The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-17 00:00:00

GREECE.

ATHENS, OCT. 29.—According to our last accounts the
King is at Missolonghi waiting for the Queen, for whom
they sent the Greek corvette Amelia, but it is reported to-
day that she prefers coming by the Austrian steamer to
Patras. Travelling being now so difficult, we have heard
but little of his Majesty's progress through Continental
Greece. Numerous were the petitions .presented to him
against the measures of his Government, and great com-
plaints against the new Governors and other employes, who
seem to do everything to increase discontent. Near Lamia
some of the good people going to meet him were carried off
by a band of brigands, and were ransomed after he left.
Another band on his approach carried off the departmental
chest, containing 20,000 drachmas. A venerable old man,
of eighty years, placed himself on the road to see his King
pass, and said to him, " You look like a Greek in this
dress, but in that other thing you look like a Barvarese
(the manner the common people pronounce Bavarian, which
makes it more like barbarian' than anything else) ; mind
you must be a Greek now."

From the Morea we have bad accounts ; a large party,
escorted by Gendarmes, on their way from Caritena to
Nauplia, were attackeJ, and one Gendarme was killed, se-
veral wounded, and a very respectable young man, who had
been secretary to the late Governor of Caritena, killed. His
death is looked upon as connected with the politics of the
province, as be was possessed of information that might
destroy some of their political projects.

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 28.—Letters from Tabriz of
the 21st ult. state that despatches from the camp before
Herat had been received both by the British Ambassador
and the Russian Consul ; but the intelligence they con-
tained was so contradictory as to throw the public mind
into perfect perplexity as to the real situation of affairs.
Both reports agree, however, that Herat had not fallen,
and also that the Shah had not, according to the promise
made to Colonel Stoddart, raised the siege of that for-
•ress. According to Count Simonitcb's version, Kermann
Sehah with 1,200 followers had left the place and gone
over to the besiegers, and the Herattees, reduced to the
last extremity, could not hold out another week. Indeed, so
vonfident of this result was the Russian Ambassador, as to
add in his postcript in his letter—" This communication will
in all probability be the last you will receive from me dated
from Herat; nosooncrhas it fallen than I start for Teheran."
The prolong stion of Mr. M'Niel's stay, after his solemn
declaration that he would leave it in the event of his not re-
ceiving before the expiration of 10 days' positive assurance
that the Shah had raised the siege, bad excited much surprise
among the Persians, and led them to infer that it was intended
only as a threat to intimidate them. If it be true, however,
as stated by the English at Tabriz, that the Shah's delay
in withdrawing his troops is owing, not to bad faith on his
part, but to the refusal on the p•irt of the Herattees to accept
the terms of accommodation proposed to both parties by
Colonel Stoddard, it is but natural the British Ambassador
should have postponed coming to a final determination till
further orders arrived from the camp. It was publicly stated
by the persons connected with the British Embassy in Persia,
that the intelligence received from Colonel Stoddart on the
21st was of the most satisfactory nature, and led them to
look on the preservation of peace between England and
Persia as almost certain. The last letters from Trebisond
mention the arrival at Erzeroutn of the Shah's Envoy Extra-
ordinary to the Court of St. James's. This personage is
expected to be here to-morrow.

For some days past it has been confidently reported
that the Turkish army under the orders of Hafiz Pasha
has met with serious reverses in Curdistan, and that the
Commander-in-Chief himself has been taken prisoner.
These sinister reports require confirmation. There are
reasons for looking upon them as being intentionally
spread by the agents of Russia, who of late have been
unusually active in bullying the Turks, terrifying them
with exaggerated accounts of the immense preparations
at Sebastopol, and impressing upon their minds the con-
viction of their own helplessness, and consequently that
of their inability to avert the consequences of the Empe-
rlr's indignation against the Sultan for presuming to abro-
pate the treaty of Unki a 'Skelessi, and without his parti-
cipation form an alliance with England, except by parting
tit once with their new friends, and returning under the
aegis of the Emperor's magnanimity and clemency. lam
possitively assured, that in a late note addressed to the
Porte the Russian Envoy has unequivocally declared that
the Emperor would consider the Sultan's ratification of the
commercial convention lately signed by Lord Ponsonby
and the Ottoman Minister of Foreign Affairs in the same
light as a formal declaration of war on the part of Turkey
to Russia. Unless England steps forward and manfully
declares her intention to support the Sultan and her own
rights vi et armis, it is evident that after an intimation of
so terrific a nature on the part of Russia, and the warnings
given to them by France, Mahmoud sets too much value
on the preservation of his life and throne to expose him-
self to the certainty or losing both by courting the friend-
ship of a power that has neither the means nor the inten-
tion of coming to his assistance in the day of danger ; and
consequently, that sooner than trust to a broken reed, he
will rescind the treaty of which Redschid Pasha is the
bearer to the Court of England. The recall of the Otto-
man fleet, which I mentioned in my last, is entirely due, I
understand, to the Russian Envoy's remonstrances and in-
timidations.—Times.