The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-05 00:00:00

The following article, alludinc, to the expedition
from India to the Persian Gulf, alluding
been publiiihed
in a supplement of the Teheran Journal of Court
.News:—
" Reports are current here that an English ship
of war had arrived on the 13th of September, in
the Persian Gulf, after a passage of nine days front
Bombay. It is also said that as many as 20 other
sailing and steamvessels would shortly leave the
latter place for the same destination, and that
each would have on board 300 or 400 soldiers. We
cannot give a decided opinion as to the truth or
falsity of this news. We are completely ignorant
whether such a vessel or such vessels have or have
not arrived, bat such a circumstance, so contrary
to their existing customs, could not fail to excite
very serious apprehensions. We are convinced that
seeing the perfect friendship which unites the two
powers, such a state of things could not take place.
We presume a;s• that the Ministers of his Majesty
the Shah too highly appreciate the ancient friend-
ship of Persia with England, and the good disposi-
tions of the British Government to maintain the
conventions which are now in force to admit that
the latter would be disposed to break, without mo-
tive, existing treaties with Persia. The Persian

government places great confidence in the kind-
ness, the perspicuity, and the perfect equity of the
English Cabinet. If even the vessels were to enter
the Persian Gulf, as the rumour states, the cabinet
of Teheran would not consider that fact as an act
of hostility, but would demand from the British
Government an explanation of its intentions, ill
order to be assured of the true cause of the event.
So long as it shall be possible, the Persian Govern-
ment will not assume the initiative, and will
abstain from any attitude contrary to the old and
valuable intimacy which formany years has existed
between the two powers. We have, however, heard
from people of this country, and we are able to
infer from the prevailing tone of conversation here
that as soon as it should be really proved that
Great Britain, at the suggestion of agitators, and
incited by the words of her agents here and of
malevolent persons, bad disregarded her treaties
of friendship with Persia, and had, notwith-
standing the conduct of the latter power, which
has never acted unjustly, committed an act, in
despite of the wishes of the cabinet of Teheran
contrary to the harmony which has existed for so
many years between them, in that case the Persian
nation, professing Islamism, and distinguished for
its zeal, would be obliged, to its great regret, firmly
to oppose the proceedings of the British Govern-
ment. Putting its confidence in God alone, it
would be compelled to protect the dignity of the
kingdom, and to defend its honour, its reputation,
and its true religion."

PREPARATIONS OF .RETSSIA TO SUPPORT

_PERSIA AGAINST ENGLAND•

The following appears in an Austrian journal,
published at Cracow, The Czas, of the 30th ult.:—
" While England, with much noi,e and ostenta-
tion, prepares an expedition against Persia, Russia
—in silence and noiselessly—is getting ready to
come to the succour of the Shah. The Orembourg
corps d'armee has just been considerably rein-
forced. It is commanded by Aide-de-Camp Gen.
Perowski. The outposts of this corps extend to
the very extremity of the country of Turan, upon
the rivers Oxus and Jaxartes ; and the military
flotilla of the Lake of Aral, placed under the orders
of the same general, is brought by the above-men-

tioned rivers to the frontiers of India. On another
side, great activity reigns upon the Caspian Sea,
and in the army of the Caucasus. Transport ves-
sels, having troops and munitions of war onboard,
pass incessantly between Astrakhan and the port
of Bakou, situated in the province of Schirvan,
bordering on the Caspian Sea, belonging to Rus-
sia, and at the frontier of Persia. The new Lieu-
tenant-General of the Caucasian provinces, Prince
Bariatynski, has received fuller powers than his
predecessors. He has lately inspected, on his way
to his destination, the flotilla of the Caspian Sea,
which has of late been considerably increased, and
partly left at his disposal. This flotilla can
easily take troops on board either of the corps of
Orembourg or the army of the Caucasus, and
convey them to the relief of Persia, disembarking
either at Astrabad or upon the neighbouring
coast of Teheran. The corps which forms part
of the army of the Caucasus, cantoned at Schirvan
and Erivan, and commanded by General Khruleff,
wbo distinguished himself in the Eastern war, can
also succour Persia by land as well as by sea.
Meanwhile the Russian Government neglects
nothing in replacing the war materiel consumed
during the late war, and continues to refill the ex-
hausted magazines."
Thus, in addition to the contracts which were
before announced to be tendered for, and the ob-
ject of which was to provide for the transport of
munitions of war, and of all sorts of army stores,
we have seen published very lately the authorisa-
tion for the conveyance of different raw materials,
to the amount of five million pounds weight, to the
military factory at Tula, as well as the putting up
at auction of the contract for the transport to
Schlossenak of four million pounds weight of gun-
powder and saltpetre.

THE PE,,SIAN GOViehN BNF AND Tag
BRITISH EXPEDLIION.