... Executive Government of India, yielding to the pressure of this sort of adviser, has promulgated an edict worthy rather of a Persian Shah than of an English Queen. Mr. Gladstone charitably accounts for the magnificent imperialism of this arbitrary specimen ...

... giving to the Duke of Edinburgh, while she is making railways to render her miatress of Cen- tral Asia ; of the visit of the Persian Shah and • his concession to Baron Reuter ; and of eeveral other matters domestic and foreign. We are, however, wsrned to abstain ...