Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-09-23
Foreign News.
ENGLAND.


negotiations are pending between build
ers and operatives, which, it hopes win
terminate in an amicable settlement
The contributions from the country, up
to last night, in aid Of men on strike,
amounted to $3.50.
The Liverpool Times of the same
date says:
The strike among the building oper-
atives has not yet terminated; on the
contrary, both sides appear to be waxing
more resolute in their determination to
obtain the victory. This is to be regret
ted, as injury to both must be the newt
able result. From a seeming diminu-
ton in the funds required to support the
turn-outs, an opinion begins to prevail
that the strike is now drawing TO a close:
and that, after subjecting themselves
and their families to severe privations,
the operatives will be compelled to give
in without having effected the object
which they had in view
The subjoined announcement of the
Great Ship Company appears in the
London papers of the I'd inst. 1t will
be observed that the date departure from
Portland, England, for her transatlantic
trip has been definitely fixed for Thurs
day, September %:
The Great Eastern is intended to
leave her moorings ON Thursday, the 9th
inst, and will stay at the More to adjust
compasses, then proceed to Portland,
near Weymouth, and be ready there for
the reception of visitors from the 9th to
the 18th /; she viii then start on her trial
trip, which it is proposed shall not occu-
lpy more than three days, returning to
Holyhead. She win remain there for
the reception of visitors from Tuesday,
the goth, to Monday, the Goth, both in
elusive.
Passengers going from Weymouth on
the trial trip viii be received on board
on Friday, the 18th inst.
Passengers, parcels and letters for
America viii be received on board at
Holyhead on Tuesday, the 27!h and
Wednesday, the 28th inst.
The Great Eastern will sail for Eng
land from Portland, United States, on
the LIST November.
The Directors have every confidence
that the above arrangements will be adj
hered to, but should any alteration I'M
: avoidably occur, due notice will be given.
Upon the trial trip, none but first class
passengers would be received, the fares
: to range from &c to f1O, according to
cabin. The fares for the American yoy-
age outward remain as previously pub
: lished. Return tickets are sold for " a
fare and half"
According to the JHoniteur de FIR
Il NEE, the French army of Italy, under
i Marshal Valiant, consists of $4,000 in
fantry, 1000 cavalry, 1900 artillery, and
SO guns, besides the military train and
e sappers and miners.
. The Paris correspondent of the Norm
K ing Advertiser says the rumored t" in
n teresting situation" of the Empress Eu-
q genie is without foundation.
L 1t is stated in a Paris letter that the
= Prince Napoleon is much annoyed at the
r. ruin of all the hopes which he had form
ed for the freedom of Italy. He de-
% ciines to hold any converse with his cou-
o sin, and is about to leave Paris. II has
+ been observed that the Prince has re-
= moved the Imperial arms from the PAN
= els of his carriages. His servants no
~ longer appear in the Imperial liveries.
ID THE CONFERENCE.
e The Liverpool Times, an unusually
a well informed journal, say S in its issue
II Vi tue Oh
d "Still nothing definite of the Zurich
e, Conference. Nothing, indeed. at all
W except the rumor that it is likely to
lg come to abrupt conclusion, without, prob
he ably, having done anything whatever to
the point. The q,sestio rerata is, il is
understood, the Italian Duchies' question.
10 1t is not so much whether King Victor
e Emmanuel win accept the profered soy
ereignty of Tuscany and Modena, as
as what will Austria do, in case of such
acceptance. VIII Francis Joseph re-
gard it as renewed casas 6eui;; and in
such an event, viii Louis Napoleon sun-
port his Sandman cousin with his arms;
= These, we have reason to believe, if no,
o. the real questions at issue, are the most
RS serious ones. And it cannot be, wond-
Y cred at, that, under such circumstances,
- that there should have arisen new cause