The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-10-29 00:00:00

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FRANCE. —Napoleon seem% extremely 11411001 to let
all the world know how delighted the King of Preside
was with his recent isit to Compiegne, and how grati-
fied his entertainer on that occasion feels at having
succeeded in giving his guest eatbdaction. The Moni-
ker of Monday publishes • letter from ita Konigsberg
correspondent all about the reception of Marshal
WMahots by the King of Prussia and the grateful m
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membranese entertained by the Prussia,
personage of his
entertainment at Conipiegue. And Frame is not only
popular with the King; the Government, and the entire
Prussian populace, share the " excellent iinpremions"
of the head of the State ; and such seemingly is their
present temper that Napoleon has simply to ask the
" rectification" of the frontiers of Prance on the Rhine,
or anything else, and lie will at once receive it. The
King and Queen behl • "long conversation" with
Wlfahon, and the French Ambassador was verily
" inspired with mapectinl gratitsule" by the manner in
Which the visit to Compeigee was spokes of. On Tolki-
isy the Mondanr faithfully recorded that the Prussian
Girard Cress of the Black Basle had been conferred on
this Duke of Magenta. Surely the measure of Frenob
gratitude to Prussia will soon be full to overflowing.
PRUSSlA.—Williain I. of Prussia bas signalised
Lia coronation by an amnesty fur political and other
offenses. Unfulfilled terms of imprisonment and Inc
and unpaid espouses of persons condemned for offences
whist the laws of the pmas and the decree upon the
right of re.union and association, are remitted; and his
Majesty desires that all permits guilty of grave crimes,
Who by their conduct have merited indulgence, or who
may be restored to liberty without danger, may share
Ilse benefits' of this act of royal gram.
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BRLGIUM.— The Kings of Holland and Belgium
have met at Liege, and shaken bands in the presence of
a vast multitude, to the intense satisfaction of the
latter. Liege was illuminated on the evening of the
meeting. and their Majesties were serenaded.
ITALY.—IL. Rataasi is said to bare had an interview
with tbwßinperor of the French on Tuesday, and if
report awake truly the result of it was as unsatisfactory
as had been that of hie previous communications with
IL de Thouvenel. '1 Its Emperor is not yet prepared to
bring the Roman question to an end, and accordingly
M. Rataszi has been obliged to accept the necessity et
Its edjournment. That the Italian people will much
longer acquiesce in this necessity we much doubt, and
when the Parliament again assembles we shall expect to
see a strong spirit of opposition to this waiving policy of
the Emperor.
POLAND.—A letter published in Um Debate, eves a
very forcible picture of Russian repression of Polish
natiosal feeling. All who presumed to take part in the
fete of the 15th were threatened with the severest
penalties. If a tradesman shut his shop it cost him a
Sec of 400 francs, besides the forfeiture of his license ;
but the Polish tradesmen risked both penalties. We
read that all the shops, as well as the Bourse, were
timed from the morning of that memorable day, and
that the atreets and churches were filled with immense
crowds of people, utterly defiant of the repressive pro-
clamation issued on the preview morning. The blood
ot the nation was up, and the state of siege was laughed
to moors. A great number of arrests were made in the
evening of the 15th, and the brutal soldiery, in obedience
to the orders of more brutal masters, tnunpolled down
the people in the streets. These barbarities were ,
entirely unprovoked, for in the conduce of the people
there seems to have been nothing more seditious than a
reepectiel remembrance of the past, • heinous crime, no
doubt, in the estimation of a Government like that of
Russia. but one which cannot be put down by the instru •
mentality of the Commas. Upwards of three thousand
persons, it is said, were taken prisoners, and a conside-
rable portion of these will be drafted into the Rassiasi
army, to do penance for their patriotism.
INDIA.—By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have
later news from both extremities of India. The districts
lying between Palcutta and Bombay are suffering greatly
from floods; the drought having been succeeded by a
superabundance of rain. The report' from the cotton
districes are cheering; in some cases the breadth of
land under cultivation being twice as great as it was
last tear. Bengal, we are informed, has taken the lead
in the matter of local taxation for expenditure upon
public works. Mr. Seton-Karr has moved the first
readin: of • bill for the levying of a tax upon lands
devoted to the cultivation of tobacco.