The new and magnificent Louza Police Station, behind the Racquet Court, was opened on Saturday evening with a dinner, followed by speeches and songs, given by the European members of the municipal Police, under the presidency of the Captain In the large upper room on the third foot, which is intended to be used as a dormitory for the European constables, and which was decorated with flags and evergreens, two long tables were laid out with a cross table at one end, and here soon after eight more than a hundred and thirty contrives assembled, preceded up the winding stairs by the piper, playing a stirring invitation to the benguet. Captain McEuen was in the chair, and he was supported by Mr. Carles, British Vice-Consul, the Mixed Court Magistrate, several members of the Municipal Council, ete., etc. Chief Inspector Cameron, supported by Mr. Emens, U.S. Vice-Consul-General, was at the end of one of the long tables and Inspector Kluth of the other. All the learned professions, the arts and sciences, the royal navy, the volunteers and the' mercantile marine, and, of course, commerce, were represented in the company. The dinner, which was provided by the Astor House was solid and substantial, the beer and porter, as well as the wines, were beand question, and notwithstanding the large attendance and the gas, the ventilation was s0 admirable, that there were 10 complaints of the heat, and it was never impossible to see through the cloudscf snoke. he pipers marched up and down the verandah during dinner, enlivening the entertainment with their weird harmonies, and if some of the speeches might have been abbreviated without disadvantage, there were no apparent signs of weariness in speakers or hearers.
We have no space this morning to report the oratory in full. The Captain Superintendent began it by proposing the toust of Our Respective Rulers, to which Mr. Emens speech. In the next toast, Success to the Feturned thanks in an extremely humorous Municipality and Prosperity of Shanghai, Captain McEuen gave some interesting figures showing how Shanghai continues to expand, and Mr. Macgregor, Chairman of the Council, in reply demolished with extreme neatness Governor Des Veeux's recent panegyric on Hongkong, contrasting the tyranny of red tape in that colony with our Council's business-like methods of procedure. Mr. Macgregor concluded by proposing the health of the Municipal Police, which was enthusiastically Then the Captain-Superintendent proposed the toast of the Members of the Municipal Council, coupling the toast with the name of Mr. Adler; and Mr. Adler in reply enlarged on the progress the turco has made during the six years of Lis councillorship, and paid a well-merited tribute to Captain McEuen, whose health he concluded by proposing. It is needless to say that the health was heartily drunk. Major Morrison, in proposing the health of the architect of the new Station, spoke in the most laudatory terms of Mr. A. Dallas, and gave a sketch of the history of the building, and Mr. Dallas's speech in reply was a most elegant composition, admirably delivered. The health of the ladies was proposed by Dr. Henderson at a length in inverse proportion to the interest of the topic, and he called on Chief Inspector Cameron to re-spend. Mr. Cameron responded in terms of genuine emotion, and then rose to propose the health of the Guests, coupled with the name of Mr. R. W. Little. That gentleman's reply was received with much amusement, and this terminated the authorised programme. Songs, much above the average of after-dinner melody, and a violin trio, had been liberally interspersed among' the speeches, and it was nearly 1 a.m. when the last speaker sat down, and the company, well satisfied, went home through the fug.
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