The New York herald., 1870-06-17

The Pers,an shah to visit Europe-The
R' East Drawing Nearer 70 the West. =
The Shah Of Persia or. as bis full title reads
in his native tongue, the Schahynschah, or
'King of Kings, when he recently repaired to
the shores of the Caspian Sea to shake hands
with the military envoy OF Russia, was accom-
panied by suite OF six thousand persons,
comprising guards, adjutants, chamberlains,
high court officials, pages and footmen. They
appeared In all the barbarlc pomp and circum-
stance Of one Of the most ancient and opulent
Oriental Courts, and the impression produced
upon the inhabitants Of the provinces through
which this splendid oortege journeyed revived
some Of the traditions of the earlier days when
the win of the Shah was absolute law and his
anger certain death. Yet Nassr-ed- Din, the
reigning monarch of Persia, il prince Of
thoroughly modern IDEAS, although strict
Mohammedan in faith. He Is still in the very
prime Of life-hls fortieth year-haviny been
born in 1880, and has been nearly twelve
years on the throne, his ascension
dating from September 10, 184S. when
he succeeded his father, Mohammed
Schah, in the supreme control. He is the first
of his dynasty who has ever gone as tourist
beyond the confines Of his own realm, and
should no reaction take place in the views that
he now entertains with regard to modern pro-
gress he is undoubtedly destined to do very
much in that direction for his country.
By our Eastern files and special corres-
pondence from Teheran and Constantinople we
learn that the Shah has already acquainted his
great neighbor, the Sultan Of Turkey, with his
intention to visit Stamboul during the present
month, there to perform his devotions as
regular pilgrim at the tombs of the Moham-
medan saints. Moreover, be proposes to leave
his second son to be educated at Constanti-
nople in not merely the lore Of the East, but in
the Western arts and sciences, not emitting the
modern system of war.
But his Oriental Majesty Nassr-ed-Din pro-
poses also to continue his journey to Italy,
France, the German Courts, Great Britain and
Russia, where he will be received of course,
with all the scyat. due to his distinguished
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ever, it is not in the mere spectacle Of an
Oriental monarch coming to visit what to his
ancient predecessors was barbarian waste,
inhabited by savage tribes, that the chief in
terest Of this event is concentrated but it is in
the astonishing political significance of the
successor Of Cyrus, of Darius, Of Artaxerxes,
of Genghis Khan and of Iskander, doing in-
voluntary homage to. civilization that, in
the wondrous work of time, has eclipsed
the elegant luxury which once made Teheran
the Paris of the Orient and filed the East
with the voluptuous manners that found their
expression in the poesy of FerdousI, of Saadi
and of Hafz, and their stirring record in the
glowing pages of her historians, Wassaf, Mirk-
hond and Kondemir. The Persian tongue is,
in its melodious softness, still the Italian Of all
the Asiatic languages, and to hear it spoken In
its purity in the saloons of European palaces
by royal natives of Iranistan, clad in the rich
costume Of her cline, will be a pregnant won
der of our day. But the thoughtful gaze that
looks away beyond these outward pageantries
beholds other grand results to fow from this
drawing together Of the ties that are to unite
nations 80 remote and so long separated by
mutual ignorance and prejudice. Not merely
that the tissues and machinery, the books and
pictures and carvings of the West are to be
more readily exchanged hereafter for the
exquisite silks and shawls and carpets of Per-
sia, the porphyries Of Sahund, the gems and
gold of Tabrooz, the varied fruits and licorice
of Merdusht, the luscious dates and sparkling
wines Of Shiraz and the unrivalled extracts
and perfumes Of Gul, are we so gratifed to
hear of this imperial mission; but that the
broad light of the new day is now to shine in
upon the recesses Of the East and the way to
be prepared through the mind of an enlightened
ruler for governmental and social reforms
which are to make universal the spirit of the
Gospel and gather all the family of man, at
last, beneath one sheltering banner
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of the organization and workings of the New
York Associated Press. If he has succeeded
in making such dry reading palatable to the
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