Persia.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 144, 12 May 1900, Page 4

Persia.

It is interesting afc p*esekfc,- wheit|| Persia is- leoming 5 into great J prominences to jfeeall the fact thaft j Britain's connection- %ith it is oM long; standings afed, curiously 1 enough, began -with a friendly act J towards Russia* Ih 1555, the'^i " Russian and Musfeovy Company 'vj had been formed in England tfflf trade in Bussia, m& JPhili'p aud : | Mary induced it to open tip corn-^ nvunication with Teheran. Fouiffi years later, Sis. Anthony Jenkinson! visited Persia as the envoy of Eliza- 1 bethf, and beforfc the end of 1581 nd«fewer than fottf expeditions had^ been despatched by the Muscovy l] Company to Persia. Thomas] Bannister, the leader of the fifth ] expedition, approached the Shar oaS a subject that is attracting much| atteation at th« present time ial both thfl British Empire and- Eussia.4' He a^ked the Shah to help him m) estabiishing an 1 overland route to--Iffdia. Banniste? urged hfe requesiil with' much vigour aad perseverance,^ but, although tk& Shah ldoked od^ the projeet withsonl'e favd\it, hothig sresumed.- A Jater traveller, Sic'l Anthony Shirley, however, returned ,to Ett 6 land soirfd years afterward! with a very tangible concession mi the shape of a permit from th^ Shah' to all Christiad mesekants tdf trade with hfe country. During! the reign d£ Shah Abbas tl, thdl English Government first appeared! in the Persian Gulf, in the character of a protector, one clause in a|i Anglo-Persian agreement,^ wherebi Portugal was expelled from th| Gulf,, being kr the &ffeet thai 'England should keep two men-of| war constantly to defend" the port! of Persia. 11l 1784, the Bussia| Government granted a edncessio^ to Eflglish merciwints tocaTygoodl through Rife9iaJ-tcPand froni Peraiil on payment o£ an did Valorents duty 6-f 3 Jter oent.^ THe Russia! people, however, did not view wit! favour' the 1 pushing and energetic! .strangers, and! the coofcession vim ultimately withdrawn < It was atjj this time that the dismenlbermenf; of Persia begttri, chiefly by th| Czars, ttte cession of Baku ah| Darbend being, followed 1 by ttie lc^ of lafge pieces- 6'f ierritoty 'd different parts» of the Empire 1 . 4