The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-24
REUTERS Shah.
Stree Lance" Calls Away All
Boarders.
The SHAH IN FASHION.
Reuterizing Persia and Persianzilg
Western Capitalists.
A PEN STEPPED IN IRONY.
stalk Not of the Rarity of
Christian Charity"
The Visit of the Persian
Prince to England.
The Depth and Sincerity of English
Republicanism.
Has the Shah Impressed" or Has He
Been impressed"
TIE LAST HERALD TOURNAMENT.
The Visit of the Persian
Prince to England.
The Depth and Sincerity of English
Republicanism.
Has the Shah Impressed" or Has He
Been impressed"
THE DEAD AND WOUNDED.


LONDON, July 8, 1873.
Qand le chat Shah est pGrti les sours Ges houris)
danse'A. He has gone, and, metaphorically. am
dancing. saw .'the ilustrious guest from the
East" on this morning. 1t required thirteen state
carriages. no end of Life and Horse Guards, one
trumpeter, arrayed in gold CLOTH mounted ofncers
in red, antically rushing up and down the cleared
passage between Buckingham Palace and Victoria
Station, the Prince OF Wales, the Duke OF Edin-
burgh, Prince Arthur and numberless ordinary
people !oget "the stranger within our gates safely
slowed on board an express train for Portsmouth
to accommodate which every other train was kept
back for several hours much to the delight OF free
born Britons. saw the 'King OF Kingsn of by
accident. Like glory, he was thrust upon me- and
1t did me good to behold crowds OF people lining
the way, shouting, cheering waving handker-
chiefs and hats, as small looking
colored man. in an open landau, passed rapidly
by. "What are you cheering fors" asked red
laced man In a thread-bare coat.
"Why, because it's the Shah"
'.And who's the Shah?"
'Blessed if know; but he's got lot OF dia-
monds.n
How battered the Shah ought to be- The red
faced man represented
NINE-TENTHS OF THE PUBLIC,
and the Observer cOnfesses, in lengthy leader
that ''the Shah OF Persia was cheered by large
number OF people who have not the faintest con-
ception where his kingdom is and by an immensely
larger number who have very indistinct notions OF
the relation OF Persia to our Indian possessions.
We fear that If the persons who received
the Shah had been strictly limited to those who
had clear ideas on the above subjects his welcome
would have been as tame as 1t was enthusiastic.n
The Observer never told more truth in lever words.
What think you, then, of the sublime hypocrisy
exhaling from all the Illuminated bound-in velvet
mounted-in-gold addresses that have been hung ut
the Shah's head by the portly mayors of every
town he visited and several towns he didn'ts
1--WE approach Your Majesty" said the Man.
chesterians, ''with profound respect, to express
the deep feelings which we, in common with all
classes OF our fellow countrymen, experience at
the presence OF Your Majesty in this country" &C.
And the rest were like unto Manchester. His
Majesty has so often been assured OF his SEN
lightened and liberal policy" consisting so far as
can learn, in having endowed Persia with a
national debt and himself with all the treasures OF
q starving people, that he ought to go home thor
Uughly convinced of his own superiority over all
the rest of creation.
I am very glad the Shah has gone, because he
was becoming
FRIGHTFUI BORE.
He would not have gone for another fortnight
could he have had his own despotic way, for Eng
fish sights and English applause pleased his ORR
entail eyes and ears. But his visit and welcome
were worn out, likewise the furniture and carpets
OF the rooms occupied by him and his suite at Buck
tngham Palace. Such renovation and purifca-
zion as the palace must undergo before being hao-
tablet 1t speaks well for the manners and GUS
toms OF the King OF Kings. or course truth OF
this sort never gets into the papers, because the
fiction Of royal dignity must be preserved; but
think what capital would be made out OF 1t all
were the dirt republican instead Of imperial
have never felt so kindly towards Congressional
expectOraton as have since the advent OF Per-
sa's monarch. Tobacco chewing is compatible
with sponges, water and clean linen. Not so the
aromatic atmosphere surrounding the successor OF
Xerxes who sent q million Of men to conquer
Greece; OF Cyrus, armed by whose decree Nehe-
miah went forth to rebuild the Temple at Jerusa-
lem; OF Ahasuerus, who married Esther, the Jew
ish maiden. If Ruskin be right In assuming dirt
to be an element of the picturesque the Shah is
the most picturesque OF objects. l viii
not compare HIM with other objects, because in
this case comparisons would be odorous "If am
not the rose, at least have lived near it, rose
by any other name (Shah, for example) would
smell as sweet.
am glad the King Of Kings has gone before dis
seminating cholera or plague; but / am equally
glad that he came, and for this The last SEN
sation London had was in February, 1872, on the
occasion Of the state visit to St. Paus Cathedral to
return thanks to Almighty God for the recovery OF
the Prince OF Wales. The town turned itself in.
side out. The route of the procession was alive
with humanity, and royalists exultingly ex-
claimed, ''Behold political demonstration See
how the Prince is loved Note how ingrained Is
lovaItv tn the rOval familvf Mark
THE death OF REPUBLIcANIsxi
Who dare say hereafter that we are not united
people ?" Wen, the same multitude that con-
gregated to see the religious show welcomed
With similar enthusiasm the Persian Prince. One
prince u as dear to the peoples eyes the other
How enlightened was the Shah's reception the
Observer has explained. Considering that repub-
iican clubs have greatly increased and the agricul-
tural strike has been born since the Prince OF
Wales miraculous recovery, may we not conclude
that equal intelligence pervaded the greeting
given to England's future Kingf The red-faced
man did not know why he shouted for the Shah
Other red-faced men did not know why they
Shouted for the Prince OF Wales. 1t IL dreadful,
but nevertheless true. Howling IL catching. 1t Ia
merely the victim OF an insidious disease. In the
mad days OF the princely typhoid there were those
who dared TO assert that London was curious and
would swarm to see any spectacle. Those icono-
clasts can now turn to the Observer for support.
s'h, argues this most respectable Sunday organ
sff the English people like shows and II shows are
part OF the English constitution we should be un-
~asnto neglect the lesaou which may he LEANED