(From the Foochow Echo of 12th September.)
An establishment for the manufacture of torpedoes is shortly to be erected on, or in the vicinity of, the White Dogs. The exact spot has not yet been fixed on. The Viceroy has issued orders that the work is to be commenced with as little delay as possible. The buildings, we hear, will cost some $15,000.
Great credit is given to the Viceroy for the instructions issued from his yamen regarding the maintenance of peace and order in the city during the examinations. Detectives are dotted about pretty thickly in the quarters most frequented by the students, and guards are stationed at various points within easy call of the police.
\have established a charitable house at the say that bad they not confined themselves newly-born girl i sea poche for the reception of ts whose parents may not be desirous of keeping then. A proclamation having been issued that any discovered cases of child destroying will be followed by severe punishment, we fa the erdehe will very quickly be Billed to over. ow As further evidence of the depression in native trade here scores of shops and houses in the city and suburbs are uvticed to be untenanted, narly of them being offered for sale at half the original cost. A well-formed native attributes this solely to the rapid decline of the Tea trade, pointing out that for the last three or four years it has, while falling off, been at the same time unprofitable, and that those engaged Have had no money to spend. This is confirmed by others, and so many were connected with the trade one way and another that we can quite believe it. The settlement next week (the 12th and 13th days of the 8th moon) will, it is said, not pass by without a great deal of trouble to very many, and those who are able to tide it over will have a disagreeable time to look forward to at the next settlement, the China New Year, unless some great change comes about in' trade in the meantime. The once flourishing Foochow is at present in a very bad way.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.