The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-30


ties. More than q thousand OF these Babls were
DESTROYED and the Shah forced his Ministers to be
| present at their execution as q wholesome warn
| ing to them, for the sect had many suspected ad
herents in high authority.
| NEW PEER.
! Not many people have been gamers by the Ssah's
| visit to Europe, and numbers OF greedy persons
| have been disappointed. The Shah has neither
thrown away his money nor his good word. New
ertheless there are one or two individuals who
| will not 90 unrewarded. Sir Henry kawlinson is
to be made peer, and Mr.. Ronald Thomson, the
| British Secretary Of Legation at Teheran, will have
the Companionship of the Bath. This order has
been SO prostituted that IL is not worth having 1t
| has been given to Court fo0tmen as well as to
brave soldiers and able dpomatists. on one oc-
casiOn, lately, 1t was given to an Ollcial for the
| sole reason that he had Incorporated public
moneys when he was Assistant Under Secretary OF
State at the Foreign once. He had for many years
| driven brisk trade In the sale OF the Queens
| commissions.
| Even peerage Is no longer worth having and
| II Sir Henry Rawhnson were young man he would
not accept 1t, for 1t means political extinction.
But Sir Henry is growing Old now and will, per-
haps, like q cOronet for plaything In his second
| childhood. He Is distinguished man and has
far right to any reward the English Ministry can
oner hin, Tor he is always getting them out OF
J some scrapc or other into which they bunder IN
| the East. He was also the fame-iather OF DR.. Lay
ard IN the Nineveh excavation business, and what
ever reputation Layard has acquired belongs prop
| erlv to Rawlinson. Rawnson was British Envoy
| to Persia some years ago, but threw up the post
when he was required to serve under Mr.. Ham,
mond at the Foreign ONCE and forbidden to make
| presents to the Shah.
| PERSIAN GREED.
| vel hal W. IN hn OOt
out OF the Persian Court without present. and
one Of the English ENJOYS was lately taught this
lesson rather rudely. "Look at that mirror" said
the Prime Minister to him, when lie wanted some
| official thing done-"Look at that mirror on my
wall Look at that musical clockil Look at this
star on my breastll All these things came from
Russia. What did ever get from you ?" It is
needless to add that the British Envoy was dis
missed without his errand.
THE SHAH FATIGUED.
| The Shah went to sleep at the ball given in his
honor at Stafford House, the Duke OF Sutherland's
palace in LOndon-went last of to sleep IN the
middle Of it, and snored. On the second day of his
arrival in Paris, too, he was too tired he said, to
pay official visits, but turned up in the afternoon
at the Invalides and paid good many cOmpli-
ments in broken French to the old soldiers. He
used his 1orenger good deal during this talk, to
| add emphasis to 1t, and poked his finger about on
| o map. He is childishly civil in his manners when
pleased, but has none Of that natural courtesy
which expresses itself in punctuality He kept
| Lord Granville and the Prince and Princess OF
Wales all waiting lor him, and made no apology.
He had been simply lying down and resting him
! SELF
WILL THE VISIT HAVE CONSEQUENCES IN PERSIA
The dress, manners and habits of the Persians
| have not changed for many centuries 1t is too
much to expect that they will alter because Shah,
| acting under the influence OF the Stock Exchange
| and from other causes has made an excursion into
few civilized countries. The people who expected
to make most political capital out OF the Shah's
visit the dipomatists, who thought he would
be much easier to deal with when he what
very petty prince he is when compared with the
big sovereigns The dipoinatists Will probably be
deceived in their calculations for If the Shah has
learned from his journey that Persia is weak, he
has also learned that European ryarles strong;
for instance, that Russia has enough to do to keep
| an attentive eye on Prussia, and that England Is
| in some danger from both OF them. Persian Min
listers, therefore, will threaten less. but they will
intrigue more, and Teheran will become the same
! hOtbed Tor the forcing of diplomatic quarrels as
COnstantnOple has been Tor the last fifty years.
! As for Baron Reuters railways and public works,
| they are no. made yet The railway from Teheran
to Resht appears to have been surveyed, but the
ton. The Persians are sententious, philosophical
people. They do not want to be improved, and
perhaps would not be much better for it, Except in
| famine time, every one can get enough to eat and
| drink, and the Orissa affair showed that no gov
! eminent can make rice or wheat grow II the
ground and the weather Will not have 1t. They
think they are very well they are and they have
! a marked hatred even a contempt for the Franks.
TO talk of representative government and consti-
tutional theories ripening in Persia Is nom
sense. To expect any alteration what
ever either in the government or the
people, is to be more sanguine than wise
| Few barbarc princes have had cause to congratu'
late themselves visit to civilized countries.
Tney usually make some wild and foolish attempts
at impracticable reforms on their return home,
and, finding that they cannot do undo the work
OF ages in week, they fail into state of detection
and nope themselves to death.
The Shah can hardly be described in the most
courtly language as patriot king, and he is by no
means romantic person. Yet it is Impossible not
to feel q certa n pity when one reflects upon the
rude shock his mind must have received when he
discovered that, instead Of being the King OF Kings,
he was merely the first figure in "Reuter's show"
He thought himself the master of the mightiest
army In the world; now he knows, at least,
that his troops are mere awkward squad
OF militia and a raDble of alarmed and
il.mounted horsemen. His capital appeared
in his eyes the wonder Of the wOrd-a city OF fairy
like magnifcence. He will return to see it as 1t
| seems to Others-a disorderly heap Of mud novels,
with here and there some building little better
than barn. a little worse than a stable. His
| horses, which he believed to be the pride Of the
universe, will be revealed to him as what they are
a nerd Of stiff-kneed, yew-necked brutes, without
shape or action; and all his royal state will look
like tinsel alter the spendors of London st. Peters
burg and Paris.
| EFFECT ON THE SHAH.
At this time, however, his suite-rather the
Europeans among it, who are closely watching
him-declare that he Is under species of ntox
cation, and the effect produced on his mind by his