The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-10 00:00:00

PEttSIA.

TABREEZ, Nov. 12 —There is little in the shape 01
news in uur quarter of the world ; everything still continues
in tha road to ruin, and the country is in a very disturbed.
state, without the Government possessing the means a
keeping things in the least ordcr. A short time since a
regiment of Serbaz were returning on leave to their fa-
milies at Oroomia, and thinking it were better not to
go home empty-banded, they set to work and pluadcred
the villages that lay on their road, commencing with one
not four miles from this town, and which they cornpletelY
stripped of everything it possessed, committing, at the
same time, every species of enormity on the poor de-
fenceless inhabitants. The Prince Governor here had
not the means of punishing them or putting a stop
to their proceedings by force ; he, however, sent a
person down to them to endeavour to persuade them to
continue their route and not molest the villagers; but
these fellows having given him a good drubb;ng, sent him
back with a message to the Prince, saying, that if his
Royal Highness were himself to come to them, they would
serve him in the same way, or something very like it. At
the next village where they stopped, they played the same
pranks, and moreover made prisoner of a certain Semet
Khan, the father of their Colonel, and who was coming
up from Oroomia at the time : him they threatened to
keep in durance vile until he should repay the amount,
due to them for pay, and which they accused his son at
having purloined. Luckily, however, the old man ma-
naged to get out of their clutches. What these fellows
have done at the other villages on their road, I have not
yet learned, but conclude.that they allowed none to escape'
In Ksradaugh, on the' Russian frontier, a person of the
name of Ady-Giuzel has set himself up as a bandit chief.
To all who choose to join him with a horse and gun be
gives a salary of sixty tomaims (301.) a year, besides a
pertion of the plunder ; and by this means be bas col-
lected together a good many followers, and is committing
great depredations, sparing neither the Russian nor the
Persian side of-the frontier. They say that he has b
the impudence to write to the Ameer-y-Nizant here, 111'a,1
ing him to procure him the title of Khan (noble,)
give him a place for bins and his followers to reside in,
and in return he promises to plunder only
within the
Russian territory, " But," ho continues, "if you rill
me what I ask„,l shall apply to tha Russians, who
know will grant me what I want, and then I pools'
you I shall sot spare Azerbijou." You can easily COW
ccive what a rage this letter put the Arneer-y-i•Lzarn
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and who forthwith despatched Mchty Kooly-Meerza,
a hundredatop to
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anything, and is, I think, much more likely to get a 0°(1
thrashing for his pains.
At Teheran, the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affair`
has been convicted of forgery ; the Shah wished at first to
put him to death, but spared his life, they say, at the inter-
cession of the Russian Ambassador. When his Excel-
lency interceded for Meerzs My (the culprit's name), lu°
King asked him, bow they punished such crimes in Russia,
and was told by death. " How, then," he continued,
" can you intercede for Mcerza Aly ?" " Because," r"
plied the Ambassador, " he ought to be punished accord:
ing to Persian, and not according to Russian lair'
" And hew," asked the King, " does the Persian 10„
punish such crimes," " By taking no notice of them,
was the Ambassador's quaint reply, " as it does of every
other crime ; witness Hadjte Kerim Khan." This same
Hadjee Kerim Khan is a person the Russians tried bard to _
ruin, but did not succeed. The Ambassador's answer is
said to have annoyed the King very much ; and Mee";
Aly, although his life has been spared, has not escar"
scot-free, for he got well hastinadocd, and is to paY a 6°B
of 30,000 tomauns (15,000/ )
Several carriages which the Emperor Nicholas has Mode
a present to the Shah have just arrived from Russia.