From the Albion.
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 Russia and Persia.-We shall finish this subject by stating the immediate causes of the present war.

 The treaty of Goolistan, left to Comm::- sioners the task of defining accurately the boundaries of the province ceded by Persia {; these Commissioners, ho yever were not ap- pointed for some time, and when at length they did meet, they could not agree. These disputes were not calculated to cement or per petuate the harmony that ought to ensue af- ter long and bloody war. The Persians were the vanquished and bore with an i'll grace the naughty demeanor of their conqnerors. Still the manifest superiority of the Russian arms, and her own internal dissentiOns, con vinced Persia of the necessity of peace. At length all difficulties were supposed to be re- moved. A proposal from the Russian Charge d'Afairs, M. Mozarovitch, was acceded to by the Prince Royal; but when made known to General Yermaloff, he refused to ratify the proposal of his own agent. Another settlement was at length made, and this was rejected by the Shah. This last treaty was made by Fut- teh Alice Khan, and General Yernalolf at Te- Ais in 1925, and every effort was used by the Russian Government of Georgia, to induce the Shah to ratify it, but in vain. At length the Russians cut the matter short, by assuming that the treaty of Futteh Alice Khan was rat flied, and occupied with their troops the lands ccded by this treaty.

 Among these lands was small strip called GOkcheh; barren, and of little worth in itself but invaluable in military point of view, and had long been coveted by YermaIofr It is situated on the lake of that name and had been in the possession of Persia for time i'm memorial. The most strenuous rcmonstances were instantly made to the Russian authori- ties against an act which the Persians consid- cred as an usurpaton with a demand that the lands should be evacuated by the Musco- vite soldiery, during the negotiation at any rate. This, however, was refused, unless Per sia would give up, instead, the lands of Kapan, which were equally Persian property-equal- ly her right and honour to retain, and as e. qually arrogant and unreasonable for Russia to demand.

 A: this time the Mahomedan subjects of the conquered provinces complained of the mis- rule and interference of the Russian authori- ties with their religion, and preferred their complaints to the head of their church, who came forth from the sanctuary of Kerbelace as the protector of the faithful. A religious enthusiasm was now enkinded-the Moolahs inaamed the minds of the people with popu- IdI ndTdI1SueS--MOSqucS became the theatres of political fury, and the Shah was threatened with the curses of all Mahomedans, and eter- nal perdition, unless he immediately took arms in the holy cause.

 To appeasc the fury of this storm, the Shah agreed, that unless Gokcheh-this Malta of the east-was given up, he would declare war against the Russians. With this the Faithful were for the present pacified. The Shah then redoubled his efforts to obtain the possession of Gokcheh but without success.

 The Shah had been induced thus to pledge himself to the Moollahs under the conviction that Russia would abandon so insignificant tract of land rather than bring about another war. The Persian government was well a. ware of the dangerous nature of the Russian power. and none more so than the Shah but he had bound himself to this single point, and hls people, finding that the Russians remained lnexorable, called upon hlm to fulfil his prom lse or resign all hopes of heaven. The Prince Royal. Abbas Mirza, then put his army in motion. But even after the troops had march ed, the Shah would gladly have recalled them and SC led amicably all differences, if Russia would have consented to give up Gokcheh, a place which was really not her own, and which no other power, in the then state of negotia- tiOns, had any right to hut Persia. The Prince passed the Georgia frontier and recaptured several provinces subsequently, he met with two or three severe checks, and was compel led to retreat. What has taken place since IS not known hut we may anticipate further