... relations between Great Britain and Persia, with a slight sketch of its present and prospec- tive advantages. In the year 1661, it was thought so desirable to establish immediate cominercia] relations with Persia, that Queen Elizabeth sent out her ambassador ...

... course.n cord, ~ason ti This PERSIA. its The following additional intelligence respecting the cc to recent attempt against the Shah of Persia has reached ther, us vid Constantinople, from Teheran, the capital of id in Persia, to the 24th of August, and ...

... inclined for war as ever. reg wint sidi PERSIA. Aysi A letter from Constantinople (says the Conotittitton 1lc) mo gives fresh details of the attempted assassination of the Shah on of Persia. There has existed in Persia for the last three or ord four years ...

... additional inspector of nuisances was appointed. The forn 7rad uchs f the waterworks wast mooted, acid it is pro- the tat de' bab they will pass into the hands of the board. The sur- east Ifinita veyor was directed to prepare plans and an estimate for T ...

... certain infortoation of the alliance of Persia with Rustsia, said of the advance of a Persian armiy against a the Turkish Pashelic of Bagdad. The armly that bad beeit 1 -collected in thea norib-cest of Persia fec the putrpose (as it wee r, aupposed) ...

... fallen. app, aid havi THE WAR IN ASIA. 1 Ti the The Russian outposts have again interrupted eommu- cert styl. nications with Persia. The Russian general, Andronikoff, anti hew with a superior force, has fortified himself at Arjugketi. The first a The condition ...

... the catastrophe, with- app is out- further evidence, to aulpable conduct onrow 30 the part of their superiors, eithler in Persia or at deb g home,--would be eminently unjust, and we. wish~ the ~e distinctly to guard ourselves againfst ibeing under' abc ...

... would tt not be recognised by the European ?? Con. w stantinople has also come a rumour to 'the effecb that ti Turkey and Persia leave been on the brink of a. complete A ruLpture, and teat it weas to prevent this, and to re-kcnit the almost severed thread ...

... FOUI=DSR OF BABsx.-Mirza AiHAahom. met is a Persian religious reformer, the original Bab, a the founder of BAbism, of which moat people in Englart have at least heard the name. BAb means gate-the door or gate of life; and in the ferment which now Works in the ...

... retain his recent conquest. t If Abdurrahman wins lie should have no difficulty d& in driving Ayoob across the frontier into Persia, bat if he loses a battle at Kelat, he will never be able g to maintain himself at Cabul, and will have no resource but to ...