A few days ago the Viceroy was ordered from Peking to collect the facts anid make " clear representation of the damage done by the typhoon to the city and neighbourhood of Canton. The inguiry shows that more than eight hundred boats and junks were lost. Several gnardboats. also were destroyed; one of their cay about thirty drowned. Thirty steam-launches belonging to business firms either sank outright or were very badly damaged, four revenue cutters, belonging to the Salt Commissioner, were destroyed. The exact number of lives: lost cannot be known, bat it is put down at several hundreds, and will probably this uncertain figare. These statistics refer to ('anton and the immediate neighbourhood only, for it is stated by the Viceroy, in his dispatch to Peking, that he is making farther inquiries into the condition of affairs in some of the country districts around the city, and he finds things in these neighbourhoods, though not so appal-Ting as they are in Canton, quite bad enough, and there are many people in need of help.
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