(From the Foochow Echo of 28th Mar.) We ar are cousin; Tt is otatex as many as ten thousand fearful amount of mortality. men, women and children have perished during the past two months.
Nothing definite is yet known or talked of about proceeding up country for new teas, We have been assured that onl; there who have capital or can obtain. advances, will early proceed up country: and there are still some of these. We hope to be able to obtain fuller information for our next issue.
It is customary, we learn, for the Emperor of China to' offer prayers every new year's day for the welfare and bright prospects of his subjects in the eighteen provinces of his Empire. At the ceremony eighteen pairs of candles are burnt and the Any of the candles that burn badly that such provinces as are named thereon willsuffergreat calamities—sickness &¢.,—Unfortunately the candles marked for this province burnt very badly. The Emperor, to give a second trial, ordered another pair to be burnt with the same result, This dangerous superstition is now firmly believed by the natives to be a fact, and the present sickness and mortality prevailing all over the country goes as a proof of the oracle, But we are glad to be able to state that nothing bad is shown in these blessed candles about the new seaton's teas, 20 we need not be alarmed,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.