The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-06 00:00:00

THE CHINESE AMBASSADOR.

" His Celestial Majesty proposes, we are told, sending
an Ambassador to London. Will the great man bring
Mrs. Fo with him ? Will his Excellency walk in Pic-
cadilly with his pig-tail on ? That he will be the Lion of
the season, the known hospitality and curiosity of our
countrymen forbid us to doubt."—Times of Yesterday.

Hurray for the pig-tails ! Hip, hip, and hurray !
A Chinese Ambassador's coming, they say,
To visit John Bull, the Barbarian Eye,
Give in to his whimsies, like Christopher Sly,
And convince him 'tis scandalous longer to scoff
At the land of the pig-tails ten thousand miles off.
Strange stories are told of his Highness, of course,
Some say he's a sort of a Centaur, or horse,
Some say he's a giant, some say he's a dwarf,
Some say he's just landed at Tooley-street wharf,
And some, that he'll come by the next China fleet,
With her Highness, who stands on invisible feet.

Some say he's a Beauty, some say he's a Fright,
And chews Turkish opium from morning 'till night,
But I'll tell you the truth without any disguise,
For, like Cobbett of old, I abominate lies,
And always have deemed it the basest of acts,
For the sake of effect to exaggerate facts.

To begin, then ; this Chinaman's name is Quang-Fo
And he's grandson to Timour the Tartar, you know ;9
He's a tail like a,bell-rope, his nose is as flat
As a pancake, his eyes are as black as your hat ;
His mouth's not unlike the broad mouth of the Wye,
He's a hundred years old, and he's twenty feet high
His voice is as rough as a Cumberland boor's,
And loud as the bang of a dozen street-doors,
He frowns like a thunder-cloud, laughs like a ghost,
When it stands by one's bed-side as stiff as a post ;
In short, he's the man of all men that, you'd swear,
Would drive the young Belles of Almack's to despair.

lie wears a loose coat and a calico shirt,
And a sharp-pointed hat that looks just like a squirt,
He's yellow-ribbed stockings, half worsted, and half
Cotton, with clocks reaching up to his calf,
His red, creaking shoes are turned up at the toes,
And supply him with music wherever he goes.
His diet is simple—l say it with pride—
He dines at mid-day upon puppy-dogs fried,
Has them devilled for supper, and wizen he is ill,
Just swallows a birds'-nest, by way of a pill,*
Wash'd down with six cups of strong gunpowder tea,
Which he plucks, as you pluck a ripe peach, from
the tree.

Hurray for his Highness ! Hip, hip, and hurray !
Like the Campbells, he's coming ; Make way, there,
make way !
Bid the East and the West, from Cheapside to
May-Fair,
Turn out in their best, and be sure, my Lord Mayor,
Be sure you get ready your daintiest prog,
To honour this rival of Gog and Magog !

He comes I and all London's one desperate throng,
Hustling, and jostling, and scuttling along,
The Jew fro►n Whitechapel, the cit from Guildhall,
The dandy from Bond-street, the clerk from Whitehall,
All press to one centre, like seas to their shores,
To see the new Lion, and hear how he roars I

He comes 1 sound the trumpets and strike up the

drums
While the bells ring a triple bob-major ; he comes !
Sly schoolboys by dozens strive boldly, but fail,
To climb up his back for a tug at his tail,
And the women they blush, and the cabmen they shout'
" Does your mother, my pretty one, know that you're
out ?"

My Lord gives a dinner in Grosvenor-Square,
But a brace of he-dowagers only are there ;
" Where, where are the rest ?" cries the Peer with

surprise,
" They've gone," his disconsolate valet replies,
" They've gone, please your Lordship, they've given
leg- bail,
To have a good stare at John Chinaman's tail."

Lady Jane and her party have all turned their backs
On that focus of beauty and fashion, Almack's,
And have sped in their very best ball-room array,
To see the great Lion who's gone to the Play ;
And Macready has faithfully promised, 'tis said,
To secure them a box at the back of his head.

Sir Robert gets up, but there's no one to hear ;
Sir Robert sits down, but there's no one to cheer;
The House is deserted, so, eager and hot,
He bolts, calls a cab, and is off like a shot,
His respects, like the rest of his colleagues, to pay
To the " Elegant Extract" from distant Cathay

Hurray for John Chinaman! shout, my boys, shout!
Though I fear you scarce know what you're shouting
about ;
You think him omnipotent, now, and all wise,
To fill all your coffers, extend your supplies,
But I fear, that ere long, you will find that your hopes,
Aro as silly as Satan Montgomery's tropes !

* Vide Davis's China.

THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES

BRITISH
Bank Stock 172
3 per Cent. Red. 944
3 per Cent. Cons 95
3i per Cent. Red... 101
New 34- per Cent... lOl4
New 5 per Cen'.
Long Annuities to expire

FUNDS.

India Stock
Ditto Bonds ....... 46 pm
Ditto Old Annuities

Ditto New Annuities..

Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d 45 pm
Ditto 5001 45 pm
Ditto Small
ißank Stock for Opg.
India Stock for Opg...
Consols for Opg. ...... 94
FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto
Prussian, 5 per cent —
Russian, 5 pei cent.....,
Ditto, Metallic ...... .
Spanish, 5 per cent IBA
Ditto, Deferred.... . 10g
French, 5 per cent. —f. —c,
Exchange —f —c
French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
Dutch, 2 per cent....... 53
Ditto, 5 per cent. 101

Ja'n. 1860 .........12 9-11
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860

FOREIG.
Anstrian, 5 per cent.
5 per cent lO2
.3razilian Bonds... 6B
Buenos Ayres 6 per cent.
Chilian, 6 per cent.
Colombian, 6 per cent —
Ditto, 1824
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent Bok
Danish, 3 per :ent B3j
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent 304
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct.

SHARES.

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Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid)
Great Western, (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) ...... 35A
London and Blackwall ( paid) ..... ••• 5.1
London and Birmingham (90)
Ditto Quaiter Shares (25 paid) 49i
London and Greenwich Railway (12115 s 4dpd)
Ditto Preference, or. Privilege I6A
London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 61
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid)
Paris and Rouen (20 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 22s
Ditto Scrip (20 paid).. l7l
York and North Midland: (50 paid')
Ditto New Shares (20 paid)... ......... 39