After spor the first two days of his stay ut this port in inspecting troops, ete., the Kiangnan Arsenal, and receiving the visits of foreign Consuls, the Viceroy of the Liang Kiang on Wednesday came into the foreign settlements to return these culls, He was accompanied by the smallest retinue ever seen here in company with an official of such high rauk, his attendants not numbering more than fifty or sixty. The customary crowd of dirty ragamuttins was replaced by " emall body-guard of the Municipal police—a most praiseworthy innovation, considering the behaviour ut the soldiers and other riff-raff brought into the settlement on former occasions by ''so Taung-tony and other visiting Viceroys, On Wednesday the only high ofticialaccnmpanying the great man was the Shanghai Tautai, His first call was at the French Muaicipal Building, where he was received by the French Consul-General, M. Wayner, and the Chairman of the French Council, MI. P. Brunat. On entering the settlement north of the Yang-king-pang the procession was joined by the guard of police, und then pursued its way to the temporary Custom House, where BLE. was received by the Commissioner of Customs, Mr. R. K. Bredon. Thence he went to the Municipal Council's premises, where he was received by the U.8. Consul General, Mr. J. A. Leonard, the Chairman of the Council, Mr. J. G. Purdon, and the Secretary, Mr. R. F. Thorburn, and where he hada pleasant and frondly chat, Thence he proceeded to the British Consulate, which was reached shortly before half past three. The order of arrival was as follows
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