The following affecting letter from Father Watson, a young English priest, has been handed to us for publication, Its simple pathos cannot but touch even those who 2 Feel most convinced that if the government did its duty such appeals would be unnecessary. " Meanwhile the suffering is there and there also are devoted hands ady to administer any help, even the east, that we can send, are three pri says the write ing on Tls. 300 a year" so that cur readers may feel Sure that even the snailest sum will be gratefully received and carefully expended, We will glidly receive contributions at this office, and acknowledge them, and will take care that they reach Father Watson's hands, Ta-kou-tun, 17th Sept., 1800.
You have asked me to give you some account of the distress caused by the flueds in our district of Pavti Hsien, "I have not yet visited all our villages, but have seen some of the worst afflicted and have cole lected my knowledge of the others from the crowd ut hungry people who daily throng our gateway. The misery is almost univers sal; in a few isolated spots the peasants {will be able to gather a litle fuel fur the winter, and perhaps a tenth part of their ordinary harvest; in the rest of the country there is simply nothing. 'Towards the east, in such places as Laochuangtze, Linting-ison and cthers, the water is still five feet 4 deep and reaches to the docts ut the houses. In that quarter there is neither food nor fuel, absolutely no prospect of sowing the ch'ite mai and great danger-of the people being unable to suw next spring unless
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