called the Uangchow Colloquial Magazine CBiJNESBEFR) has been started by a few enterprising young scholars of this city. Their purpose is most laudable; and the three numbers of the paper which have come to nnd indicate considerable enlightenment and a real desire to benefit, their countrymen. The purpose of the paper, which is issued thrice-a-month, is tu give articles of value on the weeds of the times, some geographical, historical, and other papers, and general news, in j colloquial form.
Tf read aloud, any hearer can und tand; and yet the colloquial is "tung-hing," or current in mast places. Hence' the projectors have agencies in many places, as in Foochow, Shanghai (office of the Universal Gazette"), ete.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.