The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-15 00:00:00

Visit of the Sultan to the Queen.

On Saturday his Imperial Highness the Sultan
paid a visit to her Majesty the Queen at Windsor
Castle, where the illustrious visitor was received
with befitting state. The streets of Windsor were
decorated, and from the houses banners and flags
were hung, or were suspended on cords stretched
across the roadway. Great crowds of people, gaily
dressed, thronged the footways, and filled the win-
dows. The acclatnations of welcome with which
the Sultan was received in the Royal borough were
very marked, and they were gracefully acknow-
ledged by his Imperial Highness.
Shortly before 11 o'clock the Sultan, attended by
a numerous suite, filling 19 Royal carriages, left
Buckingham Palace, escorted by a detachment of
the Royal Horse Gu trds (Blue), and was driven to
the Paddington terminus of the Great Western
Railway. The Royal reception rooms, as well as
the station, were tastefully decorated with •.ctch
effect. Many choice plants and flowers wcee dis-
posed in the waiting rooms, and on that portion of
the platform reserved for the Royal train which was
to convey the illustrious travellers. The platform
was carpeted, as was the front of the station where
the Sultan and his suite alighted. A guard of
honour of the 2d Battalion Grenadier Guards, with
Ithmepirerbiaand, was
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Gooch, Bart., M.P., and other principal officials
of the Great Western Company ; Mr. R.
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M.P. for Windsor, with Major-General
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Colonel Hardinge, for the Queen. The special
train, which was of seven carriages, including three
magnificent Royal saloons, moved from the station
at a quarter-past eleven o'clock, and reached
Windsor at a few minutes before noon. Here
the preparations made were very complete and of
a similar character to those at Paddington.
Upon the platform, in front of the Queen's waiting
rooms, were their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur
and Prince Louis of Hesse, attended by their re-
spective suites. Prince Arthur wore the uniforin of
the Royal Artillery, and Prince Louis a Prussian
unform, with a helmet. The Mayor and Corpora-
tion of Windsor, in their dress robes, with the mace,
&c., were in the waiting room. A number of spec-
tators had been admitted to the station, but. the
platform where their Royal Highnesses stood in
front of the waiting room was kept clear by lines of
troops. In the courtyard of the station, where the
Queen's carriages were drawn up, was a guard of
honour of the Ist Battalion Scots Fusiliers, under
the command of Colonel White, and a captain's
escort of the 2d Life Guards, with standard, :was
in waiting. The band of the 2d Life Guards was
also stationed there. All the military were in full
dress, and the bandsmen in their State uniforms.
On alighting from the train the Sultan cordially
shook hands with Prince Arthur and Prince Louis
of Hesse, and was conducted to her Majesty'slcar-
riage, which was drawn by four white horses,' and
preceded by outriders in scarlet and gold, while the
Guards saluted and the band played some Turkish
music. As to the procession of carriages, headed
by that in which sat the Sultan and the Princes,
with the principal Minister in attendance on his
Imperial Highness, left the station yard, it was
greeted with loud cheering, and the bells of St.
George's Chapel and of St. John's Church rang
peals. The carriages proceeded slowly up the
crowded streets to their destination, and were every-
where received with the heartiest cheers, which the
Sultan repeatedly acknowledged. All along the
route the houses were profusely decorated with
flags, &c. Leaving Park-street the procession
ept into
entered the Long Walk, and as it sw
the Home Park a salute of twenty-one guns was
given. From the gates, the roadway leading
through the grounds to the grand entrance of the
Castle, between the York and Lancaster Towers,
was lined with troops, on the eastern side by the
2nd Life Guards, on the western by the Ist bat-
talion Scots Fusiliers. The troopers were dis-
mounted. In the grand quadrangle of the Castle
was a guard of honour, with colours and bands of
the Ist Battalion Scots Fusiliers, under command of
Colonel Peel. The spectacle was splendid in the
extreme when the Sultan passed under the grand
archway and alighted, as the troops presented arms
and the band played. The Yeomen of the Guard
were in attendance at the Castle, and the reception
inside the palace was equal to the splendour of the
public welcome without. Surrounded by the junior
members of the Royal family, the principal officers
of the household, and by the ladies of the Court in
state costumes, her Majesty the Queen received the
Sultan in the Grand Hall with a cordial greeting,
advancing to meet his Imperial Highness, who, after
making a salutation, bent and kissed the Queen's
band. Iler Majesty kissed the Sultan's young son,
Izzeddin Effendi. The Queen and her Imperial
guest, with his suite, were then conducted by the
Lord Chamberlain and other high officers of the
Household to the Oak Parlour, where they partook
of luncheon. Covers were laid for 45. The visit
lasted about one hour. His Imperial Highness the
Sultan having taken farewell of her Majesty, quitted
Windsor Castle, escorted and;a,ttended as before, at
a little before one o'clock. At about ten minutes
past one the Royal train left Windsor station for
Paddington, which terminus was reached at ten
minutes before two. His Imperial Highness was
received here with the same ceremonial as when he
started, and having entere the Royal carriage in
waiting, returned under thd e same escort to Buck-
ingham Palace.

The Round 7able gives the following interesting
remarks :—" Already China and Japan are coming to be
looked upon as intimate neighbours, if not quasi-outlying
provinces, of Californis, and the opening of the mail route
via San Francisco has been followed by a variety of inter-
national enterprises. San Francisco has had for some
time its Chinese newspaper and printing office, and another
indication comes to us in the form of Asiatic guide books
and English-Chinese phrase books, which bear the im-
print of California publishers upon pages of tea-box look-
ing text, in as matter-of-fact a way as a New York house
would acknowledge the same provision for travellers to
Franco or Germany. The Chinese and Japanese,not con-
tent with showing themselves in the streets of even our
eastern cities until we have almost become familiar with
their appearance, are reciprocating in the matter of litera-
ture. From San Francisco ar© to come the writingsdi
Confucius, from Yokohama an English -Japanese c-
f
tionary, and at Pekin and Jeddo the Bible and the 'Pil-
grim's Progress' aro being offered to the Orientals, and
their own authors write histories oAmerica and me-
moirs of Wrashington. In newspaper enterprise Japan vies
with California, and at Jeddo is published a newspaper
designed to post' its realm; in foreign news ; a re-
cent issue of which sheet, the 413ankok-Shin-Bun-Shi
by name, appeared a conversation in London on the sub-
ject of the Panama intercontinental route. Even at Shang-
hai, where they light by gas and have learned photo-
graphy, the Tantai (governor) has bought type, presses,
and the other equipments of printing offices, as they are
amongst the outside barbarians, and the King of Siam has
established an office under the charge of an English ma-
nager. At Jeddo also the Government has established a
school where the English, French, and Dutch languages
are to be taught. It is, we presume, for this school that
the order is made for 20,000 text-books from Messrs.
Ivison, Phinnoy, Blakeman, and Co., of New York. So
far as Japan is concerned all this is hardly surprising, but
that a desire for progress should have taken root in
China seems almost incomprehensible. It is, neverthe-
less, a fact that Pekin is immediately to witness the estab-
lishment of a college for European lingual and scientific
study. In 1~ most extraordinary document, the Tsong-li-
ya-men (Council of the School of Languages) represented
the necessity to the Emperor, whom it no effectually im-
pressed that the memorial received the Celestial endorse-
ment, The Preceding is Approved.—Respect This.' In
this efficacious manifesto, the wise men, after combating
the general impression 'that it is contrary to Chinese
dignity to allow ourselves to he instructed by
Euro-
pean masters.' proceed to argue that 'it is elea.r
now that Chinese genius has produced all it
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conceal from themselves that, in order to walk alone in
future, it must first resolve to receive from
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