Buckingham Palace, 8th August.
Tue London & China Express" says:—Recent French papers report that the convention lately signed at the Chinese Foreign Oftico by the Grand Duke Cyril accords to Rosso-Chinese Bank the exclusive privilege of working mines and constructing railways in the three northern provinces of China, where no concessions have been granted to other foreign Powers. Respecting the Kin Vu Railway, the Chinese Government is free to enter into negotiations with either English or German syndicates, and to arrange swith them for the building of the Pexcu" of the 6th August has a large cartoon by Bernard Partridge of a Chinese mandarin with a paper in his hand, Abolition of Likin."" Itis called " Broken Barriers," and the mandarin says: " What! no more picces Likin! Atlee lite! Plenty other way can eatchee dollar chop chop!"
Y. Maritime Register" of the Grh ult. says: "The fire has been extinguished on board str. Satsuma (Br. from Hongkong for New York, before re ported on fire at Aden. The after part of the vessel was gutted by the flames." The Sateuma left Shanzhai for New York vid ports on the 10th of June last. correspondent of the "Morn-writes on the 4th ult.
With a view to develop: taste for travel in the French Colonies a special trip to Indo-Cama is being organised connect with the exhi ion to be held in the autumn at Hanoi.
The arrangements are being male the French Asintic Committee, under the the Prince land Bonaparte, M. Beau, and othe s convected with French Aspecial steamer, the Notre Dame clu fight in China, has been obtained and Saint, used as a hospital ship during the
luxuriously fitted up, and it is hoped that Freochmen will take advantage of the opportunity, at fares ranging from £104 to £184, to combine instruction, enjoyment and patriotism.
A Parsee correspondent of the "Spevtator, recording some of the vernacular of the visitors to the Coronation, says:
On the sad reason for the postponement of the Coronation, said one Sikh soldier "What was the Badshah's Body Guard doing to let any one approach the Bads-hah with a knife? The Lord of the Empire should have had Sikhs for his Body Guard,—the thing could not then have been possible! "For knife of surgery was to him "unknown"; and chita gay (a cutting into) has a sadly assassin sound to an Eastern. Perhaps this suspicion lent all the more fervour to their prayers for his Majesty's recovery. At Hampton Court they fasted and prayed, and celebrated the Sacrament of Rupjeet Singh. "What was that?" I asked. "We mixed together rice and sugar and flour, and after much fasting and praying for the King's recovery, we distributed this confection to the poor. But it has a meaning." Tell me the meaning," I begged. "It to God, *Wo would offer the plenty (rice), and the sweetness (sugar), and even the necessaries (flour) of our lives to buy this boon of Theo,"" was the answer. Of the fact that (so they believed) there were Sikhs in every detachment of the troops sent to England they were very proud. Every regiment had to have its flavouring of good soldiers," they reflected.
We take the following from The Bail of the 30th of July:—
One of the bonks of the day is "The Un. speakable Scot," by Mr. T.W. H. Crosse land. Its aim and end is to show that the Scot is one-third fool and two-thirdsknave— that he is "'an ass who cultivates the roar of a lion," that he is "the fine gentleman whose father toils with the muck-fork," that "his childhood has been spent in an intimacy with the cesspool and the erablouse."
Before his book dragged Mr. Crosland. from obscurity, he was known in a strictly imited circle asthe author of some poems," which—well, were not suld by the hundred thousand, and as the sub-eliter of the "Out. Jiok," to which he contributed a column of prose" on prominent indivi-articles on passing events style usually known as "breezy." Whether he parted fom the Outlook" or the Outlook" parted with him isa matter that has not been definitely cleared up. At any rate he is now a "boke taster" for Mr. Grant Richards, the publisher of his ment of the newspaper in that capacity will Jong remain one of the marvels of the journalistie world of Cottonopolis, When Mr. T.W.H. Crosland says he "Knows something of drinking." he ig certainly not doing himself very" marked stick.
With his six' feet of stature, now certainly a ste position of the hat, by-the-by, usually provides an indication of the particular hour of the evening. Early in the evening it is perpendier i side, next it is zeulually tiled t" the other on_ it drops down on his nose, rely, and now T. W. H.C. is in hi 15 balanced on the back of hit Are we Seats not happy in our critic? Is not this the muralist and the man of taste entirely enabled to show us, in his own person, the error of vt ways teach our feet not to walk in the broad and winding path that leadeth unto destruc. tion!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.