Tt appears from all accounts that the Princes had a very enjoyable trip up country, and met with a fair amount of sport. They were as fortunate in the weather as could be expected, taking into consideration the extreme uncertainty in matters meteorological that has prevailed of late, and returned about half-past seven on Friday evening in time for dinner at the British Consulate, where they remained as guests during their sojourn in Shanghai. The party invited to meet their Royal Highnesses included Captain Lord Charles Scott, R.N., Captain Stephenson, Captain Long, R.N., Rev. Mr. Dalton, Court Magistrate, Mo, the Chehsien, and the Sub-prefect. These gentlemen, we regret to say, were so unfortunate as to call while the Princes were out walk. ing, and so failed to seo them. Tt appears that on the Saturday previous the Tao-t'ai had signified his desire to invite their Royal Highnesses to tiffin. Through some irregularity, however, or misunderstand it 8 not possible for the invitation to be accepted.
appears that the non-camphanes of the Pi ith the Pao-t'ai's request to tifin wit 1s based upon His Honour's omission all upon their Royal High-esses' ollicer, Admiral Earl Clan-y any visits of courtesy of the Detached ron, At Gest we werevunder the imthat the soleeism was the result of ant rank of Navy was We tind, hower, that the omission was intentional more, that it is not the first time that has been offered by the to foreigners of high pos himself, omitted to exh upon Sir Thomas Waile ducing the Minister's recent visit to Shanghai, althonsh Sir Thomas had gone far as to send his card to the Tao-t'ai in the first instance.
According to Treaty stipulations, with a Consul, ora Vic-Consul in eh riy assumption equality with a Minister Plenipotentiary, therefore. is entirely out of place. When Highnesses at tiffin, he posted off there and then to call upon the Admiral; but it was then too late to retrieve the error. We may add that all the ments incident tu the proposed banquet bad been made not by the Tao-t'ai, but by the worthy magistrate of the Mixed Court. The consequence of all this was that only three foreign gentle. me down to a dinner that had been prepared for eight times the number, als did not even succeed in their Royal Hizhnesses at all. The ited to meet the Princes at dinner Louis of Batt Minister and Madame Callado, His Exeoly the Etalian Minister and Madame di Acting Chief-
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