The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-16 00:00:00

KHIVA, KOKAN, AND BOKHARA.

The Delhi Gazette publishes portions of a letter
from its Bokhara correspondent, supposed to have
been written about the midle of April. The fol-
lowing are extracts :
"There has been a collision at last between the
Russians and the troops of the Khan at Khiva.
The latter got the worst of it, and suffered consi-
derable loss. The misunderstanding arose through
the depredations of several thousand Alamans, who
not only plundered certain villages in Persian
Khorasan, and carried the inhabitants into slavery,
but had the boldness to carry off large herds of
sheep and Camels belonging to the Russian force,
which still remains in cantonments on the frontier
of the Khiva territory. The King of Bokhara has
been much concerned at this affair.

" There are various reports about the hostilities
between Sirdar Mahomed Azum Khan and the
Herates. Some say that the latter have gained a
victory near Sheburghan, others that they have
been defeated. However the King of Bokhara has
thought it fit to send a message of congratulatiun
to the Heratees.

" The Kokan troops have bravely held out
hitherto against the Russians. But the numbers
and influence of the latter are steadily increasing.
"A messenger has reached this place from Maceia
with intelligence of the death of the Emperor of
Russia and the elevation of his son to the throne.
The King has prepared a letter of condolence to
send to the new Czar.

" The Persian army at Mery Shabjaban had been
defeated by the Khiva troops, but had been rein-
forced and again obtained a footing in the Khiva
territory.
" The King of Bokhara has seized some ten mes-
sengers from Cabul, who are said to have been
despatched by the Ameer to bring news from Khiva
and Kokan. The poor men lost their way, were
recognised as strangers by the Oosbegs, and
brought to the King. Their story is, that they
were coming to Bokhara on mercantile business,
but that having missed the road, they were making
the best of their way to the Khiva frontier. How-
ever, they have been thrown into the famous
Bokhara dungeons.
" Certain messengers from Nazir Khairoolla has
lately arrived at Kurshee with letters from certain
Oosbegs whom the Nazir knew when in Bokhara.
He had asked them to send him news for the Eng-
lish Government, who would reward them liberally.
But the Oosbegs dismissed the Nazir's messengers,
with a promise to denounce them to the king if
they ventured to come to Bukhara again on such
business.
" I have been fortunate enough to contract a
friendship with a respectable Oosbeg in the city of
Bokhara, named Ataleek Beg, whose father knew
Mokat Saheb (Moorcrof), the Englishman who was
poisoned and buried by the former King's people at
Bulkh. Ataleek Beg himself knew Stadut (Stod-
dart) Saheb, and gives a distressing account of the
sufferings which that brave Englishman endured be-
fore ho met with his horrible end. He says that he
has in his possession certain papers which belonged
to Colonel Stoddart, and which Moolah Yusuf.
(the Rev. Dr. Woolf) offered him 200 teelas for, on
his visit to Bokhara 12 years ago. But he refused
to give the papers to Dr. Woof, as Col. Stoddart
had promised him that if he would go to England
and deliver the papers in person to the Wuzeer
Dawul Khwajah (Foreign Minister) at London, his
fortune would be made by the Queen, whose am-
bassador he, Colonel Stoddart, was. He adds that
Colonel Stoddart gave him a letter to his sister and
brother in England, and that he has been fully in-
tending to set out for that country, but he has put
off his departure from time to time until now, it is
not likely that he will ever go. He says that he
has been deterred by fear lest on arriving in Eng-
land he should be treated with neglect, and his ex-
pensive and perilous journey go for nothing. He
says that Nazub Abdool Samud and Khairoollah
Sodagur behaved most treacherously to Colonel
Stoddart in money matters, but that he was too
generous a man to suspeet them.
' I have come across a man who offers for a
of the Russian force there.
‘
con-
sideration to go to Kekan and bring a detailed ac-
''here remark that in former times
lcaorug‘neTtchiane prawveraoinptislie writing
to pass to and fro between this
place and the Russian frontier, but that the trade
has of late become very dull on account of the war
which is raging between Russia and the Sultan of
Room.
Five thousand Moolahs are employed all day and
every day in praying for the triumph of the faith-
ful and the overthrow of Russia.
The King of Bokhara maintains a correspondence
with the court of Persia, while he is deterred by
fear of Russia from allying himself with Kokan and
disposition of
D
somey day on
Khiva. He is also alarmed lest the English, taking
adovsatnivtiaagheomd,
ofeth eshpoureldsenadt
vfarniecnedl
Bok-
hara by way of Bulkh and avenge the outrages
which he has committed on their countrymen.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE CALCUTTA MARKET.
(From the Englishman of the 2d of June.)
SATURDAY, June 2.
The telegraph via Bombay gave us the heads of the
news by mail of the 26th of April, and the arrival of the
Oriental has since put us in possession of our letters,
wig* giving no prospect of an early termination of the

war, must lead men of business seriously to consider
what effect will be, at least during war, produced upon
the consumption in Europe of those articles of our pro-
duce of which the long reign of peace has fostered an an-
nually increasing export. •
We have no later news from China, but the purchases
of rice for that market have continued with unabated
vigour, and the demand thus created for tonnage has
given a lift to our otherwise drooping freights.