The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-26 00:00:00

PERSIA.

We have already received by telegraph intel-
ligence of the arrival at Tresibond of Ferruck
Khan, the Persian Envoy. A letter from that city
now furnishes us with some further details :
" The Trebizonda, Austrian steamer, arrived
here on the Ist, after having experienced very
boisterous weather in the Black Sea. On the fol-
low*. morning Ferruck Khan was visited by the
Turkish authorities and by the European consuls,
and on the 3d left for Erzeroum, accompanied by
M. de Vernouillet, one of the attaches of the French
embassy at Constantinople, who is to remain with
him until he reaches the Persian frontier. The
Envoy, both on his arrival and departure, was sa-
luted with a discharge of 21 guns from the citadel.
The governor of Trebisond, knowing that the roads
are invested by brigands, sent a strong escort with
the Envoy, and on the previous evening despatched
a body of cavalry to clear the road. Ferruck
Khan will only remain three days at Erzeroum,
and will then start for Van, and make a longer
halt at Tauris, where he is to receive despatches
from his Government. The city of Tauris pro-
poses, it is said, to give a grand reception to the
Envoy, as a mark of its gratitude for the advan-
tages it will derive from the different commercial
treaties which Ferruck Khan has concluded in
Europe. The Shah has given orders for the con-
struction of a line of electric telegraph between
Tauris and Teheran, and the Persian Government
is about to adopt several other useful reforms sug-
gested by European civilisation."

A letter from Copenhagen, of the 20th, states
that the King returned to the capital on the
previous evening from the Palace of Glucksburg.
On the following day he was to hold a secret
council and afterwards proceed to the Palace of
Frederiksborger.

DEATH OF SIR JOHN POTTER, M.P.—MANCHES-
TER, Monday afternoon.—We regret to announce the
death, this morning, at Beech-house, Pendleton, of Sir J.
Potter, M.P. for Manchester. For several days Sir John
had been gradually sinking, and his friends had, since the
end of last week, little hope of his recovery. Sir John was
in his 44th year. His illness lasted exactly a fortnight.
DEATH OF DR. H. M. HUGHES.—We regret to
have to record the death of Henry Marshall Hughes, M.D.,
Fellow of the Royal -College of Physicians, and physician
to Guy's Hospital, which mournful event occurred at 12,
Marine-parade, Brighton, .on Thursday last, in the 53d
year of his age.
ILLNESS OF MR. SPURGEON.—The Rev. C. H.
Spurgeon's admirers will be sorry to learn that the rev.
gentleman has been attacked with a very gainful disease—
inflammation of the kidneys—and that a few days ago. his
life was all but despaired of. His medical advisers have
given it as their opinion that no danger now exists, but he
is prohibited from preaching just yet. The money for the site
of his new chapel—£.s,4oo—was paid down the day before
he was attacked.—Bury Times.

ADMISSION OF ATTORNEYS.--As many as one
hundred and thirty-four articled clerks have given notice
of their intention to be admitted attorneys next ,term, in
addition to a number from Easter and Trinity terms. '

THE END OF THE LONG VACATION.—The long
vacation terminated on Saturday, and yesterday the several
law offices of the common-law courts were opened at the
usual hours, as also the Judges' Chambers; in anticipation
of the forth coming Michaelmas Term, commencing on
Tuek day week, when the new Chancery orders are expected
to be is sued, and when the new Chancery Amendment Act
will cone into force, under which the novel appearance of a
" jury" will be seen in the Court of Chancery assigning
damages for wrongful acts on injunctions, and under
breaches of agreements, &c.
THE WESTERN BANK.—We understand that an
action of reduction, repetition, and damages has been raised
and executed by one of the shareholders, a lady, resident in
the east country, against the directors ofthe Western Bank,
so as to test the question of their ultimate liability. We
believe that the shares held by this lady were purchased
shortly before the closing of the bank, and it is anticipated
that this will form a strong ground of action. We cannot
at present enter into the particulars, but hope to be able to
do so in the course of a few days. Mr. J. Montgomery
Stacey, S.S.C., Edinburgh, is the agent.--North British
Daily Mail.
A Paris correspondent of the Nord states that
numerous French missionaries, men and women, have left
during the last few months. Ten members of the Society
of Mary have left for New Caledonia ; a bishop and ten
members of the same society, for the ()ramie missions
thirty ,
-one members of the society of Ptcpp for T. hiti
Sandwich Islands, Valparaiso, Santiago, Lima, &c. two
monks and two nuns for North America ; and twenty-one
priests of the Society of Foreign Missions, for China.
A testimonial has just been presented to the Rev.
.ti
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Jos. Ditcher, M.A., vicar of South Brent, "in ecogmtruotinl.
of his firm and consistent maintenance of the cause of
in the face of much opposition and reproach, in the case of
Ditcher v. Denison.' " The testimonial consists of a large
sized polyglot Bible, a pocket Bible, and a fine quarto copy
of the Book of Common Prayer and of the Book
of Homi-
lies, all being richly bound, and bearing appropriate inscrip-
tions.
We (Aberdeen Herald) understand that George
Reith, Esq , the present able secretary and general mana-
ger at Aberdeen of the Scottish North-Eastern Railway,
has been appointed to the management of the Grand Trunk
Railway in Canada. We have heard the salary stated at!
£2,000,