The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-16 00:00:00

RU,'57,1 ON THE SHORES OF TILE CASPIAN.

From a lengthy artic'e in be Nord upon the subject
of the Persian expedition nainst Herat, we take
the following :
It has recently been affirmed than. England has just its
much right to occupy :he islands and p rte of the Persian
Gulf as Russia has to occupy and fortify an island in the
Caspian, belonging to Persia and situate near Asterabad,
The following is the real sttise of the case :—Russia,
by her treaties with Persia, has the exclusive right of
keeping vessels of war iu the waters of the Caspian Sea.
With this right she has at the same time the duty of
keeping ww-ch and ward iu that sea. The Persian Go-
vernment, about 15 years ago, invoked the assistance of
Russia against the Turcotnan tribes who dwell along the
• eastern coast of the Caspian, savage tribes who subsist
by means of a few fisheries and a great deal of pillage,
and who used to desolate the Persian coasts by continual
acts of piracy and depredation, svLere they lei I waste
the plains, pillaged and ransacked the towns, and carried
off the inhabitants to sell them as slaves at /Chive.
The Russian Government placed at the disposal of the
Shah a fl oilla of light vessels fit for this kind of service,tbe
which cruised constantly between Asterabad and
good order.
Turceman coast for the maintenance of
but ill
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incorrigible pirates of those parts, andi _titt)sey
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ft uitleee, and those countries now erjoy a security which
was previsndy unknown.
The Russian sailors serving on board tbie flotilla,
obliged to cruise perpetually under a burning sun and in
a deadly climate, hare been decimated by malignant dis-
ea,ses.
• It was indispensably essential that hoepAals
should be created, in which the men could receive the
care they needed ; and the unhealthy coasts of Aeterabad
did not present the conditions required. The Russian
Government accordingly obtained from that of the Shah
leave to build some wooden huts on the uninhabited
island of Ashoutade for the use of the seamen invalided
from the flotilla, and it is probably this depot. of !invalids
that has been so ingeniously metamorphosed into a
military fortified oecupation, without taking notice of the
fact that the Russian Government, having alone the right
of hoisting a naval flag upon the Caspian Sea, Lai no
need whatever of taking such a precautionary measure.

sporting Intelligence.

TATTERSALL' S--YESTERDAY.

The only;;;;;7lra7l7,7eted 100,(ta,ken
twit() about (2,4l,Atist aud
,;t(; Del Oy, awl 20 to 1 to ti, `rpony" abAlt Zoydo. Z-e•
9 to 1 watt offered about Lord Ctifden'a "lot ;" 10 to 1
would have been taken. Not a bet was made on the
Chester Cap.