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

TilE AMERICAN QUE6TION.

The bided of England has been fairly aroused.
The Trent, • Royal Mail Steamer, took on board
when at • neutral port, Messrs. Slidell and Mason,
with their secretaries, u passengers to another
neutril port. The British vessel was fired upon and
boarded by a Federal man-of-war- the British
standard was treated with contempt; and the
Southern States Ministers and their secretaries made
prisoners of war. This forcible seizure of Confede.
rate gentlemen on board a regular English packet by
a Federal man-of-war, is an act contrary to the
usage of civilised nations, which the Federal Govern-
ment must be called on to disavow,—and is, if not
promptly apologised for, a mous belti that a stern
duty will not permit us to disregard. Those
passengers claimed our protection, and appealed to
the inviolable sancity of the British flag. They
claimed the right of asylum which we bare busted
that we offer on our ships and on our soil to the
weaker party of all countries; they asked no aid
and no favour from us; they simply sought the safe-
guard of our laws and the common assurance of our
hospitality. It is no slight matter, that a Foreign
Government should presume to touch with the tip of
a finger men in such circumstances. The honour of
England is tarnished by the ill-treatment of our
guests; the security of our commerce is impaired by
the violation of our vessel. The rasaion—the fury
—of • great civil conflict among a half instructed
people. whose political passions know no restraints,
has become so intense and eager, that for the sake
of capturing their adversaries, the Federalists were
ready to brave every consequence, and risk every

danger. It is pre sisely becatisa of the intensity of I expense of justice, by the "manufactured pull" of the
the evil passions incident to civil war, that the I Puree( Chronirre, anti the unworthy ilmigns of those
right t.t asylum upon neutral suil is so invalurble to who have greater zal for the prosuotrun of party
political refugees all over the world, awl it is this I inte:e4j, than the interest, of th se who ale Com-
safe asylum which England has ever and will ever pelted by untoward circumstances to be the recipients
afford thun, without exception and without iof this ehari,y.
distinction. As we would not permit the ,
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Pa
pal Government to take Gavazzi from rs :
, ....uwIIESTEI: PITCUED CORN itl A ItKET, Saturday.
one of our packets between Dover and Calais; as we I Nov. 30.--We bail a larp attendance and a good
would not permit the French Emperor to harm : show of aumplea, lint the tow of the trade, t 'wept
Louis Blanc between Dublin and Holyhead ; at we i for wheat, was dull; there wus a ~,,w1 latsi nese done
in
would Out allow Austrian emissaries to seize Louis I this
rtlograrin
Oats and other grain plcuti.sil, and
Kossuth while walking through the streets of LOW very I
ckes:l7 .
don, so we must protect those swealled American : NlL...sus. BAKER .AND INsoes REPOSITORY SALE,
rebels on board our vowels. Had the Trent been , Saturday, Nov. 30.—The slimly ef fat stock wasnot
crammed with muskets. the South, the Federal's: "e? large as usual, hut Wu of quite Christmas quality.
l The competition was good' Ind priers ritnueciative
would have had no right to take out the cargo on the ,
, for the beef, but with the slurp the hest kiwis only
high seas. To make the capture legal, they would I were in demand ut late rates. Other things sald
have had to convey the prize into a Federal port, I well.
where the prize court would pronounce its judgment. i Dr'ReIIESTER IN RARKSEsS. —The rotten state of
the
If it could be shown, therefore, that Messrs. Slidell •
veniteinaseewderulg h
have i
g ratahebeena t the
r for use of great
inhabitantsin euii-
and Mason were contraband of war— which they .
i ve either 'een irdark—riess, ,ri the
I r breathing a
were not—their capture by the San Jacinto would I nauseous vapour emitted throughout the whole line
still be at variance with the law of natious. If the !of the works, which has been moved by the initurity
of
officers of the Federal navy are to hc allowed to board the stuff
Ttu;ilizt s..l,llilieil lrias gas.—
t impressive
English vessels, and decide on the spot without the discourse was delivered on S'ilfinla-y inon inin
g,a
r.
chance dim appeal to the prize courts, what is and : Peter's Church, in behalf of the above charitable
what is not contraband of war, our couimerce is at i institution, by the rector, the Rev. J. M. Colson,
an end, for there is scares ly an article of trade LL B. The collection aurountesl to .t 3 Os fad.
which some commanders would not lie ready to de. Ti ix i -411elt OF COW:LTC:VG SeRuEON TO 7111
dare either warlike stores, or auxiliary to warlike tarinsroft.:?.tla•sr-r, Ta Ilosritsl..--At a meeting of the
l ns of the Dorchester Union, held
purposes. In taking peaceful passengers out of an on the 16th instant, it was unanimously resolved
English steamer the Federal officers have heel' guilty that the votes (20 in nunifier), at the disposal of the
of an act of piracy, and the Government they repre• Board, amnia be given to A. E11118"11, Esq.,—astrong
sent must wake restitution and an apology, falling ritarrst;f:i:fit.bledhii,gba rirttactiionl in
fufisicilii thathr ;id-
• which England most take the uetessary steps to many opportimitiesiL of circle
eserovingne Les' !rind sailhave
maintain the honour of the flag that has been out- courteous conduch in the discharge of his professional
raged. For years past we have been treated cave- donor.
lierly by America, but on all occasions, knowing the CouNre Ferry Sento:or, Saturday.—Before H.
Unbars's, E.. 41., and Major-General-Michel.--Joha
tremendous and fatal consequences of a war, we
ricurs was summoned for poachnt, st ~ Abbotsbury.
have humoured our somewhat overbearing cousins, Robert Pitman said lie was an assistant to Lord
and have allowed them to have their own Damao:s kepere. lie saw she dsreadaa, about
way more than we would have conceded to 4 o'clock on the 11th of November, with a gun and a
hare under his slop. The hare had been shot, and
any other nation. There is a limit to human in-
durance, and we say advisedly that in the case of isainiAtrak a
iiittferor from bun It %i'liffm
to warm.tae—hiDs e,fuenndsannl
the Trent that limit has been passed. If the Federal take the place of another man at bird watching, and
Government refuse tumake an apoingy for the insult, on going across the field ho picked up a liars.
awl reparation for the injury they have dune, our Another man saw him pick it up. lint the man was
nut preent.—Defendant was lined 20s. and costa, or
duty is clear, we have no alternative save war. The
6 week's impriso 1111 l ent in default.
calamity is great, but the obligition is greater. Balm,: DINNER. —The annual gathering of the
tradesmen of Dondiester at their Baron of Beef
dinner took place at the King's Arius Hotel, on
Wednesslay'evening last. J. F. Hodges, Esq., the ex-
mayor pirided,,and the proceedings were of a con.

vivial and gratifying character.
NIII.ITARV c ...mi.% L. —On Friday last the mortal
remains of Corporal Beunison, of thi.Gth Carabincers,
stationed at our barracks, were deposited in their
last resting place in Fordington church-yard
with full military honours. The baud of the Dor-
chester Volunteer Rifler attended to assist in the
last :sad offices for the dtemseil, playing the " Dead
March in Saul" from the barracks to the place of
sepulchre. The accoutrements Of the deceased
were borne on the Full, and the empty-seated
charger follewed uith tests reversed in the stirrups
and housings of black awl white. The scene, as the
melancholy cortege passed aluung, presenti_sl an affect-
ing sight, and over the grave, at the close of time
service, were tired the usual three volleys fur the
departed soldier.
COMMITTED TO THE DORTIMTER G arm.—
Ses4ous : George Stickley, stealing turkey and fowls
at Wiutrith ; John Krona', stealing coat and boots at
Canie. —Hord Labour : John Granger, leaving
service at Stalbridge, 14 days; Jeremiah Wilds,
leaving service at llolwell, 14 days; W illiana Gillett,
junr., poaching at Fifehead Magdalen, I calendar
month ; Job Dyke, vagrancy at Beaniinster, 3
calendar months ; Thomas Hibbs, poaching at
Clialdon Herring, 6 weekt; ; Edward Ryall,
vagrancy at Shaftesbury, 2 calendar months;
Elizabeth Ryall, vagrancy ut Shaftesbury, 1 calendar
month ; deremia4 Simpson, misbehaviour at
Shaftesbury union, 10 days ; Thomas Jackson, mis-
behaviour at Shaftesbury union. 7 days: Joseph
Heaney, disobedience of °Mos 11.M.5. Edgar, 21
'lain; Henry bather, insubordination H.M.S. Hero,
2'3 days; Charlie; Crocker, stealing oats at laydlinch,
I calendar month ; David King, stealing wheat at
WimifritliNewburgh, 3 calendar months; Robert
Taylor, stealing fowls at Wareham, 6 weeks;
William Smith Woodrow, stealing a bucket at Hill-
field, 1 calendar month; Francis Tumby, stealing
ducks at Rourton, 2 adender months ; Harriet
SLrgeant, stealing apples at Omniugton, 14 days.