Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-03-24

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steamer Alps at Boston with Liverpool dates 10
the 18th instant. Our attentive correspondent ut
| New York, +. A. Abbott. Esq. has furnished Us
with the latest English papers aud circulars
The papers report the failure of the old estab
li>hed Est India House of Leslie; also of Swayne
X Roville, merchants with liabilities of hal ia mil
lion of dollars.
Tho Norwegian government purposes to con
| tract loan of IA half million sterling at per
cent interest with sinking fund extending over
| 30 years. The loan is for the construction OF n
railway.
THE BRITISH MINISTRY.
The London Star says:
he meeting of Ministerial Supporters IN the
| House of Commons. which, il WAS understood
was contemplated. was held To day at Lord l'a'
mer>ton's official residence in Downing street.
Lord Pamerston essed the meeting Tor n
bout three quarters of nm hour lie Justihed an
the proceedings Mt Canton. aud stated that SIR
NJ. Seymour had full powers to act as he Ind
done,and that hi WAS man not likely to adoptse
we're measures until everything else had tailed.
His lordship, in conclusion gave the meeting to
understand that il the vote was against INN IN
the House ofCommons, it would be n question
inr the country to determine. There was ahoht
40 or 100 members present
THE PERSIAN WAR.
\ le,ter from Paris Of Yesterday Sunday
evening Says--l am informed that it is only To
ley aud OF Fcrukh Khan has been affixed to the
draft Of a treaty ot peace between England aud
Persia.
Dates ION Bombay. received via bombay by
the Overland Mail, are to the 9Th January.
At ihet date the troops wers still unmolested
hytie' enemy, part in the town, and the remn'n,
der in the entrcnchel camp outside the walls and
in the neighborhood of the wells. Pending tho
arrival of reinforcemrnts offensive movement
only had been made by them this WAS an attack
on depot Of Persian stores and ammunition col
lectcd at II place called Chakotah. twenty two
miles from the camp. The soldiers. though com
planning of considerable discomfort from the eN-
tremes o! cold and heat were on the whole IN
the enjoyment of good health The second Eu'
ropeans, who suffering from severe sickness
Oh leaving Sinle from an unhappy exception
neery half their number being in hospital. 1t
does not appear, from the advanced state OF the
season. by what means IA movement ON any Don
siderable scale can be made before the hot sea
son sets in, and the heat of the seaboard OF Per
ola is something very fearful.
The force originally detached from Bombay in
the middle Of November consisted of about 6,00o
fighting men, including $500 Europeans under
Gen. Stalker. On the appointment OF General
ouram, it Immediately became known that an
army oi five times the magnitude OF that first
| despatched was intended for the inva' sion at the
country. of which 10000 were to lie sent from
India and three or four thousand from England
+ overland Genera Outram's staff left on the 18th
Of January. The gallnn. general Is understood
10 proceed to l}ussorah, the chief source OF ON
supplies, and will in all likelihood establish lead
! quarters with ha>c of operations in the neigh
borhood. From l5ushre an advance into the III
| terror is obstruc,cd by rugged and difficult
! rnnge of mountains running right across our
| path. From Bussorah tolerably even limo OF
march stretches from nearly the mouth ot the En-
pirates by Seurtra running lght into the Gentle
of Persia.
Letters received by the Constantinople mail of
| the 18th ult.. speaks of n lumor current at lie.
heran OF the 9th, that the Persian troops opera
ting to the west Of Furrah had succeeded in cap
! turing Kandahnr
THE WAR IN CHINA.
Hong Kong drtes, by the Oriental mail are to
the 10Th of January, There appears to have been
no farther operations against Canton Dispatch
e. from Sir john Bowring and Admiral seymour
! give accounts OF the attempt 10 retake Ieatoinm
! Fort and Of an attack upon the British shipping
by vast number of Chinese junks. The attack
was well concerted, and made at low water when
| the large man of war could not safely manmuvre,
but it was brilliantly repealed. Sir Michael Sey
mour had thought it wise To abandon his post at
the Dutch Eoey and the Factory Gardens. and
mad strengthened his position at the forts lower
down the river Five hundred men were expec-
ted at Singapore. The details of the massacre
Of the Europeans on board the Thistle were com
municated in these dispatches. On the Eth of
, January the whole of the suburbs west of Can
| ION were burnt by the British frees.
| a lnrge fire had also taken place inside the
! city. The Mandarins have issued in various dis
.ricts the most blood thirsty edicts against the
English,and have offered largo rewards TO those
who may succeed in assnsinations or incendiar-
ism in Hong Kong.
All the Chinese have been ordered to quit tho
service of foreigners and return to their homes;
and. go powerful is the mandarin system. that
dsohcdicnce entails much trouble, if not positive
destruction, upon the relatives of the offender
The consequence is, that nearly are the Chinese
| servants have left or all leaving.
! FRANCE.
/ PARIS, Feb. 25.-'Tho Constitutional exam
ines Lord palmerston's political position, and ar
rive. at the conclusion that the existence of the
cabinet headed by that statesman can be prolon-
ged solely by ab,tenton from all measures
calculated TO produce serious diplomatic compli-
! cations abroad 1t says:
/ II is evident that the fewer serious diplomatic
! COMPLICATIONS encountered by the British Minis
/ try abroad. the easier it will be for Lord Pal
/ ner,, ton to escape at home from the paramenta-
! ~ rmbarras smrnts which those who seek his in
i helitance will create in the present session.
! Therefore believe he will be the first To profit
! Y tho dwelling of the last dilicuIlie, which for n
/ moment delayed the execution of the treaty of
! the Both of March, His interest is to contribute
/ wi h all his power 10 the perfect pacification of
! the world, such is the characteristic aim of the
! Anglo French alliance, and it is this alliance which
! for long time past has constituted n great por-
| ton of the strength of tho existing cabinet.
Nothing new la. transpircd about the result
Of the negotiation between Lord Cowlev. and
! Ferouk Khan. Little credence is given to tho
! various rumors that were in circulation about