We are having delightful weather now. September and October are our two finest months. During the day itis still somewhat uncomfortably hot but the mornings sad evenings and the nights are all that could be desired. The later millet crops have been gourd. The tall millet and the bean crops in this region have been poor. The country has suffered much from the heavy rains of the sixth moon. many places a good course of human anatomy on the bones could with advantage to Chinese medicine be pursued. Various large portions of the city walls are down and will necessitate a heavy outlay in restoring them. The fouds overtupped the bridges, and several arches of the parapet of the celebrated Lu Kwo bridge, about ten miles to the south-west of the capital and spanning the Hwen or muddy iver and containing so many lions, large and small and said to be incalculable, have been washed away. The parapet of the Beggars' bridge, immediately outside the front gate, was under water at the same time, a thing never heretofore known, The people have begun to repair and reste their broken-down wallsend houses, At th sexton and after such destruction ut property, the price of lime has risen to three times its usual amount. The season has certainly been peculiar. The inhabitants have suffered from a combination of heat, water and dampness, The children's heads are covered with crops of bulls and the people's legs are swollen and covered with sores, The Chinese talk of the poison of water, and have a great dread of i application in any form, After what or has seen, one is inclined almost to believe that there must be something in the Chinese idea.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.