Hon W. M. Gordman was warmly wel-cornyd in the Suprem Cours. yesterday by the Officers: the Court and the whole legal profession, when he assttmed his seat for the first time.
The Legation Ladies and the Empress Dowager.
I read with real appreciation Mrs. Litt'e's remarks on the reception held by the Empress Dowager, when the ladies ofthe Lezations, headed by Mrs. Conger, fawned her Majesty and received "gifts. from Uh hands. It is, of course, difficult and be' unga'lant to sex. They have a certain ant ace te do srange things, but the of it! [forbear, therefore, criticism of the ladies, whose fondness sensation or novelty of avy sort and love for jewels in particular is notorious, but what were their natural protectors abaur ty permit them to so nes of all Western people civilisation
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