From "Tae Nonrn-Cuiya Henann" of September 1857.
The ramour mentioned in our last number that Chinkiangioo had been recaptured by the Imperialists. appears to be without foundation (This will give the Friend of China the privilege "ut culling one more to the Uist of the Heratil's" retractations Not having our own correspondents in the interior we insert such rumoure as reach ux from respectable sources and shall probably be right sometimes.
Most of our readers may not be aware that, amongst the numerous: clubs into which this community delights to subdivide itself, another just started into existed object of which is, at least, as rational as some, and much more rational than others we could name. The peculiarity of this club is that it does not profess to add fuel to flame, furnish a man with live coal when he stands in need of an ie or demand on the part of its mem bers the nimbleness and exertion of a performer of Ashley's at Christmas time, when the therniometer be standing at 92 With a proper sense of whut is really required for race. born in the vicinity of the North Pole, and thrown by force of! circumstances on a spot adapted only for Chinamen and Salamamders, the projectors of this club aim at restoring something like an equilibrium of feeling, if not of temperature. To assuage the irritation of prickly heat, and the kings of mosquitoes—besides imparting] a pleasant state of moisture without having to convert the stomach into reservoir, or the skin into the rose of a watering pot, they have inaugurated a swimming club; and that they nay secure more privacy than was enjoyed by the chaste huntress of old, they have furnished themselves with a shelter, which, if not quite a grove of trees. is treacherous. This, we understand. is fashioned upon the model of the one upon the Seine, river which flows through Paris, and only requires the addition of " tall balu or two, made sud the neighbourhood of a Blanchiaseuses, to place it on quite an equality with its famous prototype.
We have heard some usuttering about the subpellucid character of the waters of the river, but ax they came from those who have been accustomed in earlier days in the Crystal tide of the Serpentine, or buffet the silvery waves of the Mersey, their prejudices, and regret should be obliged te put 1 with so. imperfect a substi
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