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Water. 2™ Lal FromCaxcurra, we have further accounts of the festivities attendant on the Duke of Edinburgh's visit. H.R.H. was invested with the "Star of India" on the 30th Dec. The Daily Press correspondent says for Calcutta, where people drive about the "Thia was a magnificent spectacle, even
public roads attired in the most gorgeous Taiment. Among other imposing effects were about seventy elephants, forming an alloy outside Government House, which knelt while the Duke and the Viceroy pasted, saluting them with their trunks." [the the large Durbar Tent was of the imposing description; and, as observed by the sprightly writer in the English man's Weekly, to attempt to describe the coup @ail would even task the facile pen of Humell. The gay. dresses and sparkling gems of the native Chiefs, the brilliant uniforms of the Staff, and the large body of officers, both Naval and Military—the Judges in their robes of scarlet—the Knights of the Order in their rich cloaks, with their attendant, esquires, pages, and banners—and with the guards of honowr—the trumpeters—and the general public as Spectacle. which one would often wish to back-ground—the whole thing formed a
call." A gorgeous fancy Ball has also een held at Government House; and the board the Galatea, which was moored head Prince has given a magnificent' Ball on
and atom, about 50 yards from the shore, with a broad gangway from the ship.
The Commissioner of Customs at Kru-KIANG writes:—"On the Ist of Oct. when my last report was written, the river—then gradually receding—was still a foot above its highest last year. For more than a month thereafter the fall was at a slow rate; from about the 10th of Novemder itiucreased in rapidity, so that towards rheend of that month its rate was 5 and 6 inches daily and in one case 14, and from 8 012 inches in the first half of December, at which time the maximum seems to have been reached. The water snow nearly two feet below last year's lowest, and is still Tustructious were cent from the British Foreign Office to China, embodying the above three points. OF course the Englishmen in China were farious. They felt exactly as the slaveholders did when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Mr. Lincoln, and they were more bitter than they bad been against the trouty with the United States. That treaty it will be remembered, was assailed by them with a vehemence unparalleled, and they were joined, said, by the few citizens of the United States in the Celestial Evopire, headed by our then Ross Browne. It was the old other. Of ti are English, allegiance. patterning sation of Southern borpitality ton.
The treaty nego fed by Mr. Burliny with the United States sive pretensions. It is a broad on the purt of the United States of the right of the Chineee to the complete jurisdiction vf their own affaire and to be treated exactly like atier independent nations. More thaw that, it gives pro tection to the Chinese now in Cal-forum and to countless thousands more who will sprend their peaceful industry over our country. The Bur-Hingume treaty with the United States was first formal recognition of the right of " Eh man at borneand abroad, and that treats, coupled with the more recent action of the British Government. is a check to aggressive action in Chins. Tt is for thnt, and because it does et the English and other foreign merchants China make money without hindrance, that it has been assailed by them, and by their petted guest, Mr. Browne. They assert that the Chinese, being heathen, need protection, and they wish that protection to be exercised for their benefit, In France the missionary question presented itself. Jost at the French Ministry and Mr. Burlingame bad reached an accord on the basis of action: in the United States and England, He is He se An aye 30.42
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