28 JUNE 1873, Page 1

In Windsor Park on TuesdaY the Shah attended a review

of the Household Troops, with four regiments of Cavalry, four batta- lions of Infantry, and three battalions of Artillery added, 7,000 men in all. The day was fine, the spectacle highly successful, the railway arrangements nothing short of execrable. The Great Western Company took two hours to carry the Houses of Lords and Commons, and an hour and a half to carry the Shah, to Windsor. It is to be wished that Baron Reuter may take a few of the Directors with him to Teheran. The Shah sat on his mysterious and ancient white steed with the flame-coloured tail (evidently a character among horses), for a great part of the time aloof from Princes and Princesses, keenly scrutinising the movements of the troops and totes in illis. It is the fashion to say in our self-depreciatory way that the troops reviewed must have seemed a mere handful to him after Berlin and St.Petersburg. In reality, there were as many men under arms as could be conveniently manceuvred in the space ; and in physique, in drill, in equipment, and armament, they and their horses were, to say the least, not inferior to any he has seen or has yet to see. He seemed to be particularly impressed by the singularly perfect movement of the Light Artillery, and by the picturesque aspect of the H.ighlanders ; and his impassive countenance quite lit up during the skirmishing advance of the Rifles, and the fine concert of cannon and musketry which followed. The number was small, certainly, but the Shah, and perhaps the Czarewitch, may have felt that if put to it, they could give a good account of a considerable horde of Cossacks.