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Show A 'ice (iauie, or a Greftl Hoax. . A l.ond)iu correspondent publishes a ?lorv of a con-piracy to rob the Shah of IVrsia of his jewels. Aeconl-ing Aeconl-ing to the story, which sounds, very apochryphal, the parties to the p'.ot were four peins: Col. Algr-rnon. lliguor Hawkins, lender of th- party ! aiul organizer of the eonspir.iev; Ser-allino. Ser-allino. I his other name is iv ,i known a Jew diamond broker of Marseilles, but formerly of Salonica f .md Baixni Naies Migraditch Dad;.;in( formerly serall'or money lender of Aleppo, but lately of I.ondon and p:iris, and said to be connected with the eminent Oz-lon Oz-lon Uadian family v ,-hk'li so long has managed the linar.ces of the Sublime I'orte. The four'.h and last was Toby Springs. a tirs'r hiss burglar and safe-blower. safe-blower. ThepUa does nolajipear to have been ?o c iabomte a one as might be expected from such a combination of talented r.iscals, and was discovered discover-ed through the indiseretion of J arses, who, elalrd at the prospect of success, suc-cess, got drunk on opium, and was followed by the police to the rendezvous rendez-vous of the. conspirators. The result was the capture of Toby Springs and Sera flint), wbilp Hawkins cleaned and Nr.rses considerately ran into the i .iver and drowned. The heaviest burden of the cheat fell upon poor Gen. Hadgi Uaehell Alledin, who has been permanently disgraeetl, and will be sent home to Persia by the steamer of the Peninsula Penin-sula and Oriental line. |