The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-29
The shah Again and Che Persian
Empire.

The shnh Again and Che Pcrsian
Empire.
Seldom indeed has prince been feted as
was the Shah of Persia by England
and France, whatever his puissance or
merits as a man and ruler. He has
not only been Toasted by emperors, queens
and royal families, cheered by populations,
subjected to the freedom of cities in gold
snuff boxes and deafened with municipal ad-
been recorded in the HERALD by some of the
most accomplished writer's in the Eng
lish language This morning Persia,
her monarch, her population, her
resources and industries, her religion
and literature, are laid bare to our readers in
the neat diction of Mr.. Granville Murray,
while MIR. Edmund Yates and Mr.. George w.
Hosmer present in vivid language the extra
ordinary festivities by which Nassr-ed-Din
was RECALLED by the French Republic. Though
the Shah is the chief diamond among all the
literary jewels strung together by our graceful
lihcal Importance reveal to what little pur-
pose State may bow its hospitable head to an
Oriental prince. Yet France was never more
gorgeous in her hospitality to o royal visitor,
and Paris as we read from the graphic letters
Of Mr.. Yates and Mr.. Hosmer, has rarely ap-
peared the Offering blazing capital Of a
population always gay and frivolous in peace
if always cruel and bloodthirsty in war.
Whether at the opera, where Mr.. Yates found
assembled the chief dignitaries of the Repub-
lie, and les grandes danes Of the long hidden
society Of the Bourbon and Orleans factions,
who now come forward to worship a crown,
even if it be so poor head-gear as that which
replaces the black tarbosich of Nassr- Din;
whether it be at the Trocadero, which COM
mands q sweeping view of the Imperial
city, and where our correspondents beheld q
sight which they almost shrink from attempt
ing to describe; whether along the grandest
of avenues in the world--the avenue of the
Champs Elysees whether at Versailles, amid
the dazzling Examinations or in the Bots,
where Mr. Hosmer estimates were assembled
half million of people. The reader can
understand why it is that these festivities have
occupied so largely the attention of the
world. By turning from these memorable
scenes to the letter of Mr.. Grenville
Murray we read for whom and for
what all this has been done. Beginning with
his name, Mr.. Murray tersely summarizes the
history of Persia since Nassr-ed-Din became
its god. He exposes the comparative honesty
of the Prince, the aggregation Of imports and
exports and draws poor exhibit for the lessee
of that stagnant land. Not content with
political and commercial detail, he examines
the social and religious institutions and felicit-
ously describes the Prince of Persian hordes.
In fine, we have Persia in o nutshell-a ma
ton that would not make q respectable State
in the American Union if we throw out the
meaningless numbers of ''souls."
NIAGARA FALLS, resort in which the voice
of nature, in her most sublime aspect, is min
cled with the importunate clamor of swindlins
hackmen and uncomfortable landlords has
found an advocate at last. A correspondent
assures us that oil the talk about Niagara
nuisances is exaggerated He even commends
the fencing of the Falls on the grounds Of the
work being done by joint stock company in
stead of the hotel men and the immunity from
hack drivers enjoyed by the visitors inside
the fence. We fear that the public, especially
those who have been victimized 80 often by
the notorious harpies in that neighborhood,
uiIl not be willing to accept this roseate state