text: " On the dignified bearing and self-possession of our youthful sovereign the Khan enlarges in the strain of eulogy which might be expected from one to whom the sight of the ensigns of sovereignty borne by a female hand was in itself an almost inconceivable novelty declaring that "the justice and virtues of her Majesty have obliterated the name of Nushirvan from the face of the earth!" But the remarks of the simple-minded Parsees on the same subject will be found from their honest sincerity we suspect more germane to the matter--"We saw in an instant that she was fitted by nature for and intended to be a queen; we saw a native nobility about her which induced us to believe that she could though meek and amiable be firm and decisive; 