The extremely interesting latter that we publish elsewhere from a Persian correspondent is of value in that it enables the view taken by enlightened Persians of the policy of the Powers principally concerned in that country to be understood. Or correspondent, we believe, fal's into an error when he assumes, with certain European papers, that protest precedes partition. A rejaveoated Persia, capable of preserving order and of urging the country along the path of progress with the minimum of foreign sid, would, we are convinced, be more acceptable to Great Britain than a Persia distracted by the 1 peace. that law has become lawless, bat that what we have known as lew has become subjected to some higher law. The appearance of the rainbow in the cloud is not the exception that proves the rale of nature's constancy, but the example of the role, attracting attention by its inherent and striking beauty. Now relation to this onfsiliog coney of nature is worthy of our ly. In one sense man seems a mere pectater, to whom natare is extremely indifferent, Man may be merry or be may be sad, he may be good or he may be evil, but natare goes her course, "He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendcth rain on just and on the unlost." Ten thousand glow, for all th Tess oer more. The {lower wastes ite beauty in the desert and dies without regret, apparently content, Nature has her appointed laws and does not care what we men may say or think about Shanghsi a Persian subject is able and {hon willing to take up the gage on behalf of his country bears out the belief we io our former reference to Yet man is not altogether the epectefor, be is the servant, the bond-servant me laws. His generation, death are all subject to laws,
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