CHINESE DIPLOMACY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 996, 16 July 1883, Page 4

CHINESE DIPLOMACY.

The gossip of Washington points to the approaching departure of the “ Flower of all China,” the young Chin Chi Yung, for Europe on a diplomatic mission to the Court of St James, the Celestial Government being just now occupied with the comparative diplomacy of the different countries of the world, by all of which China expects ere long to be proclaimed sovereign lord and master. “Mr Chin,” for so the young hero is called by the ladies of Washington, is-described as a ladykiller of the first water. “ One of the greatest mastierspf flirtation I ever met with r* exclaimed a young lady by whose side he had seated himself atone of the balls at the White House. Mr Chin’s complaint that it was the thickness of his soles alone which compelled him to inaction while the rest Of the company whisked around the toom was capped with the observation, But it is not only the soles of my feet that are fixed; it is the soul of my body that is chained to. your side.” The speech displays not only his gallantry but his:knowledge of English, which he has acquired mostly from the fast young men pf New York. “Mr Chin,** unlike his countrymen in general, refuses tb don the European costume, but wears the “ full Chinese” In x aH its... glory. He wears garments of blue and yellow satin gorgeous to behbld. ' He weras the junk shoes Satin' 1 with soles of white felt thfee - inches thick, and invariably folds his hands beneath his Icosehanging sleeves (always lined with bright-colored satin) whenever he talks to the ladies. Mr Chin has the brightest and most intelligent countenance it is‘ possible to see. His eyes areblack, andalthough almond-shaped, vbrybrlght and sparkling, and when he smiles he displays a set of teeth which r.put those of the American beauties to shame, and they frequently suggest the ides of bringing over a Chinese dentist to repair the damage caused in their own tateliers by the climate, according to their own account, but ascribed unjustly- to ; the exaggerated consumption of the sweets and acids in which they indulge. The ambassador, jMr ,j Chin’s uncle, is a fat, easygbmg'ChTnaman, seemingly indifferent to all that is going bn around him, and yet never losing a single item of the proceedings. His nephew is called updifito-interpret the pretty sayings of the ladies, and it is quite delightful to behold the mighty Chang Tsao Ju, reported a? grave as a patriarch at the 'Council Board, shake his fat sides with laughter at the little coaxing speeches and cunning compliments addressed to hftb,- which he knows very well are put out to interest, as it were, and expected to bring in big profits in the way of ivory, fans, and jewelled hairpins or cedawobdr bbxfei • ; ‘ -