... I y would be deferred pending their arrival. THE RUSSIAN LOAN TO PERSIA. £-\fT BRODRICOE told Mr Macneill that the i Persian Government did not, in July, send this I 'Government a precis of Russian proposals in re- >, gard to the Persian loan conversion ...

... are too iniportant to be3 allowved to -a 'eeape notice. N!ominally the agrectoent has been el concluded betwvt-en the Persian Government and a B privawte institution, hut from the terms ?? die con- iract, as wvell as from the circumstances c~inch attendedl ...

... planation, the market, perhaps not unnaturally,|t 3coninects the movement writh the recent notifica- finin that the Persian Government loan of half l |a million is to be p~aid off, thocugh it is to be| ij observed that thec redemnption of this loan wiltl ...

... the South led of Persia. Moreover, the Russian Government icr is said to have entered into pourparlers with ice the Persian Government to have the strength j of- the Cossack forces now in Persia increased, ugand if these negotiations succeed their number ...

... th lichisni a control over the Customr-Houses. the t' ce- rev-noes of which form the security of the loan. tr ve The Persian Government engages to extinguish t, hea all its previous external obligations with part of H ;ir the proceeds of the loan, and ...

... MTajesty's| h - Govermment are fully alive to the desirabibity Ia of maintaining British interests in Porsia; but T I the Persian Government has not hitherto hie .deemed it advisable to recognise spheres of ag interest of any foreign Powzers in that countr ...