back was a frightfully cold room, so much residence in the East; the oldest being which was inaugurated two days ago. This so that the ladies in their heavy wraps still suffered and the gentlemen, many of them, wore their overcoats, Where all were per-feet it would be hard to pick out especially meritorious acting, and yet one cannot but say Mra. Tours was simply inimitable. To Mr. A. D. Brent, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, is due the credit of the stage management as well as the inception of the society. All are looking forward to the next event.
On the 18th of this month Lady Macdonald is to give a grand fancy dress ball and from what we have seen at the various tailors' shops in Peking we can nately predict 1 eclipse anything of the kind ever seen in Peking. A number of Tientsin people are expected up to attend, and doubtless a number of them will remain for the Bachelors' Ball, also to be held at the ish Legation this year, which comes off on the flat, although for the matter of that, the ride to Tientsin now in the postal car is no hardship, and only occupies as many hours as it used to days in the not long ago, before the railway was instituted.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.