The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-07-05 00:00:00

THE SHAH OF PERSIA.

THE SHAH AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE
On 11nslay morning the Shah of Persia witnessed, In the
grounds of Buceingnam Pelee& miss of exporlments erltl2
some mcgmas end eteapea of the London Fire Brlsste, ander
the Bnponotendence of Captain Stum.

The -heavy rain which set In between four and five o clock on
Monday afternoon did not prevent many thonamad persona
from g dog to the Ci7ssal Pnlace 10 attend the great feta in
honour of RI. Majesty. the Directors of the C•.mpany
had spared no exertions, and had provided • most llueral
programme. By bolt-post six, ths hour at which the Shah,
accompanied by our Princes and by a lame Pereira
and English following, was expeothe to vets., the great
building woe crowde t In the foreground •ers Gouda' bands
to uniform and the bank ot male and tamale singers roes
high rouod the great or ,an. The Mese on the garden aide
of the trenaspt wee fitted up am a gigantic Royal box, op.
preached by • peal lad with • scsrlet cloth. A vast area of
reserved seats waa parcelled out into blocks of various
pries, ranging. according to their Penmen to the li.oy•1
paviboa, from Cve guineas for those does to the dais,
to is for ctairs well it the corner. In this centr•
of the intersection of nave and transept • fountain played,
spouting foamy Jets from • deep bowl of rough stone
At • quarter to .even • distant waving of Wm.:kerchiefs
announced the approach of the Royal party, which trod re]
cloth oetween :Awing wails ci spoctstors till Ii reached the
dale. The Shah waked that, leading the Pinions of Wales,
her Royal Highness wearing • bonnet and dram of pals
blue, and hls Mai tray • uniform coil with much gold
braid upon It. a.,d a diamond-bilged s•ord fasteissl
to a J.v.llee belt that crowed his shoulder Mr.
Thome. Hughes, hIP. chairman of the Board of
Directors, and Ur. Wargo Grove, secretary to the Crystal
Palace Company led the way along the scarlet path, the °ou-
tlet, mask of the bands haying crangod to the Persian Mr.
The Shah and the Mucosa a Waled seated themselves In
two cf the sumptuous chairs of honour, the rest of the
Princes and Princesms filling the semicircle cf •eata on
either hand. On the Sitah• right at the Cewereetta, In
• dress of roeclamy the same fashion as that of the
Princess of Wales, but of a light pink colour. Next
to the Casa:eons sat the Prince f Wit.., In ordinary
morning Limas, ad were all the knahaa ,en—anaen an
Beyond the Prince of Wales the rank or Koyalttea cootineed
on lower seata, the young Prtcee Waclemar of Denmark,
the Duch., of Cammiche, the Dachas of blecklenburg.
Pirellis, the Duke of Edinburgh, and Prince Christian
having chairs Ic. tio order oucre • To the loft
of the Prince, of Wale. set the C esresitch, the
Princess Louise, Princess Mmy of Cambridge, and
the Duke of lack. The 0100 half brother add
one r two of the Per•lan Princes were seated In the
semtdr^le, and rows of chairs extending to right and left
were til.ed by the Peretan 0.1 ing!ish mute and by 1031111
ladies The Grand Valet and ono or two of the high
officers of We Shat, court stood bon hid his chair, and there
was • farther babberoand formed by the gentlemen In wail-
ing on the ddiferent Princes_ lb. Shah acknowledged tow
greetings of tne crowd in Int usual manner, aurreyed it with
hi, opera alsases, and conversed • little with the Princesses
beside him.

nt corm< being over with the arrival of the
R yal party, moan gave pima to gymnastics, and IMMO geo•
tlemen of the German Association exhibited their very
extraordinary streogth end Mull to climbing • thick rope
burg from the centre of the se,h of the :ort, in whirling
honey clubs with ease and pace, and In exercises as
the horrtordal Our The Shah appeared much interested,
and foLowed the climber. up thd down the rope with
hi. gleam. One of the big Mobs wee carried to the dart
and the Shah felt Ite weight, the multitude mean
bin with • cheer, which was redoubled when the
Panama of Wsles lifted the club, and when the Prince of
Wales also toot It up. The performs:cos on the horizontal
her wee succeeded by the stliful feats of the Jap.13.0
troupe, and than Seas, Remelt, "the great Mexican athlete
of the pollen wing, " took some Siena on s tnpeze which
had been rigged up above the orchestra In MI this the
Shah mimed thoroughly intended, but most of all, per.
hart, In the crowd, which he sainted again and again,
especially when • treat shouting arose in the south
nave against people who vould rtand up sad obetreet
their neighbours' view. The gymnaets and jugglers
were accompanied through their performances by the music
of the military heart, Mao by • doleful retrain which never
ceased on the girt. roof overhead. The ruin seemed to get
worse and worse, and It seemed Imprtable that irteworke
could be let off lv much • deltas by eight o'clock Sena
Romah had made his last leap lad tamed • lamer
smut into the netting below, and then the Shah and
the Royal party leis the pavilion and moaned the corridor to
the rear of it, to witness the next act of the enterthinruent,
the ertplay of the great I ductal..
The, were al, as work, and very beautiful the white
water, rising and falling M grouped column, from the
ruziouc basins, woula bart looked In soy other weather But
the fountain, of the shies spoilt the fortitains of the earth,
sod, with a deluge all around. there could be no
fascination In watching the leap and lame of snowy
masses and graceful Jere. The crowd In the Palace broke
up and disported therneelves about the balding, only
• thausand or so of the more Inveterate elekteeers
forming themselves into • phalanx of heroes urider um-
brellas on the stops and armee before the Royal gallery.
From the opera-box in the centre of this the Shah escorts:l
the torintabrt for some time the Majesty wee much cheered
end there were loud calls and cheers sho for the Prince of
Wale.. From half past eight tifi near ten the Road party
were at dinner in the Queen's corridor, and the part palace
wee tilled with etroiling crowds, listening tee the mak of the
bards which were to have played out of doors, or getting
what food they cold at the various places of relrealunent.
At tan o'clock the fireworks begat, and It was Indeed soy-
pristrig that the rain had left so much of them. The vend
eel piece. were spoilt and gone there was no help for that,
for the rain had saddened tie lance-work and wetted the
matches and port Ares. But though the Shati's mosognini,
and the eery picture of Be. Majesty's Teheran Palace of II
Meiden, and the enormous jewelled carted, of golden
Ire" were wanting, these were but a part of the
whole, and there were eplendoors left auffident to
make • very magnificent display. The terrace' sod temples
and fountains were illuminated In red, whits, green, and
amber, the Persian oolongs. " &alert. of Beeldnlnee,'
rockets and roman candles by the thousand, nights of
tecnklhig stars and fiery pigeons, pond mines of mam-
moth shells, the descant of the fiery cosset of the Northern
tower, sad "burst. of web" succeeded each other, clematis
the rain, which awed se the show closed. Magnesium
thefts fleeted the white light of day over Palace mid
Oak. and • thousand Torten candles burnt at Inert
When all the splendours but one had vanished bas
the nabs, there came • pause, and then the meeter-serekee—
• pawl final geranaole" of sixteen hundred rockets et large
size, fired by electricity from the }loyal box by the Artie,
Own hand. This brought the fife to an end ; the beads
played God mare the Queen," his Majesty and the
Princes were conduced to their carriages, sea the Royal
cortege drove sway to London soon Wert half past ten.
Not so arty and e xpeditiort was the departure ot tnegartral
public, who hied to wait ou plait rya for • peerage la
crowded trains, which slowly made their wsy to ram. rho
adadmions to the Pelsce were—by mason Wheat 17,375; 011
payment, 16,771 : total, 3 ,146.

The following interesting sketch.s of Tuesday's pro-
ceedic ;a are from the Dady Mere
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The plan for the day wu St l'anl'• Cathedral, at on.
o'clock or thereabout.; the Bank at half-pue one, ditto;
and the Tower at half-past two, ditto. Arreagements,
am complete as could be effected under the short Notices,
were made, sad the proper officials at each plan,
were ready, with true lagliah punctuality, to offer
biting honours to the expected ante& The Shah at the
very last moment however reversed the order of his
rine, and away went the caulager slung the Thom.'
Lmbankment and,Cannoe street direr for the Tower. Through
the open windows of the closed carriage the farther has
of the lanyal observer of mein and things wee seen and a
posse of running footmen, men and boys, such r the Stab
haa hover Lad before, accompanied his progrer sad en-
noriLced him approach. . . .

VISIT TO THE TOWER OF LONDON.
The Sh..h of Persil went to the Tower quietly, was received
quietly, coo left qu'ely. The vene:able Constable of the
lower, Field-liar Mal Sir WIlli•m o.lllm, and the Lieu-
tenant. Governor, Lord Da !toe, came out to receive him, and
the Col.:streams on eury were drawn up as an (Inv:ached
gnsrd of honour The Shah seemed to have journeyed
eastward on purpose to visit the room where tne Crown
Jewels are kept, and was much disappointed when he
found that the famous Koh-l-uoor, of which he is
to pomess an mid spilnier, we. not in the collection.
The weather was lockily as different from that ef the
petit uL.ht se his Majesty's diamonds are from the pasts
baubles which feebly imitate them, and the gnm old lower
lo,.erd se bright as it ever can be expected to appear. The
White Tower was particularly white, and if the Shah should
happen to be of a sceptical nature, he =loin have bamdtated
before accepting without question the antiguny of our eraat
historical citadel. The time occupied by the Slseh from the
moment he entered by the Mulls Tower to matting
foot within the Jewel House was too brief to admit of
hit reception of full details touching the Byword
Tower, the celebrated Trances' Gate, the
Tower, the Well Tower, the boa Gate Tower, the Whale

Tower, or the twillke intoner toner which an within the
boundaries of the wonderful old endow.. Perkaps he
knew beforehand that the jewels ot the Crown sted to be
kept In the Martin Tower, where the name of Anna Boleyn
I. still shown to vita..n inscribed imoh the wall, although It
Is shrewd', inipected by the critical that that unfortunate
lady, If the could have the opportunity, would strongly re-
paint, the authorship Although the Crown Jewett have
t ,Maa a reettocpla. In the Tower for hard upon 700 years,
they have ahll'ol from time to time, until they ware finally
Inetalled in 1812 In the room tryst present occupy. The shah
grander them seruerly. He sated gnarl°. respecting
the Queen'. Crown with In cap of purple velvet, silver hoops
diamonds, tapphlre, end the heart-shaped ruby, on. worn,
If tniditlon Beth not, by the Black Prince : rearoUng St
?Award's crown of gold, remands rubles, emerslde,
end sapphire. ; 'erecting the plain pure gold crown of the
Prlnenflof Mal., the anclenitueen • Cretan Oalld at CarOaa-
am forth.
t for. Queen C t dtamood end pearietadded
crown made tor Jam., the Seennere Qammt St Idererd's
Staff, the Royal Sceptre, the Rod of liquify, the Queen's end
other Sceptres the Solution Sword of Mercy, the Swordi
Temporal end Cociersatical, the coronation paraphernalia,
sad the hernias' font and other articim used at the
clulatening of the Rood chlld.e. It yam hoped the rah
would visit the Aratool7, and re eomethhag of the prison
exPerlencen through which the Tower re pared In thine
goal old times when It was something more than the peace
ha show It is now, but he was not to be enticed, and to,
thanking the Constable and lientenent•Governor for then
runny. he took Ida departure. By this time a crowd had
reembled on Tower Hill, and at the carriesar drove op the
steep, hats were thr-wn into the air, and the Shah was loud*
cheered