Among the visitors is Mr. Jamieson, Consul at Shanghai. He has made two public addresses, one at Manchester the other at Bristol, during his time of leave in this country. His addresses' were both upon commerce in the Orient, and were powerful and weighty arguments for bimetallism. His manner of delivery is simple and: unostentatious and his matter concise and close reasoned, without attempt at decoration. This is th id of talk that merchants appreciate. "It is not likely that Consul Jamieson made any converts to the double standard, but he planted some seed that will bring forth fruit.. His' friends in this country, and at his post also no doubt, are heartily leased that his name was included in the list of Jul honours. Mr. Jamieson says most Kindly things of the Ami residents in China in official life there.
'OUR VisrTORS.
It seems as if all America is here at present out-doing the English in enthusiasm over the Subllee. Two of my friends from over the water have just returned from Paris to London on thi of the London event. They retailed me bits of pleasant gossip from the French capital. The marriage of Molle. Yvette Guilbert, and Mr. Schuller, an American chemist, at the Maine of the Seventeenth Arrondissement "caused little flutter in the hearts of the many admirers of that most charming French music-hall singer, who is becoming quite proficient in English, by the way. It seemed strange that there was no religious cere-irony-as the bride is an enthusiastic Roman Catholic. She is quite different in private life from the ideas: one forms seeing her over the footlights and listening to: her daring little songs, given in 4 demure little manner, which says a world of things to her audience. In private life she is simple, quiet, and refined in her tastes. She owns to a great love of country life, and declares that she means some day in the future to retire' with her earnings and buy little farm, where she can have chickens and ducks, and pigs and cows, and vegetables and flowers. She is not ambitious to acquire a. vast estate, but only.to own a snug little country nest. As she earns the money twice over of an Ambassador this moderate ambition will not prove difticu't to satisfy. However, her admirers—and who that has.heard her: is other than an admirer—sincerely hope that
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