To the Ealtor of the "Nowru-Cuina Dany News Sin—There is no tender regard or sentimental hesitancy Ina. game of chess, nor ig there In diplomacy, though a knight" sidles, a queen moved, or a bishop holds the board, Quite Sot but even diplomacy has its rule—commonsense and diplomatic action, And besides, conscience and common chivalry are indispensable even 10. diplomat—and he a good tone! Qualities which some of" our high-placed visitors have distinguished themselves by showing a lamentable nescience of!
But Tet us not be too serious! as aida plumber to his woeful. wife, he frantically "attempted to pull fut her fat foot which ner fat mead hind inserted in the gully in the back yard,""And, perhaps, joculasity is a Toilet to high tensity, as other than lectrilans have discovered.
But to return to the charge and its objective, the guide book wanted.
'And here again we discover it is 4 wide world we live in! as said Biddy When deposited. onthe prairie rail: oad. platform. And "of the wide Utility' of a wide advertisement for a wider knowledge of 8 little. book, Which, like some gorgeous potentate, had been, and yet was not, from the want of it. For, like Hassan's camel, Thave walked the desert and have not come aerassit—and others, it Seems, had done Ukewise—not even {ts"namo, uni T found it located in your correspondence column of this morning.
'And relatively we discover the utter defleleney of the "Talking House" somewhere. in, Westminster and there is another' in, Washington, more famous, for its volublity, but there called "Congress;" in honour extinct Indian Chief, 1 believe, Surnamed "Pow Wow,"—as an adver-rising agency " for' famous" books, Which seems there to be quoted and here forgotten. 'This epitaph on the tomb of many' book, which" had mistaken such patronage as those Lor the publies"in republics and kingdoms Then, again, no book, or writer, has ovr dot ould Nave, the monopoly of Shanghai. "And besides, the production 1 had in mind as. wrote my last letter, under the same caption and here re-suggested, Is a unique one never before attempted, nor accomplished, and would prove, think, a decisive cudgel against any as shall hereafter defame this city and 80 ite citizens—no less proud than those of any other city, or settlement, alike faulty, but no less virtuous—with that virtue too modest to boast Gt and tien ico slent, even, under the stigma of the unjust!" In bri guide of the city, produced by the ity, by its best talents, in probity and! ability, Shanghai, Sept, 11,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.