The Sun.
London, England, 1829-05-12 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Messager des Chambres, May 9. )

PARIS, MAY B.—On the massacre of the Rus-
sian Legation at Teheran, a great deal has been said,
respecting which we had only incomplete or inaccu-
rate details. We have received by an extraordinary
channel a letter from St. Petersicirgh, which fur-
nishes us with information on the subject, which we
warrant to be authentic.

" ST. PETERSBURGII, APRIL 20.—You are already
informed of the details of the catastrophe, of which
the Minister and officers of the Imperial Legation at
Teheran have been the victims. Hitherto there is
every reason to believe that the Persian Government
had no part in it. Filled with consternation by this
horrible crime, it eagerly offers the most extensive
satisfaction. A person in the confidence of Abbas
Mirza bad been sent to General Paskewitsch at
Tails, to be the bearer of the first expression of his
regret; and one of that person's sons will speedily
follow with a similar mission. The honourable con-
duct of the British Legation at Tauris on this occa-
sion is worthy of the great Monarch and the great
Power which it has the honour to represent. As
soon as Mr. Macdonald, the English Envoy at Tau-
ris, was informed of this melancholy event, he sent to
Mirza Hassan Khan, the Schah's Minister of Foreign
Affairs, a despatch of which the following are the
principal points. He observes that, in consequence
of this catastrophe, all confidence is destroyed, and
that it would be in vain to pretend that the repre-
sentative of any Power can henceforth think himself
safe in Persia; that it is not enough that the Go-
vernment disavows proceedings, the consequences of
which, perhaps, it tears itself, but that it must offer
complete satisfaction ; that the instigators of the
massacre, and those who perpetrated it, must be
given up, wherever they may be; that no rank ought
to protect them, no sanctuary serve them as an asy-
lum, no subterfuge be employed to screen them from
the punishment which they have merited; and that
if the Government is not able to clear itself com-
pletely from the suspicion of any participation whut-
ever in the crime which has just been committed,
not only Russia, but the whole civilized world, will
become its enemy.
It is Captain Macdonald, brother to the Envoy,
who has been sent with this note to Teheran. He
had orders to take under his special protection the
officers and individuals of the Russian Legation, who
had survived the massacre, and to conduct them to
Tauris. He has besides declared, that the slightest
insult or violence towc.rds them would cause him,
and the British subjects placed under his orders, im-
mediately to quit the Persian territory.
" All the members of the English Legation, as
well as the subjects of his Britannic Majesty at
Tauris, have gone into mourning for three months,
as a mark of their profound affliction at the sad event
which has taken place."
The arrival of a courier from Vienna, with des-
patches for the Ambassador, was spoken of to-day on
'Change. We are able to state that up to the mo -
went when we are sending our Paper to the press,
no courier had yet arrived at Paris.
(The Gazette de France, dated Sunday, and
)lfoniteur of Saturday, contain no farther news.)

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, MAT 9.—Five per Cents.
1081. 10c. 108 f. sc. ; Three per Cents. 79f. 10e. 79f. 79f.
10c.; Bank Stock, 1,8621. Loc. ; Naples Stock, 871. ;
Royal Spanish Loan, 79if. ; Elaytian Loan, 4651.
change on London, one month, 25f. 40c.; three months,
251. 25c —Cours Authentique.

TELEGRAPHIC COURTSHIP.—Last week
the young girl who manages the signals at one of the tele-
vaphic stations (Bidstone, we believe) had the following
query put to her by signal :—" How do you do my dear ?"
To this she immediately replied, adopting the same mode
of communication, " Mind your own business, Sir, and
don't be ogling the giris."— Sheffield Paper.
It is stated in the last mumber ottlie Journal des
Connaissances Usuellee, that a bladder filled with rectified
essence of turpentine, closely tied, and placed in the cup-
board in which are stuffed animals or birds, will effectually
secure them from the ravages of insects. The smell of the
turpentine, evaporating through the bladder, destroys any
insects which may all odY exist, and will prevent the ap-
prolch or production of others.—Literary Gazette:

GLASGOW.—On Tuesday a numerous and
highly respectable meeting of the Merchants, Bankers,
Manufacturers, and other inhabitants of this city, was
held in the Town flail, for the purpose of petitioning
Parliament against any renewal of the East India Com-
pany's commercial monopoly of the trade to India and
China.

A short time ago two persons of East Far-
leigh und9rtook each to eat a pound of raw pork, which
feat they performed in about twelve minutes. One of the
same chaw-bacons afterwards drank two pots of beer in IA
secondg. —Kentish Gazette.

RUSTIC PUMP IN WINDSOR FOREST, AND
MIXERAL SeitiNG.—We have great pleasure in informing
the public, that the mineral springs, lately discovered in
Windsor Forest, will shortly be opened for general use.—
TVindsor Express.

Such a day as last Sunday has not been wit-
ne4t.4 for many months, spring haying on that day burst
upon us in all its splendour, accompanied by the warmth
of summer.

The weather, which underwent a sensible im-
provement since the change of the moon, has been parti-
cularly warm and showery the two last days, and vegetal
tion is making rapid progress. The cuckoo was heard this
forenoon in the neighbourhood of the Woodlands, two
miles westward of this town.—Perth Courier.

On Saturday afternoon a very singular docu-
muit was posted on the west door of St. Dunstan's church.
It purported to he signed by the Registrar of the Eccle-
siastical Court of London, and it stated that a Learned
King's Counsel, who is not now in Parliament, but who
fsurnr as a separate ril 'sarsaot, had agree to allow to his wife a certain
u e maintenance, and that that sum was un-
paid and in arrear. It then went on to state, that as the
Learned Gentleman had absconded, it was ordered by the
Ecclesiastical Court that the process against him should be
affixed to the doors of St. Dunstan's Church, and the
Temple Church, and also on the door of the Learned Gen•
tletuan's chambers,