The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-08-27 00:00:00

Jattign anb Colonial fntellignict.

FRANCE.—The peculiar crotchet of the Prase lithe
moribund condition of the kick man of the Sect It
will not believe that any good Hillis- can coineo.ut of
Turkey.. " The negotiations." it "). "of (Mitt
Paella • Alt the chief of the (llidian im:urreetion will
probahly have the same rottlt as on past ocaudow.
The parties will not couie to au undeist:inting. They
cannot come to an undeistanding. The representative
of the Porte way yield tithe legitimate demands f the
Christmas in arms, but the Turkish government is
upside to execute them." In spite of these aornbre
anticipations, we learn from the latest intelligence of
the Patric that matters look well and peaeeablo in the
I.ebanon, where the measures of Decant Poch& are pro-
ducing excellent effects; and that the harvest is excelleut
throughout Syria, while peace reigns •virywhere in
that fetal:lel land. Fond Peels, it is supposed, will
continue to exercise the functions of commissioner
extraordinary to the Porte. The long stay of the
Engin& fleet in the Neapolitan waters is much com-
mented on, and, as may well he imagined, with no little
jealousy and acrimony. People here are
_puzzled to
know what means the landing of our Marines by
detachments, to go through their evolutions, &counting
to aome authonties ; according to others, to do guard
duty over the housed and shops in the absence of the
troops and national guards. Tim Pulrit has an article
on the panics; caused by the terror of French Regressive-
ness. England, it appears, is now calm on that heed,
but Germany is 'menacingly unquiet" as regards her
neighbours. "Francs, however, provokes nobody, nut
• fears nobody. She ii tist certainly desires peace :
but as to what our neighbours may say or do. she acts
with regard to the iminaces of the Germans as ohs did
during the alarms of the English. She &Imp her
shoulders—and laughs."
POLAND.—A letter froni Posen stales that agitation
I. beginning to prevail in the Polish pewit, e of that
MUD*. The government bad prohibited the o'ergy
from allowing revolutionary hyntus, and particularly
the " Bose co, Pulaki" to be sung in the churches;
bet imitated of obeying. they were having the latter
sung on all occasions. The Prior Nowacski of Opatow,
to whom the order was addressed, sent back this
reply :—"Since the government adinibi that the hymn
Bose cos Pul46 Vial virtue that it card dna
as much dread it as the cruel Herod did of the child
Jesus when just born, I undertake to spread it with
the greeted seal, to teach it to everybody, and to smg
it, not only with school children, but with adults, in
order to implore the mercy of the Almighty. It is
imperil& for Inc to obey the order, without violating
the dictates of my conscience, for I mu • Pole
SPAIN.—By private advioes from Spain we am led to
espied that ere long the O'Donnell (iovernuient will
share the fate of those which preceded it, and O'Donnell
be driven from office with even a greater load of con-
tumely and hatred than Narvaes smi Sartorius before
him. There is reason to suppose that the Oovernmer.t
is conscious of the danger of its aituatien. It ii just
now samaged in a desperate war with the press. Most
of the organs of public °Milieu are strongly liberal to
their tendency. They possess greet influence, for every
one in Madrid nada them. At the head of the phalanx
of newspaper" which is engaged just now in the attsck
on General O'Donnell is the Iberia. This intelligent
publication. rupported by many influential men whose
n•nses are known in Madrid. wages with the govern-
ment • war in which no quarter is given or taken. The
Government prosecutions are ehowered upon it like
hell. In Spain the Government rarely suspeuds • paper.
It pillages the pockets of its proprietor', and thus in
Clue ruins all but the wealthiest. Ti,. proprietors of
the /Serie have already paid auonuous sums ; and last
week were mulcted once more by the deuision of the
abed *mut. This persecution of the protein' enough by
itself I. set the intelligent (ibises against the O'Donnell
w friar ; lint this last phase ut military despotism. that
et securing the election of a packed Comm devoted to
his interest. will p-ohatily he upset by that strongest of
all the levers th it heave up revolutions—the conscious-
ness on the pea of the people of an ilill••••• pressure iif
li:cation, raised without their consent, and expended in
the waiiton eztravagences of men in I.l*er.
HUNGARY.— There in an en-1 of the Hungarian Diet.
The decree for its dissolution arrived iin Wedneaday at
IF' ..th. and the Diet was dissolved on the following day.
No one is surprisi det this result: it only annul es with
to universal expectation, and for once makes public
rumour • true prophet. No other einem remained
mem to the Emperor of Asstria,unless he should declare
lila*. If willing to recognise the just cabin of Hungary,
a it to IC with • wisdom which • Hapsburg has rarely
• men. No pomibility oomptoinise existed. The
• aims of Hungary were as resolutely urged as they were
• .riy sustained. The reply of the Austrian Govern-
ment was as ancompioinising en.l obstinate as A uatrian
rule has ever been. Ti,. Hungarians declined to
&Landon theie subotioice for shadow, and so this volume,
as it were. of the me it controversy, Glories. Amtria has
▪ nr the knowledge that • vast portion of her dominions
Ii prepared to racial silently and unrieldingly, by every
mode of passive resistance, the application of her abi-
teary sy.tein ; an' that the first chance which involves
her in a war with any European Power will see Hun-
ger) in aruis to shake off her yoke altogether. We do
SA look, of course, for an itumediate struggle of any-
thing hut • constitutional nature between Austria and
Hungary. Hung.ry is not nrepared for an armed
struggle. end show,. no signs of active preparations. She
occupies now literally the same position as that which
she hell twelve maths ago; but in actual feet one of
• very different character. For she has now declared
herself the detenn aol opponent of the system which
Austria declares to be her determined

COCHIN-CHINA.—The French in.C,ooliia•China are

initre—e—njoyieent .4 no bed of noes. Putting out of
view the fact that they are in the midst of a hostile
...entry, where every btaela hide. an enemy, it appears
that they have other foes to oontend with whose presence
Is little less • sour,* of annoyance to our" brave and
generous" allies. A letter from one of their officers
*numerates these as consisting of • deadly climate, haste
of reptiles of all sizes and kinds by day, clouds of mos-
q likes and other vampires at night. The horses are
such intractable brutes that they cannot be ridden;
bathing dares not be indulged in for fear of the croco-
dike; and even when escape from there is effected,
fever is not uufrequently the consequence of the recrea-
tion.
INDIA.— We have received letters and ropers from
Bombay to July 27. It ,In was falling abundantly
throughout India; cultivation everywhere progressing
most actively; and the prospects of the country as re-
gents the fruitfulness of thc season were of the brightest
elisreeter. "Throughout the famine districts," says
the Bosihey Quadri, "there is still an amount of
existing distress demanding continued and most earnest
efforts for its relief. There cannot be any considerable
diminution in the number of persons relieved by the
Famine Fund before the end of October. Death, from
starvation only occur in those villages to which it has
been found impossible to extend relief. (Arden is now
ravaging the famine districts, and threatens to deci-
mate the population."