The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-10-07
Poktne Fun at the Ambassadors.

From the London Daily Telegraph, September g.
Poo-au-Chen, Chin hi-choong- jen-tach-
en-an eminent man, who is not RESPONSE
BILE for the fact that his title sounds uncom-
monty like prolonged sneeze-has safely
arr we'd at the Grosvenor Hotel. Even in
the deadest part of the dead season London
is seldom without lion. The royal ami
NAL may not be the most formidable Of his
tribe; 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 welcome. The trivial three
millions of Londoners who have not gone
out of town are more easily satisfied than
the upper ten thousand who have, and
Poo-auChen, Chin-chi-choongIj en-tachen-
whose name we sincerely trust will not be
adopted as the chorus of a comic song-is,
in his way, as leonine person as We could
we'll expect at this particular season.
Poo-au-chen, Chin-chi-choong- jen-tachen
there is terrible fascination about those
syllables y is q Chinese ambassador, born
in the State of New York, and known to
mere European mortals as Mr.. Arson Bur-
lingame. \ The gentleman with
whose euphonious name We have by this
time familiarized the public is Immediately
succeeded on the list by Bo-choon-au but
Bo-choon-au turns 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 monosyllabic
compactness, real Chinaman. He is M.
Emile Deschamps, native of Paris, born in
1s39-although in this case we confess to q
certain amount of incredulity. We do not
profess to have profound knowledge of
the willow-pattern language; but if De-
Chan" is Chinese for Deschamps, then
was Mr.. Foker in Pendennis quite accu-
rate in his French when he said to his
valet, Curly moi ung pew, avec une paire
de longs" At length, with feelings of
considerable satisfaction, we come to q
real live Mantchoo Tartar, enrolled in
the Hiang-lanchee Mantchoo, or Dor
dered blue banner of the First Man
chuvian division" Of course a Mantchoo
may call himself whatever man chooses /;
but, quips apart, when gentleman delibe-
rately describes himself as q "bordered
blue banner" the associations suggested
are apt to be grotesque. Of course We are
bound to believe that Chih-u-Khan is o
man of immense distinction. The remark
naturally applies to the whole Embassy !:
I" SO are they all, all honorable meR."
Without the slightest disrespect to Mr.. Bur-
lingame, vino is gentleman of remarkable
acuteness and ingenuity, we may be par
doned for doubling ,ohether his present mis-
sion is one in aOhich Englis1men haze cause
to feel particularly interested. Hitherto,
as it happens, we have been our own nego-
tiators with the authorities of the Flowery
Land, and when at last there was a little diff
ference of opinion we had to march, in COM
pany with our gallant French friends, to
Pekin itself, and dictate our terms, after
sacking the Emperor's palace. In the
broad interests of civilization we may not
regret-we may rather rejoice-that Anne
RIGA has managed to obtain privileges SINH
lar to our own but at any rate zoe haze,
doom to this time, been tolerably able to take
care of ourselves.