apstRacr oP PEKING GazeTTES, onuary, 15th and 16ch,—(1) T@-shou la appointed Salt Commissioner of Chekiang, and Liang Yao-sh'u Literary Chancellor of Shantany (3) A long Memorial from Yen Mao, Sub-Director of the Imperial Stud Court, the subject of the Yellow River, He coi mencos with a historical retrospect of the changes that lave taken place in the chan nel of the Yellow River, which hue repeat tedly altered its ce! the days of the Han dynasty, Putting aside for the tthe havoc wrought by the river in the daya of the Han, Tang, Sung and Yuan dynastic himeelf to the Ming. In that was known lier us YOu Ch'Bug, the city was supplied with grain f.m the south-coast, all of which had to pose through the place then known as Po (?'ung-ch'ang Fu) In Shanti Hence iv was impossible to allow the river to flow northwards, as the canal would have boon destroyed and the cain supply would have been out off Whenever, therefore, br occurred to the northward the wat invariably After describing certain tury with a view to forcing the river south wards, he alates that the sume policy has been followed by the present dynasty. Although constant breaches have ocourred uring the two centuries and more that dynasty has occupied the atate of things has never been we From the ti ug, the Yello eaterly course, entering Shantung of the Ch'ang-titan and Tungining Districts, thence flowing by Ho-te8 to Li-and carrying with tt the waters of the Wou, Ohi, Hung, and Lai Rivers sea," How was it that no such di at present happen occurred some score or a0 of yea ago? Because the bed of the River was then deep enough to he water. Of late the bottom has eu silting up and the bed of the stream is now higher than the surrounding country. Though embankments are made from day to day to prevent the accidents which yearly occur, they oan over by as substantial xs the old embankment of the Yellow River, while the Grand Canal is liable to constant penetration from the overflows which occur, the esual means interrupt grain transport by the inland route, and interruption of the inland route prevents the abandonment of the sea route, which gives an enemy an opportunity for exercising pressure upon the
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