... of Mr. Swinburne, a possible successor to Lord Tennyson in the Poet Laureateship. The Sultan Turkey has 300 wives, the Persian Shah 400, the King 600, and the King of Ashantee 3,000. The Cambrian railways have notified the abolition of second class carriages ...

... last week conferred on Mr. Gibbs, tbe Prince of Wales's tutor. We wish tbe gallant fellows wbo so valiantly daunted tbe Persian Shah in the field and afloat under Oo tram and Leeke success ia itbeir aspirations after ! a badge to denote tbe part tbey took ...

... Petersburg!), Russian force of 50,000 men, commanded by General Bernhoff, waa prepared to march to the support of the Persian Shah. This looks very like renewal of the late war on the European and Aaiatic frontier. Alt preceding accounts must have prepared ...

... doctor. “ It’s use, responded the patient ; “no tongue can tell how 1 feel.” Among tha things ordered recently in Paris the Persian Shah are organ and garden boae. is true Eastern luxury. It is only such monarch who can afford to play organ grinder. With us ...

... the Persians from that citv, indeed the Persians have really occupied it, for knows whether they have or have not ? > the Persian Shah, if he has really occupied Herat, has, no doubt, acted under a promise of Russian support, aud that support was, most pro* ...