To the Hiitor of the votre correspondent des reflexions plus Ces considerations auraent pu inspirer very terms of his contract; Ihave protested against this, because I consider that his charitables. responsibility is somewhat diminished by Nonri-Cuxa Darcy N An surplus, jai recueilli, & occasion de reason of the shocks caused by the earth-'S1n,—In your issue of the 7th inst., there ce trieste accident, de La part de la colonic quakes of last June. The effect of these is @ note on Szechuen roads copied from européenne de Tientsin et de Shanghai, des shocks is shown in numerous accidents the Hx Pao which is very misleading. In témoignages de sympathie qui me conscient which have followed very closely that of my opinion the of Szechuen are not largement de cette querelle d'.. hitecte, which we were the victims; such as the anily not the worst in China," but are aussi peu fondée que mal intentiounée; et collapse of a house near the quarters of decidedly among the best, if not the best, found in Son country. It is true that jo suis heureux de trouser l'occasion den Admiral Ting, the collapse of the Port exprimer publiquement ma vive reconnais-Arthur Telegraph house, and the fall of Srechuen, as a province, is exceedingly sauce. several sections of the boundary wall of the hilly—even mountainous in certain parts Jo vous prie, Monsieur I'Editeur, de port, lately erected by the Chinese autho-but'owing to the energy and public spirit vouloir bien insérer cette réponse dans un Tities. -of the authorities and people, a network of de vos plus procheins numeros, et d'agréer These considerations might have inspired capital stone roads has been constructed Yassurance de mes sentiments les plus dis-your correspondent with somewhat more fand is maintained in fairly good eonditio fingues. charitable reflections. throughout the province, Wherever the J, Tasvexer, hi 1e, from the European colony I may add that our sad acide has population is dense and trade at all exten-in sive—say,. for instance in the stretch The letter referred to was as follows:—Shanghai, evidences of sym-of country lying between Wan-hien and Chung-king, or from Chung-king to the
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