About a month ago the Board of Revenue at Peking issued two Yellow Books giving statistics of the population and the grain supply of China, From these it appears thatthe population in 1887 was 303,241,969, showing an excess of 1,153,855 over that of the year 1886, when it was 302,088,114, In 1887 the stock of cereals for the food of this large population was 2,225,805 shih. (a shih contains roughly ing about 10} litres) against 2,252,173 shih in 1886, [Those statistics probably refer only to China Proper.} The Board of Revenue have been in consultation about the expense of the contemplated railway from near Peking to Per str. Natal, for Shanghai from Marseille—Mr, and Mes, Mirabel, Mee. Dovey, De, Padgen, From Suez—Mr. ship:
igapore—Me. Tourburo, Brom Mr. Lefevie, From Hongkovg—Mra, eire and 4 children, Measre, Clifton), Brignor, Lope, d'Aquivo, de Silva and M. Por str. Laertes, fr youl, &o.—Mer,
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