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—o-a-m—Ju-76 2 and to students—viz. a complete index, and a reprint of the article from the pen of Mr.
Mayers, published some time since in the China Review. As regards the former, it possesses but one defeet—that of not being arranged alphabetically. The reprinted article, on the other hand, furnishes most useful information, and though readers of the China Review will be familiar with its contents, we may be pardoned if, for the sake of others, we note one of the facts it mentions as to the antiquity of the "father of newspapers." It as such the Peking Gazette of the present day would appear that Court, amnouneements, Serbeliy ix wore Une in tis agi conta" as.a record of the appointment of one Han Yih appeared in this form not later than the year A.D. Ti. The Gazette (we need hardly say that the English title is not a literal translation of the original, which should be Metropolitan Announcements") would therefore appear to be at least over 1130 years old. This as times go is respectable; and as its circle of readers must, at the received calculation, be directly and indirectly somewhat about six millions, it, can probably claim a circulation before which even that of the lead'g penny paper must pale, But fancy what possibilities would present themselves to Western enterprize with thirty millions of people able to read, and only one journal which published official news at first band. The particulars given as to the printing, &e., of the Gazette are very interesting, and the proprietors of the volume: under notice have done wisely in.eprinting Mr 'Mayers' article, Such a work if continued will some day be of incalculable value to historians; while the issues already published those to whom Chinese matters are as a ru) contain even light reading enough to SMALL STEAMERS AND STEAM LAUNCHES, BUILT OF Woop,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.