Alliance with the Shah is now most important, and it
is probably a rumour that such alliance has been completed that makes the Russians so angry. The Mir tells "proud Albion "that her reception of the Shah is all selfish ; that he cannot forget how his ancient dependencies, Khorassan, Afghanistan, and Reloothistan have been torn from him by English intrigue—we have not a yard in any of the countries named—that he must not forget how the English tiger provoked the sanguinary drama oi the Mahratta war,—which was entirely unexpected ;—the Mysore tragedy,—which frightened us, and has led to a perhaps impolitic restitution ;—and the Mutiny itself, which we stirred up to plunder Indian Princes,—who were made much stronger by our subsequent change of policy. The English are more terrible to The Persians as friends than enemies ; while Russia, even as an enemy, is always a true friend. For all which sins M. de Lesseps is to punish us by making some tremendous railway. Equal inonsense is, we dare say, constantly talked about Russia by Russophobists, but then they have no official sanction, and know something, however little, of geography.
