The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-01-21

rance, admitting for discount coVletolA olas nav,
pg seveotyn ve days to rum thou n1' sohs v;st;nS
mberrsssment. The Chrs W holidays have like
We caused stagna ion of asness fu wy AZ ta tho
cturing towns. OF these yons appears 70 De tne
host fourishing The a the price 81 ,ha IT." stocH
to set 70 ' men frames that were idle. The
ice OF wheat con,;rss to decline In all the Markets
France ana in o-ieral there are more sellers taan
myers, except in de north. The farmers VINO mao
over Expecting @srket be sG
armed af tse vast quantities Of wheat arriving az
arceiiias rom the Black Sea. The folio wing is the
jcisi sturn Of the price of wheat in the different
arscs Of France, by which the price OF bread IS
Tis Nshess price Is 3of s7c per hectoMre in the mar
u Of toulouse, Gray, Lyons and airsellesi aod the
wss, 2et esc, IN those o. ;, 10. r.@pe., Qa,mpes,
snce 27E S2%c. per hectolire, being sS'sc. lower
h she lat return.
the Paris aour marke. during the past week prices
We been constantly declning ADD the fall may be 90
hated ri sbou, II the sack Of 1877 kiiogrAmmes. Tn
&r marks offered At 7ef, and excellent samples
aid be obtained for 78L Tns reserve ct the Halle /.
out Il, ooo meircs quinsls (,he qunai is 22lK lbs
Letters from Varna of the 7th December stat,
at the arrival of wheat from the interior was i'm
ded by heavy snow, which had rendered the roads
passable.
An immense quantity Of new wine has arrived at
roy within the present month, particularly from
Loire and the Cher. These wines are of good
ality, and have met ready sale at high prices.
ew wine from Lower Burgundy Is not sael able in
nsequence Of its inferior quality 1t appears that
ere is no great stock on hand in the wine growing
strcts. and that no decrease in price Is expected.
irits Of wine are in bad demand in the South, but
irits distilled from beetro0t are eagerly sought for
thu North. Accounts from Cambria state that
o-tAirs the last crop Of beetroot is exhausted,
that the distiilers have been barely able to sup
the demand.
The European Powers In Persia.
From Le Moro Dec.
Persia is usually regarded rs the battlefield where
70 great Powers, which are at the same time Euro
IAN and Asiatic, must one day measure their
rength, and where the future Of Asia Is to BIO de-
ded Nobody, therefore, ought to be- ast0nished at
e anxious attention which pubic opinion in Eu-
pe 8 paying to whatever happens in that country.
hos customs and laws are almost as unknown 10
,r eeneration a. its destiny.
Pe,sia escaped more than any other Mahometan
pwGs OF Western Asia from the influence OF West
n civilization. Two European Powers Great
Fitan and Russia-have alone maintained there,
b tothis day, permanent missions; and although
vsl on every other point, they came to an under
andng in regard to parajyzing all efforts made at
Hecnt periods by France to exercise an influence
establishing lasting relations with that country.
Atthis moment this antagonism seems to be sus-
ncd, at least on the part OF one Of those powers,
I'D trance, thanks to the success OF new mission,
bll0,ed by the sending Of Persian Amoassa1or to
Vi
succeeding. II is without importance to point to
bat contingency, in the midst of toe events which
re bout to transpire In that interesting part OF
sia-events of which the siege, and, AZ 1t Is ru-
lord, the capture of Herat, and the news of a new
nth expedition TO the Persian Gulf, are, perhaps,
ut he foreruuners, and the gravity OF which may
iIeIstood at glance at the former diplomatic
eitt,ns between Europe and Persia
" said that France oftentimes attempted without
acss, TO establish diplomatic or commercial rela-
Init N N
ens century these attempts were limited to the
0brs of the Kings of France TO obtain, In
ao OF the Eastern Christians, some rcli-
in liberation. In the year l70S, treaty
n concluded between the two countries under
b brm Of Mshomet An capitulations, surrounded by
most solemn commandments; but. IL remained
executed, as il attested by the com nercai treaty
ind at Versailles, April IL, l1l5, for renewing
Il Extending It's dispositions This new treaty did
K lad % any more active relations between the
o Countries up 20 the beginning of this century.
hel Persia, believing herself threatened in ia :
ah by Russia, and in the south by England, ad-
rsed herself again 70 France and solicited her al
me. From this step resulted commercial treaty
hin was signed In January, 1s0s, but neverthe-
rs the commercial relations and the friendly inter
use between them remained as they were.
Twas only in later times that France renewe
tsmore perseverance her efforts 70 Introduce INT
rria her commerce and Der influence LwoenPo
n missions were sent there in the years
% and lsl6 for that purpose. and they sue
Ned i'm renewing by treaty the ancient rela-
ms OF friendship between the two crowns,
/ Of commerce between the two countries;
the in,riauss Of England prevented The ratifica-
n Of the treaty, and Obliged the French Ambss-
Tor 20 ask for his passports. The Eastern war
q the influence il gave France seem TO have put q
70 ~ the hesitation Of the Court OF Teheran, and
this moment Persian Amb lssador Is on his way
Paris IL IL probable, therefore, notwithstanding
ridiculous opposition Of the English newspapers
the reception of that ambassador, France will
IN End he rself able 10 make the most OF her dsin'
ested influence m a mediating power, in the
DIST Of the complications which seem on the point
breaking out
II il easy TO understand the anxiety with which
gland IA watching all the events which are pre-
ring in Persia. Persia seems at last TO have
derstood the warnings given by the Emperor Ma
Rlson to Fesn- Al-Shah, IN the memorable letter
,ieb was written to him In 1907" You viii mis-
ist, /" 1t said, the counsels Of nation OF mer'
ants who, in India, traffic with the lives and the
)wps of soveteigns."
Persia took a. /, appears this counsel for serio1s
O. The old treaties between Great Britain and
rsis are merely commercial oncs hut the treaty
friendship signed at Teherlu Nov. 70, lSli, u
,re particularly political.
The preamble of the last treaty announced com
.rriai treaty, which was concluded only on the
IN of October, 1911. In the interval, II appear.
I'm q circular addressed in June, 1856, TO the Eng
b merchants by the Consul Of his British Msjest,
Coustantinopie, that the duties 10 he paid In Per
by English merchants were regulated conforma
30 the third article OF the treaty of commerce
tween Persia and Russia
lis aim is to assure 70 English diplomacy the ex
lsve influence at the court OF the Shah. and TO es
Iish between the two governments kind OF de
tive alliance for the protection OF their frontiers
in his auauels with the Afghans. and particn
ly during the first siege OF Hern. 1889, the couti
Teberan constantly invoked that treaty as pro
,iting the Intervention OF England in the quarrel.
Persia with her neighbors
n is that Circumstance which to-day gives sc
,ch gravity 70 the fact Of an English fleet appear
rim the Gulf Of Persia, either tor raising the siege
Herat. or for taking and keeping their guarantee:
ainst the extension OF any other exterior infiu
&c in the afaiis OF Persia than her own: fac
n more serious, perhaps, than tbst Of interven
n, IL Il should take place, would 10 the taSint
secession, az announced by the English news
pers. in the name Of England. and with the inten
a TO keep them OF several Islands, and IN particu
OF that OF ksrrak, situated a. the northern pom
the gulf. indeed, this fact would race dellc lb
lsst;on. not only between Persia and England bu
~een England and France
A French newspaper cited treaty by which Per
had ceded the island of kausk to France.
mistaken only as 10 the date. for the article l