Show the shah shall of persia among the many notables whose presence is expected at the opening 9 of the vienna exhibition not the least least interesting to europeans Epro will be be the shah of persia commonly known as ea ed een deen but whose real name on the authority bf at mr e eastwick is kajar kajan tp to most persons persons eastern personages and affairs are anvel enveloped sped in a sort of traditional haziness not vidt Aidt without hout bout a certain charm chann the london londo ri times speaks of 04 jewels in the possession of the shah valued i at two iwo or three millions sterling and alid which have never been beeri seen by any european thia this is not corret correct mr eastwick formerly in the diplomatic service service has bas seen them and has hag given an account of them in the second volume of the th 8 journal of a diplomat and estimates their value at or this is no ho doubt by far the valuable collection C of precious pi stones in existence among these is the tiie darya a a kur nur the sister jewel jevel to the tile fatuous kuh a nur which 1 according to tradition was with if it in the hilt of the sword of years before christ rus nus tam took it to persia gimour carried it away and nadir shah recovered it itchen when he conquered the great mogul took delhi and carried away its treasures the casket casto of ot jewels of the mogul I 1 to g hii ill was w ast tai ken to meshed by nadir shah and continued in the possession of his descendants till aga mahomet Ara homet the founder foit fott noen noer of the dynasty of which amz the present shah is the fourth overthrew the reigning monarch and carried off his treasure to td teheran it is not improbable that some of the most famous jewels of antiquity are inthis in this collection and arid among them the sacred gems that once adorned the breastplate breast plate piato of the jewish high priest the present dynasty s not persian lanout but turkish descended from the bajars a tribe of turks whom gimour transplanted for their loyalty to his liis person penson from syria to persian armenia under subsequent I 1 monarchs they obtained the ach rich district around Aster abad in the tho southeastern extremity odthe of the caspian sea bea where they remained vassals of the tho house of soph sophi I 1 till tile the death khan in 1779 MO in the civil wars which followed aga mall Wali mahomet omet played his part so well that he attained the crown a few years before the close of the I 1 mhd present shah is about forty fotr fourbears years of age i well educated speaks arabic Per por persian french ana and ani english t lish ease M and is endeavoring to bring g 1 hi his s hd kingdom n 9 into sympathy with the tho states system of europe he tife left Teh toh teheran erith a few dais this since was conveyed eyed across the caspian by a it russian escort hil hll has byth bathis Is time landed in russia russi ardd arid will iii ill proceed by train to st petersburg where he will be bo the guest of the czar till the opening of the exposition after spending some weeks at vienna he will proceed as the guest of the british queen he will doubtless bufete d at both courts and perhaps subsidized by one or both ere he hb returns it may interest the curious to know the titles of the shah of per are studiously regarded mail maii in ail all treaties and conventions to which becomes a party in these he ii is introduced as the shah as exalted as the planet saturn the sovereign to hom the sun serves ag asa il i standard tan dard whose liose w splendor and m magnificence ign are equal va ito to those of theokles thes kie kle the sublime sovereign the tho Monarch whose armies are aa as adm numerous alious gilous as the stars stabs whose greatness na calls WIs tomina that whose magnificence f that of oi darius darlus the heir of the crown and throne of the Kay anians the su blime emperor of all persia the mh shah yu shah ebah concession was lately granted iphron to Baron voni vori reuter renter by the shah fa for the construction of telegraphs and abid rall rail railways ways within the imperial dominions which wili eh will bring persia into diore intimate relation with western power powers sr this is ve we bli bil believe belleve eike eive the first time a monarch of his dynasty has hag ever visited europe V 0 fild courier journal itra imn it rt i |