A gentleman recently returned from southern Honan and southern Shansi re-rts an almost complete failure in the aryest over an extensive section of country with the certainty in consequence of gr suffering. This in addition to the dis turbed condition of the country and the dissatisfaction existing all over te North with the present state of things in the capital makes a very unplensuut outlook for the coming winter, Everything seems to point to an unsettled condition of al and more or less of disturbance, such as has not existed since the time following the close of the Taiping rebellion when large portions of the North, up to Tientsin, were overrun with mounted banditti, 2st September.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.