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Per ate. Tokio, Maru, from Japan-Bishop family, Mra. Lowry and fami n_anct family, Mre. Come, Mi: of their satrapies, we are driven to infer from the memorials which have appeared lately in the Peking Gazette, that the greater part of the Empire is in a very impoverished condition, and that it shows little symptom of improvement. One-half of the country has been depopulated and ruined by civil war or by drought, and the other half is not sufficiently recovered from similar disaster to bear the demands upon it for subsidies to the former, We have heard through foreigners of the distress prevailing, and of the dis. tressful prospects, in Shantung and Chibli; and memorials in the Gazette have told us of the utter helplessness of Shansi-and Honan, Kansuh is simply depopulated, the necessary provincial expenditure being sustained apparently by loans. And now we have @ memorial from the Governor of Yiionan describing a condition of affairs scarcely less helpless. If we are to believe the writer, such is the impoverishment caused by the long MeDowald R. v, Marshall v, Beter, Iguatio, and De la Graz German Consular Court-—Municipal Council v, Ed. Schellhass Bxrracts—
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