27th May, When the Czar visited Moscow, the Mayor's address referred to the restore of the Black Son fleet na tending to strengthen the belief that the Cross would yet shine in the mosque of St. Sophia, The Czut's reply avoided the subject.
The hospitable doors of the British Consulate were thrown open on Monday night by Mr.and Mra, Alabaster to all the beauty, rauk and fashion of shanghai. Thereception was in honour of the birthday of Her most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, and the shanghai of the new British ter, Sir John Walsham, Bart., added eclat to the scene. The whole lower floor of the Covsniate was thrown open to the guests, and the town baud was stationed in the verandah of the official building. The grounds were iMuminated with hundreds of coloured lanterns, a ring of them being hung round the masthead of the Covsular fiagsteff, and looking in th distance like a circle of coloured jewels. All society was there, and among the distinguished guests we noticed the British
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