The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-11-12 00:00:00

Yours truly,
AN OLD SPORTSMAN.

LtTEST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The intelligence brought by the Arabia from the
United States eentains no war news of any speeial
Importance, and what we have received is rather
contradictory. The Washington correspondent of the
New Yore Tribune states that in all probability the
Federal army will go into winter quarters at Weeb•
lingtoo ; but General Sherman, in • general order im
has leaned to the naval expeditionary camps, says Wit
Lb. army is to make a dement on the Smalls= States
under circumstances which will require greet coolness.
vigilance, and intrepidity—qualities of which lite niter
I. apparently somewhat deliMent. The mobilo/ of Om
transports received pealed orders or the MA stance,
and the expedition sailed from Hampton Roads on the •
50th. It had been announced that the secretary to hi
commander of the espedition had stoke and absconded
with the maps, 'harts, and sealed orders from the Fede-
ral Naval Department, but the report was unfounded.
The veteran General Scott, it was supposed woald be
impelled to rejire from active sorra*. in emegomme
of the state of his health. Aooording to the reports • -
from the west the Federal forces are gaining ground in
that quarter. Geyer.' 'Utley, it is said, had routed the
Comfederates at Romney, Western Virginia, eapturirm
three cannon and the camp equipage of the enemy.
The body guard of General Fremont, numbering 130
men, had charged 2,000 Confederates in their amp at
gpringdeld, driving them from the town, hoisting the
Federal Asg, and then retiring on their reinforcements.
Had the Confederates been asleep at the tame of the
attack I Fremont'a advanced guard was approaching
Springfield. Gen. Henderson had capitulated, with
400 rebels, in Missouri, on condition of their laying
down their arms. In Kentucky the Federalists were
also said to be gaining ground. From the South we
learn that the Secretary of the Confederate Tremor,
had issued a circular to the Commissioners of the
Produce Loan, announcing that the subscriptions to the
latter are confined exclusively to the proceeds of the
sale of produce, the Government declining to exareles
any control over the produce itself. The Secretary
repudiates the experiment of Government purchasing or
advancing moneys on cotton for the relief of the
planters, the latter being directed to raise hada from
the bankers, and to make immeliate prepnratioa hi
planting for a winter crop of corn. It was stated there
was • probability of the Federal—the Confederate being
undoubtedly meant—army making • forward movement
upon Washington. Intelligence hod been remind
from Havanna confirmatory of the arrival there of
Messrs. Mason and tiliddell, the Confederate Coat-
missioners to France and England. Them gentlemaa
intended to leave on the Bth inst., for Europe, by Ike
English mail steamer.

The annual ceremony of the Lord Mayor's der/
was attended on Saturday with all the paraphernalia
that have come through time hallowed cuatoins to be
associated with that event. The civic functionaries
turned out in full costume to do honour to the twin'
chosen Lord Mayor; heralds and purenivants, and
the ancient insignia of the different companies, later.
laced with the more sober and homely appearesess
of our everyday life. The weather was fine, and
great numbers were them attracted to witness the
ceremonial, and the popularity of Lord Mayor
Cobitt was evinced at • greet many points of the
route through which the procession passed. in the
evening a more than ueually infieential company
assembled to dine at the GuildhalL The Duke of
Cambridge was there, and the Prime Minister, and
the representative of what must still be called the
United States. His Royal Highnese made•atraight.
forward and sensible speech on the relation of this
volunteers to the army, and Lord Palmerston exhibited
his hippy knack of clothing trifles in an interesting
end elegant form, and of saying nothing with lethal*
address and grace. But the speech of the evening
was that of the American Minister, who made the
troubles which now distract his country consposess
by their absence from his address. Mr.
Adams dwelt at some length on the fanaticism al
modern diplomacy, and strenuously denied the
application to our day of Sir Merry Wottou's witty
definition that an ambamador was "a Man east te
lie abroad for the benefit of his country." Mr.
Adams did not, however, deny the truth of mother
remark, often applied to diplomacy, that "Magee.
was given man to conceal his thoughts ;" and indeed
his speech was the finest exemplaficatimi of it we
have for a long time witnessed; for no man roadie(
' his address would gather the slightest idea tithe
: fratricidal war now going on in his country, sad
which must have been uppermost at the time in kin
own thoughts as he knew it was uppermost is the
thoughts of all who beard him. The speeches of the
Lord Mayor in prorosing the various Mesta showed
much tars and ability.

We are glod to learn that the reports of tho Wan
of the potato crop in the south and west of Ireland Woe
been exaggsrated. Tim lets llos weather bar pat •
slop to the progress el the dhow. whisk no demi*
exists, though in no case has mono than half tho mop
hewn destroyed, and in few instances hss the loss pas
to that extant. Another cheering cirsesmtease is. that
the population are no longer so doposdant ea the sos•
as they were fifteen years ego.
A sad aocidest occurred • few days ago at Harat. Is
Sussex. A miller named Chalonift bed Piet sabered
upon a lease of a w•termill than, sad we. Is
start it for the fird time. Two mem mine to MAP WM
to set the wheel Is motion; and sot Wag familiar with
the machinery, they motioned peaking sitar AU wheel
began to more, were drawn is by the motile. and
crashed to death between the wheal and • brisk wall.
So inlay jammed wore they that thsegb the amides.
was at once seen 11w.. twenty Naiades before the wise/
maid be forged bask and the bodies extrisseed.

Mr. Sate, the Themes police 'magistrate, was angegnil
on Friday bearing a aerie against • Maki* ea abler
bodied seentea, seated Keaton, for aunistens emedned
sad for Unmated warder. It appeared Mist lie met
showed great vielenee on several esseelensi Is sae emes
he seised the captain resod the waist awl elneutpled b.
leap overboard with hi.., in whieh he would have sae.
tented but for the interpontion et the mew, whit easel*
then as tier, were disinterring over lee beigedok
The eon will be realkled for Ida.