... is Europe the social status of a man may be guessed by his dress or his equipage, in Persia it Is denoted by his pipe. A Persian shah or prince has his pipe covered with richly enamelled plates of gold sant silver and incrusted with gems, such as rubies ...

... rest the title of a Ministry to respect upon such inciients as the reception of an English representative at and of a Persian Shah in London. understand that the Churchwardens of St. -Steps, Exeter, are preparing a presentment th e Rector for ultr ...

... the complaint runs as follows. Three centuries ago a Turkish subject, named Younsur Pasha, appeared at the court of the Persian Shah Abbass the Great, and offered, with his fellow -tribesmen, to migrate to Persia if the Sovereign would grant him suitable ...

... of Frederick the Great, sat the Emperor for hours together, and gave only the most important audiences. The visit of the Persian Shah seemed to draw him out of his lethargy, although it was not agreeable to him. Sad presentiments seemed to disturb the Emperor ...

... their dwellin's, made 600 prisoners, and returned to Te- heran with a great deal of booty. Daoud Khan has been sent by the Persian Shah to Tiflis, to pay his respects to Prince Bariatinsky and present him with the portrait of the Shah, set in a frame of costly ...

... given rest? A curious cause complaint—while the Radicals are pretending that they are hot Pro-Boers. “Le Chat Botte” or Persian Shah will in future be liable to the reputation of housebreaker. When he visited the Sultan such fears were entertained of lurking ...

... article here is a Imagniticent ivory work-box, elaborately carved with net-work. This is said to have been a present fromi a Persian Shah to the Emperor Rodolph II., aid was long preserved in the Reichsschatz, at lienna, but being accidentally broken, the ...

... Harris, himself, the soi-distant major, had been a card-sharper, an actor, a soldier of fortune in the service of the Persian Shah, and finally, an unscrupulous retainer in that of Don Vasco Gonsalez, a Portuguese of great wealth. He, having the advantage ...

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

... her Majesty directed that two milk-white pats, of magnificent Cashmere breed, part of flock pre- to the Queen from the Persian Shah, should be •elected, and immediately offered for the acceptance of this ...

... was proof against temptation. The carpet overpowered him. It was, to his embarrassment, as the beautiful slave whom the Persian Shah offered to the missionary, the tents and pastures left at the service of Dr. VINE, or the White Elephant which so perplexed ...

... grudge to Russia the possession of the Persian deserts, although it would make her a still nearer neighbour. Even now, the Persian Shah is, like the Austrian Cxsar, little more than the vassal of the CZAR; and Khiva, on the high road to Herat, is said to ...