I noticed ea the city gate to-day a new proclamation in regard to the house tax. Kiangsu Province is assessed at Tls. 2,500,000 per year—about Tls. 400,000 for each circuit. A proportionate tax over the whole empire would pay the whole in. demnity, including interest, in from 15 years' to 20 years' time. My observation leads me to think that the people have very little idea of paying such 2 large tax; they will quietly refuse to do it, and a com: promise will be effected. But in the meantime the agitation is not making the foreigner any more popular. The real authors of the trouble are rarely blamed. One would think, to hear the remarks, that foreign governments had simply stepped in without thyme or reason and demanded this money of the Emperor.
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