solicitations of m own
anevirke, near Schleswig, with a corps of 10,000
children, I have met the petition of the trustees by a
family settleuir ' or sale for vale, - -,. life

.iuilylent, or sale for tee of my own na...
estate to my eldest son, to whom I have made over all
my legal rights, present and future, in my estate, upon
conditions, one of which is that an adequate annuity
shall be placed at my disposal. (Hear, hear.) Should
this family settlement be upheld by the Court of
Chancery to override the voluntary deeds of 1848, he
will occupy my place in the county of Limerick. He
will reside in Cahermoyle, and perform the duties of •
country gentleman. In gush MN I shall probably take
a hones in the vicinity of Dublin, and devote myself to
literature and politics. On the other hand, in case the
prayer of the trustees be granted, and that I be sent
adrift on the world without any independent provision,
I shall probably leave Ireland immediately, and seek •
premature death in some honourable adventure in a
foreign laud; for I could pot live here to witness the
operation of a sevenfold division of my property, and
the intrusion of Lord Inchiquin's solicitor into the
affairs of my family and of my estate. I could not
live here without employment, without property, and
without any control over my own children, except such
as might be accorded by their own sense of duty, even
though they might be the most dutiful children en the
face of the earth. These are the prospects before nse."
.The board unanimously refused to accept the
resignation; but Mr. O'Brien haying strongly urged the
necessity and proprietyvof the course be had adopted,
the resignation was aceerted with painful reluotaneet—
Munster News.