tun sep [Fon rp, 170 Sot tin ace rine We have pleasure to refer our readers to po, in whi they will find the commencement ofa serics of phrases exhibited in the Too-pa, or local dialect of Shanghae.
Tu on 1 No.7, ceted, we purl 26, i will be recol-latter of very favorably' tomato' the there treated of, viz. the acquisition of Abo. Chfigge vernacular of the district ly, aid of the a ject we have sought to engage the assistance ofan enlightened sinolo nnd have at length succeeded ini ing, the ce-operation of a gentle man well eafeulated to effect the purpose intended. Tt will be observed that we give a four-fold iMusteation—
Ist, The Chinese character, Bay. Tes peo fceent of Shanghae, Baly. The English according to the Athly. A literal or stele translation, ander to exemplify the Chinese om, is not pretended that the sounds agree precisely with the written promunciation, They cannot be exactly eonveyed by the pu, and can be deebratly learned only from the tongue of "native, Dut itis hoped a earful attention to the system of pronunciation adopted," will result n a near approximation to the real sounds of this dialect, We trust a careful perusal of the phrases, (which would be munch mone proving if, th student requested a native to read over to him the Chinese chirwill prove useful to stich, as are desirous to acquire, even, some alight of th col log dialect, One will thereby become independent of his bhoy or comprador, Will engage will of those ho addresses, free from much embarrassment in trading with Dative merchants, and able to do without the mischievous and interest ed intervention of Cuntonnese, and miny other advantages, incident to fami lar intercourse ith the men of the prov inces must naturally sition of the, local di evident to require recapitulation here, and which were ably touched upon in the otter of our correspondent before men-
Nae fr page, 'Revenaio to the notices contained in the letter of Carmtévs, we may' remark that having noticed in our No. 1 ofthe N. Herald, the Visit of ©."T,10 ths famed sity of Sveuau, estenid by the natives of the Flowery Land" at a Paradise! we the eécount gi jen by the as at: all ative. that ho Visited any but the] Outskirts and canals of the ity. There 0 many seenings ind doubtful ex-inthe narrate ety meagre and Barren of any. thing to describe the interior of sity, that one Ted. to, suppose that sonic obstacles were opposed to. the narrator's becoming intimately acquainted with the luxury, wealth, and curiosities of the place: Nat a temple Ty stated ta] have bee entefed,-nor 4 pul mentor place of public retort described. The gardens mentioned by ©. T. ape not hited to exist—a somewhat ro-
Ynarkable feature in the narrative of Torticulturst—who when he pleases can 22 ell and eloquently destin Cry tneria or a Cupressus funebris. Neither Sch the sent of Mes Tide edie given in the: Chinese Repository add much to our stock of knowledge respecting Svenav. His description ofthe route thither is far more graphic and interesting than that of Mr. Fortune, but his exami= ations within the city seem to have been expressly confined tothe investigation the Silk industrie, and the processes of Ayeing connected therewith, The recent visit of ©. T. and his com= panion was too short to allow of much detail in the narrative, We greatly re-he gret this, because it may not always dent enjoyed on the occasion of the re cout visit. Still, brief as was the stay, we believe the description fs more full than any now extant as the result of foreign. experience. Had not local restrictions been vexatiously imposed upon foreign residents no doubt a much larger area, would have been travelled over ere thi In order to place the truth before the Seeded ge toe ey ta 1 the two subsequent
view-but in'page 260 he says,—ages Jocks very much Tike an onside ind again in page 261— samaleed fr sever ays tu tle, a neihicrad, who, having cos at that nas pti ter the gevunsance, Tm et riy wap Och 'Now with the reservation that he thrice writes of his having entered the city of] 'Svcwav, what int ook' contain of. the city. at all?" Now then for the ace count in the 14th volume of the Chinese Repository. Afer giving sich a deseription of the situation, &e., of Suenav, may be drawn from any local topography of the place, It says at page 685— te" serra sire eh maltrato ey as err yet en fay de. ive ie bat hare It then further says—
"ree, 4 aso Pree se, een tent out to maba techs In_our No.8 of the North-China Herald pogs 80, we guve a short account of Me. Hoods vi inhabitants of that city as wholly ogeupied with Silk, his words are— lid eomowes poplar peputin sd esta tad is happy ce ment reget and of marl aay, Anil yet the Chinese Repository informs usin the very article hero adduced. that Svewau is the focus of Chinese industry. Here are inwunerable fabrics of. iron, ory, gol, siter, wood, box, here, gla, earth, poper, ma "cotton and silk." The fle Silk being! one of twelve Susy people of Svexav, 'What be thought then of such ald accounts of' the most celebrated manufacturing city of the middle kingdom, Slight as it is, the description of Correspondent, will, we think bear vantageous comparison with either of the above authors, and thus: we leave the matter until we hear furliet from' Catrtcus, oF some other
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