Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-01-02
fortion News.
Later from Europe.

day later than those received ny inc
Canada. The news is important.
The fall of Herat is confirmed. II
surrendered TO the Per,ians 26th OF De-
tober. The English troops had arrived
ia tie Persian Gu. A dispatch from
Vienna states that France was medlaiIng
between the beIligerents and endeavor-
ing to persuade Persia to yield to Eng
land.
War was proclaimed against Persia at
Calcutta on the 1st OF November, and the
last division of the feet of the Persian
Gulf left bombay on the lst of Novem-
her. Five thousand troops are to occupy
Karrack and Bushire.
The London Shipping Gazette refers
to the fall Of Ierat, as follows:
This report, if confirmed-and we do
not see any reason whatever to doubt it
increases materially the responsibility OF
those by whom the Persian expedition
was projected, and raises considerably
the importance of that undertaking for
if the policy of Her Majesty's Ministers
is really settled and consistent, uerat can
not be suffered to remain in the hands of
its present conquerers. 1t is well if we
! ]. -. e,,l o,,.,oI,,o. IN ~ c,vr months Onnp
more at war not alone with the Shah, but
with the Shah's patron, the Gar of Rus
STA. There is no doubt but that the re-
cent movements of Russian troops towards
the south have reference to the probable
collision which the Persian expedition
may result in. The principal journal of
Warsaw recently announced that the two
corps d'armee were actually in motion
along the line of the Caspian, and that
their destination was Persia.
There is nothing new in the rumor
that the government Of ST. Petersburgh is
determined not to see the Shah pressed
: by British force, and that the present
f occasion is considered most opportune fol
carrying out design long since conceiv
ed by RusSia-we should rather say fol
giving effect to a policy which has Beer
pursued with more or less success for I
=, quarter of century. We are, it w"ult
seem, therefore, as they say, in for it
How far the reliance we have placed IL
Dost Mahomed may be justified remains
to be seen. All we know, is, that we have
sent a large force upon a service the ma
ture of which all well-iniormed person
f agree in representing a desperate. Tha
we are nominally about to fight the some
: what numerous army of the Shah, bat, il
d reality, TO encounter that inSidious powe
against which we have so recently mea
n sured our strength at a tolerable cos
= England is not accustomed to be battle
d in any undertaking, and we have no fear
- that she will be in this, but we do fe;l
that success i'll the present instance wi
If only be purchased at sacrifice which
=. is not agreeable TO contemplate"
Prussia has closed all communicate
with Switzerland, and will make /
d further proposition.
r., An American barque from Malt
4, bound to Venice. is reported ashore NJ:
re Syracuse. No particulars.
III Berlin, Tuesday evening. 1t is STATE
h. to-day that the Neufchatel question vi
n not be referred to the new Paris COME
IN ences, but to the representatives of ii
powers resident in London, WHO sign,
there the protocol of the 4th May, 1Sj
" PRUSSIA, it is said, would prefer the En-
s'' peror of the French rs arbiter to Lu
!! Palmerston.
Letters from ST. Petersburgh say til
the Bol"rad aud Isle of Serpents' que
~ tiuns will create no difficulty. and that Il
- serious point Of discussion will be the I
j., organization of the Danubian Principal
O., ties.
-. The statement that Ali Pasha will
TO Paris as the Turkish Plcnipotentiar
is di<credited.
N A delegate from the Russian Cover
ed ment has arrived here to settle the MI
ar for connecting our railway system wi
an that Of Russia.
he A Cayenne correspondent of the ID,
nal du H.Ure says: The gold fever gai
on us seriously. We herewith send Y
has home 3O,000f. worth, the produce Of
Ab- months labor of thirty-fve miners on
my hanks Of the Arataya, not far from
au- mountain which bears the name of
hat Empress Eugenie. Gold is discover
I'VE every day and in every direction, but
vas basin of the Approuague produces
me most brilliant results. The Cover
has gone personally to inspect the pr
cipal places"
un- New YORK, Dec. %. The Ber