PERSIA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume II, Issue 90, 19 April 1854, Page 4

PERSIA.

We havo intelligence of no small interost nnd importance from the ports to thy westward. Every thing io lhat direciion breaihn of war nnd its runmura. In the struggle which the Otto nun Empire, ifl nbnut to make, it is very certain that in hcirt and hand the I'crsiniu are Icngmd with its aggressors. Russian money <md influence have been nt work, there arc old grudges to be repaid, and strungo b« it may nppenr, i be Persians are ready in aims agmnst people of their own creed.

, The news which has reached us h lo the rffeet that a largr ai my of Persians, computed we tuppoio according ti> the usually ixaggcrnted mi-jvo fashion, nt one hundred thousand men —quitted Tehran en roule towards the Rtisimn Provinces vm Tabrcez ; they had proceeded nino marches when preremptory orders re.iched (hem, it is said from the RuHMan authorities, to return— .some oilier object, which has no* yet transpired, was to be carriidout. On their return to Tehran, the British Agont was directed to quit the place, nnd his flug was lowered. A silmlai fortune awaited the Turkish Ambassador, and at tho dnto of the report both these officials were three marches on their journey downwurds. A aubsequcnt repot t has reached us, which we do not know how tor might be trusted, that our agent bud been recalled, and amends made for the bad treatment he had received. The Tehran army was ready to move at a moment's notice, and it was fully understood that it waa to proceed immediately somewhere. By aome it wns thought it would proceed to Herat where h junction would be formed with a large Hussion Oigunjo, and that the whole would move on to Candahnr and Cabool and gain a position there. Our old enemies in those posts would he only too glad to receive thorn, By ordcra it was thought that the army would move southwßidn, and after being joined by the troops raited at Slnraz, would proceed in Ihc direction of this province via Bunpoor, whereby tho occupntion of the seaboard on tlio Mukran •coast would be effected; The road between Shiraz nnd ia represented to be easily passable. 'Lbe latter place is a few inarches on'y distnnt from the lioit of Guilder, which wns lately visited by one of our enterprising European citizens.

I lint the course considered moat probable for the army at Tehran, and which would lead io more immediate result 1 ! than either of the foimcr, was a detcent on Bagdad and Bussorn,both of which towns acknowledge Turkisn jurisdiction. This contingency was so strongly apprehended that a force in ' Turkish pay, of 11,000 men, hud been thrown into ■ the latter place to defend it. The Persians possess ground in the immediate neighboiiihooil of Bussora well adapted, it i« said, for a rendezvous, and on doubt it will be used as such if the occasion arises. The port of Busline was in a ferment ; our accounts state that Captain Kcmball had been either j obliged to leuve the town or h.id found it advisable j to quit it, and was living on board one of tha ships in the harbour. The Island of Karrack was occupied by Persian troopn, who were fortifying il. Guns, stores, and ammunition had been conveyed there for thu purpose ; some excitement prevailed 1 at Bunder Abbas, nnd the inhabit mto looked with dread ut the stato of affairs in their neighbourhood.

A sirdar, with 20 horsemen wa« pjying it o vi«it for the purpose of looking about him or seeing what pickings he could get, and the people regarded his i visit as the forerunner of evil. Wo expect more j news shortly from that quarter, which wo will bust" en to place before our readers.— Scindmn, Jan, IS.

Russian C'ohuuption. — It is well known tint Russian govemnirnt officials are. easily coriuptul The following inttanoe of their condition is rclm led in a recently published »uil, : ■-•' A yoimg man inherited a large eslatu in tin: gnvcrnmtnl <>t Muscow. A neighbour unjustly cl.umed p,rt of it. Tho young nmn asked Mb uncle, ihc clueljuilge of the dutnc.r, if lie ought to go to law or content to an arrangement. The uncle recommended him to go to law, nsiuriug him be uould gum his suit. Somo montliH after liv learned that he had lost tho action, because his uncle had allowed himself to ho corrupted for the stun of leu thousand rubles. Hn hastened to bis uncle aid reproached bun bitteily. 'It is true, 1 aaid the uncle ' lhat you have lost your action — truo also that I accepted ten thou« snnd rubles from your adversary, but that wns nil he, had, II you had gained your suit here, as was your right, he would have, npppuicd, and by acriding hii tan thousand rubles to St. Petersburg would bitvo gained his cause. But now do you t.ike tlio money, nppml and you will succeed.' The nephew, deli. bled, gratefully ombraced bis uncle.' 1