The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-12 00:00:00

CONSTANTINOPLE, _MARcti 17.

Intelligence has just reached us from Persia, dated
Tabreez, Feb. 8, by which it appears that Hussein
Khan has been appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to
Englind, and would probably leave in the course of six
weeks, unless Mr. Ri.tek, whose arrival at Teheran we
have just learned, induces the Persian Gov,rntnent to
change the appointment, and send some more respect-
able person in his stead. This same Hussein Khan has
barely recovered from a severe bastinadoing he got from
the Shah about a month ago. It is said he received about
500 blows of the stick, and had his toe-nails nearly knocked
off. The Persians, however, do not appear to think it a
disgrace to get a licking from the Shah ; and it is a
thing that almost all the nobles about the court expect
to receive once or twice in the course of their lives, and
therefore always keep on friendly terms with the execu-
tioners, by giving then] presents, &c.; so that when
they have the ill luck to be tied up, t'ae executioner is
indaced to dell mercifully with them, and contrives to
hit the wooden bar to which their legs are tied, instead
of their feet !

In one of my former letters I mentioned a certain
Ady-Giuzel, a famous robber chief in the karadagh
district, and who had latterly assumed the ftle of
Shah. It is quite astonishing the power and influence
this man obtained in a very short time. His followers
amounted, they say, to nearly 300 ; besides which, all
the villages in Karadagh were in his interest. He of-
fered all persons who would join him with a horse and
a gun, 60 tomauns (301.) a year, besides a share of the
plunder. His wife used to accompany him in all his
expeditions, and was represented as quite an Amazon
in strength and stature. He was wont to annoy the
Russians very much, and, being close to their frontier,
made frequent expeditions into their territory, to
plunder their v lieges. He once stopped one of
their Government couriers, who was carrying, be-
sides despatches, a large sum of money, to Tab-
reez. Owing to the wooded and difficult nature of
the country he resided in, the Persian Govern-
ment could not attack him openly, but finally suc-
ceeded in taking him by surprise. Cold weather
having come on, he disbanded his troop for the winter,
and settled down in a village with only five of his fol-
lowers. News of this was secretly brought to Mehty-
Cooly-Meerza, the governor of the district, who in-
stantly, under pretext of going on a hunting excursion,
ordered his horse and people to get ready to foll nv him.
The village in which Ady-Giuzel had taken up his
quarters was about one hundred miles off, but which
Mehty-Cooly-Meerza reached in an incredibly short
time, and surprised and caught the robber chie with
his five followers, all of whom were forthwith marched
to Tabreez. Ady-Giuzel being a Russian subj't t,
it was first intended to send him to T flis : but in
consequence of there oot being a sufficient number
of troops in the place to escort him, and fearing
his being rescued on the road, the Russians had
him executed at Tabreez. He was a fine, bold,
dashing fellow, and on the day of his death walked
with a firm and intrepid step to the pl tee of execution,
on reaching which he threw himself full length oa the
ground, and, calling to the executioner, said to him,
" Kess, keupekoglu, kess" (strike, thou son of a dog,
strike), and who forthwith as if he had to deal with
sheep, cut his throat, and left him to bleed to death.
The execution of this man =Fed a great deal of ex-
citement and disturbance in the place ; so much so,
that the Government people have been afraid of put-
ting his five followers to death, they a:so having been
ordered for execution. The people say he did nothing
worthy of death, having (throughout his shore career)
only robbed the infidels, which it was lawful for him to
do ; besides which, according to them, he always as-
sisted the poor end needy of his own (Mussulman) faith.
His executioner was the same afternoon murdered by
some of the sol fiery; and of this the Government has
taken no notice.
M. du Hamel, the Russian Minister at the Court of
Teheran, will, it is said, shortly return to Russia ; as
does also Baron Bodi, his first Secretary. It is not
yet known who will replace them. Trade had been
very brisk, but, owing to the near approach of the se-
cred month of Mobarrem, is dull again. Grain, which
has been very dear, is becoming cheaper, in consequence
of those who had large stocks of it being afraid of
keeping it any longer in re;erve. My informant adds
in a prescript—" I have just heard that the followers of
Ady Giuzel were secretly sent off to 'Mlle last night.
Little Ali Effendi, the Turkish Consul at Tabreez, has
been trying to roast one of his servants for having sim-
ply stolen a little soap He tied him to a beam and
lit a fire under him, but the man being a Russian de•
serter, and the Consul (Russian) hearing of what was
going forward, sent and had him taken away, just " n time
to save his life ; however, the poor fellow, they say, has
lost the use of his limbs."

1841.—The following is the house list of the
Grvernors and Directors of the Bank of England, for the
year ensuing:—

FOR GOVERNORS.
Sir John Henry Pelly, Bart., Governor.
William Co:ton, Esq., Deputy-Governor.
FOR DIRECTORS.
James Morris, 'Esq.
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Gco. Warde Norman, E.l
John Horsley Pa'mer, Esq.
iJames Rittiion,
Christopher Pearce,
Heart/ James Prescott, Esq.
Charley Po'e, Esq,
Sir John Rae
Won, R. Robinson, Eiq.
Wm. Thompson, Esq., and
Alderman

Robert BryclaY, Esq.
Edw. Henry Chapman, Esq.
Henry Davidson, Esq.
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inGikaoenwys,oejrnuln
John Benj. Heath, Esq.
Kirkman D. Hodgson. Esq.
Charles Fred. Huth, Esq.
Alfred Latham, Esq.
James Malcolmson, Esq.
Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
The election for Governor and Deputy-Governor he
held at the Bank on Tuesday, the 13th of A sod for
Directors on Wednesday. the 14th rf April, from ten
o'clock in the forenoon till four in the afternoon.
DEPARTURE OF THE GREAT WESTERN,
This splendid vessel departed on her first voyage for the
season, on Thursday, at half.past one; she carries forty-
three passengers and a valuable cargo. Mr. Bates, of the
house of Baring Brothers, is a passenger in the Great
Western. The utmost anxiety was manifested for the ar-
rival of the second north mail, in the hope that some ac-
count of the arrival of the President at Liverpool would
be received ; but no intelligence had reached Liverpool up
to the hour of post, nine P.M., on Wednesday. A spi ied
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s made to express the London morning papers
the important intelligence from China by
the overland mail, but it tailed. This is the second time
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