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More’ Chinese. We understand that another batch of Celestials from Flowery Land may be expected in a few days. The English Consul at Tabriz announces he has received and will forward to his Government most heart-rending details of famine in Persia. Special despatches from Constantinople say that the famine in Persia is causing dreadful havoc. The deaths in the Province 3 of Khorassau average 300 daily, and so great is the distress that the dead bodies arc devoured by the survivors, and men, women and children in some cases are killed to' render the supply of food more abundant. The.plague has also appeared among the Persians, and the Turkish Government is compelled to draw a sanitary cordon along the bord r. Hie cholera, typhus plague and-famine are still raging in Persia, and cannibalism is confirmed. The Governor of fcjhieraz has placed a guard at the cemetery to prevent the unfortunates from disinterring the dead. The British embassy and telegraphists have tied. Previous accounts are exaggerated, The Court marshal at Versailles for the trial of the Communists, has commeuced the examination of witnesses. M. .Ferre, one of the accused, attempted to make a speech in defence of the Commune, but was not permitted to proceed by the President of the Court. He said he had ordered the burning of the Palace of the Ministry of Finance. Several witnesses swore that Ferre personally forbade the release of the prisoners in the Prefecture vfhile it was burning. Both Ferre and Assi were insolent in speech and manner, and were frequently reprimanded by the Court. Abbe Derro said be had served five years as a missionary among the savages, and never witnessed atrocities equal to those perpetrated by the Communists. He stated that among the members of the Court-martial held by the insurgents in the Roquette Prison weye bays of seventeen. I A special despatch from London, July 2-iib, i says the Pope may leave Rome any day, Pre arations are making for his reception at Chateau Corte, Corsica. Mr Vallery, owner of the Chateau, has had an understanding with Antouelli, and is to place it at the disposal of the Pope. There is a movement going on in France to guarantee to the Pope temporal sovereignty over Corsica, The Pope wishes to publish a syllabus in regard to the. occupation of Rome by the Italian Government, declaring that the measures ■withholding from him all temporal powers are void. Measure? have been taken already in Rome to prepare for the choice of the next Pope. It is proposed to choose one who nitty be moderate in his ideas and not unfriendly to Italy, and by this means effect a compromise with the Italian Government. Car*, dinal Carnillo De Pietro is mentioned,