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BUFFALO BILL is regareded as the most distinguished American who has ever visited England. His professional and social triumphs induce the New Orleans States to say: "Who of the many know Buffalo Bill in the seventies when he had a "Wild Injun play" on the road and frequently appeared on the stage in his rifle shooting scene so full of the essence of joy that he could not hit a balloon with a butter paddle, ever dream that he would ever become a social bison across the raging sea. But he is one to such an extent that he has paralyzed all other Americans who pined for a sniff of the royal atmosphere. Even the aristocratic Ned Pholps, our [?] minister, who a short time ago pompously declared that none but the higher classes of Americans should see the Queen, is now as a bump on a log when compared to Buffalo William."