The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-01-29 00:00:00

CHINA.

Foreign Office, Jan. 25.
The following telegram has been received at the
Foreign Office from Her Majesty's Consul at Mar.
'Mlles, dated January 24. 10.30 p.m.
Great part of the expeditionary forces had arrived
safely at Hong Kong on December 15. The Perhu
was completely frozen up.
Two thousand live hundred English, under General
Staveley, and A quota of French. have been left at
Tien-tsin, comfortably boozed, with plenty of warm
clothing and fuel.
Lord Elgin reached Shanghae Doc. 4, and was
about to start for Japan with Sir Hope Grant.
Sir Robert Napier bad left Hong-Kong for Cal-
cutta.

The Yang.tse was much infested with pirates.
Baron Gros and Mr. Ward had been at Canton.
The site of Yeles yatnun had been selected by the
French for a Boman catholic cathedra], under per-
mission. _ . _

A steamer hue been up the inland waters near
Canton with perfect safety.
(Signed)
EDWARD Max, British ConsuL

INDIA. •
CA 1.0:17A , December 30.
• monster meeting has been held probsting
against the Wood gift to Tippoo Sultan's descend-
ant..
Troops have been ordered to DArjeeling.
GA December 31.

The ship Herculean WWI totally lost ou the 29th
November at Paul's Head (?) The crew were oared.

AMERICA.
The following are the latest deepatches
v &SPOOL, Friday.
The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia
Company's steamer Kangaroo, from New York on
the 12th inst., and which touched at Queenstown
yesterday, has arrived here.
She brings the following later intelligence from
New York.
The Star of the West has returned to New York
with troops, and with her bows damaged by a
shot.
The South Caro'inian Secretaries of State and of
War had visited Fort Sumter under a flag of truce,
but nothing had tranepired.
Senator Seward made a grand conciliatory speech
on the 12th inst., in which he said :
"Mutual recrimination and congressional compro-
mised are not likely to save the Union. The consti-
tutien of the United States, and the laws made in
pursuance thereof, are supreme. The laws of the
land are paramount to all State legislation. The
Union can only be dissolved by the voluntary con-
sent of the people of the United States in the manner
prescribed by the Constitution. The Congeals
ought, if it can, to tedress any real grievances of the
offended Suites, and should then supply the Presi-
dent with the means necessary to maintain the
authority of the Union." Mr. Seward then pro-
ceeded to point out the ItUtHOronll advantages of the
Union, while • dissolution. he said, " will be per-
petual civil war." He concluded by saying that,
when the angry excitement had subsided and calm.
nese htfl returned its sway, and not till then, wonld
he liciviels that a convention of the people be lumen)
bled to consider what amendments in the organic
national law ought to lie made.
CHARLESTON, Jan. 10.
Despatches stating that the United States 'limp of
war, Brooklyn, is coming here with an armed force,
create the most intense excitement. Great prepara-
tions are being made in the harbour to receive her.
A large steamer called the Marion, of the
Charleston and New York hue, has been put.,
chased by South Carolina, and ordered to be razed
for a man of-war. Her upper cabin is to be taken
off, and she is to be supplied with a complete arma-
ment. . . . . .

The buoys in the harbour have been removed.
The Brooklyn V. ill be fired into. Fort Siimter
will then open on the South Carolina fortifications,
aud the fight will become general.
The people are preparing for it, and for the
worst.
The Brooklyn cannot come in without • great
fight.
Major Anderson will protect her. He only
pledged himself not to prevent communication
between the South Carolina forts until Lieutenant
Talbot came back.
A steam tug called the Aid left the wharf to-
night for the purpose of reconnoitring. She is
mounted with one gun. and is under the command
of Lieutenant Hamilton, formerly of the Federal
Navy.
There is much talk of sending to Savannah for tug
boats, to take the place of gunboats.
ALBANY, Jan. 10.
The news of the attack upon the Star of the West
created great feeling in this city. But one opinion
is expressed, and that is for immediate action on the
part of the Government to maintain the Union at
-all haaards.

A despatch from Washington was posted in the
Exchange Room at Boston, on the 11th. stating that
the Government is determined to reinforce Major
Anderson, if Charleston. is destroyed in eons..
queue°.
A despatch from New York says, "The steam.
ship line between that port and Charleston has
been abandoned, in consequence of the seizure of
the steamer Marion."
A Cherlestone despatch of the 11th (the latest
received). says :—" The excitement here ham some.
what abated in consequence of the pacific nese from
Washington. Enlistineuta continue quietly."