NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TillShah has been the amusement of London for the week. s he was royally entertained in Russia, it was thought wise to entertain him royally here ; and he has been received -with a splendour and an effusiveness not always displayed to regal visitors. The whole Court has put itself to trouble for him ; millionaires like the Rothschilds and the Sassoons have expended thousands on entertainments, and London has made itself gay with flags and painted sentences from Hafiz. The visit will help to foster a new and laudable fancy of the rich, the use of flowers in glorious profusion as decorations. The Opera House on Tuesday, for example, was like a garden, and the wealth of roses which is the specialty of this summer has been utilised to the utmost. The multitude has been languid, but civil and amused, and the Press was laudatory to a degree, till unluckily itinffered from the visit. The Strand was shut -on Wednesday for two hours to let the Shah pass to the Guildhall, and this at a moment when to stop the traffic is to :inflict a fine oil the evening papers. That was too ranch; the varnish vanished, and _journalists discovered with laughable unanimity that the King of Kings was a "Coffee-Coloured barbarian" after all.
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