11 NOVEMBER 1871, Page 2

The accounts from Persia are still most disastrous. The Bushire

correspondent of Messrs. Gray, Dawes, and Co. informs them, from careful observations, that more than two-thirds of the carrying animals of the country have died, and in Fars and Bushire scarcely a dozen asses are left alive. As to human beings, he writes, "the details are too horrible for repetition here." He waits for rain, but according to a missionary in Ispahan, a renewal of distress is expected in winter, and one-fourth of the Mohammedan popula- tion of Ispahan is already dead. As, however, he adds that he trusts good people at home will send him £200 to enable him to purchase the freehold of the house in which he lives, it is to be hoped, both for his sake and the Persians', that he is exaggerating.