We have received a further communication from the Catholic Missionary in Honan, in that province we published a few days whose letter on the subject of the distress
ago. He now writes as follows:—I forgot in my last letter to say a word concerning the works of the Yellow River, now completely abandoned, with great to the Government and the people, but, not, I believe, to those who had the direction of them. The people have suffered greatly, as in many districts the annual tax to provide for the purchase of thousands and thousands of cart-loads of maize-cane, and the tax for the purchase of material for repairing the banks of the river have been renewed, A mandarin, whom I knew, who was ordered to send to the capital a' larger number of cartloads of cane than his district could afford to
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