The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-12-03 00:00:00

JOrtign anti erOlOntat Entclligcnce.

FKANCE.—lmmen.e sensation hen been caused in
Paris hy now/ fro:a Limbos that X . Mason %lid
Slidell. the rioifeilerate Column...inners to-k:oror have
buon forcibly taken front on board the British Wed
India lnil stennivr Tani by the United States frigate
San Jacinto. The greatest curiosity ',revel's :44 to what
slaps the Brush Goeerninent will take to resent thin
outrage, •rol Frenchmen observe with a mesninganeer
that were such an insult tii be offered the French flag
note mollent'a doubt would taint as to a rep•ration
being enforced. The probability of. serious complica•
thin between England and the Unite.' State, in received
with &light, and ahould a war break out you may de-
pend upon public opinion here being loudly in favour of
our enemies, whatu ver aide the Government might
think it expedient to take. X in uuneceraaary to
trouble you u ills all the gosaip to which this very
aerions intelbgenee has given rice ; it will be sufficient
to say that any rumour, however extravagant, to the
disadvantage of England, not with re.itly acceptance.
Enthin.aotieAtiglopliiihes are not waiving to auggest
that the Oovernnientshould seize upon the °ppm tunity
afforded by • rupturebetween England and the Northern
States to midge common cause with the latter, and
pay off • debt which, let peaceniongers and amiable
but weak•ininded philanthropists say wh:t they '1.50 ,
chill rankles in the winds of the great majority of
Frenchmen.
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The Emperor of the French list been pleased to
prohibit all further discussion on the (2 snstitutims by a
ukase published in the Monifeer of Thurvl The
Constitution is perfect, and must remain independent of
any discus...ass. Journalistsl vimig an itch tor eritsacion
are reminded that the law on the picas protects the
Constitution against all attacks of which it might be
made the object.
With regard to M. Fould's flnanieal measures the
Pali,' correspondent of the Fxpress says :---1 believe it
may be most truly said that be does not at present
know himself what they will be. Ile works 15 hours •
day, and sees • great ninny people, to whose suggestions
he attentively listens. lam told tits& he has even sent
for M. Fureade, the writer who received a warning for
Hs financial article in the &rue des Deur Momdes.
M. Foreade is said to have given a decided opinion that
nothing but &loan or. substantial reduction in the army
can put things straight. Of course a loan is what we
WWI come to.

SPAIN.—In the Spanish Senate, • motion was re-
cently proposed censuring the Government for its con-
duct in regard to the Into Loja insurrection. Marshal
Nareasia, who has not attended the Senate for many
yenta, was present, and took part in the debate. He
severely condemned the Government, as well for its
previous acts towards the people of Loja, which he de-
clared to have caused the insurrection, as for its relent-
less severity in suppressing the outbreak, and in punish-
ing with indiccriminsite violence the guilty and the inno-
cent alike. The motion for censure was lost by a large
majority, but Hartwig speech is said to have produced
• very marked sensation. The Italian Minister, Baron
sleet., hag actually received his passports and quitted
Madrid, all hopes of settling the quarrel between Spain
and Italy upon the subject of the Neapolitan archives
beim' at an end.

IT A LY.—A rrangements are still in discussion between
General Garibaldi and toe Italian Minister of War,
ii inch hare for their object to induce the former to
accept the command in chief of the volunteer army
which is being raised. Garibaldi still appears reluctsnt
to accept the ooniniand, the point of difference being
that lie denires an unlimited power of nominating the
officers, while the Minister requires in certain cases
the right of nominating; or at least of exercising a
veto.

Hollll3.—Ons hundred and ten brigands were
captured on the night between the 23rd and 24th inst..
by • detachment of French troops from H,, . near
Alatri. It hi stated by the official journal at Naples
that the brigands in the Neapolitan provinces are being
concentrated near Hieigliani, and that Uencral Della
Chia." had been despatched to meet them.

PRUSSIA.— Soule replies made recently by the King
of Prussia to deputations which addressed him in
Breslau have just been published. They represent his
Majesty still iii that curious atate of uncertainty as to
the duties of a constitutional monarch which appears to
have hung around him since his accession. In one of these
late speeches he emphatically urged the deputation to
take care in the coming elections not to return any men
but those who were prepared thoroughly to co-operate
with him, and announced that he did not rant either
reaetiunists or democrats. He complained that in
Posen too many people meddled in politics, and
especially deniurred to the interference of the clergy in
political matters. It is gratifying to know that the
King does not like reactionista ; hut we doubt whether
Liberal Prussians will relish being dictated to, even
by the King, as to the exercise of the vote which M
suppomrl to be their guarantee against encroachments
by the Sovereign, as well as other political danger*.
Prusaian polities are about to lode an influential and
a gifted member of the Liberal party. Von Viiicke,
who distinguished himself so much last session, has
announced that private affairs will positively prevent
him from accepting a seat in the new Pruasian l'arlia.
men t.

PORTUGAL—Th. Cortes of the Portuguese nation
have been summoned by a proclamation of the new
King to meet upon the 22nd of Deeeniber.

SOUTFI AFRICA.—The Cape mail has arrived at
Plymouth. The relations of Panda, the chief of the
Zulus, were again of a threatening character, that per-
!Nonage and his son having demanded the young princes,
who were under the care of Bishop Colanso Ketcliwayo.
The elder sou is said to ha jealous of his brother's, scd
anxious to get them in his power. There was still
danger of hostilities between the Orange Free State, that
very &genially* Dutch republic, and ho liasutus, •
tribe whose fertile territory is coveted by their unscru-
pulous neighbours. There are rumours of other dis-
turbsocea. Dr. Livingstone had purchased some land
for a mission below the cataracts. The prospects of the
harvest were good, and • very successful agricultural
exhibition bad taken place at Cape Town.