King Chulalongkorn has not timed his visit well if his desire was to evoke a great popular welcome from the people of this country. We have had almost a surfeit of royalties lately, and we are now suffering under a reaction from the Diamond Jubilee excitement. Much more general interest was felt in the doings of Li Hung-chang during his recent visit; but at the same time, the King of Siam has created an admirable impression wherever he has gone. The fact that he had sent his sons to England to be educated, had prepared us to find in him a man of more enlightenment than we should otherwise have expected from the Buddhist monarch of a little Far En-tern Kingdom; hut in addition to displaying a very fair acquaintance with English history and the spirit of English civilisation, he has shown a insistent kindliness of feeling and an absence of hauteur—which though accom panied by a certain kingly dignity, have won the hearts of all classes with whom he has come into contact.
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