... The story may be not well foupded, but improbably bau fti it the’elements of truth. . To continue the narrative. The Persian Government finding Russia pressing, paid off their little indebtedness to the bank, and expressed, with the usual politeness of ...

... short of it would be criminal—not much harm will be done. Russia stands in the place of money-lender-in-chief to-the Persian Government, Behind the Loan Bank, practically bankrupt not so long since, is the Bank of St. Petersburg, and behind that institution ...