Wo are informed by circular of Messrs, Ewart Maccaughey and Ca. that the partnership hitherto existing between Mr, Mounsey and Mr, A. Forbes Augua was dissolved by mutual consent on the 30th of December last, The community will, we are sure, be pleased to learn that Mr. Angus is expected shortly to return to Foochow to enter as a Partner in a well known firm, The Feast of Lanterns," which celebrated to-day, (22nd ult,} really cor menced a week ago, large piles of lez jo each evening in various shops, and long lines of the native youth parading the streets with lanterns of almost every shape and colour. The Chinese are certainly improv. ing in this kind of manufacture, and most of the designs we have recently soon are certainly novel and display the wonderful dexterity of the Nal ho felling-or rather rooting-up, of the Sugar cane has commenced in real ear:
crops in th will, in the course of a fow days, be tirely lowered. During the wint meu there is 40 little verdant foh numerous green patches of t! been pleasing to the eye, and th numerous bare plots have that un appearance which the young adjacent crops of corn cannot at present hide.
Wo learn that the recent warm, and after the long drought, has already proved beneficial to the tea cro) up-country, and we can only hope thal weather may continue propitio Pronuetion of fine "New Be it is also rumoured that freights will unusually low, we may expect to tually be in a position to congratulat Merchants upon an excell our home ties upon having obtained the beat of Foochows' beverage, which d but not inebriates."
Wo are pleased to observe that attention is being directed to the drains in many of the stroo!s through which foreigners uecoas sarily have to pass, 'The accumulation of slimy filth which these illonatructed somers are now disclosing would, if allowed to have remained until the hot months, hare proved most d health.' Necessitas non habes lege, na the natives do not look at the matter from a sanitary point of view, but. the stagnant matter exuding into their dwellings, renders the same anything but comfortable and its removal absolutely necessary. Foochow Herald,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.