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THE' SUN, LO NDO N, ON AY "EVENING NOVEMBER 2. 185'7. 'of some defn nct matron. There are graves - _,...-- also. Someti; mes these are mounds, sometimes (Th ee ' die Times' Special C orre spondent.) coffins placed upon the earth, and sometimes cof- Jan , ea sed ov k ir with dry brickwork. Occasionally 1 ON THE"' IMPERIAL CANAL, AUG. 10 . a beggar has i made his home in the coffin, and comes 1 I have a Nin Iwo servant hired for this t ri P , f " • f o rth from it t o beg. Shanghai, I found Mr. Th e on ly Cannes° objects which t o when; . moon an iving at the eye of .L'Ltn trying t o ecenmenicate with his countrymen Western taste are really beautiful are the bridges English, it wa s plain tnat he that cross their 'canals at frequent inter va ls. The by i n ens of Cantoiat willow-p do them attern p juslate,tice. Sometimes they consist so faithful in other matters, wauld not be of muc le use to me in di ffi culties up does not the country. I had nes idea that those provincials of three arches , but generally of only one. In the were so entirely incon eprehensible to each other. latter case solid masonry of carefully faced granite Thi voice of A'Yu awo ke., me to a sense that I was or limestone advances into the water from either We w ere moored in t he suburb si de. In the centre s p rin g s a li g ht and g raceful arch a public character. a 'ed. , every barge in the —more than a • semicircle, quite half an oval ; it of the city of Kiah in g , t i e d tsy spectators contem- springs 40 feet high, and the crown of the arch has neighbourhood was crow not twofeet of superstructure resting upon it. There Isnoring Barba- and, doub ass, plating the sleeping t iers, is keystone, but the thin • no coping stones are cut in Tian. The excitement was ves`jr great when the the proper curve. The bridge itself is a terrace outer foreigner -threw aside his .mosquito curtains mounted by steps on either side at an angle of 45 jacket and sleeping trowsers, degrees. The eect is very graceful and airy, and and appeared in loose but it reached its highest point ,v . hen he took aa' no wheeled car riages are used in China (except wheelbarrows) they answer all practical purposes. healer into the canal. The best part of the enter- A sunset on the Imperial canal, with the monu tainueent, however, seemed to be when the ba;rba- ments on the banks, a vista of these bridges, and rime his swim being .accomplished, had to climb UP the mountains of Nganhwui in the far distance, is ' the rope into the boat, with his dripping pajamase a sight I shall remember when I look again upon es and pull all his curtains about him. The water is I Claud We a and Turners. re thankful that at lost there are mountains quite: clean, and the Chinese throw nothing away. i'll view ; for this perpetual level, fat and. fertile as We have now got into districts where the people it is, grows depressing. very rarely see foreigners, and their surprise and It;' is our fifth day, and we are expecting to reach astonishment are as great as .4 they had never even Hanwchan, where all our difficulties of transit must seen one before. I confess I think this perpetual be exp (listed. While' writing I have passed along five miles of mobbing insufferable. My Ch inese disguise does rural dist rict with banks all builtup, like a Parisian very well to go through a city in a chair, but it will quay, of wrought granite, and the towing-path not do to walk about with. The first dog I meet carried over stone bridges which cross the frequent resents the imposture and draws upon me the cri- branches of this immense artificial navigation. I ticism and curiosity of the multitude. A despair of convoying the idea of vastpa work, natural fer- Chinese bourgeois wears no hat. 140 is the only enormous traffic, patient iaquiry,_ _ human cr e a ture who shaves his head and defies tility, individual content, and peaceful prosperity the blazing sun. Five minutes of this would with which this journey impresses me. The pago infallible produce brain fever in a Europeon, go we des are in ruins, and where the quays have fallen are obliged. to use either the straw hat of the the re is no hand to repair them. The Imperial Chinese peasant or the pith hat of the Hong Kong grain junks are rotting a and the few forts are in merchant. You must, however, weer Chinese , decay. But these evidences of decrepitude in the clothes ; you could not move a step through these rulers have not yet operated to affect the personal cities in European clothes—they would excite a ha ppiness which springs from fertile lands and in frenzy of curiosity. I saw much more of the city of dustrious husbandmen. Kiahing by water than I did by land, but these At the end of one of the old straight lines of this cities of the delta are like Venice or Amsterdam, it highway we discern at last a far extending mass of is only from their canals that you can see them. houses, whose walls exult in bright whitewash and Although but a third-class city, we were at least whose roofs are all of old grey tiles. These houses an hour passing through Kiahing. There are vast seem to i ntend far back and to overspread the sto-es of that thick poitsry ware used at Shanghai plain that intervenes between the bank of the canal for baths and coarser utensils, much of it well orna- and the highlands that form the background of our metlted. There are large carpenters' shops contain- present view. lug the simple silk-winding machine of the Chinese, This, seen through a mob of junks, moving and in every stage of completion. We are now far ad- sill, is Hangehau as it appears from the Imperial vapeed into the silk district. There ie a large eats- canal. All things indicate the capital of a . great bliehment for crushing seeds and making oil. We province. Our old frientls the Imperial grain junks land to inspect it, and the proprietor is polite and have been rotting in hundeeds for the last ten miles, explanatory. There are tea-shops overhanging the the canal has been of extending width, Mandarin water, and the customers, naked to the waist, are passage boats, towed by strings of coolies have lounging and smoking and sipping from their gone by sounding their gongs and flaunting their little cups a weak infusion without milk or sugar. banners, while the Mandarin looked out from his Theu there is a break in the continuity of habita- seat of honour, and from behind his fan eag erly tious—a rick of rice straw and a grove of mulberry eyed the strangers. The commerc ial nav y of Cina trees, not large round topped trees such as we see in (per sang—ito schooners or lorchas) were taking France and Italy, but trees free to grow as nature in paper, tea, rice, oil, bamboo basket work, pl* sex, and bearing their leaves down to the bottom and a thousand other articles of produce. They are of their stems. Of the mi'lions of mulberry trees I loading the tea here in its natural state in cheets have seen in this part every one has a good healthy protected by matting. It is all for Shanghai andthe foliage, and not one has been stripped in the manner export market. That is to say, it is all of that high- I have somewhere seen described. Passing this dried. kind which will pass the sea. I counted. 18 age icultural interval, we again immerge into the junks of about 200 tons each lying together ready city. We seem now to be in a district of merely laden with this European necessity. domestic dwellings. The enormous signboards SITRIFRBS OF BANGCHAII, ANG. 11. covered with gigantic Chinese characters are less The irrigation wheel has now entirely given way frequent. There is a fat Chinawoman and her to the wharf The banks on either ride are as the pretty little round plump daughter hanging out banks of tie Thames when it reaches the city's clothes in a very small number of square inches of eastern suburb. High above roofs and masts rise drying ground under the eaves of their cottage. two lofty poles, whose cross bars show them to be In another building there is a solitary damsel em- ensigns of official authority. They stand before a plo red upon her embroidery ; and in another a large public edifice. In China all public edifices are palm-leaf fan is being used to drive the mosquitos of the same pattern ; josshouses and palaces and out of the curtains. The little domesticities of life public offices might and very frequently do inter are going on while the men are at business. change their purposes without much alteration. Thrpughout the whole extent of Kiahing and of The building before us has the usual double tier of eve.ey other city in this neighbourhood there are shelving roofs with upturne - 1 corners, as though well-finished quays of faced granite, having at every the original designer of this style had taken the 20 yards broad stone stairs down into the water ; prows of four Greek galleys and put them toga upon these the long-tailed race both men and chil- ther, with their rostra facing to the four cardinal dr. n, stand and fish. Some of the stores are very points. It also has a very extensive gallery, which extensive, rap along way back, and are divided comes out on piles into the canal, and is roofed and free their . neighbours by thick and high per • t y ornamented in proper official style, and crowded walls; but the houses are all built to the same pat- widt Chinese officials. This buildingis the celebrated teiri—a garret above a shop, a slanting roof of " Pain Kwan," or "Ta Kwan"—the "new" or tiler s and projecting eaves over both the shop and the "great" Custom-house. This is the foe of Men the garret. This. is the unvarying form. Sign- cheater and Leeds, and. Nottingham and Sheffield. boards withimmense characters, the presence or This is tha first lock in the ascending water-way. abeence of flowerpotaand casements, and the various here British calicoes get their first ltft, to be still characters of the commodities for sale constitute f.irther lifted. at very short stages. There is no es the. only difference. We entered Kiahing through cape. Here the Imperial canal ends. There are an archway in the wall, and quitted it through a small feeder; which come down from places in the similar aperture. There is no difference between neighbourhood, but here the navigation ceases. the city and the suburb, except that inside the walls There is a magnificent navigable river which rolls tho.canals are narrower. on the other side of the city, but with this the Ica- A:gain we were in the country, among the mul- penal has no connection. Such is the Imperial berry trees and the rice -fields, the patches of policy. Here at Hangchow everything must be tobacco, the sepulchral mounds, with their waving transhipped. banners of high reeds, the gourds trellised on We pulled up at the Castom-house, and lam ba , nboo framework, and the agricul tu ral population ready for the rigorous search which must take all at work—men and women, with equal energy, plate. I was determined to solve this mystery of treading at their irrigation wheels. Here is the the differential duties. I had a piece of printed secret of the fertility of this great delta. Every calico and a packet of clasp knives, and also some hundred yards a little family treadwheel, with its of my Chinese clothing, not yet worn, on the table. lint . ) of tiny buckets, is erected over the canal, and I was fully resolved to have a considerable discus the water is thrown up to refresh the mulberry sion over the payment for these things. tress or mature the rice. When the Arabs learn After a few moments, a man, something between to labour like this the plain of the Metidja may the Coolie and comprador class, and without even become as productive as this delta of the two rivers. the small pyramidal official straw hat, put his head We must have passed 10,000 people to-day engaged into the boat and said, as plain as unintelligible in this irrigation process. words and significant gesture could speak, "That Towards evening we arrived at the first-class city will do ; go on." of Keashin, where I found myself surrounded by " But tell him," roared Ito A'yu, "that I have all the scum of the city. They were never hostile, duties to pay." bet they stoop and poke out their heads and stare "He telkee all right." their very hardest at you in a close circle. They " Tell him these boxes are all full of salt, and ge.itly lay hold on your hand to examine the ring. the boat is full of contraband goods." TI py beg to be allowed to remove your spectacles, " He talkee no mindee." and make the most impertinent remarks upon the "Tell him we haven't paid the boat toll." cotour of your eyes. Mine are of the most ridiculous "He talkee bamboo boatee man." and unnatural of all colours—blue ; and they are At this hin t we were at once propelled from the --- 1 CHINA. Ruth a curiosity that a crowd of Chinamen will st.t,re at them for half an hour without winking, hut oc easionally laughing heartily to each other. My htef prosecutor at Kea9hin was a fellow who squinted horribly. I thought myself justified in pc inting out this fact to the crowd, and thus got rid of him, for there was a roar of laughter, amid which be slunk away. shore, and I was left with my British produce to mourn over the fallibility of the best laid schemes. It was quite evident now that the officials were determined to ignore our presence. I knew there was a toll that would amount to nearly a dollar each on our boats ; they refused, however, to take it from us. They allow us now to pass the Cus tom-house unquestioned. They are ~ ..learly treat- All this is mere curiosity. There is no feeling of he utility to strangers. If a Mandarin were officially informed of our presence we should probably be arrested and sent back ; the fact that no one cares to•do so shows that the people feel no displeasure at 'our presence. 'After a little intercourse this would all cease, but at present it is an insufferable affliction. I am not fa's'tidious, but ahundred Chinamen crowding round said pushing one another close upon you is not a pnasant position. You must add, moreover, that th p thermometer is standing at 100, that these fel lo j r3 are all naked to the waist, and that the Chinese atek, not only a mate race but also eminently a cuts 11.110US people. ifieashin is but a larger Keahing. AU these cities on the plain are just al'ke. At Keashin, how- WA-, we leave that network of canals which, al tlkftigh over 50 yards broad, are now narrowed to a cifttleol by 1 ght bamboo partitions on etch side. Ttae enclosed sidewater is hired and cultivated as gardens, a water-loving root, which the Eng call " buffalo head," and which the Chinese reAch affect. Worse, however, than the ling gar -4410, the huge hulks of the Imperial grain junks eietiumber these small canals. Since the rebels have been established at Nankiu the inland communica tion has been stopped, and the food of Pekin goes raiund by sea. Many hundreds therefore of these jocks have become useless. They are rotting in all directions, filling up Vie channels—some above w4kter, some below, all of them in decay. They mist not be broken up, or sold, or burnt—they are I Itiaperial property. At Keashiu we enter upon the 4aperial canal. Between the carefully piled banks at this noble river, for it is as wide as the Thame4 at Kew, we journey for three days, passing and ea . etimes tarrying at villages and t wins and cities. It the country, however, which is most inte resting. • .. God made the country and man made the town." may be in batrue Engla nd, but here man has as much makin g the country as in making the b w-n. :There is no lack of obj ects pass up towed th-se hardy boatmen .Theirritatiortwn ee l s are constantly gotißrg' rritetrawa- junksnder their awning of mats. The e ver ceasing—who shall numbe r ,h e vehicles f._ir i tiater-carriage whic : i China; pos3esles The fiaher - teen with his flock of fishing cormorants psrclied On his punt or swimming after him is passing up under the banli, and I notice that if a cormorant g..;t3 a large fish which he caintio swallow, he takes it to the punt and receives something which hi s tauter pushes into his mouth in return for it ; but if it be an eel or small fish he tries to escape with it and swallow it, and if he is beyond the reach bf the fisherman's crook he generally does so. Near the towns the banks are lined at intervals °T‘ few hundred yards with triumphal monuments lit atone. This monument i 3 of one type but n t a'.ways of one pattern—two bright square p illars, :two or three horizontal bars bearing inscriptions., and a pediment on tho:top like a section on the roof of a Chinese temple. They have erected six of these at Canton to celebrate the expulsion or the English. Here they commemorate the virtues ing the three - Englishmen as 15ogberry thought it best to treat rogues. Now I began to make frantic inquiries from Chinamen about the matter I had ietended to settle myself. I am told that at this " Ta Kwan" they take 15 cash, or about three halfpence, for a piece of China cloth, and 400 cash, or 3s. for English. A Chinaman will always give you an answer, and it will generally be the first phrase that comes into his head. I paid little attention to this assertion and should not have repeated it, bat that it seems to accord with my subsequent experience. Shanghai is full of English goods ; at Keahing and lE!ashun I saw some English " domestics ;" but after we had passed the " Ta Twan" I never saw anything Eng lish exhibited for sale, except English sewing cot ter', which had penetrated even to the primitive city of Peh Kwan. It may be that the duties on English goods are as heavy as my Chinese infor mant says, but I must admit that I do not think the testimony worth much. We now held a council. Shall we try to invade the city or not 1 Hangchow is, next to Pekin, the most zealously-guarded city in the empire. " There is; Heaven above, but there are flangchow and Soo_loo on earth," say the Chinese poets. It was for no short time the Imperial capital. It has al ways been essentially Chinese. Annals of martyr doms tell still of the massacre of 800 Christians at Hangchow. During the last war many of our kii napped sailors were sent here as to a place of secu rity, and butchered after a mock trial. Several Europeans have sail they have been into the city, but they have given no more description of the place than if they had not been there. They pro bably passed through in well-closed chairs. Even this cannot be easily done. The lasi attempt was made by Mr. Edkins, and it resulted in his being taken into custody and sent back under an escort on his road to Shanghai. On the whole, it was thought wiser to go on at once to the famous lake, with its gardens of ling, its fairy tea-houses, its mighty Buddhist temples, its Imperial Palace, and its pagoda-crowned sur • rounding m ountains. Oa one side it wadies the city wills, so we shall not be far away. It is the glory of Hangchow, and the boast of the Celestial Empire ; so it is probably much better worth see is4g 'hail the city itielf. VILLAGE OF SEHOO, AUG. 14. Avoiding the gates of flan;chow, and making a wide, circuit, we tracked our way through devious ditches up to a village ball a mile distant le fwt and °a chars, and e an a : d its " b o u t s ' i t h e a ss in se i ed 1 of Hangchow. This v is full of coolies the burgesses . stant from the to be to convey fit H ert o eh n e g is c v han about to the temples and gardens. for us. We lie no entrance into the lake fever seem in six inches of green seem to float around. water. oThreeu r daysAn i g g u h et weres and sv sleptpassed n this n t the etswamp.the great Buddhist temples and in the monasteries o take us to the Temple of th e Great°Bzes. They mighty bust, 40 feet high, carved o u t o f the rock I' l Igilt —thence to a still larger temple, where pagoda and 49 colossal idols commemorate the 49 transmigrations of Buddha. Thence across rich pleasure grounds, where streamlets ripple and some spots are shady, bnt where still that knife•grinding din pursues us, for— . . . . . ... ._ "Sole sub ardenti resonant arbusta cicadis." We are borne to the Temple of the Fish Buddha, where enormous carp grow fat in pleasant ponds. At least a thousand of them contended for our -votive biscuits, and some of them weighed to a fisherman's eye quite 401 b. These temples, however, great as they are in size and gorgeous grotesqueness, are but as little Welsh churches compared to the wonders of the " Yun Lin," the "Cloudy Forest." This is not so much a temple as a region of temples. It is suggestive of the scenes of those ancient Pagan mysteries where the faith and fortitude of neophytes were tried, and their souls purified by suc cessive terrors. It is a limestone district, abounding in caves and far-reaching dark galleries and myste rious internal waters. These natural opportunities are improved by a priest and an altar in every cave, gigantic idols cut into the rock in unexpected places, rays of heavenly light which only the faith ful votary ought to be able to see, but which, as they come through holes bored through the hill, sceptics sometimes catch sight of ; inscriptions 2,000 years old, but deepened as time wears them. The place is a labyrinth of carved rocks, a happy valley of laughing Buddhas, and Queens of Heaven, and squatting Buddhas, and hideous hooknosed gods of India. There is a pervading smell of irankincens , and the single priest here and there in solitary places, moaning his ritual, makes the places yet more lonely ; and through this strange scone you pass through narrow paths to the foot of the colossal I errace steps which mount to the temple itself. The wild birds are flying about this vast echoing hall of Buddha ; the idols are still bigger and still more richly gilt. In the great " gallery of five hundred gods" all that can be done by art, laborious, but ignorant of beauty, reaches its climax. _ _ The cowled and tonsured bonzes came forth to greet us. Excellent tea and great choice of sweet meats await us in the refectory. The wonders of this Hangchow Lake deserve bet ter description than the objects of these letters will allow me to attempt. The temple and tomb of the faithful Minister of State, Yo Fei, occupy acres of ground and thousands of tons of monumental wood, stone, and iron. The Imperial palace upon the lake, with its garden of rockwork and green ponds, its large library of unused books, its dim metal mirrors, richly embroidered cushions, and ricketty old chairs, opened to us with great difficulty, and under the immediate pre-sure of the almightly dollar. I hope some one under less imperative obligation to eschew the merely picturesque and to seek only for facts which may have practical bearings, may yet describe these objects. My favourite eventide oc cupation was to ascend one of these hills and sit at the foot of one of these half-burnt pagodas which stand about like blasted cypress trees and look down upon the Hangchow. The famous city lies like a map beneath me. Net a curl of smoke, not a building more lofty than the or thodox two-storied josshouse. I can follow the line of outer walls and even track the course of the inner enceinte. Marco Polo says they were 100 miles round, and a Chinese chronicler records that in a single conflagration, while Hangchow was yet the capital of China, 530,000 houses were burned. These are foolish fables. Hangchow from its posi tion never could have been much larger than it now is. It stands upon a slip of laud about three miles wide, intervening between the river (which is wider than the Mersey, and has 30 feet of water at low tide) and this lake. At one end the ground swells into a hill, over the crest of which the city wall passes. The shape of Hangchow, therefore, is very m uch that of a couch, the hill part being repre sented by the pillows, and being the fashionable part of the city. I can see not only public temples, but also many of those private ancestral temples, which are to a Chinese gentleman what the chancel of his parish church is to au English squire. Little gardens, perhaps not 40 feet square, full of weeds and rockwork and little ponds • an oblong pa vilion with tablets upon the walls, descriptive of the names and achievements of the ancestors---L kneeling stool, an incense vase, candlesticks, a bra zier to burn paper made in imitation of Sycee silver, and a sacrificial tub—such is a Chinaman's private chapel. Here he comes ou solemn days, and, the garden being weeded, and all things painted and renewed for the occasion, he prays and sacrifices to his ancestors, and feasts with his friends. If the Chinaman has a superstition that is it. His Budd hism is a ceremonial to the many and a speculative philosophy to the adept, no more. Mr. Edkins's object in visiting the temples of the lake was to hold controversy with the priests, so I had more opportunity of hearing what they really believe than usually falls to the lot of travellers who cannot read the Pali books. They did not feel k his arguments against idolatry. They treat their grotesque gods with as much contempt as we do. They divide the votaries into three classes. First come the learned men who perform the ritual and observe the abstinence from animal food merely as a matter of discipline, but place their religion in absolute mental abstraction, tending to that perfec tion which shall fit them to be absorbed into that something which, as they say, faith can conceive, but words cannot describe. Secondly come those who, unable to mount to this intellectual yearning after purification from all human sentiments, strive by devotion to fit themselves for the heaven of the western Buddha, where transmigrations shall cease, and they shall for all eternity sit upon a lotus igower and gaze upon Buddha, drawing happiness from his presence. Thirdly follow the vulgar, whose devotion can rise no higher than the sensual care monies, who strike their foreheads upon the steps of the temples, who burn incense, offer candles from the tallow tree, and save up their cash for festival days. So far as my experience goes, this class is confined almost entirely to old women, and the priests say that their one unvarying aspiration is that at their next transmigration they may be come men. _ _ . The rascal pretended he was quite unaware of our presence. I found out afterwards that he knew that three Englishmen ware passing in just as well as we did. I breathed more freely when the gate was passed, and when we became entangled in the nar row streets. They bore us through the dirtiest parts of the town, and passed the Yanaun or police office, known by the horrible Imperial lion scrawled in paint, upon the opposite wall. The people soon began to run together. The blinds of the chairs were sufficiently transparent to allow them to see there was something unusual ; perhaps the fact of the chairs being closed was enough in itself. Then we grew bolder and opened the blinds, and, although the crowd pressed to see, there was no hostile demonstration. At last we got to a better part of the city, we boldly descended and found ourselves in the streets of Hangchau. We now bade one of the coolies guide us to the upper part of the city, while the chairs followed. We passed several curiosity shops, where there were some few things I should have bought, but, alas ! our expenses had so far exceeded our expectation that we were already afraid our funds would fall short—a contingency which actually occurred, for we had to borrow of % Chinese innkeeper. I noticed that in one of the curiosity shops an English beer bottle was placed among the vases in a post of honour. As we ascended the hill we passed a tea house, which was the first I had seen in China hav ing any pretensions to ornament. This was evi dently the Verey of Hangchau. A Mandarin chair was following us, and we drew up to allow the gen tleman to overtake us. In evident perturbation he stopped his chair and went into oae of the tem ples, where he doubtless expended some cash in incense to be delivered from the barbarians. We were now among josshouses and private residences which I had seen from the Pagoda-hill, and from the terrace we could see down into the courts and houses of the lower city. It was a holiday in Hang chau. There were shows going on. We had heard much firing in the morning, and we now learnt that there had been a review of 8,000 troops, and our informrnts addel with much laughter that one of the evolutions had been to make the soldiers charge right into the river up to their armpits. In this part of Hangchau wa were less thronged than I had ever been before in China. There was no apparent obstacle to our goit ' e where we pleased or doing what we pleased. We did not venture into the theatre, for we knew by experience, at a sing-song on the bank of the lake, that the Chinese ladies, with their smart robes, their painted faces (white and red upon their cheeks and vermillion on their lips, little enamelled stars beside their eyes, and black upon their eyebrows), would almost jump out of their boxes with fright ; while the populace would throng about us, and the actors woulds tend still and stare like the rest. Being a little overcome by the sun, I strolled away by myself back to the tea house, and took my place at a little table as com placently as I should on one of the boulevards ; the tea was exquisite—that slightly-dried, small, green leaf which yen never can taste in England ; for tea will not keep er pack or stand the voyage unless burnt up to the state o f i ns ipidity i n w hi c we get it. A poet Emperor of China, Khian-Loung, has not disdained to si ng th e pra i ses o f t ea , an d, like a practical Chinaman, he teaches us how to makeit "Graceful are the leaves of mei-hoa, sweetly scented and clear are the leaves of fo-cheon. Bat place upon a gentle fire the tripod whose colour and form tell of a far antiquity, and fill it with water of molten snow. Let it sio)the till it would be hot enough to whiten fish or to redden a crab. Then pour it into a cup made from the earth of pie upon the tender leaves of a selected tea-tree. Let it rest till the mists which freely rise have formed themselves into thicker clouds, and until these have gra dually ceased to weigh upon the surface, and at last float in their vapour. Then sip deliberately the delicious liquor. It will drive away alll the fire causes of disquietude which come to trouble us. You may taste, and you may feel ; but never can you express in words or song that sweet tranquillity we draw from the essence thus prepared." I sipped and was refreshed ; but the sweet tran quillity was not mime. The curiousgtea-drinkers pressed around me, and there was a waiter whose nature it was to walk about with a kettle of boiling water, and whose unconquerable instinct compelled him to fill up my cup whenever it was getting three degrees b=low boiling point and was becoming pos sible to drink. The people were very good-tempered, but they came very close and the day was very hot. I was so strict iu my Chinese costume that they could find nothing to wonder at but my physique and my pith hat. They made the most of these. If I had been dressed in European costume I be lieve they would have undressed me in their ardent curiosity. Msantime our coolies and luggage had been stopped at the gate we passed through. The offi cials told my man that we had acted wrong in not presenting our cards and the Foo-tei's pass ; but it was not their business, but that of another officer, to atop foreigners. They do not wish to atop Eng lishtnen's luggage, but looked into the servants' boxes. They asked where the Englishmen were gone, and wore satisfied when told that we had gone up the hill " to Jhinchin Joss." All this talk about cards and passes was of course Chinese taradlddles, but it shows that the Chinese authorities were per leotly aware that they had three Englishmen among them. I could find no silk weaving in the city, but there must be quarters like the suburbs of Lyons, for this is the very centre and depot of the silk district. After several hours in Haugchou we got into our chairs again, and psssed through the opposite gate of the city along a ditty faubourg and over a flat to the Tsien-tang river, which is here about two miles wide. There is a little Custom-house, but no ships and no commerce. Hangchou evidently depends upon its inland trade, and seeks no communication by sea. As we crossed the broad river I looked back up this picturesque city, and felt that it s env i rons were as familiar as those of Liverpool, Cheltenbam, or Richmond. We had five days' journey yet before us, the greater part through country even less visited than Hangchou itself. I should grow intolerabl e , how ever, were I to describe the rest of th e route with the same minuteness. I must not even venture to describe the sepulchre of Yu; the founder of the Hia dynasty, although it is the grandest sepulchral temple in China, and boasts an antiquity of 2,000 years, although a fierce thunderstorm burst so close that there was a smell of fire and the gigantic idol trembled. Perhaps I may be permitted, how ever, to say that nearly 100 lineal descendants of the great Emperor who controlled the great inun dations and curbed the waters of the four great rivers still live in poverty under the protection of the Temple. Under the Ming dynasty they re ceived pensions ; the Tartars allow them none. Here is a pedigree, ye followers of Rollo. Enough to say of Peh Kwan that the people asked us whether we were Siamese. They had seen the Loochooians, and we were not like them, and they knew we were not Japanese. Chao-ping is for many miles round girt with sepulchral monuments. It ie to the worship of ancestors what Hangchau and its lake are to Buddha. All the wharves and bridges were crowded by all the population of the place_ as we went through. The half-naked bodies seemed countless as we moved slowly through canals exit tly—bridges, smells, and all, like some of the black canals in Venice. We passed several nights among the most uncultivated crowds of tnatinen while awaiting our turn to be dragged by wind lasses over those dikes of slippery mud which in Cuina do duty for locks. We passed other nights in passing tbraugh lakes and listening to the songs and cymbals which told of marriages in the villages on its banks. We watched the paddy harvest, examined the tallow trees, with their poplar-like leaf, their green berries, and their alder shaped form. We saw. the cotton come into flower. We fired in vain at two eagles circling round the head of a man who was accompanied by a little dog, which they wanted to carry off. We stopped and interrogated a sort of Chinese Gil Bias, who was travelling oil foot (almost an un p rece dented thing in China), and wh o carr i e d w i th h i m a ll his worldly goods—a pai r o f bl ue b reeches, a pipe, and a small teapot. We i nvest i gated at Yu- Y oa th e c o untry si fr •m the top of th e Ci ta d el-h ill , an d i n the dyer's shop we ex a mi ne d the dye wherew i t h th os e ever present blu e b reeches are dyed. A f ter t en days of to revolve lik e the events of the Pl a t on i c year. everythin g seeme d to repeat itself and 'We became convinced at last that if we were to j,urney from Hangchau to Pekin, and from Pekin to Szchuen, we should find just the same arts and .manners and agriculture, varied only by the exi ig-ncies of nature. Such is Buddhism as wa see it in China. But this is not all. A Chinese poet who 800 years ago built an ugly straight down in this beautiful lake of See-hoo, about the same time invented the Ten Gods of Hell, and grafted them upon the Buddhist faith to territy men from crime. There is also a re formed sect of Buddhists who call themselves " Do- Nothings," and who place the perfection of man in absta►ning from all worship, all virtue and all v ice. When the Jesuit missionaries saw the mitres, the tonsure, the incense, the choir, and the statues of the Queen of Heaven they exclaimed that the Devil had been allowed to burlesque their religion. We Protestants may almost say the same. These reformed Buddhists deduce their origin from a teacher who was crucified in the province of Shantung some 600 years ago, and they shock the missionaries by blasphemous parallel. I have heard that the present Bishop of Victoria investigated this sect and sent home au account of them, but, for some reason, the statement was suppressed. Then we have the Taoist?, or cultivators of per fect reason, which is a philosophy having also its temples and its ceremonies. We have the worship of Heaven, which is the prerogative of the Empe ror, and we have the State religion, the philosop► y of Confucius, which is but metaphysics and ethics. All these may form good subjects of discussion to laboriously idle men, but they are of very little practical importance. 'They are apt culations—not superstitions. They are thought over—they are not felt. They inspire no fanaticism, they create no zeal, they make no martyrs, they generate no into lerance. They are not faiths that men will fight for, or die for, or even feel zealousfor. Your Chinese doctor is a man of great subtlety, of great polite ness, but of the coldest indifference. He is a most pachydermatous beast, so far as the zeal of the Christian missionary is concerned, "Do you be lieve in Jesus Christ 1" asks the missionary after long teaching patiently heard. " Certainly I do," coldly answers the hearer. "But why do you be lieve ; are you convinced ; do you feel that what I have been saying is true ?" " I believe it because you say so," is the polite and hopeless answer. It is this which makes the earnest missionary de spond. A Chinaman has no superstition. He has nothing that can be overthrown and leave a void. He will chin his joss, burn crackers Mare he starts on a v ,yage, or light a candle for a partner or a useful clerk who may be in danger of death. But it's only hope of " good luck" or fear of "bad luck." The feeling is no deeper than that which in reli gious and enlightened England causes so many horse shoes to be nailed to keep out witches, or which makes decent housewives, who can read and write, separate crossed knives, throw pinches of salt over their shoulder, and avoid walking under a ladder. Clusteredupon this hill, within the walls of Han g chou, are temples of all these varied farms of Pa ganism, and perhaps within the year the sane idol iter has bowed in all of them. Two lofty green mounds ara perhaps too large for mere private tombs, aad mark the spot of some public hew wo►ship ; but in other cases the architecture of ill s scree and public edifices is all alike, and you eau not distinguish temples from Custom-houses or Mandarin °llium On the 10th of August we arrived at Ningpoo, after some di scomfort a nd some necess ity f or s t rong doses of qui n i n e , b ut after muc h exc i- einflut and great en j 400 miles of country not o f ten b efore traverse d . We have en oYm,-mt. W e h ave passed tered four first-class Chinese cities (two of them un known to European travellers), ma ny second-class cities which in other countries might be cl tsed as first, an't innumerable towns and villager. Throughout the whole of our journey we have re ceived from 119 Chinese an uncivil word or in sulting gesture. No I ; ut;. - ico.evous u- chiu has thrown s• ones down upon us from any one of the hundreds of br idges we passed through. No one stoNed ur, and no Que waylaid us. It is true tit. , t the Mandarins at ... 1 Tr wau soul us a message to appear al their yaruun, but whew we sent answ,r that we would endeavour to make preparation to receive their visit Q board our boats, and when Mr. Edkina had sent them a Test anent, they took the evasive answer iu good part,. and suffered our footmen to proond. CHAO-RING, Aua. 15. Having made a careful survey of 1119 environs of Hangchou, we now determined to attack the city. With a retinue of 12 chair-bearers and 10 coolies, who followed with our baggage, we left our boats during the midday heat, and skirting the border of the lake reached the wall of the city. Here we shut ourselves up, and Mr. Elkins, profiting by former mishaps, instructed the party to avoid the Tartar part of the city and the Manchoo gate. It was an exciting moment when the first palanquin passed under the city gate. From behind my exaggerated fan I could see a fat Chinese of f icial, who was evi dently on duty, but who had his back turned to 115. From this journey I drew two practical conclu sions. ex ceedingly an x i ous The first i s th a t t h e author i t i es i n China are •in no way to complicate t heir present disput es with England, and, holding in very wholesome t error t h e English name, are in . dined to shut their eyes to the presence of peace ably conducted foreigners. The second is that, unless excited by the authori ties, as they have been at Canton—and as they might have been here, for had the Mandarins chosen to say we were Portuguese we should certainly have had our throats cut, —the Chinese people have no objection whatever to the presence of foreigners in their cities. Whenever, therefore, the provisions of a new treaty shall open all China to every European. pro vided with a passport from his own Consul there will be no difficulty in the English merchant carry ing his own goods up the rivers and canals and into the great cities of China. The people will be glad enough to trade with him, and the authorities can, if they will, protect him. NINGPO, AUG- 24. _ _ This great city, with its 350,000 inhabitants, its beautiful river, and its excellent water connexion with the interior, is the least valuable of all our commercial stations. Neither tea nor silk is brought down in any quantities, and the little tea that is prepared here is sent to Shanghai to be shipped. The importation of British and Straits produce was last year but 136,3591. 93., and not two-thirds of this was British manufactures. The greater security of European shipping and its comparative immunity from the pirates outside (whom I saw the other day send a whole fleet of junks back into the river) have given it some im portance as a shipping port for Amoy, Formosa, Swatow, and the Straits. In 1856 198 British ships, with an aggregate of 25,506 tons, loaded here. This carrying trade is likely to increase, for the Chinese are becoming quite alive to the advantage of a stout ship and an English flag. "Can insure?" is a question now very often in a Chinaman's mouth, and Chinamen are.rich at Ningpo. Ningpo is still in the after-throb of great excite ment. The European settlement is on the side of the river, opposite to the walled city. The hongs are not numerous nor very large, and they are mixed up with Chinese residences and large timber yards—timber is the staple of Ningpo,—and they form a rectangle, the area behind which is occupied by graves and paddyfields, but chiefly by graves. On the 26th June a naval battle was fought in the river, and a massabre took place among the tombs. The story is somewhat out of date, but I must deal with it here, where alone I coulddo so upon a proper knowledge of the facts, because it is j illustrative of the state of affairs we have to deal with in China. To understand this transaction we must recollect, what it is so difficult for people in England to believe, that the whole coast of China is so infested with pirates that even a fleet of fishing boats cannot ♦en ture out without armed vessels as a convoy. The fishing boats which ply off the mouth of the river Yong pay convoy duties to the extent of $50,000 a-year ; and the wood junks that ply be tween Ningpo and Foochow and the other native craft raise the annual payment for protection to $200,000 (70,0001.) annually. These figures are startling, but I have taken pains to ascertain their correctness. with our next treaty with China. They show how important and how difficult is the question of po licing the coast and exterminating piracy ; they show also how important it is that the great Euro pean Powers should exercise a strong control over stuili lawless vagabonds as those who acted with the Cantonese ; they also suggest very grave conside rations how far it might be right to extondto small and not very conscientious Governments like that of Portugal the treaty-privileges which England is about to ask, not only for herself, but for all other civilised nations. The vessels employed in this convoy service were Portuguese lorchas. These vessels were well armed and equipped. There were no Mandarin junks and no Portuguese ships of war to cope with them or control them, and they became masters of this part of the coast. It is in the nature of things that these privateers should abuse their power. They are ac cused of the most frightful atrocities. It is alleged that they made descents upon villages, carried off the women, murdered the men, and Lurnt the habi tations. They became infinitely greater scourges than the pirates they were paid to repel. It is alleged, also, that complaints to the Portuguese Consul were vain, that Portuguese sailors taken red-handed and handed over to this consul were suffered to escape froin the consular prison. Rightly or wrongly, the Chinese thought that the Consul was in complicity with the ruffians who were acting both as convoy and as pirates. The convictions of the English and Franch residents at Ningpo do not differ from those of the Chinese ; and although, having no means of guarding my inquiries with the securities of a judicial investigation, I am unwilling to make any stroncr. assertion, I think I may rea sonably say that the honour of the Government of Portugal is so compromised that European nations, for common character's sake, should require it to institute a searching examination into the conduct of this official. The leader of the pirate fleet was—l am going back now to a time three years ago—a Cantonese named A'Pak. The authorities at Ningo, in their weakness, determined to make terms with him rather than submit to the tyranny of the Portu guese. _ A'Pak was made a mandarin of the third class ; and his fleet—not altogether taken into Govern ment pay—the Chinese could not afford that—was nominally made over to A'Pales brother, a gentle man with a long name, which I cannot remember. This fleet, noi:v turned nominally honest, began to compete with the Portuguese for the convoy business, and, their business being now tolerably respectable, they were joined by several English, American, and French deserters from ships-of-war and merchant vessels. A circumstance has just occurred which still fur ther illustrates the great impolicy of allowing Eu ropean vagabonds to be uncontrolled in this coun try. " Squeezing" has become so int ,, lerable in this province that a large city not. 40 miles distant is in rebellion. Every power in China " squeezes." The Toutai sends forth to " squeeze," the Canton fleet sends out to " squeeze,' and squeezing par ties ftre undertaken upon private account. A few days since an Irishman, accompanied by some Chinese, went into the interior to one of the villages where I had passed the previous night, upon, it is alleged, a squeezing expedition. While there he accidentally shot one of his Chinese compa nions. Delighted with this opportunity of " getting the law o❑ their side," the populace rose, seized the Irishman, bound him as though be had been a wild beast which no thongs could make harmless, and sent him up—after severe debate among themselves whether they should not behead him on the spot— to the Toutai of Ningpo. He arrived her• in a ter ribly lacerated condition, and claimed the protec tion of the British consul. Doubtless it became the consul's duty to grant this protection, and the man is now in Dr. Parker's hospital. Small advantage, however, will be derived by any British merchant from any treaty which may " open up China,", if China is to be opened up to European brigands. There must he some arrangement among the Euro pean Powers upon this matter. This has been the position of the two parties for the last three years. PRICES OF SHARES. The fishermen and carrying junks, glad to be rid of the Portuguese yoke, gradually transferred their custom to the Cantonese fleet, and the Portuguese, hungry and furious, became more active in their piracies, and attacked the Cantonese ships when they could get them at an advantage, and mur dered their crews with circumstances of great atrocity. The - Cantonese do not look upon the Portuguese as Europeans. They have not the same fear of them. They can fight them man to man. M tcao would have been taken by the Chinese long since had they not dreaded the interfence of the other Western Powers. After a few of these very sangui nary provocations A'Pak—not, it is believed, with out the concurrence of the Taoutai of Ningpo, de termined to destroy this Portuguese convoy fleet. For this purpose A'Pak's brother collected his snake boats and convoy junks from along the whole coast, and assembled about 20 of them and perhaps 500 men. The Portuguese were not long hearing of these preparations, but they seem to have been struck with panic. Some of their vesselswent south, some were taken at the mouth of the river. Seven lorchas took refuge up the river opposite the Portuguese Consulate. The sailors on board these lorchas landed some of their big guns and put the Consulate in a state of defence, and perhaps hoped that the neigh bourhood of the European houses and ihe character of the Consulate would prevent an attack. Not so. On the day I have above mentioned the Canton fleet came up the river. The Portuguese Consul im mediately fled. The lorchas fired one broadside at them as they approached, and then deserted their vessels and made for the shore. About 2OO Can tonese, accompanied by a few Europeans, fol lowed these 140 Portuguese and Manilla linen a4hore, A fight took place in the streets. It was of very sh ri duration, for the Portuguese behaved in the most dastardly manner. The Manilla men showed some spirit, but the Portuguese could not even per suade themselves to fight for their own lives behind the walls of their consulate. The fortified house was taken and sacked by these Chinamen, the Portu guese were pursued among the tombs where they sought refuge, and 40 of them were shot down or hunted and butchered with spears. The Cap,Ltieuse French frigate now came up the river, fired upon the Cantonese who were sacking the Consul's house, and put an en d to the conflic. The French captain received on board the Portu guese Consul, not I am told with great and also the fugitives wh o h a d wscaped the massa cre. The latter he conveyed as prisoners to Macao to be tried as pirates. Merciless - as this massacre was, and little as is the choice between the two sets of combatants, it must be owned tint the Cantonese acted with purpose and discipline. Three trading Portu;uess lorchas which lay in the river with their flags flying were not molested, and no European, not a P, rtuguese, was even insulted by the infuriate butchers. The stories current of Souero and his Portuguese fol lowers rivalled the worst of the tales of the bucca niers, and public opinio:u in Ningpo and the foreign settlement was strongly in favour of the Cantonese. The Chinamen lost only two Chinese. One vaga bond Englishman fighting on their side was shot by a Manilla man. prom th,e Official Last. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENIN ',• LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 30, 1857. BRIDGES. After the departure of the Capricieuse the Portu guese brig of war, the Mondego, came up the river, accompanied by abut 12 Portuguese lorcha, and made formal demands of the Toutai that the cap tured lot clots should be restored and other restitu tion made. The Toutai replied that the two convoy fleets must settle their own quarrels, for he had nothing to do with them. The Portuguese and the Cantonese then made ready for a fight, and the general opinion was that the Cantonese would have again been victorious. Meanwhile, however, Com inauder Dew in the Nimrod had steamed up the river. He sent a message to the Portuguese Com mander to say that his instructions were to remain. entirely neutral, and if the brig was about to attack he would move his ship out of the line of fire, but that if the Nimrod or houses of British residents on the river were struck by shot it would be his duty to interfere. The Mondego and her consort lorchas immediately departed for Shanghai. The Canto❑ fleet is still either engaged in convoying or at anchor in the river ; and, to the great comfort of the merchants and the missionaries, so also isthe Nimrod. I do not for a moment seek to implicate the Por tuguese nation iu the crimes of these Macao rid files, except so far as that it was the duty of Por tugal to prevent such deeds. 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X s. d. 10 0 0 2 0 0 - •• 20 0 0 10 0 0 - African Steam Ship . • • • 6f rev cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 - Acadian Charcoal Iron Assam tea • • .• -. • • . • Auction Mart.. .• • • •• 25 0 0 19 0 0 23 - Australian Aviculturl - alilper cent. 50 0 0 - Australian ItOpil Mall - 10 0 0 all -- .... Si. pr cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - it. lOs. 10 0 q all - BritishmanexTizstm int.. ricau Land 5/. per cent 50 0 0 40 0 0 .. 61. percent . 100 0 0 32 10 0 120 Cana . • • • • Stock 100 0 ODo 5 per cent Bond. 51. pet cent A 'ku n s g tr lo s Am, e 6 per cent. •• 61. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - - Ditto, 5 per cent bds 51. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - D p i i t t t to: 6p c. bds 1874 51. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6p c. bds 1 8 7 6 6 /. per sent. Stock 100 0 0 -. !4 C r ystal Palace Ditto Preference 7l pr. cent. 50 0 50 0 3'. Crys. Palace of France - 4 0 0 all - City Ntisigation Bonds 354/. per cent - - ~•. Electric Telegraph Eng.&Aus. Cop. Smelt - 5 0 0 all _ Eng.&lris. Mag. T. Co - 50 0 0 all Equitable Reversionry 51per cent. 100 0 0 100 ' 0 0 - _ . Ditty New ...... - Gen. Revers. & Invest. 51. p c and 11 100 0 0 tOO o 0 Gen. I. Sc. Col. (Lim ) - 25 0 0 all - Gen.SteamNavigation 104 per Ct. & 15 0 0 14 0 0 23N London Gen. Omnibus 121. per cent 40 0 all 3% Hudson's Bay Si. per cent. Stock Stock - 11ungerford - Lon. Ne. &Na. Mauso - 10 0 0 all - Loy lon Reversionary 51, per cent. 15 0 0 all - Mex. &S. American - 10 0 0 all Nat. Discount Comp - 25 0 0 50 0 3% N.S.W. Govlsp.c. Deb Si. per cent. - 100.. 0 0 - Nor. Bri. Australasian North of Europe, Stn,. 151. 6d. 10 0 all - per tent. 20 0 0 17 10 0 - Price'sPatentCand.,C o - 29 0 0 all - Peel River.Land&Min.-12 - Pen. & Oriental Steam 71. per cent 50 0 0 all Ditto New .. .. 50 0010 0 0 - 50 0 all all - Reversionary Int. Soc. 1% Lpr cent 100 0 0 0 0 - - Ditto New .... •• - 1, 3 1. pr tett. 100 0 0 0 20 A fir 0 0 50 4 Royal Mail Steam it, p. share. 100 0 - - a I m Scottish Aus. Invest l5l. per cent. 1 0 0 a ll - SouthAnstrallan Land 71. per cent. 25 0 7, 5 0 0 Trust and Loan Comp. 7%.., pr cent. 20 0 Vts Diemen's Land • .10 q . 100 Gov. 6 per cent. P - .. - nils. 6 per cent. 0028 10 0 - "M. Horace GllarraClo-0," says the Malta Times, " who, our reader; may remember, was severely wounded in the streets of ConstantiftOple by a eunuch of the Sul. tan's houcehold, ,14:ap receiyad 1,0001. from the Porte 40 compensation. f r o m has completely recovered, we understand, his wound." THE WATERLOO MYSTERY-4 BARKER MISSING. The .Tourital du Loirst contains the following, which it declares to be of some interest, in connec tion with the Waterloo-bridge tragedy :—" We have received details on a mysterious event which plunges into desolation one of the most respectable families of Montargis, in this department. About a month ago M. B—, junior, banker in that town, left for Orleans, with 81,000 f. in bank-notes, des tined for his correspondent. On arriving at Or leans, ho was told, in answer to his inquiries, that it would be possible to go up to Paris and back again by railway before sight, provided he started at once. As ho had some business to transact at Paris, he went ; but found that his affairs took more time than he had expected, and he resolved to remain till the next day. He wrote to his wife to tell her not to be alarmed at his absence, and passed the night at the hotel at which he was accustomed to put up. He left the hotel the next morning, and since then nothing whatever has been heard of him, and all the researches made after him by the prefecture of police, and by his family and friends, have led to no result. As he was very prosperous in busi ness. was liked by all who knew him, and was de votedly attached to his young wife, by whom a few months ago he had a child, it is impossible to con ceive that he has disappeared voluntarily. It is therefore likely that lie has been the victim of a crime; and the investigation made before th e coroner of Westtniuster into the crime of Waterloo-bridge tends to awaken painful suspicions. The details given by the English journals as to the height, colour of the hair and beard, and the dress of the victim, apply to M. B—. The discovery of the remains at London appears, it is true, at first glance, to repel the supposition that be is the man ; but, on the other hand, these remains had been placed in a liquid which prevented decomposition, and it is therefore not impossible that a crime may have been committed in France, and that the authors • of it may have endeavoured to remove all traces of it, in order to escape detection. In such a case, all suppositions are allow able. M. B--, father of the deceased, who is a jute de pail and universally reepected, has been advised to write to the coroner," The supposition of a crime having been committed in France and the remains of the body removed to London, seems gait() out of range of possibility, as, were there no other difficulty, the examination at the custom house would of itself preclude the clandestine in troduction of so large a package. That the gentle man alluded to in the above account may have gone to London is possible, though not very probable. Besides, the general quality of the clothes found in the carpet bag in Loudon seems quite inferior to the rank of life in which the missing banker of Montargis must be supposed to have moved. Dividend Name of Company. per Annum. f1ungerf0rd.......... Southwark ...... • • .. Ditto New of 7% p.c. Waterloo ..... ........ Ditto Old Ann. of 81. Ditto Nw ditto of 7/. Vauxhall ............ 108 Per . Cent.' ._ . 11. 12s. Od. 11. its. Od. 28s. JOINT-SrocK Dividend . per Annum. 20 0 0 100 0 0 ANKS. Amount of Share. Country Markets. DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—OcT. 29. Qrs. Best. Current. Infos' io• 387 Wheat 57s ed.. *s 9id 283 Oi 1.362 Oats 30s 6d 22s 100 164 Od 1132 Barley 4os Od 3os 00 226 Oa 18 Peas & beans 50s Od 46s 2d AA DDINGTON GR.AIN MARKET-OQT. 30. WHEAT. BARLEY OATS. 1 ssAits First 62s Od 41s 9d 31s Od 1 50a Od Second 47s lld 1 34s 6(1 / 24a 8d 1 45s 9d Third 34s Od 1 26 3 Od 1 20a Od IC. Od Total quantity of wheat in market, 463 qrs., 363 sold barley „ 1099 qrs., 993 sold oats 11 552 qrs., 467 suid PP beans ~ 21 qrs., 19 sold AVERAGES PER IMPIRIAL QUARTER. OP P Wheat, 2/. 7 11 1-12ths !Baxley, 14 6 11.12 th, Oats, ... 14 4 8 o.l2ths Beans, V. 5 9 5-l2tbs ABERDEEN—OCT. 30. Potato oats 22s Od to 23s ( d }4olbs per bushel Common oats 19s Cd to 21s Od Bere 28s Od to 31s Od I vibs Barley 26s Od to 31s Od " Wheat, red (spring)37s Od to 38s Od }62lbs „ white 35s Od to 48s Od Oatmeal 42sOd t 17s t)d too 4 1 3eOd 9s 0d per rr Rack. Flour PROVISION MARKET. Beef, per lb pair 3s Od to 3s 6J Lamb, do., Os 6d to Os 9d Hen s, p Mutton, per lb . 6d 6d to to 9d9d E Butter, gg e, p p d o l z b . . 0 0 s . 9 0 ,.. d i t t 0 0 50 1 3 8 10 1 , 3 3 IDucks,Cllce s, d d o o . . is os 6 od d to o 2 2 , E; 0 6 Ducklings,doO s Od to 2s 6 Veal, rork, p p e e r r lb b . . 0 . s. Od 6 t 0 00 Os O d o 9a d. Salmon, per lb Grouse, brace Os to Os Turkeys, each 5s Od to 6 1 Tallow, p stone, Os to —s Od Potatoes, pr peck, 10d to 121 Rabbits, each ......... Od to Od. Butter for exportation (present cure) per cwt. —s to 1004 Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen .............•.... dto Sd RETAIL PRICES. F10ur,141b....0s Od to 28 4d Barley f10ur,141b.03 t o 2s OJ Oatmeal Os Od t o i s 11d I „ dust, Beremeal Od to is 10d , per 1b....... 2d to 2id I Peasemeal... Os Od to 2s 4d Sid ' s, 7d Cheese, per imperial stone, 4s. Od. to 4s 6d 4-Ib. 10af...8d. 12.1 b. 10af...4d. DUBLIN, OCT. 30. Our market tirday was very fairly supplied. A slow sale for wheat at fully last day's prices. Inferior barley at rather lower prices. The transactions in Indian corn were more frequent, but at a decline. White wheat, 30e Od to 32s Od ; red ditto, 288 Od to 30s 6d; ditto new, 30s 6d; barley, malting, 17s Oct to 20s; grind ing, —s to —s ; oats, old, 15. 6d to 18$; ditto, new, 14s 6d to 15s Od ; oatmeal, Hs Od to 16s; here, new, 15s to 16s 6d ; rapeseed, 26s Od to 28s Od per brl ; bakers flour, 184 Od to 243 Od per cwt ; Indian corn, 36s 01 to 37a ad p.r 180 lb& [ADVERTISEMENT.] HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.---Anotlies Wonderful Cure of Asthma.—Extract of a letter from Mrs. Ann Jones, Lord-street, . Liverpool, to Professor Holloway :—" I was seriously afflicted for five years with asthma, frequently expectorating blood, palpitation of the heart, together with faintness and cold sweat. In this state I continued for several months, I consulted the fpculty until all hope of relief vanished, when I was prevailed upon to give your pills a trial. Under their influence this terrible malady quickly disappeared, and my health is now re-established "—Sold by all medicias vendors throughout the world ; at Professor Holloway's establishments, 244, Strand, London, and 80, Maiden lane, New York ; by A. Statnpa, Constantinople ; A. Guidicy, Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta. ADVIIKTD4IMSNT. J— SIGHT AND REARING SPECTACLICB-.. POWERFUL TELESCOPES OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPZCBTI GLASSES. —S. and B. Solomons, opticians, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly, Observe—opposite the York Hotel, W. By her Majesty's Roy a l L e tt ers P a t ent for valuable and ex.. traordinary improvements in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and Perspective Glasses, to know the distances. These Telescopes possess such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches, with an extra ey e -pi ece w ill s h ow distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope can be seen a person's countenance three-and-a-half miles distant and an object from 16 to 20 miles. F or the waist coat-pocket, and are of larger, and all sizes, w it h 1. —A valu able, increasing 1 powers accordingly. The Royal Exhibition, 18 newly-invented, very small, powerful, Waistcoat-pocket Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and s a e t en the at Opera-houses. C oun t r y known one and a-half mile distant. They answer every put , 12 to 14 mil es . Th e y' ar e invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, ya c hti ng, t o a p c o e s n e e o ry n a tl n i d e Race are clearly au and at sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera, Camp, Perspective, and Race-course Glasses, with wonderful powers. Invaluable preserving Spectacle &Lenses •f the greatest transparent power. The great advantage derived from this invention is, that vision impaired becomes pro served and strengthened and very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation—can see with those lenses of a much less magnify ing power—and they do not require the frequent changes to_ the den& gerons effects of further powerful assistance. Persons can be suited at the mos , remote part of the world by send. ing one of the glasses out of their spectacles in a letter, and stating the distance from the eye they can read Email print with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by stating their age. Deafness.—New DiEcovery.—The Oz genie Vibrator, an extraordinarily powerful, small, newly-invented instrument for deatness, entirely different from all of tiers, surpassing anything of the kind that has been, or prob ably can, be produced. Being of the same colour as the sk in, is not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hear distinct ly at churchand at public assembliw. ; the unpleasant sensatic ii of singing noises in the ears is entirel v removed, and it affords all the assistance that possibly could be desired. -39. marie-street, Piccadilly.—Opposite the York Hotel, W. BIRTHS. OP A BON. On the 30th ult., the wife of Alfred Poland, Esq., 10, Bolton•row, Curzon-street, Mayfair. On the 30th ult., at 38, Old Broad-street, Mrs. A. A. Henriques, OF A DAUGHTER. On the 26th ult., at Bath, the Marquise Taliaearne. On the 28th ult. at 208, Marylebone-road, the wife of John Walter, Esq. MARRIED. On the 29th ult , at St. George's, Hanover - square, John Morgan O'Callaghan, Esq., of the War Department, Tower, to Eliza, only child of the late John Scott, Esq., of River-street, Ayddelton-square. On the 30th ult., at St. Lawrence Church, Ramsgate, Richard Simmonds, Esq., Paymaster R.N., to Emily Cor della, only daughter of the late Win. Carter, Es q ., o f t h e Admiralty, Somersot-house. DIED On tho 30th ult., at Lichfield, the Rev. Wm. Gordon, aged 69. on the 30th ult., at Tottenham, Anne Marianne, the w if e of John Day, Esq., aged 25. Oa the 29th ult., Mr. Wm. Hammond Webb, for many years confidential clerk to Messrs. Woolley and Co. On the 29th ult., the Rev, Robert Moore, jun., rector of Wetheringsett, Suffolk, aged 46. On the 28th ult., at Coventry, Mr. J. Southam Evans, of that city, axed 75. On the 27th ult., Jean, the wife of Patrick Cassidy, 25, Ahlersgate-street. On the 24th ult., at Vontnor, I. W., Mr. Wm. Cubitt, of Oakley-street, Lambeth. On the 25th ult., in London, Thomas Mant, M.D., late of Ipswich, aged 87. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, •t 2'h,4 Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Monday, November 2,1857. I~