The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-09 00:00:00

PERSIA.

Sir R. PEEL then read a passage in the speech
from the throne, delivered on the sth of February,
1839, in which her Majesty stated that differences
which had arisen had occasioned the retirement of her
Minister from the Court of Tehran, but her Majesty
hoped that a satisfactory adjustment of those differences
would allow of the establishment of her relations with
Persia on their former footing of friendship. The
Right Hon. Baronet was about to put a question to the
Secretary for Foreign Affairs, respecting our relations
with Persia, when

Mr. O'CONNELL begged the Right Hon. Baro-
net's pardon for interrupting him, and hoped he would
be excused by the consideration that the subject just
now before the House ought not to be left as it was.—
(Hear.) The life of Mr. M'Leod was at stake—
(Hear, hear)—and he (Mr. O'Connell) was sorry that
his Hon. Friend (Mr. Hume) had interlered—(Hear)—
for he thought that it ought to be expressed in
that House, that Mr. M'Leod should be saved as he
acted under the command of the officers of her Ma-
jesty's Government, in fact under the command of her
Majesty.—(Great cheering.) Whether Mr. M• Leod
was right or wrong the House ought to declare that it
was quite ready to assist the Governor in preserving
him.—(Cheers from both sides,)
Mr. S. O'BRIEN rose to speak upon the subject,
when he was interrupted by
The SPEAKER, who said that the Right Hon.
Bart. the Member for Tamworth had risen to put a
question, and was in possession of the Chair.
Sir R. PEEL wished to ask the Noble Lord oppo-
site whether or not those differences had been satisfac-
torily adjusted ; and whether we had renewed our
diplomatic relations with the Court of Persia?
Lord PALMERSTON said that he was sorry to
say those differences had not yet been finally and sa-
tisfactorily adjusted. The Right Hon. Baronet and
the House were aware that they had made certain
demands on the Persian Government for redress of cer-
tain wrongs for which they considered themselves entitled
to reparation. Many of the complaints consisted of acts
of ill-treatment of persons attached to British missions,
or of British officers in Persia ; and another ground of
complaint was, that Persia still maintained possession of
a city ;which belonged to;the Indian territory. On the
several points of individual grievances, they had
received explanations and assurances which, if
they did not amount altogether to a literal ful-
filment of the demands, yet appeared to them suchthe
as that they might, without derogating fromho-
nour of the country, say they had received sufficient
satisfaction. It was on the territorial claims alone that
there lay any differences between the two Governments.
As to the missions, they would henceforward not be in
any way unduly interfered with.
S.r R. PEEL wished to know whether there would
be any objection to lay before the House such infor-
mation as might enable them to form some
judgment
on the present state of our relations with Persia.
Lord PALNIERSTON said he had stated the sub-
stance of the communications, and he had no objection
to lay them before the house.
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FO
REGISTRATION O V
BILL.

Lord STANLEY brought up the Registration of
Voters (Ireland) Bill, which was read a first time, and
ordered to be read a ~,econd time on Wednesday, the
24th inst.
NEW POOR-LAW.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL having moved the second
reading of the Poor law Commission Continuance Bill,
Petitions against it Were presented by Mr. Ti.omaa