... the Russian Embassy will be as powerful as ever at Con- stantinople. At .the same time we learn by the audacity of the Persian Shah how far the Russian fictions about the war have influenced the barbarous Courts which learn from St. Peters- burg almost ...

... the utmost. The news from the East is full of interesting details. The decapitation of usurper of Herat by order of the Persian Shah is confirmed, and we are told that his own brother-in-law would have suffered the same fate, on the plea of conspiracy ...