The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-07 00:00:00

The victory at Khoo6hab has been rapidly fo:

lowed up by the capture of Mohammerali. The
latter eiploit (which was briefly announced in
our impression of last evening) took place, as will

doubtless have been already remarked by the more
observant and reflective, upon the very eve, as it
were, of the date when the News, speeding across
Europe to the unconscious combatants, was to
thrust back their swords into their scabbards—
the War between England and Persia having been
already virtually closed by the Paris negotiations !
Another illustration, and a very startling illustra-
tion, this, to our thinking, of the really
extraordinary, the literally vital, importance
of establishing all over the habitable globe
the utmost attainable rapidity of intercommu-
nication ! Another and a very striking
testimony of the marvellous value of an agency of
that kind like the Electric Telegraph ! Had the
wires, now thrilling to and fro, al nost momen-
tarily, under the waters of St. George's Channel,
under the waters of the British Channel, from one
extremity of Europe to another, from North to
South, from East to West, from Mizell Head to
the Carpathians, from the the Elbe t 3 the Guadal-
quiver—had those wires been already extended
across the whole breadth of Asiatic Turkey; from
the shores of the Dardanelles to the banks of the
Euphrates, how many human lives would have
been shared, how much bloodshed would have
been opportunely prevented ! But then, it is
true, Moharemerah would not have been ours !
The last, and the most terrible blow yet directed
against Persia, by the strong right hand of Sir
JAMES OUTHAM would not have descended upon
the army of the SHAH ! The soldiers of
England would have been deprived of this,
their last, but by no means their least,
achievethent ! So that with the evil comes also
the good—with the calamity the assuagement !
And beyond all doubt the seizure of Moham•
morah by the British Forces is an event of no
inconsiderable importance. It testifies to the
Court of Teheran the energetic determination of
our Government to carry on, if necessary, a
vigorous campaign, and not simply to adventure
upon a fruitless and bootless warlike demonstration.
The double occupation of the island of Karrack
and the seaport of Bushire, was as nothing in
the estimation of the SHAH and his advisers. It
was as nothing, that double occupation, for the
one very simple and ail-sufficient reason, that
both Bushire and Karrack had repeatedly before
been taken only to be afterwards aban-
doned without the smallest diminution to the
Persian dominions, or the slightest perceptible-
deterioration to the influence or pride of the Per-
sian Government. This, of course, obviously
from the circumstance of Bushire and Karrack
I being situated upon the confines, and upon, per•
hap, the most unhealthy of all the uusalubrious
confines, of the still gigantic empire of the SHAH !
Even the magnificent feat of arms performed by
our troops at Khooshab had been productive, after
all, of no very satisfactory result, all things con-
sidered. The subsement retirement of our forces
upon the Persian seaboard has been flagitiously
distorted into a Retreat in the accounts sent home
to Teheran by the Smile's mendacious Gene-
ralissimo. Not so has it been with regard to Sir
J. ()LYTHAM'S triump'a of the 26th of March ;
that resulting in the capture of Moham
merah. A victory achieved by the British
Forces with a comparatively trifling loss
on their side—but one productive already in
many respects of the happiest consequences I In
testimony of which we need only point to the record
contained in our advicas from the seat of war, the
eminently acceptable record of the friendly dis-
position evinced towards our army by the Arab
tribes in its immediate vicinity. There cannot
indeed be any doubt whatever that the effect of
this exploit of the 20th of March must perforce
be singrderly beneficial to ourselves not alone
upon all that country side, but directly also upon
the Imperial Councile of the Persian Government.
It has clearly and distinctly proved our warlike
resolution. That resolution on the part of the
British is now beyond the reach of cavil among
the Persians—now that Sir JAMES OUTR.UI has
followed up the almost simultaneous occupation
of Karrack and Bushire by the victory of Khoo-
slab, and that again by the more signal triumph
marked by the capture of Mohammerah.

At the same time we cannot but think thaqthe
principal Government organ in this country is
somewhat beside the mark in congratulating the
British army under OGTRAM upon having secured
far themselves, by the capture of Mohammerah, the
scene of a healthy summer encampment. The
undeniable fact being that at a distance of about 60
=lea above the confronting cities of Bussorah and
Mehammerah, [Bussorah being situated upon
the western, and Mobammerah upon the eastern
banks of the Shatt-el-Arab] the banks of the Eu-
phrates are so low that, at the time of
the waters rising in May and June, the
country becomes ovci flowed for miles round—_
bciug teanfifurai4.l, one vast
swamp, apreadina to the immediate vicinity of