The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-11-19 00:00:00

prep ant, Colonial Eittctligcncr.

FRANCE.—The ifonirriir
' containg a
most important aunotincement we the lien cf ehe
Emperor of the French. iisneil ir eevn.with me
restoration of Fould to the m„I the finance.
id
France. The Emperor has ad
Minister of State, in Hell, multi letter to the
smcleilgit p the Pseessity
for confiiiing the budget wit hew eereeie he
announces Hutt he abatidons ese, hauit7 which he
pOIDICIDOS of opennig freids crt the absence of the
Chamber. The deficit has
...seam. „mime e„
Fould's progrimine, the am Ana. 4 I.oiettesgrffof., and
M. Fould has ilemonstreted eeee„eiiv for tie son-
premion of extract- Ilanry modits in the future. The
Emperor declares that in r sisenteciog a right, ehicli has
bees held by all his rrele semens. even constitutional
loyeeldfne, b• is DDID•t isi by a desire to ',sure the
sound administration of I Ise finances, &nil to !rove that
he does Lei "feed his einsrcgatives ace user, $1 deposit
which cannot be tousle AOr abandoned. N. bull, in
Ins programme, *dud ag to this important change,
makes a comment whlr A will be !appreciated in it. full
force throughout Ear, spe The Nem ol,e etewyeeei
"which the faculty of directly disposing of all the
resources of France inspire in all on.' neighbours
oblige them to no autain immense armaments. To
renounce this pon'e':., more apparent than real, more
menacing than effl moiews, would not only give confi-
dence to France. NI would calm the uneasiness of
Europe, and woo of remove all pretext for hostile
measures." Ain are practical amorance of a diderniin-
ation to maintain permeful relations with his neighbours
the Emperor of ',La French could not possibly give than
this enuesitee'lli nomination of • moat tempting
privilege.
PORTIJG AL.—lhe young King of Portugal, Pedro
V., died e.• Use 12th inst. From a telegram dated the
11111- we learn that the last sacrament hail been ailinin•
'Oared s• his 1164 e.ty. Pedro V. was in the twenty-
fiftb Y,ser of his age, and ascended the throne of Put-
triga'• is 18M. The death of this young monarch has
esrinemil • demonstration of the deepest feelings among
elll AMMO of the population. He is succeeded by his
Mrarther, the Duke of Oporto who was fin the following
ate proclaimed king under die title of Ferdinand° 11.
•BELGIUM.—The King of the Belgians ham opened
'the Belgian Chambers in person. His Majesty alluded
to the general condition of prosperity which the king-
dom enjays, and observed that the information col-
lected ic referent)e to the state of the barn st presents
the residft under an aspect far less unfavourable than
had bon supposed. m. King also mentioned the fact
ihatm treaty of eommeree had been conclodad with
Nyman; adding that the same principle would be
Applied In the relations of Belgium with Great Britain,
:aatimould serve as the bans for negotiations which I
'would be opened with other States as well. The speech
•eastained no allusion to the Italian question, or the re-
.oegnition by Belgium of the Kingdom of Italy.
PRl.NgillA.—The King of Prussia has made another
speech, deigned to efface the impression caused by his
unlucky Kanigsberg declarations respecting the "Divine
right" of Kings. This recent address was delivered at
Breslau, OD the occasion of his visit there to assist the
inauguration of a monument to this father Frederick
William 111. The King renews his assurances of deter-
mination to uphold the constitution of his kingdom,
and to sustain the full rights of the people as well as of
the Crown. The Queen of Prussia, too, has paid •
tribute to the potency of public opinion. She has
addressed through her secretary • 'eller to • German
newspaper to oontradict • report which affirmed that
she hart uttered certain words to the Duchess of
Magenta on the occasion of the French Envoy's recent
bail in Berlin—words upon which Anstrian jourrals
persisted in "lacing • construction offensive to the
Austrian nation. The poplar reception given to the
Duke of Magenta in Kiinigsberg and in Berlin was, it
should be stated, the subject of angry and hitter coin-
meat by Austrian and pro-Austrian journals. It was I
pertinaciously repeated that the Duke had been web
coined and appiauded expressly as " the victor of
Magenta ;" and Austrian politicana complained of •
studied outrage upon Austria in particular and German
nationality in general by • demonstration which seemed
to exult in • victary won hr • French general over a
ties-men army. The words apriken, or •Ilegeel to be
'spoken. by the Queen to the Duchess of Magenta were
afermed to indicate some mysterious bond of sympathy
between the courts of France and hmnia. The Queen,
has, therefore, felt called upon to disavow alike the
words yid the interpretation.

MONTENEGRO.—The Paris papers of a few days
since effirni that the inanrrection in the Herzegovina
and Bosnia is extending rapidly, and that a complete
rupture between the Turks and Montenegrins Is con•
sidered imminent. That corner of Europe threatens
before long to be all *blase with war.
INDIA.—The Indian mail has also arrived. Owing
to
the great idolatrous festival of Doorg•
business was about to he suspended in Calcutta. There
is no doubt that cotton is being more generally grown
this year than last, but The Exylidonart complains that
the stocks up the country do not find • market, and
that the price of the staple is nut yet sufficiently re-
munerative.
A USTR A LTA .--The news from Victoria is of • kind
with which we have been long mode familiar. A fierce
controversy was raging in the Intel Parliament, as well
as among the colonists, with reference to the occupation
licenses which had been granted to the squatters is the
gold Gelds. The Ministry had achieved great popularity
by issuing, these licenses, by virtue of which miners and
others held allotments of land on very easy terms. The
legality of the grants thus math. was disputed by the
Opposition, and in the Legislative Coin-i 1 an adder,na to
the Governor, I•raying that he wonld aux pend the licensee
until the question of their legality had been determined
by the Supreme Court, was carried by • large majority.
There Ims been quite an exodits of the mining popu-
lation to the newly-dimovered gold flalils of New
Zealand. It is an idiogynocraey of them singular beings
that, upon hearing of the discovery of the precious
metal in some other part of the continent, they will
abardon even profitable workings and rush off in shoals
to seek their fortune in the new and untried field of
adventure—ia many cases to realise only failure and
diampointment. From 6,000 to 7,000 persons had
already left the shores of Australia for Otago.—Mr.
Stuart, the well-known explorer, had returned to
South Australia, having almost succeeded in crossing
the eontinent. Want of provisions, it is said, com•
yelled him to return when he reached a point within
nine y miles of the Gulf of Carpenraria. He describes
the country as rich as fertile. Another expedition, to
be placed under his command, will be immediately
itteh out. We may add that there was an Exhibition
In Vidtoria and lust the goods therein displayed will
adorn the Internetianal Exhibition of 1862.