A portion of the despatches of the overland mail arrived
in London last night, bringing advices from Bombay to the 17th October. It ap- pears still doubtful whether Herat is in the hands of the Persians. Warlike preparations still continued, but the first detachment of the ex- pedition to the Persian Gulf would not exceed 5000 men. It had not, when the mail left Bombay, received sailing-orders. [The Globe, remarking on this, intimates that "the expedition is by this time on its way from Bombay to Bushire " ; and, in warlike tone, points out that Persia has not laid siege to Herat "of her own accord," but that "our old foe of the Crimea" is at the bottom of it all.] According to a telegraphic despatch from Trieste, " San artino, a Piedmontese subject, has been engaged as principal instructor of the Persian troops."
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