The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-04 00:00:00

TUNIS.

A letter from Tanis of the 19th ult. states that the
cholera, which had apparently subsided, had again
made its appearance. Four or five cases had ap-
peared amongst the Jews. In the little town of
Bizerte the loss had been considerable.. A French
physician, who had been sent there by the Bey, was
obliged to fiv, the population declariNg that he spread
the disease by his breath and glance. The Bey has
established a cordon sanitaire about Bizerte. But it
is not at that place alone that such an accusation was
brought against the medical- men ; the same was done
at Tunis when th© malady was most rife, and then
almost all the patient perished, no aid being accepted.

PERSIA.
Our last advices from the Persian capital, which
come down to the 7th ultimo, are not of the most flat-
tering nature, with every allowance even for the state
of the country at the time of the late Sovereign's de-
cease. Theyouthful monarch, Nassiruddin Shah, has
not hithertosbeeh able to consolidate the foundations
of his rule, shattered by the intrigues of the priests
and mullahsZ and the open rebellion of certain chiefs.
The great influence of the English and Russian em-
bassies at Teheran, which placed him on the throne
of his ancestors, alone retains him in his seat. The
siege of the Seared city of Meshed, in Khorassan still
continued, arid the place holds out with successful ob-
stinacy against all the efforts of the Shah's troops.
It is more than'suspected that the latter are suffering
from scarcityettf provisions, and from the cold of a
winter whichahaa set in with great severity. The
last native repeits state that the passes between Te-
heran and Meshed are impassable from the snow. In
Ispahan the priestly party have set the Shah's go-
vernor at defiance, and having enlisted the desperate
Lootis of the ecty in their favour, broke out into
open ineurrectisali. Many lives had been lost, but
latterly the ROyfilists had had the advantage. At
Shiraz things are in a. better state. The Lootis have
been suppressed ;Alit this city of Persian poesy is now
one of the most ppfound sinks of corruption. Hadji
Kawani, one of * most powerful and active in-
triguers of the da,,atrtiles paramount in the city, while
the 11 Kahni, or Ltgal of the Triber,, brooks no rival
outside the walls.. Royal Highness Prince Bah-1
man Mirza, the nominal governor of Peas, is a mere
cipher. In the Dashtistata or maritime provinces of
Persia, the authority not only of the governors of
Lar and Fars, buteof the Shah himself, is openly;
derided. The Sheikh of Bushire, after having suc-
cessfully resisted a desultory siege of some months
by the Junghistan troops, countenanced by the go-
vernment of Fars, has just been honoured by. a
Khelaat from the Prince—the reward of successful
, rebellion. It is, of course, now the policy of the
Persian Government to disclaim and denounce the
Junghistan chief's proceedings, who still holds in
: possession one of the principal walled villages of
• Bushire Sheikh, and refuses to restore it save on
nest advantageous terms. The Sheikh of Lingab, the
most flourishing town on the sea-coast of Persia, and
Si.eikh Seif of Gembroon (Bunder Abbas), have sent
up troops to the mountain passes to resist the force
which the royal Governor of Lar has sent to compel
their suinnission. " It may be readily conceived how
commerce suffers during these Comnotions. M. de
Sartegie, the late -French Minister at Teheran, has
not yet been replaced by the French Government.
It will be recollected that he retired from the Persian
caeital in consequence of his Having failed to accom-
plish the principal and secret object of his mission_
naine;y,, the reification of a commercial treaty with
Perie, claiming equal rights with the English and,
Itussiaw, and the'estahlishment of a French residera
at Bushire, &c. Ile was sent,out in 1844 by Louis
Philippe, ostensibly to protect the interests of the
Lazarist missionaries, who were considered to ha-ve
h4en. unjustly expelled from Persia by the thren
Severeige, Mahomed Shah, and his Minister Ilaelji
Mirza Agasi, lately deceased at Kerbela. M. de
Sartegis, riot content with this, unwisely aspired. to
be the protector of all Catholics in Persia, and thus
, alarmed the Persian Government into opposition to all
his views. The present . able Vizier of the youthful
Shah, liirza Mahomed Takki, has the confidence
both of the Russian Ambassador (Prince Dolgoroeki,
Coast Nedeur's•successor) and of Colonel &neje].
Thus powerfully aided, -the Persian minister (aught
to succeed in the gencral pacification of the ei apire,
rind in restraining the excessive demands sat, the
MulTab, or priestly party, which in P ereia, es at
Conetantinople, is the grand obstacle to all improve-
ment, either social or intellectual, of the masses.
There appears to be no truth in the absurd report
that Russia has matched troops to assist the ,city of
Af-sliod in its rebellion. -The. northern provinces of
Ghilan, Mazendetan, and Azerbijan, are pretty tran-
quil, although it is necessary at all times to keep an
e on the governor of the latter, 'Prince- 13ahman
who, it is nOtoti6li, at heart. ineVaied to

uI I(KIM,

„The following' letter from Darjeeling, aged the
10iti of February, as given in the eakzatdEtvish.
man of the 16th, gives the result of the late expedition
• inta: the Sikkim territory :
"We have appropriated all the Raja's country on
this- side of the Great Runjeet river, leaving him only
his barren hills, out cf which he may make what he
C 413. ..No, batter arraogetnent could have bull made,
- 48• the country, whighis abandoned' to the :Raja is
unproluctive, and would have been expensive to hold.
. The portion retained will yield's revenue of 16,000
Co.'s rupeee, and as the 6,000 annually paid to the
• )inja will cease, the government will Save 22,000
Co.'s rupees annually. Should any further' d'asturh-
once take• place, it will soon he found where it
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originates, as it is certain the, Ite.ja has not the means
to act by himself, and if his friends annoy us, they
I. must look out for themselves. It is reported that he
• accuses the Chinese as hisinstigntors in this business,
bat this 'a probably ap isztluse to screen himself. You
shall hear more in a few daya.”
• By ibis arrangement the country lying between
Darjeeling and the Purneah frontier falls into the
possession of our government, arid the sojourners at
the Bright Spot will no longer feel themselves insu.
fated and detached. Their apprehensions will there-
fore, it .is hoped, be calmed, and they will in future
regard . the Leptchas as peaceful neighbours.
'% 11. Our correspondent does nut make it clear
..ether the boundary is to La continued
I- e1,,,,-'\:: n(). . the right bank of the Great Runjeet
-.--lAlte '; 3 , •
, , ourc,.., or whether it follows the course of the
....,-,:,, 'fit e Runjeet to its confluence with its larger name-
vi t •co From what he says about rejecting the moun-
y, we suspect the latter to be the
.arrange-
Vil nt ;if so the boundary will be in the valley imme-
Siiate!y north of Darjeeling, terminating to the west
at the mountain of Tonglo. If, on the contrary, it I