The Landing--Chinese Overtures--Taking of the Forts--The Peiho--Tientsin --Negotiations broken off--New Plenipotentiaries--Agreement made--Agreement broken--Treacherous Seizure of Mr. Parkes and others--Advance on Pekin --Return of some of the Captives--Fate of the rest--Burning of the Summer Palace--Convention signed--Funeral of the murdered Captives--Imperial Palace--Prince Kung--Arrival of Mr. Bruce--Results of the Mission. CHAPTER XIV. SECOND MISSION TO CHINA--HOMEWARD. Leaving the Gulf--Detention at Shanghae--Kowloon--Adieu to China--Island of Luzon--Churches--Government--Manufactures--General Condition--Island of Java--Buitenzorg--Bantong--Volcano--Soirées--Retrospect--Ceylon--The Mediterranean--England--Warm Reception--Dunfermline--Royal Academy Dinner --Mansion House Dinner. CHAPTER XV. INDIA. Appointed Viceroy of India--Forebodings--Voyage to India--Installation --Deaths of Mr. Ritchie, Lord Canning, General Bruce--The Hot Season --Business resumed--State of the Empire--Letters: the Army; Cultivation of Cotton; Orientals not all Children; Missionaries; Rumours of Disaffection; Alarms; Murder of a Native; Afghanistan; Policy of Lord Canning; Consideration for Natives. CHAPTER XVI. INDIA. Duty of a Governor-General to visit the Provinces--Progress to the North- West--Benares--Speech on the Opening of the Railway--Cawnpore--Grand Durbar at Agra--Delhi--Hurdwar--Address to the Sikh Chiefs at Umballa --Kussowlie--Simla--Letters: Supply of Labour; Special Legislation; Missionary Gathering; Finance; Seat of Government; Value of Training at Head-quarters; Aristocracies; against Intermeddling--The Sitana Fanatics --Himalayas--Rotung Pass--Twig Bridge--Illness--Death--Characteristics --Burial-place. MEMOIR OF JAMES, EIGHTH EARL OF ELGIN, &c. &c. CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS. BIRTH AND PARENTAGE--SCHOOL AND COLLEGE--TASTE FOR PHILOSOPHY--TRAINING FOR PUBLIC LIFE--M.P. FOR SOUTHAMPTON--SPEECH ON THE ADDRESS--APPOINTED GOVERNOR OF JAMAICA. [Sidenote: Birth and parentage.]