The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-30 00:00:00

PERSIA.

Despatches received by the Turkish Government
from Ahmed-Wefik-Effendi, the ambassador of the
Sublime Porte in Persia, announce that he had
succeeded in defeating the intrigues of the Russian
Envoy, and on deciding the Shah to renew his
alliance with Turkey. The Persian Minister at
Constantinople has received instructions from the
Cabinet of Teheran, which support this statement,
and which ho has communicated to Reschid.
The following, which has been received by the
Overland Mail, gives some further information on
this subject :

Tho Bombay Government has at length received
certain information of the alliance of Persia with
Russia, and of the advance of a Persian army
against the Turkish Pashalic of Bagdad.
The army that had been collected in the north-
east of Persia for the purpose (as it was supposed)
of co-operating with, the Russian forces in Georgia
and Circassia having broken up its quarters, has
marched south to Shiraz and Bushire, thereby
gaining the coast road to Bussora and the Pashalic
of Bagdad, which it now threatens.
On the arrival of this force (reported to be
60,000 strong) in the neighbourhood of Bushire the
Resident immediately sent despatches for the home
Government to Bombay, with copies for the Bengal
Indian Government, and summoned the officer com-
manding the Indian naval squadron in the Persian
Gulf to Bushire, and his ship, the Clive is now
anchored there. The Resident of Bushire's de-
spatches arrived at Bombay on the 20th, and the
Hon. Company's steamer Constance was immedi-
ately despatched to the Gulf with instructions for
the Resident. The Hon. Company's steamer Auck-
land was ordered to get ready for sea, and was
despatched on the 26th to the Gulf to reconnoitre
and obtain information on which the Government
could act. A subordinate Indian Government, like
that of Bombay, cannot act on its own responsi-
bility, except in cases of great emergency, and the
Governor-General being now at Pegu, it will cer-
tainly be five weeks, and very possibly seven weeks,
before any communications can be received from
him. The communication between England and
Bombay is as rapid as that between one extremity
of our Indian empire and the other. The Bombay
Government have, meanwhile,_ taken energetic
steps for carrying out without loss of time any
orders that it may receive. Leave has been stopped
in the Bombay army, and the troops (about 7,000)
composing the camp of instruction at Poonah are
ordered to stand fast, and preparations are being
made in the naval as well as in the military depart-
ment for the despatch of a powerful expeditionary
' force, if necessary. During the last Affghan war
a force was despatched from Bombay that occupied
the island of Karrack, close to Bushire, for two
years, and by this means the Persians were kept
for the time from mixing themselves in Russian
intrigues in Central Asia ; but stronger measures
will probably be required in the present instance.
The seaports and coasts of Persia are completely
at the mercy of the Company's cruisers, and if re-
' quisite her Majesty's steamer Fox, now in Bombay,
might be sent to increase the naval force iu the
Gulf. Bussorah might easily be defended by two
or three light armed vessels belonging to the Indian
naval Gulf squadron, and, were the Arabs about
Bussorah subsidised, their Sunite zeal would find
ample occupation for the heretic army of Persia. A
political agent acquainted with the Arab character,
like Layard, with a few irregular cavalry officers
from the Indian army for organising the Arab
forces, would probably render it unnecessary to de-
tach, for the defence of Bagdad, any portion of the
Turkish armies round the Black Sea.

The news from Persia has greatly excited the
Arabs, of whom (owing to our trade with the Per-
sian Gulf) there are always great numbers at Bom-
bay. They are devout Sunites, and hate and de-
spise the Persians as heretics. One of these, Shaik
Abdool Ettoo, well known here, and said to possess
great influence near Bussorah, declares that, if the
Bombay Government would advance 3,0001. to start
with, he would undertake to raise 25,000 Arab
horse at Bussorah in 25 days, and with these would
account for the Persian army and plunder Bushire.