When Shakespeare put into the moutly of Timon of Athens the pregnant reman: "We needs must dine together," he expressed what has been the inevitable desire of all English associations of whatever kind from that day to this. Convivial or charitable, scientific or recreative mercial or military, English societies of all descriptions have to have a dinner every now and then, although no one knows for certain whether it will be a yood one or abad one, whether the soup will be cold and the wines warm or the happy reverse, whether the obligatory oratory will be more depressing to the speakers or the hearers, and the songs of Apollo turn out actually harsher than the words of Mercury or not. Such fears as these must force themselves on every one who receives an invitation to such a feast as that given by the Shanghai Light Horse, the eyes and ears of the A-C., at the Grand Stand on Saturday thanks'to the care taken by the committee, Capt. Hough, Secretary Gaddum, Corporal Danforth und Porter and Trooper Hart Buck, these gloomy anticipations were none of them realised.—It was a melancholy as well as a festive occasion; for opportunity was taken of the reunion to present a farewell cup to the honorary secretary, Corporal H. E. Gaddum, who is about to sever his connection with the Model Settlement, where his personal qualities have made him so much liked, and his energy has done so much for the small body of Uhlans who toasted hin so heartily, The choice of tha breezy Grand Stand as the lucule of the banquet was appropriate alike to the hippolatry of the hosts and the time of year at which it was held; its distance from the centre of supplies might have been an excuse for shortcomings in the foist itself, but no such excuse was needed, for Sweetmeat Castle, whence it was provided, had left nothing undone to make it a great success. The popular and energetic Captain T. F, Hough presided over some seventy diners, among the guests being the Chairman of the Municipal Council and Civil Conmmandant of the $.V.C., Mr. John Macgregor, Acting Consul for Denmark; General J: D. Kennedy, U.S. Consul-General; Major Morrison, ex and Captain Bright, acting commandant, Captains Bredon and Clarke, Lieutenants Auderson and Dowdall, Private Wedemeyer, Hon. Sec. of the S.V.C., Mr. A. G. Wood, Mr. A. P. Wood, Mr. V: D'O, Wintle, Mr. H. Vinay, Mr. 'B. Dallas, Mr. Kingsmill, &e., &e. 'The menu was well chosen and' so were the liquors, which ranged from Piper Heidsieck to Kirin lagerbier, "rare old blend" whiskey and 1872 brandy. All this was merely the preliminary, the real business ofthe evening—for youn Shanghai takes far more delight in men than in material aliment—was in the speeches and songs that followed the traditional removal of the cloth,"
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