The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1862-03-18 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

ITALY.—It is stated that the Italian Government had counselled the Provisional Committees now sitting at Genoa to greater moderation in discussion on pain of having their meetings suppressed. Accordingly we arc not surpised to hear that the Mideast Ministry is very unpopular, and that • speedy Metruction of the r'ght of meeting and the liberty of the press is resolved upon for the purpose of preserving Italy from the dangers against which France is so sdininib:y protected. If the Rata:xi Ministry has resolved on this course its days will nut be long, . . . .  It is said that a curious modiseval present has just gone from Florence to C.eprera —a omit of insil, exhibited in the Exhibition here by the armouter's graft of Milan. The Signora Stella, who presents it to General Garibaldi, adds this note to her gift:—" 11 y this arinour lead you quickly and safely to Boum and Venice." AMERlCA.—President Lincoln has taken possession of the powers recently vested in him by Congress. He has got the custody of all the lines of the telegraphic wires, and a military supervisor of all messages has been appointed. The public journals are threatened with punishment should they obtain possession of and give publicity to unauthorised military news. The Treasury Notes Bill, amounting to 50.000,000 dollars—a very long bill—had passed both Houses. There is nothing of importance from Burnsides' expedition. General Halleck, it is said, had ia-med an Order forbidding the stealing or the concealment of slaves. The Southern owners of human live stock must be conciliated end taught to believe that the North, although it talks loudly enough at times about abolition, does not mean it.  On the 22nd ult. Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as President of the Confederate States for a period of six years, and his address is the most important document that the Asia has brought over. The president admits that for the present the tide of success that at one period attended the Confederate arms has turned but Mr. Davis is not disheartened. The final result, he declares, is not doubtful. The period is near at hand, he predicts, whop the North must sink with a debt which has assumed diinensiens that will oppress future generations. There can be no doubt of the impecuniosity of of the North, but it is doubtful whether the finances of the South are in • much better condition. Since President Davis delivered his message in the beginning of the past winter the military powers of the States he presides over can chow nothing but • series of revel sea, and such • state of matters is not calculated to cheer op the spirits of the people in their struggle for independence. The hopeful tone adopted by the President in the midst of the gloom by which he is surrounded may, however, inspire hope in others, and the adverse tide may speedily turn. The Richmond IV hig declares that the Jefferson Davis Government has been the moat lamentable failure in history, and recommends it to 50r render the helm to abler and better hands. The inauguration is described as • bitter mockery and a miserable oonipensation for the ruin of a free people. The inauguration at least indicates that the South has not lost heart or hope. PRUSSIA —Beaus--On Tuesday evening a young man, who, it was ascertained, had come from St. Galli n, a German town in Switzerland, was arrested in the vicinity of the Royal Palace. On being examined, he confessed that lie had come to Berlin purposely to shoot the King, or to throw at him a poisoned apple, assigning as a reason for his murderous design that his Majesty hesitated to assume his rightful position as Emperor of Germany. From the linigna4e and demeanour of the prisoner, he is generally Followed to be insane. Another assumption is that he might have been hired to perpetrate the murderous act with which, on his own confession, lie is charged.