The accounts from the seat of war in the East
are contradictory and indecisive. Some of them state that the campaign is begun ; that various skirmishes have taken place on the fortified points be- tween Varna and the Danube ; and that in these, as well as in a sanguinary battle fought near Ghiargevo, the Russians have had the advantage. Other accounts say that the Russian preparations are so far from being complete, that it will be the beginning of May before their armies are in the field in force. The principal theatre of the campaign, it is believed, will be the shores of the Black Sea. A tangible ground for another war with Persia has occurred, if the Emperor Nicholas chooses to avail himself of it. The Rus- sian Minister, M. Gribojidoff, and his suite, have been slain in a popular tumult in Teheran. A quarrel had taken place between some of the Russians and the populace. The Persian mob forced the gates of the Ambassador's house, in spite of the Cossack and Persian guards, some of whom were killed ; and of the whole Rus- sian embassy, only four escaped the carnage. By that refinement in suspicion which marks the writings of some of our newsmakers, it has been hinted that the massacre was got up by Russia for the sake of its political results. ,
