... Euro- pean powers, he was not supported by Russia in his efforts, Advices were sent by the governor of Astrakhan of the Persian Shah's intention, and hints were thrown out to the Russian Court by their merchants in other countries, that the Shah was not ...

... 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 ...

... that a Deh-bashi (serjeant) of Jezailchis ' with a dozen men who had been out foraging, or on piquet, when the army of the Persian Shah was campaigning against the Turkomans near Merv, lost their way on their return to the army, and spent the night in the ...

... brought to him that his presence was imperatively required at home—one of his lively brothers was once more in arms, or the Persian Shah, taking advantage of his absence, was besieging Candahar. On two occasions he did contrive to get as far South as Lahore ...

... the probability of a war with Russia ; and laid down the doctrine that every future aggression of the latter against the Persian Shah was to be regarded in the light of a hostile demonstration against our Indian possessions. And how was the engagement ...

... been the habitat of wild Tarkoman tribes, and has sunk from the condition of a flourishing city to a wretched village. The Persian Shah still claims it as Persian territory. Bokhara is still nominally independent, and the Russians have never interfered in ...

... type of the English snob in general. The bellowing, servile, huzzaing crowds of Englishmen who surrounded the barbarous Persian .Shah, worshipping bis diamonds, unheodful the oppressed millions from whose misery their price had been wrung—the Englishmen ...