These are hardly to be looked for ander the present. regime, but one has recently been introduced which may not be quite without effect, A company com; of Hongkong Chinese merchants and Canton officials, called the Canton Electric Oompany, has been formed for the purpose of supplying the City of Rams with that illuminant, and works for the purpose are now in course of erection about a mile below the Dutch Folly Fort. The dynamo engines are being supplied by Messrs. Johnson and Phillips, of London, and the buildings are being constructed under the superintenlenco of Mr. W. Danby, of this Colony. he light, which is to be used for illuminating the narrow Innes, called streets, of Canton, will also be cartied into Shameen. I trust the enterprise will prove in every way @ success, Hongkong, 26th November.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.