The Clerk of the Weather was specially kind, in sending a summer day in winter, to the pretty fete given by Madame Keaetzer, the wife of the Consul-General for France, to the children of thy French Municipal Schvol for Chinese, on Saturday. The gracefulness and elegance of the function enseutially French, and every point the arrangements proved that it owed its inception and direction to the aumd wid hands of a cultivated lady. The steps of the French Consulate, whose dilapidated and dangerous condition is a rare reproaolt to our neighbours, were turned into stage, and from them to the kiosk in the centre of the gardens, an awning decorated with the flags of the re-united nations, China and Feance, was erected. Next the stage was a row of bene'es for the happy occupants of the Scho-l, of whom more than aliundeed were present; behind them being ranged in rows, for the comfort of Mme. Krasizoe's numerous and well-me terested invites, the famous arm chair from the French Municipal Hall, The kiosk itself was turned into a large private box and puget, where the lighter refre ments that Indies love were lavishly dis tributed to the fairer guests; while on a table beneath, the ruder wants of the sterner sex were supplied by an unfailing flow of all the liquids that inebriate as well from the harmless but exhilaratto the equally exhilarating of Scotland. The entertainments began with the appearance one of the beat theatried troupes of the settlement, who, to the accompaniment of a happily chastened erchesten, displayed the touching story, from the history of the Three Kingdoms, of the rebellion of General Chow, the devotion of his daughter, the magnanimity of the Emperor Shun, and the exalted hervism of his empress—at leant, that is what we gathered from a careful attention to the econo, and a hasty perusal of the scarlet programme, which the stern guardian of the gate only distributed to la Ground and lofty tumbling, as ardu it was exciting, followed the more heroic drama; then came a conjuror, and then a distribution, by
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