... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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* ...