OCTOBER 18, 1866)
and were defeated
The
- prosent re-organizing his sued a call for more men, ling to make sure this time those turbulent "strangers ción
on says, that many years internecine quarrels began, prophesied that they (the
to
eventually of rapa
ther he saw a
or more energy, manliness, han in the efferninate of his n, and just what
What proportion self importance may
Sy
and
ed up in the premonitory not now seem to be known, of impressment, however cini
it way prove under the gement of
ure e
રી
good
govern-
Eul source of corruption and where the remuneration is cut down to about one
- below the lowest ride of - Fifty hoats may be re- the time the last of the ough whose hands the order s to put it in execution, rure luckless skippers Ives attached by this pecu- From these, except the d. every possible rash of will be taken and their
It is
=
is not strange thien,
sound of Harpies' wings all
Sto
6 may be so fortunate, he
Hight and hide away in bayus until the call has and the returns have been
mah dificulty we sne Zug Ho Fan boat
ough not belonging to so fortable a class as the Taz'
, the recommendation traverse the upper courses
as, have swift currents and
In whole and thus prevent
#
d changing conveyance,
great
can only be done at hon our Calestial friends end of the lever; especially
there be any external evi- · travellers are probably There are two other classes lly available for up-river
The spacious L Lang tit
w their place of origin on ned the sinuller Ho Sai Suned from Oheir birthplace
on the
41 韶洲廳。
migla allude to a disputed dut, which if well settled in would add something to the Gerade of toneiste fato "the apravo perty a right to ty ting: is it good polien for Een that right,
should la mplying with the advice of
+ is
we set sail without such
un taard, as it
t de altor of the flag would
ilog, and no obstacle real
end stand to the way of the
S
ivers doing their duty by
I pose it is well
du eusion has established
it made, which is ser cotoman
pisamiced uniteral, vir: -- ways expect to be able in 2 mify a Htio sult, ILT. least, and
through by orjuss in under.
air chiployers by sure tempo- their bi This attempt is fably made, if the tourists. gners; and in any case the En is at their work in bod Es meagre (u fon uudare
their ), and tiny wish to keep themselves in tobaco. voyage. Nem si
si presets cocié ; xi
Ja, f.
use to tell the skipper that gled s will not be ab
■rd the bout, for the childish
■f China dhe ignoratis ercepts
in foreigners 11-
if beror setting T
of all the stall stock in trade,
to assume the risks incident
mont ill will of the
to make a daily sea
t
ne or
search or merchandize in
hipped at the first favorable
Can any one give à practicable
difficulty, which
e
gvws
out
atively insignificant offence
aud
t oppressive government
under way we began to look most onvenient aivanyellent e, when we came upon sundry Search: being instituted, some
ora.
and there, about one- atly done up behind bulkheade seat the site dunks (length- ogi) as possible and thwart
mpartments.
The work to
was
cleverly done, that a glance d would have led one to in- ything was there but ar provisions, chemicals, ac taking
one large Cane near
alt (neatly dous up in =སྶཏཾ own special protec be supposing the it he
our
ae luggage of the other two. of thus promiscuously mingling with ours, was speedily cor uiring all the salt to be placed wari compartments, and our removed to those amidships. consideration as to what was me next, the Captain was re
breach of
of trust in bringing
Sa
Jant contrary to our assurance hat we would not allow our reen any mula
told that all the
himself. To turn informers
the salt to the first revenne
uld meet, was more than we to du wat
of pity towards the
boatuen, who toiled at
the
er a sut, that would have
a white man in a few minutes.
along which they
Lo burn our feet judged was
ordi- ordi
stil they leaned to their g regnar step (as they always toscillation in the main line) our in the wearisome drag,
d then one of them dropping
*
own the hauk for a dip in
y much as do those buffalos, ngh boys release from their
als and lead down to the river We concluded to ing bath. agless boat to the kind care ustom House on the way; but ther was passed and no signs notice was even tendered us esence of foreigners scoming to as if all sorts of insignia had
ed.
No. 1181-OCTOBER 18, 1866.[
THE CHINA MAIL.
the heat was intense and not a breath of air castant watch is kept over the structure, they are sold as "fish flowers 375 bit of practicing gross abuses of power, and
astir
Begging pardon for so long a detention, small creeks and rivalis, which must also let ne hurry on. Without further incident be dyked on either sido so far as may be we arrived at Fat Shan where we say to reach the limit and level of bigh water, During a rise in the river I can hardly say slept, for spent the night
We were glad to get out of this the embankment an alarm is sounded, and at the first appearance of a fissure in enldron, and in a kind
parboiled and which causes the anxious villagers to assem tion pressed on next day as far as Sai Námu bien force and speedily repair what might Coming to anchor at the Western in a short time bring ruin and desolation to extremity of this place, we had ample room their fields and homes. The case is precise- for breathing, and a gentle breeze contri-
ly similar to the contingencies and solici. tated to refreshing slumber. Having for tude that harruss the planters along the given some accomat of this region in lower mississippi, where the work of & merly a commecation to your columns, entitled single crawfish would in one night occasion Up the North River," I may be allowed such a breach in the levee as could not be to pass it over with a note pointing to the repaired until the damage sought to he striking resemblance which the face of the avoided would be effectually accomplished. bluff at Lion--whelp Sluice, or Bayou
The character and extent levee bears to the side view of a lion's system in the great Deita of this Provinco would afford scope for the energies of any any It is situated & one who would take an interest in the re- fae looking to the South short distance below the boundary between search, and would astonish all who would faithful the districts of Nám Hoi and Sami take the trouble to glauce over
sketch of the region, presenting the and the likeness is only per dykes in detail seived by a back view, from a point up the recognized as we pass along the rivers river some distance above its position. antreks in bonis, and are frequently not visible un, acemiat of their distance No 2.
back from the stream. How long a The Spectre Brave Bucks
erected, is now beyond our power dis period, has elapsed since they were first The stream between FatShán [and Taz uver although some records would indicate
about one thousand years as Tung and near to or in the midat abou
probable Doubtless
of the work espe of the villages known by the latter name,cially the micor portions has been effected
Shui
They are
much of
offen mot
their
ла
no
so to speak, from any portion of the river where an inducement may offer. The eggs are hatched in tanks, and after the fishlets have attained the length of an inch or so, from which large ponds are stocked and the tanks of fish-mongers eventually supplied. One singular arrangement connected with this trade in fish Bowers," " is the method of transportation. To carry earthen jars or wooden buckets of sufficient capacity would be too laborious; so, bamboo baskets are used. The lining of these vessels must be ; but any F preparation contain- water proof
destroy the fish; g terial must then be sought, and it is found in fresh buffalo chips. The baskets are thoroughly coated inside with this bovins composites in which, when all wed to dry; water, is very light and quite durable,
at impervions to and insoluble in
another nia-
at once put
a stop
honor and trast in the capital. Illustrative of his great virtue it is recorded, that when he arrived at Shiu Hing, the Department City, he found the officers were in the I set himself immediately to the work of customed to require the people to furnish reformation. Particularly were they ac several ten-fold more than the lawful are regarded as the best in the Empire. tribute from the inkstone quarries, which The surplus thus acquired was secretly dis- tributed aud court, in order to secure special favor. He among the higher officers at the
to the practice, and would allow no more tribute to be levied than was
to actually sent up the Emperor. In this one respect he was so strict that he did not carry away a single stone for himself when be left. Now tradition amplifies the idea and says, that of the many testimonials of gratitude and respect
bim offered by the people when he left, he only accepted an If we peep over that great dyke, we find inkstone, lest there should seem to be even the villagers engaged in the cultivation of
the shadow of bribery or corruption charge- able against him. When he arrived at the rice, the lotus, and taro and such other vo-
above mentioned point in the river on bis kuts, whilst on this side they are cater. getables and tubers as abound in Chinese
voyage down, a violent storm arose, which ing to the weakness of the palate for some-inkstore became a burden to his conscience, threatened to overwhelm the boat. The neighbors. Here are corrals for gerae what thing to help along the substantials of their
at goose 1-thousands of them are being would a Chinese jollification be without reared for market on the gentle grassy slopes of the dyke near Wing On Hai One or two gooseherde and a dog or two
brought into a fair state of discipline. It may be evening; and then one herdsman of light-grained paddy on the
groun while the geese are being driven up by the other for their evening meal, the inclosure entering the
No. 3.
Allusion to these singular by gradual lages of developme But attend each flock, which they have certain-
alid
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were visited. and adventitious objects was made in my be opmparatively of moder North River journal, and the legend of there are some of the main structures, popular t
tradition
connected with them re- which bear marks of age, that must have that time I could not speak froin personal multaneous erection. Looking at them
but as we passed them after dark at had something like can initiate and si- is seen near the corral emptying quantities this was one of the most productivo in pression of the month so as to enable Mesara G, to observation as to their character. Having from Canton as a centre, there are two 1 opportunity on the present occasion, great dykes which are of the first impor- I determined to see for myself we found them to be a long wall, apparently intended to be a kind of sea-wall or river, partly in Tring in and facing, terraced in places and composed of blocks of haanit laid cross wise in the partly in Sam Shui district, guards
for
TO
in
the bus
the
On landing tance; out of thera, Shek Kok Levee sales of fresh-cut grass being here supplied might not have been begge temptation, 4 colour, 39., and it's, Gd,per packety and tlie Gotte
atructure and varying from two to three feat against the flouds of the North River; the of very open bamboo hurdies lold in place misfactory answer
long and from five to eight inches or more othur, the "Mulberry Garden" Levee
FL
and Jonah-like was hove into the streams
27, Harley Street Cavendish Square, and 4
and an id in that in the midst of the stormt
doure from the Railway Bridge, whereupon the storm immediately ceased
island ro
гово
Ludgate Hill, London; is,
Liverpool: 184, Duke Street, he fell into
a passion, upbraided the Gods
Birmingham: 05, New Street. of the country for thus rewarding a man
Partice at the extremity of the globe, by forward who had endeavoured to do his duty, then cast away the stone, the act being foling particulars as to the condition of their mouths, with an enclosure of the Guinea, will receive by If either of lowed by the above result. these were true, it surely might be said that return that which will enable them to take an im
forward either a partial or complete set of Teeth," Alles 10
in China.
A third legend, however, says that after he set sail (having accepted QUE for restoring and preserving the Teeth. its
GABRIELAS: CELEBRATED ODONTAL no presents) it occurred to him to look over, and 21s. per bottle. Patent White Enamni for bagrage of his family, lost their honesty stepping From Teeth, warranted never to change to keep thein from becoming too obstrepe- Finding au elegant inkstone in
in one box, be
Perchs, Es.de, per box. stemanded whence it came; to which query GARDEIZS Practical Treatise on the Teeth rous before morning. The walls of the cor- ral are about two feet high, and composed no etary answer being given, he in which explains the uitmeruns advantages obtainable river, just oppo- | by their patented method may be had at their agents by cross-sticks stuck in the mud, a portion site this island, which they were then pas or will be finished direct ou, receipt of 'Twive of the geese, and at or near the opposite end ciated with his memory and serves as a of shallow water is inclosed for the benefit sing. Hence it is that the island is asso-Staun pe
a common bamboo boat awning is erected nument to his integrity. It is also said, he in the ground for the keeper, allowing him confined himself so strictly to his only source PICKLE2, SAUCFS, JAMS, &C., room enough to sit erect or to lie down of income--the salary of his office that under cover. Here he keeps
guard
death his possessions amounted only to a and,
few baskets and some suits of old clothea, we trust, enjoys sound and refreshing sluin- on the West and partly on the North and
ber in the unidst of his noisy and malore- This reference to the past suggests that it South. It also extends into the district of
would be both an interesting and a curious nges of devices too are to be Shun Tak and takes its name
the two Kwong Provinces could be digested and brought down to the present nominal their origi If A
mon being the inverted bent lever dip-net. mulberry, although rice and other vegeta- The most singular management of this lat-condition. With all the ups and downs, a nation of the locality by some practical bles are also largely grown. The whole ter (on a small scale) which we saw, was good degree of stability has been preserved. Respectable Provision Dealer in the World.
a small boat pushed It is now about five hundred years since the precludes the possibility of 24 Emp dyke is reckoned to be upwards of thirty miles,
by one of them with
while the having broken through and thus placed with some five miles of extra dyke ou
olher with the fulcrum of his lever resting title of Shiu Hing Fu; and are not substituted for them. the outside; e. at the various points ou the bow, conducted the dipping opera- this columuar basalt on or near the sent position, the crystala
outer ons is tion. A small swab of cotton yarn tied to
the district of Kó In, of which Shiụ built so as to present a double lius
a short piece of fir rost or other light mas Hing is also the Capital, has remained as at fund, by generations long since passed, for defence in case of accident. The height terial was dipped in thin flour paste and
present defined, for near three hundred it would be interesting to know, whence at first was about nineteen feet afterwards thrown forward into the water some fifteen
years. About four hundred years ago, a they came. My own surmise is that they sanie fifty years ago it was raised to near feet in front of the boat.
મમ
The latter was
portion was strieken off on the south in to it, until the low-
low-forming the district Kó Ming CELEBRATED WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE, rious from sight to twelve feet, and at the
was brought budden hoist, the fish-mostly it measures about
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from the west. This latter extends from near the junction of the west and north rivers in a direction South and East, and affords direct protection to the western portion of Nám Hoi district
in diameter. The muter of angles or fans, is a bulwark against desolation vary from three to seven and perhaps more, but the prevailing
umbers seemed to be It is certainly tone that no five and seven. such rocks now exist in the immediate neighbourhood at least not to the know- ledge of the Chinese, and the heatmen aver that in all their travels they have never seen anything like them. It is not strange the that their peculiar crystalline shape and color are calculated to insire the
seen
Manbarge
ideas relative to from the prmcipal article of culture the king fish from the river, the, for work if all the political and civil changes
blackwith supereful scientitie exami
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it
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Some idea of when by a
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ie
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21
the course
the last informing that of Sam Shui
Tung On was divided off on the west. The population previous to these Se- veral reductions was estimated at 112,471, the present limits were fixed, the cenas in sxotnaive of some 2,500 Miu Tez'. After 1,702 A. D. gave 22,895; and in:1824 the estimate is placed at 343,093, showing that the
two-fold for about every thirty years. rate of increase (if uniform) has been What has been the influence of the last for ty years on this progression? can we say that we now have 700,000 in that district?
To be continued.
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probably from Yan Få District 1 the labor and money expended may be is-rinall, sometimes large--were taken where the "Candle Rockerived from these figures, and some concep (which I half believe are instamorphic lime. tion formed of its importance when we find
Was tantis repeated, and, in ration and fifty years after this the district of I stone) are situated and visible rout the that direct protection, in this one, district,
of a day, it is said that from fifteen to twen- Clear River at a point between Shin Chan is afforded by it to about thirty thousand
ty catties of fish are taken by ons boat. Keres of taxable land. The great flood from 韶洲 and Love Cheung 樂昌:
By this time we have arrived at Wang the weatToKwong thirteenth year cá. Not being visible On the opposite side of the river and a short distance from these spectral objects, thirty years ago. broke through this level
from the river, we could only conclude that there is a magas boulder lying against the and dooded the whole region, rising even
the official buildings, or yaman of the Bank, which is quite strep
in the western suburbs of Canton to the aquire, must be in a condition similar to This rock may
all of the same class to be seen elsewhere he twenty or twenty five eet in length and height of several feet, and foreing the peo is icher longitudinal in shape. It is call ple to escape fav their houses in boats
undi pur rafts constructed from doors and making remarkable advances towards a ed the Betel nut" and is regarded
as a windows.
state of utter rnin. A creek of medium It occurred in the fifth inontle about
which curiosity,
superstition has
has and was followed on the sixteenth of the
size enters the river at this point, and at thrown its chana. I has the appearance
several its mouth we saw
eral boats
and loading if being loosely placed in position, and it is seventh south by a fearful typhoon or gale unloading large hales of tobacco leaf, which averred that the hight of a sewing thread, which continued for four days and nights
ie grown to sene estont in
in this section. and held on either side of the rock can and no doubt contributed much to the
The greater portion, however, of the in- be drawn underneath, showing that the great height of the water, as it blew from
ternal trade in this article comes down by boulier is a kind of mahomet's coffin sus-
the Fast. After three months and mora the North river from the Northern part of ded in the air and yet the most violent the water subsided, the loss of life and the
the Provinca There being little to in- destruction of Hoo is dashing against it when entirely sure
being heyond all property
terest the eye here, the prospect is more merged by the high water, fail to move it calculation. For several months "cheap pleasing on the opposite side of the river, tie" had to be furnished by government from its position:
where we see the village of Shá Pó Shortly after leaving Sai nath we passed and private anbscription to the suffering quietly looking out from a
people, until the cultivation of the desola throngs Sz im kay
“sult smug-
ted fields anuld again be resumed, It is beautiful grove of dark green foliage The gler's" 'croek a narrow stream which con not strange then, that during higli water place is particularly notable among the nects the mouth of the North River with the thus great fortifications aga
Chinae, as being the native village of against an resist main stremo of the west river or Sai Kong less an enemy, should be guarded with Cheung Kwok Leung
This Although the above is the uame scrupulous care. The force with which the
ian commenced his career as a leader of commonly applied to this connecting link, water pours through a crendase when once banditti, but yielding to the kind exhorta- it is always written Se-iu-káu fairly opened is almost beyond comprehen- times and attracted by the tender of office sion. I recollect having witnessed such a
and preferment made by the Tartar Goue- scene during a flood in the Mississippi, at a the sound being nearly preserved whilst the offensive idea is suppressed; such point on the right bank a few miles above ral Heung Wing, he facid about,
the idea New Orleans, Large barges changes are not unfrequent,
filled with sometimes being thrown out, and again stone were towed usar the Cremesse and changed his name from Ká-Tseung preserved under the garb of a more polite suuk, but no sooner done thau swept away to Kwok-Leung and became a purase, .s" Peak
is by the torrent, whilst the sugar plantations loyal subject. General Héng, finding shipped.
the eye
could reach were faubmer
him to be a man of lino natural ability, Peak when gel, and the vast plain surging with break-eventually attached him to his staff when
Made.
mifl pasring up above the desolation.
easily herd as "pig mother
spoken, hut is written
as far
F
Bourging from this crock we were aston with here and there the sutoke stack of! he was sent against the Tai-ping Rebels in.
ished immense volume of the Sai The breach was finally closed commen Rong and the turbid surdled appearance of sing ou ailler side and driving buge piles by steam, which were strongly backed up its waters. So thoroughly saturated is it with the earthy material that even in the as the work advanced combination of strength of the current the process of set-skill and power not likely to be very soon at the disposal of the villagers around tling
the blades of the cars, dipping only about two feet below the surface, bring up
clouds of
sand, giving que mud and
tintun with sneh marked rapidity Canton.
heavy
Along this portion of the River (above s'ing Ki) there are sotuc fine specimens of
the iropression of moving over a shallow the Tallow Tree, behind the levee on the goon of a few inches in depth instead of a left bank, and quite convenient for any one
deep current
on the high mo
mountain-hills b substituting
Konk St; and at his death, which
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of as inany fathoms. Leaving desirous of examining their peculiar claras
teristics. Wealso observed in this reach many dense forests of moss draped cypress, I contrivance or rathera goodly number of oue cold easily imagine myself once nove afiont- particular form of apparatus, for collecting on the old Missiseppi. Fassing by a long fish spawn, which floats on the surface of island with a desolate and formakeu looking the water: so say the Chinese; but in what were brought back to his native district. Congha, Asthma, and Incipient fort on its lower point the fort seeming to particular form whether attached to any Divine horrors were paid them as they have been built up in regular Chinese foreign substanes or not, whether on the passed through Canton; and it is said that style i. c. presenting the appearance of one surface or uear it, I cannot say, as t
as thre
the Emperor was deeply grieved at the huge einbrazure interspersed with lines of an was past, which seems to be during the the country sustained by his untimely end. masonry, rather than that of a strong wall stage of high water, The current here is He had not yet attained to the prime of pierced with embrazures-passing by this is such as to collect the light drift into a manhood, being only some thirty years of land we touched at Tsing
streak along the hark, and this result is age.
by a long bamboo flout 100ored at Shortly after passing Wáng chász we came
share, and
to the foot of a large and beautiful island, serving also as a kind of break water, keep which gave evidence of being in a fire state of
4 market town situated on the eastern side
of the mouth of a small stream which comes
West River from the north, at a point a
fortheredaistance from the
of
gita-
lose
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Prepared and sold in Bottles of various sizes, by THOMAS KEATING, Chemist, &c. 79, St. Paul's Churchyard, London.
down from Sg Yi district and enters theing the surface of the water comparatively cultivation, and containing several villages. COGH, ASTHMA, and all affections of the Throat, few perches below the boaudary fine beach and quiet. The float is composed comfortably located amidst the cool and tween Klú and Sam Shui lege Osthouse lashed into a bundle refreshing shades of fruit trees and clamps some or feet in diameter and sevə- of bamboo. It is correctly called East Districts.
ral hundred feet in length, aud is so auchor- One noteworthy object which bere arrest- ed as to rise and fall with the variations of Island, but is commonly known as
Between the Inketone ed our attention was the dyke along the the water or with the tide.
Sold Retail by a Druggists and Patent Medicine Vendors in the World.
JOHN OAKEY & SONS,
MANUFACTURER OF
on account of ita river bank. This structure extends all the float and the shore, rows of poles, ranged at traditionary origin. Páu Man-Ching way down from the mouth of the Shiu Hing right augles with the float and at con, who was Department Magis- WELLINGTON KNIFE POLISH. Gap varying in height from
twenty to venient
intervals, are set up and secured thirty feet with a base of from fifty to se-in position by stays and anchors against trate (some eight hundred and twenty-five venty five, and here and there pierced with the current. From these, small baskets years ago) of what was then known as culverts or sluices; constructed of hewn are suspended by ropes and allowed to Tun Chau now Shin Hing F, granite and fitted with heavy flood-gates of float or drag on the surface of the water πορά,
which close by the force of the rising with the mouths up stream, thus costi- is said to have been a man of remarkable administrative powers and pos. water and open by the pressure of that tuting the net iuto which the eggs are within when the river has fallen to a suit drifted. Many of course escape the snare, sessing the most sterling "integrity. He able stage.
By these sluices the water but the chances are that a portion will be filled bis term of office in such an accept. which has percolated through the soil is pick up below by people in small boats, able manner, that on its expiration he was draw off and an outlet is furnished to, who make it a business to collect by hand, immediately transferred to a position of
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Price $1.50. NOTES FOR TOURISTS IN THE - NORTH OF CHINA.
WITH 4 MAPS. MONTAINING information respecting the chief places of interest to be visit- edy at Peking, particulars respecting the Roads means of transport, exchange, places of accommodation &c., &e.
WITH
Three itineraries to gates of the Great Wall.
China Mail" Office. May 11, 1866.
From the North-China Daily News. A few months ago a writer in the Chieu Mail commenced the pubication of a series of Nates for Tuurisis in the North of China, and those have now breu published in a cordcused farm with the name of the writer, Mr N, B. Dounge. He is well qualin- fied for the work he has undertaken, and his opi- ony as to the best modes of travelling as well 19 his casual remarks upon men and manners in the nuth, are worthy of attention. We can discover Ho omission în bat given, all the precautions necessary to secure comfor Touto and at the vazione inn being very minutely set forth. From stage to stage of the journey, the traveller will find that bis author Haa: preceded him, and thus the discomforts from which he suffera. have been suffered before by one at least who bas set himself to desire means whereby they may be overcome We commend to those interested in topographical researches the description given of Peking, while And sold by Draggists and Storekeepers through those whose idens regarding the history of Paking out the World,
CAUTIONåle for Disseroy's Magnesi, anded Fiven its first establishment are misty and co-
and the many vicissitudes through which it has pas sce that DINNEFORE & Co. is on every Bottle fused, will da well to run over the condensed account indabel,
girati at page 25. We cannot pass in review esch chapter of Ms Dendy's' vainable little work.
Meanwhile, those who intend to travel in the Chi- li province during the approaching antum month, cannot do better than accept these Notes as their guido.
DINNER R
CHEMISTRY-TAINDON,
SAUCE,
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LEA AND PERRIN S WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE.
Pronanned by Cannolaseurs to be the only good Sunce and applicable to every variety of Dish.
Extract of a Letter from a Medical gentleman at Madrán to his broiler at Worcester, May, 1851.
Tell LRA and Prumiss that their Sauce is highly esteented in India, and is in ny opinion, the west palatable as well as the most wholesome Sauce that i» made.".
CAUTION.
LEA AND PERRINS
Beg to cantion the Public against spurious imitation of their celebrated WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE.
& P. have discovered that several of the For L.
eige Markets have been supplied with SPULOS IMTATIOs, the labels closely resembling those of the genuine Snce, and in one or more justances name of L. and P. forged.
L. and P. will proceed against anyone who say manufacture or vend such imitations, and have instruered their correspondents in the various parts of the world, to advise them of any infringement of their rights.
ASE FOR LÅND Péruins' SALTİK. *** Sold Wholesale and for Export, by the From pretore, Worcester; Messrs: Crosse and. Dlackwell; Measss. Barclay and Sons, London ; &c., &c.; by A. S. Waos & Co., Hoogkong; and by Grocers and Dilmay universally
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From the Baukon Tishes.
There are plenty of sights in and arcund the city, some visible and any more invisible, and MA Deuny deseription of the cities and their points of interest is full and carefully given As to its car--. rectness we are unfortunately unable to judge.
The name of the book "Notee for Tourists in the North China's rather andbitious, as the Author confines himself to Peking and two routes from that city, to Kalgan, about 130 miles distant, but for a visit to Peking the information will prove very Receptable to traveller especially if being at an ì.
From the Shanghae Recorder. little guide bank for Tourists in the North of Chins, The present mail brings us a copy of the usefal
which has recently been published by Mr N. H. Depuys, and we we are glad to be able to express a fororable opinion upon its serviceableness. The book, thought it only pretends to be a guide to travellers, contains such useful and interesting information; and may be looked upon in the light of the Marcayar Tourists in Northern Provices of the Celestial Respite.
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· From "Trübner's American and Criental Literary Record. The first Chinese Murray at has been given to the world appears in the shape of a neat pamphlet of some 70 pages, entitled, "Notes for Touriste in the North of Chiva, by N, B. Benny's" The pamphlet contains, in fact, very full descriptions of Tientsing, Peki, and the circumjacent country, with. vainable petes on the productions, objects of curiosity, public buildings, etc. of the Capital of China, besides. itinerates from Pekin to the Mongolian frontier and the passos of the Great Wall His work is il ustrated with several useful plaue of Pekio, and of he rante between that city and the sea.
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from the debilitating effects of a
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Hongkong, September 13, 1866.
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