The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-14 00:00:00

PE itSIA.

A letter from Constantinople, says the Cortstitu-
tionnel, gives fresh details of the attempted assassina-
tion of the Shah of Persia. There has existed in
Persia for the last three or four years a religious sect,
called Babis, who halieve in the transmigration of
souls, and who neither recognise the authority of the
Koran, of Mahornet, nor of the 12 Imans. Their
only authority is that of the Twelfth Iman, Jaheb-
Zeman, of whom Bab, the chief of the sect, is only
the representative. It is pretended that they pro-
fess a kind of communism, and even have a com-
munity of women. In consequence of their
theory of the transmigration of souls, they think
themselves immortal, and consequently set no value
on life. The number of these BsOis is estimated at
50,000. They have been in open revolt in the pro-
vince of Mazacderan against the authority of the
Shah of Persia and have maintained a siege of several
months. Eight Babis, who had been brought to
Teheran, refused the pardon which the Shah offered
to them if they would abandon their doctrines. All
of them perished without making any concession.
On, the 15th of August last, three of these Babis, re-
solVed to avenge the death of their Master, the
famous Bab, who has already been the cause of several
sanguinary actions in Persia, fell on the Shah at the
moment when he was preparing to mount on horseback
to go hunting. They fired two pistols at him point
blank, but fortunately only wounded him very slightly.
One of the assassins was immediately cut in pieces by
the guards of the Shah, and the other two were thrown
into prison to be tried. It is said they have 300 ac-
complices, who have sworn to take the life of the Shah.
This attempt has thrown the country into great con-
sternation. Several individuals convicted as ac-
complices have already been executed, but all the
ramifications of the plot have not yet been discovered.

GREAT INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.
DEPUTATION TO THE LORD-LIEUTENANT.
Yesterd at half-past taro o'clock, a deputation,
cenststng of he following members
. the committee
of the Great Industrial Exhibition, waited
. by ap-
pointment on his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant at
Dublin Castle :—The Right Hon. the. Lord Mayor,
George Roe, Esq., chairman ; Ms.j or Fairfield, deputy
chairman ; Sir Edward M'Donnel, Hon. G. Hand-
cock, Hon. J. P. Vereker, Sir Robert Kane, Lundy
E. Foot, Esq., and Mr. John C. Deane, assistant
secretary.
The Chairman, having introduced the deputation
to the Lord-Lieutenant proceeded, after a few prefa-
tory observations, to lay before his Excellency the
following resolution, which had been unanimously
agreed to at the last committee meeting :
" That this committee appreciating the great import-
ance of obtaining the countenance of her most gracious
majesty to this second great effort to develop the indus-
trialhaincih
it a mgLact to manufactures,
resources of her empire in arts
and recollecting. the gratification w
subjects to witness those articles which she graciously
contributed to the Exi.nbt.to!i of all Nations in 1851, do
respectfully solicit an' nterview with his
. Excellency the
Lord-Lieutenant, to request that be will represent to our
beloved Sovereign the pride 1.! ?could afford her Ma-
jesty's loyal subjects in Ireland if she would entrust to
the executive management of the Great Industrial Ex-
hibition of 1853, some :of the articles which she was
pleased to exhibit in 1851."
His Excellency, having heard the resolution read,
at once promised to forward it through the proper
channel to the Queen, and then warmly assured the
deputation that in so doing he would use his best .
finance with her Majesty to induce her to exhibit
some of the articles in this Exhibition exhibited in
1.6511 and which had proved so attractive in that ex-
position. He further added that no efforts of his
should be wanting to make the Exhibition worthy of
the country in every respect.
His Ex oellency then intimated to the gentlemen
present his desire to visit the building during its
at
of th
course of construc'ion, end it was tou-cearranged
that he should be present on the occasion e raising
of the first pillar, which is expected to take place
some ten or twelve days from this date.
After a few general observations with reference to
the progress of the
.. building,the deputation with-
drew, highly gratified at the cordial reception they
bad mot with from his Excellency.

PATENT SLIP AT TABLE BAT.—A propOSal is
be made to the public for. the e_stablishimteanptpoeta:
about to
for tke constrlnctTanbloefl patent slip for
joint-stock company
facilitating the repair ofvessel
that a capital of 5,0001. will be.
is proposed
for all the purposes
to be attained ; and this sum it proposed to raise by mean
of 200 shares of 25/. each, payable in convenient instalments.
The subject has been urged ume poet il .he e
eatte ir.ntiou f several
gentlemen connected with raffairs here by Mr
Evans, a civil engineer.—Cape Paper.
VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.—Letters have been re-
ceived from Van Diemen's Land to the 12th of June, -which
give incidentally a bad account of the prospects of the flocks
In the colony of -Victoria. The following eistract furnishes
some details, but it may be hoped that the evils described in
it are limited to particular localities :—" I have deplorable
nears from Port Philip many a rich man ruined there. The
shipments of Wool from Victoria will be much less this year
than formerly. Many of the squatters have no lambs, while
the oonsumption of fresh meat is far greater than usual. The
i scab has also broken cut •in
Pert Albert 100,000 sheep are being destroyed by foot rot.
man arts of the colony. In
l'Aus, You zee, while some aremaking i there are
"fig rained."
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