The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-18
The Chinese Embassy In Englsnd-Pokib Q
Fun at the Ambassadors.
From the London Daily Telegraph. Sept. al

From the London Daily Telegraph. Sept. q
Poo-au Chen, Chn-chi-choong jen-tachen = an
eminent man, who is not responsible for the fact
sneezeehas safely arrived At tie Grosyyenor 10
tel. Even in the deadest part of the dead season,
London is seldom without q lion. The royal ami
NAL may not be the most formidable Of his tribe I;
he may "roar you as gently as any sucking
dove % he may be as harmless as Bottom the
Weaver, but at the close of September he is vel
come. The trivial 100000 Of Londoners who
have not gone out OF town, are more easily salts
fed than the upper ten thousand who have; and
Poo-au- Chen, Chin-chi-choong. jen tachen-whose
name we sincerely trust will not be adopted as the
chorus Of q comic song-is. In his way, as leonine
person as we could well expect at this particu-
lar season.
Poo-au- chen, Chin Oh -Ch oong jen-tachen-there
is terrible fascination about these sylla-
lis q Chinese ambassador born in the
State of New York, snd known to more Euro
pean mortals as Er. Arson Buringame.
The gentleman with whose enphoneous
name we have by this Zine fsmiliarized the public,
is Immediately succeeded on the list by Bo Choon-
au but Bo Choon out, on closer inspection,
TO be Chinese for Mr.; John McLeavy Brown, an
Irishman, born near Belfast, In 1886. Nor is de
Chan, for all his monysyllabic compactness,
real Cinnamon he is NJ. Emile Deschamps, native
of Paris, born In ls39--although in this case we
confess to q certain amount Of incredulity. We
do not profess to have profound knowledge Of
the ow-pattern language; but II De Chan |"
is Chinese for Deschamps, then was Mr.. Foker, 10
Pendennis quite accurate in his French when he
said to his valet, "Curly moi ung pew, avec une
paire de tongs.n At length with feelings Of con-
siderable satisfaction, we come TO q real live
Mantchoo Tartar, enrolled In the Hang -lsnchee
hantchoo, or bordered blue banner of the first
Manchuvian division" OF course a Mantchoo
may call himself whatever a man chooses; but,
qups apart, when a gentleman deliberately de-
scrbes himself as "a bordered blue banner, " the
associations suggested are apt to be grotesque.
OF course we are bound TO believe that Chih-u-
Khan is a man Of immense distinction. The re-
mark naturally apples TO the whole embassy
$50 ere they ALL all honorable men,
- With the slightest disrespect TO M.
Burngame, who is a gentleman of remarkable
acuteness and ingenuity we may be pardoned for
doubling whether his present mission is one in
which Englishmen have cause TO feel particularly
interested. Hitherto, as ithappeDs, we have been
our own negotiators with the authorities OF the
Flowery Land, and when last there was little
difference of opinion we had to march, in COM
pany with our French friends, TO Pekin tself and
dictate our terms after sacking the emperor's
palace. In the broad interests of civilization we
may not regret-we may rather rejoice-thst
America has managed 70 obtain privileges similar
10 our own but, at any rate, we have down to
this time, been tolerably able to take care of our
selves. MIR. Burlingsme is reported to have ideas
of by and by "opening I'M the Celestial empire
to American enterprise. Great Britain can have
no reasonable objection TO his doing so bat
meanwhile we cannot discover that any question
now at issue between Great Britain and China is
30 pressing or intricate 10 give serious employ.
mebt to such distinguished intermediary a. Poo.
au Ched, Chin-Chi ohooDg ien- tachem.