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TUESDAY EVE LONDONNING, MAY 12, 1829.

The East Retford question was last night by
consent postponed till next Session, on the
ground that there would not be time during the
Present to discuss the measure in the House of
Lords, even should the Commons pass it. We
think it not at all unlikely that next Session
the expediency, if not the justice of extending
the elective franchise to such populous and
wealthy towns as Birmingham, Manchester,
Leeds, and other places will be agitated. Indeed,
the
general wonder is that the question should
have been so long overlooked.

r. PEEL last night vvithdrew his Bill for the
regulation of the office of Justice of the Peace,
hi order to make the measure more generally
beneficial. The Right Hon. Gentleman ob-
served that since the Bill had been first sub-
Initted to the House, he had received many
valuable suggestions on the subject, of which he
1111'4 anxious to take advantage. With this view
e was desirous that the Bill should stand over
Wail he had incorporated the various improve.
Illents suggested to him. The Bill will there-
fore, in
all
probability, stand over till next

sessical.

MASSACRE
OF THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR.
The followiner, which we have received from a
correspondent in Persia, will be found to be
the first account of the causes which led to the
massacre of the Russian Ambassador and his
suite at the Court of Teheran

TABREEZ, FEB. 20.
I hasten to communicate to you some particulars
of
most horrible outrage committed at Teheran,
tth
C days ago, such as has never, perhaps, disgraced
4 history of this or any other country, viz., the
"assure of the Russian Ambassador and his suite
cthree only excepted) by the populace. Mr. Gry-
ildeff had been at the Court of Teheran for two
140nths past, to carry into effect some articles of the
Itt• treaty between Russia and Persia respecting
Armenian and Georgian subjects of Russia,
Ithotn he claimed to return to their country.—
,4.t.lnongst these claims was that of two Armenian
'linen belonging to Alluya Khan, which did not
se
,elt protection from the Russian Ambassador,
Sineethoy were slaves from Turkey, and brought from
h4l. dung the last war between Persia and Turkey;
lout
gi the Ambassador chose to consider them as be-
to to Russia. The King ordered the women
to be sent to him under the charge of his eunuch,
in order that they might be questioned as to the fact
alluded to. But the Ambassador refused to ques-
tion them in the presence of the eunuch, whom he
'"Y ill treated and sent away, detaining the women
'II
-bight in his house by force. Here they were
%oat barbarously used by the Russians. They made
liheir "'cape in the morning, crying loudly through
the Wefts for revenge. This instigated the popu-
lace to hasten towards the Ambassador's, from
*hence the Cossacks fired upon them, and killed
tit
°leo. The bodies of those men were then
triken to the mosques, and exposed by the Moolahs,
t‘lling aloud for vengeance on their murderers,
Ithich excited the most ungovernable fury in
the minds of the people, thirty thousand
whom assembled find surrounded the resi-
dence of the • Ambassador
with the utmost fury.
411 e King, in the meantime, hearing of the tumult,
ant his guards to protect the Russians, who be-
41'ed nobly in their defence, and it is said that a
no; ndred of them were destroyed by the populace;
aasti Shah went to their assistance, and at
:tale risk of -his life was the means of saving one of
o
, e 'Ambassador's Secretaries, and two cossacks,
tout nothing
could stem the violence of the enraged
ultitude, who
massacred all the Russians (with
th
people exceptions) estimated to be about thirty
fo°l3'e, including the Cossack Guard. This dread-
ti,Te'lit has made great impression on the Per-
lls z• Oovernment. The King has sent to the
hihiall authorities, offering every indemnity
ostiuc. might be required to expiate this gross
144•,°,,,e On their representatives, over which he
etnitroul, and did his utmost to prevent.
un th-rO4B instances are mentioned of provocations
of Part of the Ambassador offered to the Court
to which the King submitted so quietly
rmer that nothing should disturb the peace with
flit' that it is said had he shewn himself amongst
illeitP°Polace he would have been sacrificed by
1,4)4
lifer thus tamely submitting to the Russians,
1146,144 brought upon themselves, no doubt, this
di,,tt" Catastrophe, which no provocation can yin-
hale oe;asbeing barbarous and disgraceful in the an-
tioA the World. Messengers of the first distinc-
leithare going off to the Court of St. Petersburgh,
thottejerY explanation and offer of indemnity. lii a
*ill beltne we shall know in what way the Emperor
di • Pleified for the gross attack on his people and
ia didY the French mail this morning, information
bake t° have been received at Paris, that the
o LAVAL MONTMORENCY has refused
ffi .`-•
ice of Minister of Foreign Affairs.

- - -
yeuer• 4PPears by liamburgh Papers, received
battletiaY afternoon, that there has been a smart
„„ between the Russians and Turks near
-taigas.
tib(jut A RUSSEIN PACHA had assembled
4 be
40 infantry and 1,500 cavalry, with
ue attacked the mountain redoubt of the
attack near Sizeboli on the 9th Ap
ctc-ril. The
c:,/ was terrific ; and the Turks had almost
IIIC:911e, redoubt when they were repulsed he
opatinate 'bravery of the Russians, who were

From Dec. 10, 18241
to Jan. 5, 1825 j °""'
Year ended Jan. 5 1326
1827
1328
1829

15,36 71b. 3,5241 b.
1:2,424 76,961
143,130 131,032
278,552 255,708
1,669,389 436,722

An ACCOUNT of the Quantity of FOREIGN Wow. Im-
ported during the last Six Years.
1824
1825
18211
1827
1828
1829 ';0,246,893
WILLIAM IRVING,
Inspector General of Imports and Exports.
Inspector General's Office, Custom House,
London, May 6, 1829.