The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-23 00:00:00

TURKEY.

Accounts have been received from'Constantinople
to the 7th inst.
MEHEMET PACHA, with the rank of vizier, has
been named Ambassador to London, in the place of
KIAMIL PACHA ; liemmAKl has been named to Paris;
and Mussusus, now Minister at the Court of Athens,
to Vienna. _ _ _

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OsmAN EFFENDI, a Secretary of the Ottoman Le.
gation at Athens, is appointed Charge d'Affaires at
that Court.

G REECE.

The Athens journals of the 7th publish an amnesty
by King OTUO, but with numerous exceptions, to the
persons engaged in the late insurrectionary movements
in the provinces.

PERSIA.

RUMOURED DEATH OF THE SHAH OF
PERSIA.

The journal de Constantinople of the 4th has the
following :
" Letters from Persia, via Trebisond, arrived on
Friday last, announce an important event, which may
render still more complicated the affairs, which have
for several months been in discussion between the
several Cabinets of Europe. According to these letters,
the King of Persia, Mohammed Shah, died a few
days ago, at Teheran, from a violent attack of gout, to
which he had long been subject. Mohammed Shah.
son of Abbas, and grandson of Fetti Ali Shah, who
died in 1834, and whom he succeeded to the throne of
Persia, was the third sovereign of the dynasty of the
Kadjars, founded in 1794 by Aga Mohammed Khan.
He was born in 1806, and his heir (Naibus Salthanet),
Governor of Azerbaidjan, is 18 years of age. If the
news of the death of the King of Persia be confirmed, it
is probable that the Salar, who is in arms near Khora-
san, v, ill march on Teheran, while the Princes, who have
taken refuge on the frontiers of Turkey, in consequence
of events which have taken place in Persia at different
periods, and among whom are Assafed Dewlet, the
Shah's maternal uncle, and Zcil-us Soultban, who reigned
for several months after the death of Fetti Ali Shah,
under the name of Ali Shah, will probably make some
attempt on the southern provinces, where they have nu-
merous partisans. These two last Princes are at this
time at Kerbella, living upon a pension granted them by
the Ottoman Government. It is said that the commu-
nications between Tauris and Teheran are already inter-
cepted."

ITALY.

PIEDMONT AND LOMBARDY.

The Parliament of Turin was opened on the 16th
instant. A letter from Turin of the 17th thus de-
scribes the effects produced in the North of Italy by
the recent intelligence from Vienna :

" The old members of the Provisional Government of
Milan, MIL Casati, Durini, Borromeo, &c., have just
been to the King. They have pointed out to him that
it was impossible that the counter blow of Vienna should
not be felt at Milan, that all Lombardy was ready to rise
again; that they and their friends had done all, up to
the present time, that was humanly possible to retard
the explosion, in the interest of that unfortunate country,
exposed to the terrible vengeance and the pittiless repri-
sals of Radetzky, whose anger the last events at Vienna
must have excited to ferocityto madness; but that
they had no longer any hopes that their voice could
be heard, the moment appearing propitious to
this tortured people to make a last effort to free
themselves from a domination as stupid as it was
ferocious. In fact, all the small detachments
of Hungarians quartered in the villages have deserted;
fifteen Creation battalions have received orders to
fall back on Vienna, whilst others have set out in dis-
order, to join the colours of Jellachich. Demoralisation,
discord, and insubordination, appear again breaking up
that formidable army. If the Piedmontese do not
speedily pass the Tessino, Lombardy will rise under
another flag. The King, it is said, replied to these re-
' monstrances, that his greatest desire was to resume the
campaign; that he was in opposition to part of his Mi-
nistry; that, besides, the Piedmontese Chambers were to
meet the next day, and that he would await their deci-
sion to regulate his conduct, but as for himself, his most
ardent wish was to be carried off by a cannon-ball, if the
Italian cause was to succumb. The President of
the Ministers, the Marquis Alfieri de Sostegno, who
passed for the most moderate, would not wait for the
opening of the Chambers. Like a prudent man, he
withdrew before the storm burst. The other Minis-
ters hold good, and, from being exceedingly
pacific, are beginning to assume an atti-
tude not only warlike, but provocative. You will seo
that it will be necessary to moderate their ardour. I dare
not, after that, speak to you of the labours of our Fede-
ral Congress. They would advance sufficiently if we
had not Use honour of possessing amongst us the Prince
de Canino. The Prince constitutes the whole of the op-
position, and it is not the less forteidable,however, on that
account. An eminent naturalist, an intrepid traveller,
the Prince has already had occasion to exercise his in-
exhaustible talk-in all the scientific congresses, of which
of
he has been the glory and the despair.
from 44 to 45 years of age; of vigorous heiael ihs-aont:lgood
stature, and furnished with a long betar'd which
would render a Capuchin friar vain. The first day
he wore the uniform of a National Guard of the
Republic of St. Marino, and before
because sitting '
down
.aus.e.
ho protested against the . whole project,
dear little Republic was not enumerated in the list of
Italian states. It was stated to him that an article of
the draft expressly guaranteed the existence of that mi-
niature republic, and that if it were not set down in
the division of charges and in the national representa-
tion, it was because, according to the bases fixed by the
Confederation, the Republic of San Marino could have
furnished for its share but half a deputy and the third of
a soldier. But the Prince did not look on himself as
beaten ; he returned to the charge with ten or twelve
incidental propositions. He is th man of all I ever saw
who best understands how to prolor°s and embarrass a
discussion. Repulsed on one point, he comes back on
another. He clings to every phrase, every word, every
comma, and, after having perorated, and disputed, and
replied, and demanded explanations, and presented
amendments and sub-amendments for hours together,
he listens with the most impassable calm and the
most contented air in the world to the eternal chorus
of passed unanimously, minus the Prince de Canino.'
I ought, however, to add that the other evening, when
the matter was to vote an addresss to Charles Al-
bert, praying him to resume hostilities against the
Austrians, the secretary announced, in a triumphant
voice, Passed unanimously—plus the Prince do Ca-
nino.'—P.S. You may, perhaps, have read in some Ita-
lian journals that General Oudinot has arrived at Turin,
and that he put up at the Hotel F6der. It is an amus-
ing mistake. The person who was meant was the Duke
de Dino, nephew of Talleyrand, who is really here, and
who serves in the Piedmontese army, to do all he can, as
he wittingly expresses it, to undo the treaties of Vienna
made his uncle."