the fact that H.E. Sir Claude Macdonald arrived here to-day; it is understood he will make a stay of three days before returning to Peking. It is interesting to observe the ponto and commendation with which His cellency's circular tour has been noted by the southern Press; but few of his eulogists have any notion of the fearful arrears of routine work awaiting the Minister in the capital; they are enough to intimidate the hardiest cormorant for work, and would [heed deter all but the most resolute of ministers from ever doing such a thing again.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane enjoyed their trip to Peking, but as his lordship is an inveterate globe-irttr, this is not to be wondered at. fe called on the Celestial G.O.M. and was submitted to the usual Socratic "heckling. "Why didn't England come to the help of China in the War?" ete., etc. It is curious that no one ever reminds the venerable Catechist who it belie ort, nese out-of the Yangtze Valley, and limited the war to one locality where it did the minimum of harm. No one ventures task him how much China has really gained by the intervention of Russia and ince. There used to be a curious'local belief in Perthshire about the Breadalbane estates: the Marquis, who is the second chief of the Campbells, was reputed to be the only man in the British Isles who could walk 100 miles on his own land in a straight line from his front door. Allowing a discount for epigram, there was: something in it: if Taymouth Castle at the east en of Loch Tay were pushed to the eastern limit ofthe estate near Aberfeldy, the feat was almost fog though one would have to include a boat ge over the Sound of Jura. Such a proprietor as this would have been too much even for Dr. Abernethy whose favourite prescription was: "Take a ten miles' walk daily, it pee sible on year own land."
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