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

PERSIA.

TABREEZ, Nov. 12.—There is little in the shape of
news in our quarter of the world ; everything still continues
in the road to ruin, and the country is in a very disturbed
state, without the Government possessing the means of
keeping things in the least order. A short time since a
regiment of Scrbaz were returning on leave to their fa.
milies at Oroomia, and thinking it were better not to
go home empty-handed, they set to work and plundered
the villages' that lay on their road, commencing with one
not four miles from this town, and which they comp)etcly
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 drubbing, 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 of
having purloined. Luckily, however, the old man 1111:
,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 Karadaugh, 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 tomauns (301.) a year, besides a
portion of the plunder; and by this means he has 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 be has had
the impudence to write to the Ameer-y-Nizam here, ask-
ing him to procure him the title of Khan (noble,) and
give him a place for him and his followers to reside in,
and in return he promises to plunder only within the
Russian territory. " But," ho continues, "if you refuse
me what I ask, I shall apply to the Russians, who I
know will grant me what I want, and then I promise
you I shall sot spare Azerbijou." You can easily con-
, ceive what a rage this letter put the Ameer-y-Nizam in,
and who forthwith despatched Mehty- Kooly-Meerza, with
a hundred men, to punish this same Ady-Giuzel, and put
a stop to his depredations; but I doubt if he will effect
anything, and is, I think, much m ore likely to get a good
thrashirm for his pains.
At 'Teheran, the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs
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 Meerza Aly (the culprit's name), the
King asked him, how they punished such crimes in Russia,
and was told by death. " How, then,n he continued,
" can you intercede for Meerza Aly ?" " Because," re-
plied the Ambassador,. " he ought to be punished accord-
ing to Persian, and not according to Russian law."
" And how," asked the King, " does the Persian law
punish such crimes ?" "By taking no notice of them,"
was the Ambassador's quaint reply, " as it does of every
other crime ; witness Hadjee Kerim Khan." This same
Hadjee Kerim Khan is a person the Russians tried hard to
ruin, but did not succeed. The Ambassador's answer is
said to have annoyed the King very much ; and Meerza
Aly, although his life has been spared, has not escaped
scot-free, for he got well bastinadoed, and is to pay a fine
of 30,000 tomauns (15,000 L )
Several carriages which the Emperor Nicholas has made
a present to the Shah have just arrived from Russia.

RUSSIAN NEWS.—From Odessa a correspon-
dent writes, on the 10th ult., to the Constitutionnel :
" The Crimea is ravaged by a typhus fever which carries
off great numbers both of the land end sea forces. Ad-
miral Lazaref has been obliged to send nearly all the
sailors to Nicolaief, leaving only a few at Sebastopol. A
letter from Tiflis states that General Rakossowski, chief
of the staff of the army of the Caucasus, has been sent to
the Shah of Persia to settle the amount of the troops
which Russia is to furnish for putting a stop to the brigand-
age of the Kurds. It is expected the: these Russian
corps will begin their march for Persia in April. Rear-
Admiral Kazin will, it is said, have the command of the
fleet in the Caspian Sea." Tho Emperor of Russia has
conferred the Order of St. Andrew on the Archduke Albert
of Austria.
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The landowners were offering a premium lately
for the best way of making gruel for their hounds,—cheap
cottage dishes, where a sack of oatmeal shall unite with
water in tho proportion that shall get mo't work out of
the peasant bowels that it grates on. Could not they ex-
tend their genius beyond a cookery book, and with the aid
of the other establishment, bestow on us a " New Whole
Duty of Man," or, " Rules for living and Dying on Five
Shillings and Sixpence a week, rent-free."—Letter cif Col.
Thompson.
We understand that Dr. Patrick APFarlane and
the Rev. Mr. Cunningham, have been appointed a deputa-
tion of the General Assembly's Committee, to proceed to
London, to watch over the affairs of the Church.—
Greenock Advertiser.

THE CORN LAws.—A meeting, convened for
the purpose of taking into consideration the question of
these laws, was held on Thursday, at the Public Hall,
Tauuton. In the absence of Sir T. B. Lethbridge, Bart,
and J. Snowden, Esq., the duty of advocating the object
of the meeting fell alone upon W. Beaden, Esq., who de-
livered an effective address in support of the abolition of
the Corn-laws to a numerous assemblage, composed of
tradesmen, artizans, and working men. Mr. Boaden con-
cluded by proposing petitions to the Legislature, praying
them to take the Corn-laws into serious consideration, and
the meeting unanimously concurred in adopting the peti-
tions.— IVeste, n Times.
THE PRESIDENT STEAM-SHIP.—GENERAI,
POST.OFFICK NoTictt.—Monday the following not C 3 was
posted at the Ship Letter-office, St. Martin's-le.Grand:—
" Ship Letter-office, General Post-office.—A ship letter
bag will bo made up for New ork, to be forwarded by
the President steam-ship.LettYers will be in time until
Newspapers will also be sent by
Tuesday (this) eveuiag,
this conveyance."
The lion. Edward Grlinston is shortly to be
united to a lady of great personal attractions, and this is
the immediate cause of the Hon. Gentleman's resigning
his seat in Parliament.—Evenng Paper.
~
" THE SOCIALISTS OF LEEDS. —A placard
with this head, on the walls of Leeds, announced the Its.
meeting of Socialists to be held in the Music Saloon,
South Parade, of which elegant building they have`heen
for some years the unworthy tenants. The c Musl. Saloon
having been purchased by the Mechanics' Institute, the
Socialists are obliged to evacuate it on Thursday next, and
we are not aware that they have obtained any other room
for their meetings. We suppose the delude members of
this sect, the self-proclaimed " Beasts," to be much reduced
in number; their prcceedings attract no public attention,
The Music Saloon, after undergoing ext naive alteralior s
and refittings, and being thoroughly cleansed, will be opened
for the Mechanics Institute.—Lceds Mercury.

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EVENING EDITION.

LITERATURE.

MAXWELL' S LIFE OF WELLINGTON.
PARTS' London, 1841.
These Parts commence with an account of the
battle of Vittoria, where, it may be remembcred,
King Joseph of Spain was utterly defeated, and
all leis military stores captured, together with
Jourdan's baton of a French Marshal: zald
close with the sanguinary action at Tculouse,
which not a few of our Continental neigh-
bours still firmly believe was won by Soult. These
great battles are described with Mr. Max-
well's wonted animation ; his details, in Rarticu-
lar, respecting the desperate conflict at Vittoria'
abound in picturesque touches, such as we so often
meet with in Scott's life of Napoleon. " War,"
he tells us, " has its picturesque, and the open-
ing of Vittoria was singularly imposing. A wicL,
expanse of inch and varied landscape, on which
an artist would have gazed with rapture, was re-
posing in a flood of sunshine. From a gentle
eminence in front of Avinez, the whole array of
Joseph's army was visible, and on that height the
Allied staff were collected. There Lord Wellington
was standing, dressed plainly in a grey frock-coat,
with nothing to mark commanding rank, except-
ing a Spanish sash; and the heat and feathers of a
field officer. His telescope at one moment wan-
dered over the extensive position occupied by the
enemy, and the next, turned with fixed earnest-
ness on that point. from whence he expected
the crash of battle was to burst." After the
battle had been. fought and won, and while the
French were in full retreat, the following strange
scene was exhibited in the British camp
Night was not to the weary conquerors a sea-
son of repose, fbr property in value and variety
such as no modern army had abandoned, pre-
sented itself at every step, and the work of plun-
der commenced, before the fire of musketry
and cannon had ended. The camp of every divi-
sion was like a fair benches were laid from waggon
to waggon, and there the soldiers held an auction
• throug ithenight,anddisposedofsuchbootyashad
fallen to their share to any who were inclined to
purchase it. Even dollars became an article of
sale, for as they were too heavy to be carried
great numbers, eight were offered for a guinea."
A scene not less sinom, lar was displayed on the field
of battle after the French army had retired :
"Here," says Mr. Maxwell, " was the peso:onel
baggage of a king—there, the scenery and decora-
tions of a theatre ; and scattered arms, drums, silks,
embroidery, and jewels, mingled in the strangest
disorder. Here a lady had been overtaken in her
carrriage—in the next calash was an actress or
fille de chambre ; while droves of oxen were
roaming over the field, intermingled with an end-
less number of sheep, goats, mules, horses, asses,
and cows. Camp followers were arrayed in the state
uniform ofJoseph's Court; and the coarsest females
who accompany a camp, drunk with champagne,
and bedecked in silk attire, flaunted in Parisian
dresses which had been envied by the denizens of
a palace." We repeat, what we have said before,
while noticing former Num'lers of this work,
that it is incomparably the most entertaining and
authentic life of Wellington that has yet ap-
peared in print. The p .n.t3 alts aud illustrative
maps are numerous, and the majority of them
are finished off in a skilful and careful Jammer.

A DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE, LITERA.
TUBE, AND ART. PART I. Edited by W. T.
Brande, F. R. S. L. and E.
Longman and Co. London.

The tide of this work, of which the first num-
ber has just appeared, sufficiently explains its
object, and all we have to do, therefore, is to state
briefly how it is executed. Without the ampli-
tude of the encycloptedia„ or the limited range
of the special dictionary, it contains short ab-
stracts of the principles of the most _popular
and important departments of science, lite-
rature, and arts, together with notices of their
rise, progress, and present state. The editor,
whose name is so well known to the public, as to
be a ,muarantee for the correctness and skill withwhich the department allotted him is illustrated,
announces that no sitatement is made as to any
unusual or doubtful matter, without referring to
the authority on which it rests, and when sub-
j3cts of general interest are noticed, the reader
is referred to the publications relating to them,
which embody the fullest and best information.
"The work," lie adds, "was distributed into divi-
sions or departments, each embracing one or a class
of closely allied subjects, and these were sepa-
rately assigned to gentlemen distinguished by
their attention to, and proficiency in, the subjects
they embrace. This seemed the most likely
means to avoid mere compilation and book-mak-
ing, and to make the work not only a compre-
hensive and accurate, but in some measure also an
original, digest and synopsis of human know-
ledge." The department which Mr. Brande has
undertaken embraces chemistry, geology, mine-
ralogy, medicine, and the arts and sciences de-
pending on chemical principles. Mr. M'Culloch,
so well known for his works on political economy,
statistics, and commerce, in addition to thesp, en-
gages also, with the assistance of Mr. Joseph
Cauvin, to furnish articles connected with gene-
ral literature. Botany is allotted to Professor
Lindley ; gardening: and agriculture to Mr. Lou-
don ; and most of the other departments to men
eminent in their respective professions. The
work, which is beautifully printed, and illustrated
occasionally by engravings on wood, gives th'e
derivation and definition of all the terms in ger
neral uso, and appears altogether to be arranged
with much taste and judgment. Some of the
articles are written at considerable length, and
most of them contain as much information on the
particular subjects as general readers require. The
following extracts give fair specimens of the
shorter notices :

APOCALYSE. (Gr. crr;oxctXvin-tv, I reveal) The
Book of Revelations, the last in the canon of the New
Testament. Many conflicting opinions have been enter-
tained as to the authenticity of this book ; but, though re-
jected by Luther, and neither admitted nor rejected by
Michaelis, the opinion of the great majority of critics and
divines in modern times has been decidedly in favour of
its genuineness. There have, also, been great varieties of
opinion as to the person by whom, and the period when, the
book was written : but the prevalent opinion is, that it is
the work of St. John the Evangelist. Different commen-
tators hare differed widely in their interpretations of diffe-
rent parts of this book ; and it is looked on by many as
being still a " sealed book," admitting, in the present
state of our knowledge, of no satisfactory explanation.
The phrase apocalyptic writings is frequently used to de-
signate those portions of the Scriptures which contain pro-
phetic descriptions, under the form of visions, of the future
state of the Church : such as the book of Daniel ; and,
among the Apocrypha, the fourth book of Esdras.
ALLSPICE. The dried immature berry of the Myrtus
Pitnenta; Called also Jamaica Pepper. It is supposed to
possess the mixed flavour of several spices, amongst which
that of the clove predominates.
AMIIUSCADE. A military term derived from the Italian
imboscata, concealed in a wood. It is also applied to any
snare laid for an enemy.

111STOI?I' OF NAPOLEON. PARTS 24, 25.

Tyas, London, 1841.
Among the numerous biographies that have
lately been published, of the Imperial despot of
France, the one before us is entitled to hold,
if not a prominent, at least a respectable
rank, fur it is copious and accurate in its
details, exhibits no decided bias either for or
against Napoleon, and is embellished with innu-
merable wood-cuts, not a few of which are exe-
cuted in a style that would have done credit to
old Bewick. The present Parts relate the event-
ful circumstances of the Emperor's first abdica-
tion, his retirement to Elba, and his unexpected
return to France.

KNIGHT'S PICTORIAL PICTORIAL SIIAKSPEARE,
PART XXIX. C. Knight, London, 1841.
In this Part we have the entire comedy of
" Measure for Measure,') embellished with nu-
merous plates, two of which, " the Moated
Grangre"—which furnishes the subject of one of
Tennyson's finest lyrics—and the " Sulphurous
Bolt," representing a gnarled old forest oak sha*
tered tl atoms by a thunderbolt, are of exqui-lfe
beauty. The " Supplementary Notice" et .t erg
at some length into the character of the conl'‘d':%l-13
es,' s C‘retila:tioiclonine-:-.'f"
ttiriaeocrrdiitillcarryi gohftsl yh
aoil!: e)
er:
and makes special mention of Master B•tr • • (-*/1,2
•• 1 rc
twilielitenilo—staefix

-BRITISH MISCELLANY, Voz, 1.
Hastings, London, 1841.
A cheap and lively periodical which comes out
in weekly numbers, and is sustained by the talents
of Leigh Hunt, Agnes Strickland, and several
other popular writers in prow and verse. We
think the speculation bids fair to answer.

TWO YEARS
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London, BEFORESTE MAST.
mox on,
The author of this little work, as we learn from
the advertisement, is an American, and he re-
cords his naval experiences in so simple and
truthful a manner, that those who once com-
mence the perusal of his narrative, will have
some difficulty in laying it down before they
have brought it to a close. It has, in addition,
this great recommendation —namely, that
throughout it, the characters of sailors are pour-
traved in their real colours and proportions,
without embellishimi .it or distortion.

197--
.n s
of the Boston Union
held , at a Board
ordered The Penny Magazine, The
and Chambers' Edinburgh Journal,
Ton n e Saturday last,
tBotbil:rttalkaYen3finagrea;ju'le regularly for the use of the inmates of the
Union House.—Lincoln Gazette.
During the late inclement season there have
been distributed amongst the poor families of the parish
of Dunfermline above 500 cart.loads of coals, besides a
quantity of warm clothing.

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