The first of the long list of special Ambassadors for whom the Hotel Cecil has been specially reserved arrived yesterday. His Excellency Ching Yin-huan, accompanied by a suite of some twenty secretaries and others and an army of servants, took up his quarters at this magnificent hotel, and expressed himself as thoroughly and entirely satisfied with the accommodations reserved for him. Though a special effort had been made to provide for China upon a grandiose scale, it was expected that there would be some grumbling, simply because there always is.
the Persian Ambassador was as grieved as was his predecessor of early in the century of whom Morier wrote so amusingly, that no istakbal, or grand mob, came out from the gates of London to meet him. Is it your way t" smuggle an Ambassador from Who, King of Kings, the Centre of the Universe, into London like a bale of goods he asked as he slammed down the window of the carriage. The Chinese Ambassador's fine presence and ficance of vesture attracted much attention yesterday as he proceeded to the hotel, and the Strand is crowded to-day with a curious throng of sightseers who look eagerly for the peacock feathers of which they hoard so much during the Japanese war. Li Chung-tang, if the papers of that day were accurate, seems to have inculted a peacock feather every day during that war, and to have gained a new one each night.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.