The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-12-16 00:00:00

irortiqn aub Colonial intcllignue.

FRANCE.—M. Emile de Girardin, who has again
become a contributor to the columns of his old journal,
the Petase, has written a remarkable article, urging the
Emperor to withdraw his influence from the merely
religious side of any political question ; to regard the
Pope in his temporal capacity simply as the sovereign
of a small kingdom; and therefore to abandon all form
of intervention between him and his subjects.
SPAIN.—At the sitting of the Spanish Senate on
Tuesday General Prim entered into explanations respect-
ing his conduct in Mexico. He said his mission in
Mexico had been to put forward certain claims in the
interest of Spain. In connection with the represents.
trees of France and England he had roused the political
spirit of Mexico. the first conferences tamed off satis-
factorily enough:, but when lie saw that France intended
to inaugurate an exclusively French policy in Mexico he
resolVed upon withdrawing, as he would never consent
to become the tool of any foreign nation.
nusam—The Journal de St. Prlersbourg of to-day
says :—" The Emperor has received at Moscow many
chiefs of the peasantry. In replying to the chiefs his
Majesty asked them to he obedient to the authorities,
to pay the taxes punctually, and to effect their redemp-
tion from their position as serfs as speedily as
possible." _ _

GREECE.—A public meeting to sympathise with the
cause of the Greeks was held at the London Tavern on
Wednesday. Mr. Crawford, one of the members for
the City, was in the chair, and Mr. Baillie Cochrane,
M.P., in an eloquent speech, expressed the sympathy
which every Englishman mast feel in the Greek struggle
for independence and constitutional government, and
urged the Greeks themselves, by all the hopes of the
magnificent future which lay before their country, not
to attempt to outrun events, but to devote themselves
for the present to the work of internal developement
and good government, and thus lead other portions of
their race to gravitate towards them. The resolutions
were unanimously carried.
AbiERICA.—YANICZE RAGS AGAINST ENGLAND.—
NEW Yolig, November 29 (Morning).—A. large Demo-
cratic meeting has been held. Speeches were made
urging unfaltering prosecution of the war, and to re-
establish the Constitution th:oughout. Hopes were
expressed that the North and South would again be
united, in order to attack England. M'Clellan's re-
moval was denounced. Denunciations against England
continued to be poured forth from the press,the pulpit,
and by public speakers on all occasions, which seemed to
elicit popular approbation,
RICHMOND REPORTED INDEEENSIELE.—E* Yo,
November 29th.----Buttisitle's army continues in fron of
Fredericksburg. No movement has yet taken p .
The Confederates were erecting earthworks on he
heights commanding the city. The Confederates n
t
front of Harper's Ferry have made no demonstration.
The Confederate General Martin, with 4,000 men,
attacked Newborn, N.C., on the 25th, but was repulsed
by the Federals with heavy loss. It is stated that
General Beauregard has pronounced Richmond indefen-
sible, and the inhabitants are leaving the city. The
movements of Stonewall Jackson are unknown.
ADMIKAL WILKES ASAIN.—{W YORE, November
29 (Morning)'—No movement at Frederieksburgh. The
railroad is completed from ACquia 'Creek to the head-
quarters of thle Federal armyt The Confederates have
driven in Federal pickets at Newbern, North Carolina.
They endeavoured to capture three companies of Fede-
rale, but were repulsed. The Confederate force is said
to nausber 4,000. The Confederates are said to have
abandoned Holly Springs, and the Federals occupied
Hudsonville, Mississippi. Attempts to burn Memphis had
been made by incendiaries. Another foraging expedi-
tion by the Federal coloured regiment has been made
from Beaufort, South Carolina, The Confederates are
_massed at Tullahoina,Tennessee,to resist Rosencranz's
advance front Nashville. The Trieune asserts that it
Is reported, cm high authority; in Washingtdn, that
British Admiral Milne is in pursait of the Confederate
steamer Alatount. Thlt Patten Guardian asserts that
Admiral Wilke,' threatened to enter Nassau without
periniasion of the Government, but bore away, and lay
the distance of a marine league from the shore. The
Guardian expresses fears that Admiral Wilkes's hasty
conduct may embroil America and England in war.
Some journals assert that the captain of the Federal
steamer Octovard had infringed on the Queen's prods-
=then, in capturing • schooner within the Abacoree,
Allen's Bay.
MOVEMENT Or GENERAL BURNSIDE, AT Fatble-
ammoniac —The news brought by the Europe is
interesting, although in the relations of the belligetents,
speaking in a military point Of Yin*, them is no change
-of importance reported since the latest of the previous
deaptrchait from New York, The threat of Sumner to
do With Fredericksburg what the late Bomba did with
Palmer° bad not being carried into effect, but the
kuinane intention of the Federal general had been
postponed, not abandoned. The women and children
of the doomed city bad got a few snore hours granted
them to take her departure from the homes which
were to be made targets for Federal bombshells,
and at the end of that extended day of grace it was
understood the work of destruction Weald comnience.
General Lee was at frederickithuig; hnslreVer, and
perhaps he rendered tim leitomplishment of the
Federal threat intortieticable. The threat, however,
has Wets uttered; and the world will perhaps remem-
ber that such a deed, as more than one Federal comman-
der has threatened, has been perpetrated by only a
very few of the most inhuman and barbarous
personages of which history has any intelligible re-
cord.

_
SURRENDER OF FEDERAL GfitentAL tMtlait•
DED BY THE SODTEL--greeithEt. MaVia bits dtlthanded
the surrender of Olt ilk An M eil, who in cold blood
massaered **timber of Confederates in Missouri some
tines *Am If the demand is not granted a terrible
reprisal is threatened, viz., that the first ten Federal
officers captured in the State where the murder was
.perpetrated shall be executed. The New York Times
thinks this threat will be put in force. We think so
too; but when the Times says that it will eonstittite
the most frightful Incident f the OrMient war we
must remind the ',titer that the deed that prompted
the thought of repliisel- was far more frightful. "An
eye for tut eYe, a tooth for • tooth, blood for blood."
Thlt retaliatory philosophy, no doubt, has been con-
demned by high authority,, but war justifies much that
Christianity shudders at.

THE ADVICE OF POOR WILL PO HIS RICH
BROTHER-IN.-LAW, WHO THINNS OF OOING
TO LONDON tO sa THE CATTLE SHOW.
If you should go to tondôntknb the made show,
Get a stiff steel 'collar Made, kit round your nook to go,
And get a ;Mod rerolver, also a bowie knife,
dr else my dearest friend, you may chance to lose your
life ;
Por policemen ere scarce, and can't keep walking out,
To see what ev'ry garrotter may chance to be about,
Their strength is needed other ways, for what would
000 key do,
If they should leave her fireeirte, ah'd te garrotted to?
Oh, make pant will, end get it signed, and don't forget
your ftielids,
For *here you're going, your, life but on a trifling
• chance depends,
And if you've any enemies, please make the grievance

. . _
up.
And to your journey drink success in friendship%
parting Cup;
Or if you money chance to owe, do cal and pay the

score,
For erediters may AMMO to lose if yen return no more,
And get the money in you're owed, and place it safe
sway,
So that there maybe some reserve for undertakers
Pty.

That these pretantions are required, no sane man can
e'er doubt,
When so many folks are garrotted, and have their life
knocked out;
For garrotters do learn their art in happy Portland's
isle,
And they are fed on boneless meat, and fatted for the
trial ;
Some serve a long afprehticeship, say fourteen years or
more,
But those who DA"' proficient do of course get out
before;
Now being well fed and trained, but think how nimble
they must be,
To place their arms around your neck, and then extract
their fee.

For Government knows verylwell If there should be no
ime, •
There would be little exercise for Peelers half their
time;
And judges, with fat salaries, would not their circuits
travel,
Or the sinfahmes of mankind with acumen unravel;
This being the ease it does behove the individual man,
In order not to lose his life, to take what care he can ;
For garrotters will not discern, their training, make
them blind,
From oommon herd of street walkers, those who are
more refined.
'Twee just before the Indian war, when there was little
emus,
And some did talk of working the Peelers but half time;
That Government a party sent unto an Indian Thug,
To learn train him the manner of a scientific hug ;
And they returned, and since tkat time, why choking's
been the plan,
Adopted ,by the garrotters to still their victim man ;
There's some,, no doubt, are taken up, that don't quite
know their trade,
And sent hack to their sea•girt Isle, good workmen to
be made.
Now dearest friend, what I, have said, is ey'ry word
quite true,
And don't you in the Telegram read how these rascals
do?
Do think how many folks there be that do on you
depend,
And how they'd grieve and much would lack if your
career should end ;
So take all due precaution, and do as I have said,
Then you may chance come home with only a so:e head;
Or perhaps have some front teeth knocked out, or
slight stab in the chest,
Or whatever little thing may suit these garrotters the
best.

The grandest work of Handel, "Judas lifaccabetts,o
wee produced at Strittgardt on the 25th of la.t month
by a society bearing the strange title of "The Union
for Christian Music."
An Athens letter says—The army le causing great
embarrassment. Subaltern officers in the provinces
wiali to be commanders. Civil war almost broke out in
the capital. The army is tatting away.