The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-26 00:00:00

SPAIN,

The Madrid Gazette of the 22nd instant publishes
a bulletin on the health of the Queen, who is
confined with measles. The Gazette adds that the
state of the august patient presents no gravity.
The journals anunounce that their Majesties will
leave for Andalusia in the month of March. Their
itinerary will include Grenada, Malaga, Cadiz, and
Seville.

THE PERSIAN QUESTION.

'ltili ItVIAL re,rairaw or rr3ncii.L.

The.. prasant Sovereign, Nassr-ed-din-Shah, as-
cended the throne in April, 180. He was then
sixteen years of age, and lived away from the court
with one of his uncles, the governor of Tabriz.
116 succeeded to the throne in virtue of his being
the nearest of kin in the collateral lino of the
celebrated Feth-ali-Shah, or Baba-khan. Nassr-ed-
din-Shah is the fourth sovereign of the Tureoman
dynasty of the Kadjars, the origin of whom is
curious The dynasty which preceded that of the
Kadjars was founded in the following manner:—
Under the reign of the S9phis there lived a camel
driver whOse bravery procured for him the obe-
dience of a number of his companions, who formed
themselves into a band, and under his direction
crowned several most successful expeditions with
the conquest of the province of Khorassan. Their
leader, Nadir, usurped the throne of Persia on the
death of Abas 111, and caused himself to be pro-
claimed Shah, or Sovereign of Persia. Nadir Shah
brought under subjection Candahar, Cabul, and
several provinces of the Mogul Empire. He was
killed in • 1747 by his first lieutenant, whose
eyes he had the intention of putting out. His
successor, Thamasp-Kouli Khan 11., reigned only
a few years. Fearful disorders broke out
at his death in Persia, and several pre-
tenders to the throne arose. Amongst these
was a member of the tribe. of Kadjars, which
signifies fugitives, named Mohammed Hacan-
Khan, who conquered Mazandaran and other pro-
vinces, and captured Ispahan ; he was on the point
of conquering all Persia, when -he fell into the
hands of a rival, who beheaded him in 1758. His
son, Aga Mohammed Khan, succeeded in pro-
claiming himself Shah of Persia,in 1794, and he
founded the present dynasty. Since 1705 the
Court of Persia resides at Teheran; formerly
Ispahan had been the capital of the king
dom. In summer the court is • driven away
from Teheran by the heat, and encamps from June
1 to September 30, at the foot of the Elboorz
mountains in the valley of Goolahek. The am
bassadors and great authorities, with the richest
inhabitants of the town, accompany the court,
and form a magnificent canvas town. The present
Shah is of a very mild disposition, and is deeply
attached to his mother, who governs his private
household. She is only 37 years of age, and is still
beautiful. She has fora secretary, a French woman,
who married, in Paris, a Persian nobleman,• and
ilccompanied her husband to his native home after
having embraced his religion. The Shah has five
children, to whom he is greatly attached. His
eldest son died a few weeks ago."

SIR ROBERT PEEL BART., M P., AND THE
PRINCE DE LIGNE. •

The Press of Saturday publishes the following
communication from Brussels :--
"On Monday, the 19th, it numerous deputation
of the English residents at Brussels, naval, military,
and civilian, waited upon the Prince de Ligne, at
his hotel in the Rue Royale, to declare their
reprobation of the personal vulgarities uttered by
Sir Robert Peel against the prince in his disrepu
table speech at Birmingham. The deputation
expressed a hope that the offence would be judged
by him to be.-7-as At was in fact—an isolated
ebullition of low breeding highly displeasing to
the English of all parties and which the unani-
mous censure of the Aglican press had placed in
its true light—as unbecoming a gentleman. A
deep regret was also signified that the nobleman
selected by the King of the Belgians to be his
special ambassador at the coronation of the Queen
of England, in 1838, and lately deputed in the
same capacity to the Emperor of Russia, should
have met with an insult from an Englishman,
utterly unprovoked, and couched in terms unknown
to the language and to the sentiments of honourable
men.
`4 The Prince de Ligne, in warm terms acknow-
ledged the compliments paid him by the deputa
tion, and observed :—` Gentlemen, believe me that
I am most grateful for this your spontaneous act
of courtesy and goodwill ; and I am deeply sensible
of the generous kindness that has prompted you
this to repel the vulgar aggression unwarrantably I