The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-12-31 00:00:00

'Minn anO Colonial Ent(lttgruce.

FRANCE. --31. Thonesnal !..ta written • highly
important dispatch to the r. itch represtutati.• at
Washington, to be hod wfore tie Wiullingion (lovers-
lwent, oui the Fr, lit affiiir. 11. Iliouver.al giv•ii • very
deMiled opinnih, thAt the taking of the :lovitli• rii Com-
misdonete from MI biiar•l an Eil jab vessel whilet pro-
feedlot; fr 1111 l one neutral port tO ralotleur wastrel port,
WO, I grow, rioletior of the internetional let of nations,
.0.1 4.10.114 unMettriable peril upon arguments evkir
maintained by Ainerlue. The despatch hssiOK beets
written so long agii et IWeeniber it if t.) he hoped
that it will err Out E.fore Pre,ttent Lincoln replies to
diepsitth forwarded to Lerd Lyon,. Oue now MA
why the Palrie has eh along takcil Ike English able ;
and also, perhar, why tin oputione Natiowair—.up-
prov.l Pa, iipreseist the seperaie rieive of Ylillee Nlll.O.
leott—liss shown iteelf dieeontented with the lhot
assumed ant taken up by the French throdutusug.
The Opinoine Noii,”tale, while apornoing of the views
taken up by M. Thoueeral of the rights of neutrals,
blame,' hie ilempatcli fn. Jing " unfortunstely ton for,"
sot " primounning openly iii favour of Great Winds."
But SI till, romp oliserves, low:mini France Ines mode
hervelf the wheelie of Ungland, it does not oe essarily
follow that she should be her

—The recent aeconnt; rewired in Paris
from Si. Petersburg at.te that if the Ituvernmect dues
not relax it.e spite." of opt. mu.. 11. caLaatn.viie inay be
calected. Pile general ditemitent had reached even tlis
Imperial ()nerd, end .everal 41Cers wale ariestu.l at
Croustade For li.ving copies of the lto.si.o Democratic
Paper. publisbell ii, Liind,n. To add to the.e mini li-
cations . crisis prevailed in tile thiverement of
Kiew. Several noniufacturers had tel their works.
Thu IlliEagetuents of the hoe.. e, hi. Ii be%e
stopped payment amounted to IMarty a million pounds
sterling. lii. engagvilient• uj obe hanker, who (stied,
are ratllll.4ted at two Itailltoo

AUSTBIA.—The ?Ames —"Wesay,; believe we
are collect in stating that count lieehberg h. written
a delimitn to the .lestrian Minister at Washington, in
which he states that he consider. the Gosertiment of
Her Britannic Majesty to bp fully jostilied in requiring
repay tam for ti. pirnceedings of the Siti Jacinto, and
Count itssol.berg urges the Am. riesin Gore ~,,, mat ont
to eonsplicat• their own &Cies by soy liesitstion iii
..ti (ring the just demands of fter Majeaty's Govern-
[otters Irma Austria still deletibe the sensation
created in Vienna by the fillavicial statement as of the
most alarmed setil ashinishel charscter, ti, amount
of the deficit created by the past two years of armed
peace considerebly exceeds tWo-thirdo of the chide
estimated revenue for bon. anti meanwhile the exprti•
diture upon army and navy is still increasing. One
Vienne.. journal endeavours by an int,eiduns slid novel
mode of argument to prove, not that the prospect. of
Austria are good, but th it those of Italy are corer. Als,
however. the basis of the argument is establialicl by
claiming Hungary so one of Austria'. safest resources,
and insisting that N•ples, Tuscany, anti the other an-
nexed proviniess, are mere weakness to Italy, it scarcely
Poems necessary to pursue the train of reasoning any
further.

PORTUGAL—The proclamation of King Louis 1.,
of Portugal. has been poatponed in consequence of the
death of the late Prince Conmort, and the Royal leree,
which was to have taken place on the ?43rd Instant, was
likewise put off in consequence of the funeral of Ida Ista
Royal Ilighnesa taking 1.1.ce on that day. The malady
'rote 'flitch Prince Joao of Portugal is suffering Is gelatin
fever. Tile Lialato journal. are diectmaing the Trent
affair, the Joetroent de amemerre, an influential paper,
coineidimr with the oliniousof the officern of the Crown.
The utmost alarm exists in Lisbon owing to the
mortality among the R,y,l Fanny, and at the urgent
tuwieat of the people the King has left his Palace at
Liabott, and taken up his reaidencts at the Palace of
Coxias. The body of the late King is to be llalliterred
awl analysed, and • commiasion has been al pointed to
examine and report MI the sanitary condition of the
Lalain palace. Pnnee Joan's couditiou becomes daily
worse.

PRUSSIA.— The Town Council of Berlin hate voted
an addrus to Her Royal Highorse the Crown Prineue
of Prusaia (the Prinoeu Royal of EnAltai) on the occa-
sion of he death of the Prince Conaort.

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CHINA.—The telegraphic news from China repre-
sents Prince Kung as still using hi* influence to promote
• good understanding between the Chinese authorities
and the foreign representatives. The rebels were
becoming extremely troublesome. They had gathered
in the vicinity of Ningpo, from which city the inhabi.
tante were lying, to tate refuge in Shaulixe, where the
recent claim had subsided. The rebels are also reported
to have invested H•ngaltou. At lisngkow the brave;
have bien attacking the futeignera and issuing threata
to exterminate them. There is no change in the state
et
affair. in Japan. English men of war were cruieing
among the islands for the protection of Britialt aubjects.
A telegram from Calcutta, dated November 29,
announces that the IndiAn Council Act has been pro-
claimed: