On the night of the 22nd inst. a State banquet was given in the Palace Srinagar. In reply to the toast of his Excellency, proposed by his Highness the Maharajah' of Kashmir, Lord Ampthill made a very lengthy' and interesting His Excellency commenced by referring to the fact that eleven years ago, he had, as a simple globe-trotter, been entertained' by his present host in his pasco at Jammu. His Highness had then made the remarkable prophecy, that his guest would one day return to India as Viceroy, a prediction which has been fulfilled in a wonderfully short space of time, Lord Ampthill farther remarked that it is not generally known, that the annual exodus to the hills is not a modern or even a British innovation; the Mogal Emperors of the 17th and 18th centuries made the beantifal and fascinating valley of Kashmir their summer resort.
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