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

on the nrst step or the puorc service ne win
never take ir of till he has risen to the
top of it, He will submit to any sights or
humiliation-any amount OF snubDng-and he
will stick on steadily. There Is no shaking him OF
till his chance OF promotion comes, and he rises, by
slow but certain footsteps, higher and higher.
1t may be asked why the Court OF Russia. having
no designs upon British India, should have paid
such extraordinary honors to the Shah. There is,
however, surely not much difficulty in finding an
answer to this question. The Court Of Russia has
merely acted after the natural instincts OF all
courts, which Is to exalt royal and imperial per-
sonages; Tor II shah were 10 be considered or
small account by the lightminded it might also
come to pass that the opinions oil mankind might
some day be modified about a czar At present,
also, Russia has no desire Tor foreign conquest.
70 annex Persia would bring her into immediate
collision with England; and under these circum-
stances she would rather have friendly neighbour
on her Circassian frontier than not. The honora
paid to the Shah in Russia have no deeper cause
than this.
GERMANY AND THE SHAH.
Germany received him well, because In Germany,
as in Russia, the Court is all powerful and very
naturally considers that is desirable to inculcatd
a taste for sOveregns. Germany, however, has no
real interest In Persia Now and then she sends out
u lew learned men to go about digging and reading
they have done so they return to Berlin and write
book which nobody reads. Austria does very
much the same,
THE ATTITUDE OF FRANCE TOWARDS PERSIA.
France, however, has always been very busy il
the East though she has hitherto reaped but small
advantage from her meddling She has constantly
kept an envoy at Teheran, though he had nothing
to DO there but make money, which he sometimes
did in very queer WAYS. Napoleon the First made
q tremendous fuss there; ana 1t was put down BY
Sir John Malcolm with such energy that the de-
lighted Persans OF the period were paid more than
a hundred thousand pounds by the Indian General,
and the French probably paid them as much more.
1t is all over now. Baron Pnchon and the Count
de GObineau are usually understood to have lost
nothing by their missions; but they neither had
nor sought to have any political influence. The
enthusiasm shown for the Shah in Paris simply
| proves how extremely shallow Is republican
| feeling in France Marshal MacMahon, who Is .
egitimlst was very glad to observe this and paid
such honors as he could to the Aslatic potentate
| with willing mind. But the Shah himself was by
| no. means pleased with the present aspect OF
French affairs. He learned with astonishmenr,
and something like terror in his looks, that this
excitable people, since 17S9-that Is to say IN less
| than ninety yearS-have beheaded king.
allowed one sovereign Napoleon l., to be dethrOned,
and upset three Invertebrates X, Louis Philippe
and Napoleon III.-for reasons which to him, the
Shah, were incomprehenslble that they have,
moreover, changed their form of government
| fifteen times; that they have set up and
Knocked down three republics, and THAI
they believe in nothing but the music of
| NJ. Ofenbach. The effect of this announcements
on the Shan's mind was extremely disquietng. He
found the French people curious ana given to joke
about him, but by no means reverentia. They
pretended to cOnfOupd him with q strange species
of tom cat and danced and shouted ~ ia e chatr'
when he went abroad among them. There was
none OF the cringng and hattery, none OF the
solemn bowng down to him which he had OBJ
served with such complacency In Russia, Prussia
and England. The comic papers, too, which de-
light the Partisan public turned him into ridicule
| and told immoral anecdotes about the emotions
| his diamonds excite In female French breasts.
| E. c. GRANVILLE MURRAY.