The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-07 00:00:00

HERAT.

The following extract is taken from a letter
which appears in the ,Voniteur de l' Anna of the
sth, written, it is stated, by an .European officer,
serving in the Persian army before Herat "The Persian army coneist; of 25,000 infantry, of a
body of cavalry which occupies the whole of the sur-
rounding country, and of a regular siege train, the whole
under the command of a General-in-Chief named
Tziz-Khan. The siege works are direoted by a French
officer of great merit, formerly a student at the Poly-
technic School. The batteries are commanded by cap-
tain Kirziz, a Persian officer of considerable talent.
The cavalry is under the command of an Austrian
officer. The principal engineering operations are being
directed against Fort Noucbky, which i 3 the key of
all the external works. By the latest accounts, dated
the 2d of September, the breaching batteries had opened
against the soethern face of this work, and if it were
taken, which appeared probable, the fall of Herat would
be certain. There would then be nothing to oppose to
the besieging army but an old bastioned wall, built in
1838, which could not resist a regular attack properly
led. An English officer, late of the Company's service,
direct, the engineering operations within the town, but
Isa Khan's army is in a complete state of demoralisa-
tion, and every day numerous desertions go to swell the
Persian ranks.

ITALY.
The following letter has been addressed by M.
Manin to the if- nione of Turin. :

" PARIS, Nov. 4,
" Sir,—Your Parisian correspondent has included me
among the partisans of Prince Mm at. That statement is
incorrect, and I hope you will permit me to rectify it.
I rally to the flag of the national party, who6e wish is
the independence and unification of Italy. I may accept
an advance, though slow, in the way which leads to a
final objet, until an opportunity be presented of attain•
ing it completely ; but, in any case, 1 disapprove and re-
jecs every retrograde or divergent step, and I therefore
reject and disapprove the MAiratist solution as anti-
national. The Muratist solution would not be progress,
but retrogression. IF, for our misfortune, it succeeded, it
would consolidate the Austrian domination in Northern
Italy • it would introduce in Naples an indirect foreigndependence ; it would probably dismember Sicily, and
abandon it to another foreign influence, and it would
create a most serious obstacle to future unification.
Murat on the throne of Naples could not, even if he
wished, establish a national policy, nor a liberal policy.
Murat on the throne of Naples would be fatally, and by
the inevitable force of circumstances, the rival and the
antagonist of the House of Savoy, and necessarily the
friend and the ally, secret or avowed, of Austria, the
natural enemy of that house.
" Ile who affirms that Murat, when King of Naples,
would give a liberal Constitution, form an alliance with
Piedmont, and furnish a contingent of troops for the car
against Austria., is either a dupe or a deceiver. Such
things Murat while a Pretender may promise, but that
promise Murat when King would not and could not
fulfil.
"Far from me any intention of personal offence. I
speak not of the man, whom Ido not know. I speak
of the situation and its inevitable conditions. I sum GP
my intimate convictions in these words —he who is a
partisan of Murat is a traitor to Italy. Accept, Sr,c.,
" MANIN."

FRANCE.

PARIS, TIIIIRSDAT EVENING.

A Council of Ministers, at which the Emperor
presided, was held yesterday morning at half-past
nine at the Palace of Compiegne.
By an Imperial decree the act interim manage-
ment of the Department of the Interior by M.
Abbatucci ceased yesterday, and M. Billault re-
sumed his functions.
We read in the Constitutionnel :—" Two London
journals, the Observer and the Times, announce that
the Emperor Alexander 11.. in order to reward
Count Walewski, French Minister of Foreign
Affairs, for the services which he rendered to Bo"
sia, during the war has restored to him the estates'
which belonged to his family. M. Walewski does.
not possess any property in Poland, and the Itti
sian Government has never confiscated any
belonging to his family. The statement made by
the English journals is therefore completely Br"
founded. It is to be regretted that journals which
respect themselves should aid in the circulation of
such calumnies." estates

Tho Debats, with the majority of the Paris press,
approves of the article published on Wednesday by
the Constitutionnel, and contains the following ob-
servatiens :
" Will fresh conferences be opened in Paris ?
Three weeks ago the question did not exist, for the
new conferences were spoken of as a project that
had been agreed to unanimously by the Powers re-
presented in the first congress of Paris. If we are
to believe rumours that have obtained a certain
consistency to-day this project is doubtful, and en-
counters the opposition of two of,the powers which-
had in the first instance approved of the measure.
These two powers, it is scarcely necessary to add,
are England and Austria. It is refused in London
and Vienna, so it is said, to take part in the neW
Congress, or a consent to participate in it will be
given only on the condition that Russia shall be
excluded ! This new conflict, of which we have
been aware for the last few days is alluded to this
morning by a journal which has probably derived
its information from a good source. This conduct
of England and of Austria is easily explained by
the differences of opinion which have arisen be"
tween those powers and France relative to the
occupation of the Principalities and of the Black
Sea. It is evidently feared that the majority of
the congress of Paris would not be favourable to
the pretensions of Austria and of England. The
journal of which we speak offers on this subject
certain observations, the truth and opportuneneel
of which are of a nature to meet the approval et
all. We cannot understand, for our part, what
plausible motive can be advanced in order to ex'
elude Russia from the new conferences. Russia
interested in several questions which are to be dis'
cussed in the new conferences. By what right cell
these questions be discussed and decided on in the
absence of that power ? We therefore believe that
Austria and England will not persist in the opl3°'
sition which is attributed to them. We believe
that the new congress will meet because it is nece,s"
sary, and it is necessary because it is the oci
means of settling the secondary difficulties the,.
have arisen in the execution of some of the article'
of the treaty of Paris. It has been agreed upon
i
that the congress should meet in order to decide
on all these reserved questions. Surprise 'lneY'
therefore, be expressed that two of the powers
which signed the treaty of Paris should'w:thrlraf
themselves from the application of principles which
they proclaimed in common with the other powerli
We are Confident that England and Austria sill
submit themselves to the rule which was estah'
lished by themselves.
BOVIIT-T, Nov. 6.—The following were the last
quotations • _ _

Oa*. fr. c. Mid of Month.
4i per Cents
3 per Cent 3 (i6 50 tit) 65
New Loan
Bank Shares 3,875 Roman

Credit Mobilier 1,300 Austrian
40. Belgian Five 5........ 94 Spanish Threes 351
Piedmontese (5) B9 Homo Debt

RAILWAYS—FOR CASH.
fY. ,S.
fr. c.
Orleans ...............1,230 Western -
Northern ............... 930 Strasburg .. B9
Lyons . ............ 1,955 New Ditto
Mediterranean 1,035 --Grand Central - Lyons Geneva ...,.. 700 Testo - A
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