The following paper has been distributed about Wulu, It is excellently printed, and is issued by a printing press with moveable type; it may have come from Shanghai and be distributed all over China. The admirable sentiments contained in it must strike even the most bigoted. If their acts only equalled their words, itis little the Chinese have to learn from Europeans Extraordinary is the dearth in the North provinces, bitter are affairs before our eyes in Shansi, in Honan, the drought is terrible and exceeding great; in Shensi and Chihli nothing has been garnered in; year after year is a great drought, the various grains are not stored away; red is the earth for 1 1,000 li, the green grass cannot grow 5 no place is there to find things for satisfying hunger; the roots and grass and bark of trees have all been devoured clear: off hunger presses terrible to endure, it is impossible to sustain life; human flesh is much eaten, saddening to the eye and grievous to the heart; men are sold, women are for sale, but there are none to takejthem over; wives are deserted, children. abandoned and wander about and afar in all directions; young people, wives and women, throw themselves into rivers, giving.up' their lives; the old in years, destitute of strength, hang them-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.