(From the Foochow Echo of 20th ult.)
rumoured in the city that the present Tartar General will be appointed Viceroy of this province.
Te is said that there are in the city of Foochow some 800 mandarine of various ranks not holding office of any kind, and that there are amongst them a great many without any visible means of proviti themselves with the nocessnries of life.
From a native, who professes tu be well informed on the subject, we learn that there are no fewer than 1,860 opium dens in the province, and that the number of them is gradually but surely increasing. During the prosperous times, the gong oF
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.