Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-03-29
Foreign News.
Avtm Famine ia hdia-4o0 to 500
Persons Dying Daily.


that the number of persons killed by the
troops in the recent outbreak was So.
The blockade of Me citadel OF Messi-
ma bad been officially proclaimed, and
hosllities commenced.
Rattizzi has been elected President OF
the Italian Chamber Of Deputies.
The French Chamber had finally
adopted the Address with three negative
votes.
TIE banks of Poland at Warsaw re-
fusing TO make specie payment On the
Russian bonds, military forces took pos
sess on Of the amount required
1t was reported that Prince Napoleon
is about to proceed to Turin to negotiate
for the withdrawal OF tue French troops
from Rome.
The London Times in reviewing JEFF
lersoh' Davis's speech, says: We have
never read speech SO 4 fficult to analyza
and interpret"
The Bombay mails Of Feb. ~ had
reached England, and the American por<
ton was forwarded on the Canada.
The famine in the northwest Pro7iacas
has ASSUMED a most serious character,
and it was feared that it would exceed
anything Of the kind yet experienced.
The failure of the spring eroPl ap-
peared to be certain. Tho inhabitants in
some sections were starving, four or FIVE
hundred dying daily.
GREAT BRITAIN.
In the House of Lords of the 7th
Lord Woodhouse sad it was true that
Russia had sent a dispatch to the French
Government, approving Of the French
occupation in Syria and intimating that
Prussia would, if necessary, support tho
sending Of an increased force. He also
added that Government would not give
any further information pending negoti.
atoms now progressing
The Duke of Newcastle in reply to
Lord Derby, said the Legislature Of
British Guinea bad been instructed to
consider the bill sanctioniug the extradi.
ton Of prisoners escaping from the
French colony Of Cayenne, tut political
offenders are TO be carefully excluded
from the operations of the measure.
In the House of Commons on the Eth,
Mr.. Baxter drew attention to the break
ing down Of the Cunard screw steame,
Australasian and asking If the conditions
Of the contract wers being performed.
1r, Gladstone said there was no stip-
ustion that the mails should not be car.
ried in screw steamers nor did this case
establish any objection to them. Hs did
not consider any further inquiry necessa.
ry.
An interesting debate followed on Ital.
an affairs. Edwin James, Sir Robert
Peel, Mr.. Gladstone, ami l.. John
Russell defended the policy Of .D, and,
Vctor Emmanuel aaa GaG.lIdi, while
several Irish metz .ers tool. the opposite
side, and Mr.. Ro,buck madg q pro ..us.
trian speech.
The Parliam ntary Committee on Tho
Red Sea Telegraph agreed to confirm DO
unconditional guaranty Of the Goyeru.
ment.
The London Times Of the Oh, after
mentioni. : some Of the favorable signs
in American affairs, says;
We do not say the tide hos turned,
but we ay la; matters are just j. that
state which imposes a very grayeresfon.
sibih.y on friendly nations, and especially
on Grea, lri,a.l. 1t is quite possible 10
forecast and arm ourselves against the
consequences of the reyolu 'onary move
mant SO fax as they affrc. his island.
without treating it as a tait occompH.
We shall not be deferred, Tor Instance by
the wrath of a New York cotemporary
from looking for new sources Of cotton
supply, and drawing, if necessary, upon
the resources of our own colsnies, to save
our manufacturers from ruin. On the
other hand, we cannot fail 10 see. and ii
is our duty to point out, the tendency Of
a retrograde commercial policy in the
North to divert European trade from
Boston and New York to Charleston and
New Orleans. These are matters Of
business, and the warmest friends of the
Union cannot expect our merchants to
celebrate its obseques by self-immola.
ton. But let Mr.. Lincoln show him
self equal TO the occasion, and let the
Free States prove themselves capable of
postponing sectional interests to a truly
national policy, and it will soon become
evident on which side English sympa-
thies are engaged.
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