The Shah has been very hardly worked this week, and
must be looking forward to Thursday, when he starts for Paris, where the municipality have refused to vote anything for his reception, and where, if he dies, he must go unattended to his grave. He could hardly for weariness make up his mind to the enter- tainment offered at the Guildhall, but did go at last, and has since thanked the Lord Mayor and Corporation. The enter- tainment was magnificent, but some blunders were made in etiquette. On Tuesday he visited Woolwich, and admired the new steam-hammer ; and on Wednesday he was superbly entertained by Mr. Goschen at Greenwich, after a voyage which seems to have been the spectacle of the season. The Mercantile Marine, crowding for five miles of unbroken masts, turned out in gala dress to welcome him, every rope ladder had its crowd of welcomers, and it may be doubted if the Shah did not think more of this sight than of the Spithead Review on Monday, said to have been the most striking and successful naval review of this century. Numbers impress the Oriental mind, though it does not, as a rule, sigh for ships, colonies, and commerce. The last over-sea colony founded by an Oriental race seems to have been Java, colonised by Hindoos, whose temples and inscrip- tions still remain.
