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THE NEW.CHINESE ENVOY TO ENGLAND.
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on the 25th ult. by the M.M. steamer Amazone were the Marquis Tseng, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain and France, the Marchioness Tseng and three children. Messrs. Teheus (Secretary), Laou. Tsao, Li, Tseng, Assistant Secretaries, E. Fran- dia, interproter, ten Chinese officers, attaches to the Legation, and 28 servants. The AmazONE had the Chinese flag flying at the main in honour of the distinguished passengers.
His Excellency landed the same day under the sal salate, and was received at Goverument House by Governor Hennessy at three o'clock. His Excellency the Marquis had apartineuts assigned to him at Government House, where he could transact business; he slept on board the stoamer, but he dined every day at Government House. On the 26th ultimo, at the official dia- ner at Government House on H.E. the Governor proposing the health of the Emperor of China, the Marshal President of France, and Her Ma- jesty the Queen, the Marquis Teing replied in a speech in Chinese in which, according to a trans- lation furnished by the Marquis next day, be re- marked that, “Governor Hennessy'simpartial aud excellent administration had already dono much towards cementing friendly feeling between Eng- land and China; and, as to the existing relations between these powers, he might add that he re- garded the friend of England as the friend of China, and the enemy of England as the enemy of China,"
His Excellency the Marquis Tseng embarked on the 23th ultimo from the Murray Wharf, and proveeded on board the French mail steamer for Europe. A company of the 74th Highlanders was on the wharf as a guard of honour. On the steam-launch leaving the wharf a salute was - fired from the shore battery.
The Shanghai Courier says:-By those who have had the opportunity of conversing with the new Minister to the Elyssées and to the Conch of St. James, we are informed that he is of dignified and very affable manners, and that there is every likelihood of his becoming avory scceptable personage with the Govern idents to which he is accredited, as well as with the European Diplomatic Corps, and it is thought that he will make a very favour- So able impression upon the people at large. the Peking Government may thus bo congratu- lated on having had the foresight to select and appoint in this, as also in the case of Kwo-ta-jou, officials who, like their colleagues of western coun- tries, possesses a specialité which is known as the "Art to please." The Marquis Tseng, who, as yet. converses iu Euglish with greater difficulty than timidity, has resolved to thoroughly master the language, and if he persists with that dogged Scottish kind of perseverance by which he has been distinguished on all possible occasions and opportunities during his intercourse with fo reigners both bere and at Tientsin, even with those speaking his own language perfectly, then his most praiseworthy and painstaking doter- mination must erentwilly be crowned with suc. cess. It might have been well had the Marquis, in bis capacity as Minister to France, given sone attention to French in place of English. for, in his relations in Paris with French- nien of the official world, he will make a discovery that his own actual acquaintanceship with English far exceeds theirs. Fortunately, in the present instance Tseng-ta-jen will find an exception to the general rule in the person of the actual Mi- nister of Foreign Affairs (M. Waddington), whose father was English. The only foreignor in the suite of the new Chinese Minister to France is Monsieur Frandin, lore interprête of the French Consular service. This gentleman has been temporarily detached from that service by the Minister of France at Peking, for special duty with the Marquis, etc., and we hear that he has received an appointment from the Tsung-li Yamén as Agent de la Mission sans porté feuille politique, or, what in plain English we should call a kind of non-political adviser.
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