The Hawaiian gazette., 1873-09-10

Il cOacnmen cannot 90. DIX royal Carthage
L brought the Shah his suite and the Prince
of England into the railway station of tn
London, Brighton and South Coast rail
, way. Very grand these carriages were
Scarlet picked out with gold, with tn
royal arms emblazoned upon the panels
The coachmen wore scarlet and gold, o
course, for this is the royal livery of Grea
Britain, but the coachmen of the tive
principal carriages which were open were
thick with crimson slashed with gold Sc
were the footmen. So thick with gor
geous covering were these men that one
couldn't detect the crimson for the gold
neither could one see their necks for the
enormous mass of gold cocked-hat'
which set well down over them. These
q funkeys" were moving masses of cloth
of gold. Each carriage in its turn drove
up, and set down its occupants at the
platform. From the principal one stepped
forth the Prince of Wales in a scarlet uni
form of a general with the deep blue rib
bon of the Order of the Garter across his
breast, the Shah with the same order, and
glittering with rubies and diamonds, the
Duke of Edinburgh in the uniform of q
post-captain in the royal navy the Grand
Vizier of Persia in blue frock coat, COW
cred with bullion aud with the light blue
riband of the Grand Cross of the Star of
India across his shoulder The next car
rage set down Prince Arthur in the be-
coming black braided dark green of the
Rifle brigade; his royal highness was ac-
companied by the young Persian princes
and an aide-de-camp. Soon all were busy
upon the platform. The guard had pre-
sented arms, the band had played the Per
sian national anthem, and the colors had
been dropped, and the salute had been
duly acknowledged by the Shah. I'm
mediately the Eastern King left the car
riage he shook hands cordially with the
Duke of Cambridge, and then, reckoning
his Grand Vizier close to his side, he stood
the centre of brilliant group, of which
the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edin-
burgh, the Prince Arthur the Duke of
Can't bridge, were the next principal per-
sonages. His Majesty now began most
emphatically to express his thanks to the
English. He spoke to the Grand Yizier,
the Grand Vizier translated to the Prince
of Wales, and the Prince bowed and bow
ed again; and His Majesty the King of
Kings did likewise. In fact, it was per-
fectly easy to see that the Shah had been
moved by his reception in England. He
didn't exactly understand all that his
Minister was saying to the Prince, but he
understood word here and there, and
when be did he very Enthusiastically showed
that so far as Eastern passiveness of man.
ner went he was an Eastern prince no
longer. There was once more some en-
phatic words of thanks passed. "Guard,
present arms" shouted the officer in COM
mand of the guard of honor; crash re-
sounded the Persian national hymn; the
Shah stepped to his carriage and kissed |
his hand gracefully, and amid the hearty
cheers of the princes and the assembled
people the train glided out of the station
on its way to Portsmouth to embark His
Majesty for Paris.
The Shah has been more than eratifed
by his visit to England He has been
awed, and in this respect the purpose of
England has been served. She desired
to mingle with hospitality the most pro-
fuse succession of exhibitions of her
power. She would not worry her guest
with too many fetes. She would show
him what was worth seeing of State cere-
monies, balls at Buckingham Palace, great
dinners, State visits 10 the opera, and so
on, and with these he should be witness.
also, of what her feet might be capable
If doing, Of the compactness and phys
que of her army, of her vast wealth, the
foundation of her power, and of the mag
litude of her population. In all that
England has done for her late royal guest,
the has unquestionahly done all in her
power to impress him with her own i'm
There was the review at Spit
lead, which, without doubt, was an enor-
nous success, both as an exhibition of ma
al strength as one of the most recent ex-
in naval gunnery and ship-build-
ng. There was the review before the
queen at Windsor, to which the flower
# the army were hidden. There was the
eview of the Royal military at Wool
vich. There the Shah was positively
it seems, and didn't dis
,uise it, at what he saw on the Thames
he acres and acres of shipping; the miles
nd miles of bonded warehouses, and the
locks, so denselY filled with ships from
Il parts of the world, as at the time of
lis visit, to have been almost unnavigahle.
They took him down to Liverpool, and he
rev tired before be had even got so far
S the Cunard dock. He went to Man