4 DECEMBER 1875, Page 2

The Prince of Wales was, at midnight on December 2,

at Kandy, where he was received with wild enthusiasm, and witnessed a procession of elephants and a native reception, which the Times' Correspondent describes as " the wildest mixture of incidents from Le Prophete,' L' Africaine,' and a nightmare." It appears probable that he will not visit Madras at all, his suite fearing the cholera for him, whereat the "silent sister" will be sulkier than ever. The letters describing his tour are beginning to arrive, and one incident deserves mention, as proving that in Aden there is some one who can laugh. In India nobody ever can or does,— publicly, at all events. Over one building in Aden, however, was painted up in great letters, in honour of the Prince, " Morituri to salutant." It was the abattoir.