th has got through a good round of festivities and sight-seeing this week. He has visited Woolwich Arsenal and has seen the Maxim-Nordenfeldt guns at practice as Eynesford, he has been feted by the London Chamber of Commerce at Fishmongers' Hall and by the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank (with Mr. Ewen Cameron in the chair) at the Crystal Palace. He has impressed every one with the thoroughly practical and intelligent interest he takes in everything sees, and by the pertinent. if Tord Lei sometimes embarrassing questions which he asks. As I noted last week, he is not so lavishly feted as he was in Paris but there is plenty of evidence that he is none the less impressed with the cordiality of his reception and with the interest which the whole country takes in his visit. He has expressed a wish to see Mr. Gladstone at Hawarden, and a very hearty invitation from the ex-Premier has followed. But there is good reason to believe that he is seriously disappointed with Lord Salisbury's reception of his pro-that China should be allowed to raise the Customs duties.
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