... Barnksais. Herat was then independent both of Persia and of the rulers of Cabul, but it was coveted by Mahouied Mirza, the Persian Shah. Shah Mahomed required Shah Kamran to acknowledge his suzerainty, and surrender the title of Shah, and on his refusal marched ...

... find the Russian Emperor seated at cards with a Kurdish- looking girl evidently meant for Turkey. Behind him stands the Persian :Shah, and beside him a Prussian of Bismarckian type. The latter, pointing to two soldiers standing on the further side of the ...

... the new perils which have been revealed within the past few days. By a secret treaty concluded between the Czar and the Persian Shah some two years ago, or concar- rertly with the rupture of the Treaty of Paris concerning the Black Sea, Persia has ceded ...

... of the Tincs telegraphs that Mirza 'Malkoin han has been sent to St. Petersburg to announce the arrival in April of the Persian Shah. The Shah will visit St. Petersburg, Berlin, Vienna, London, and Paris, and return home by Constantinople. The Pope received ...