Pram Our Own Correspondent, Taichowfu, July 1.
Permit me to correct a somewhat important mistake in the printing of my last item of news. The eum of 827,000 should read $27,000,000. is a round sum arrived at in the following manner. Each county city hae a salary bill of 81,800 for a month. This is $21,600 per There are seventy county cities in the province—strietly, there are reventytwo and the province is the smallest the Republic—this gives $1,512,000 or over one and a half millions for the province. Multiply thie again by eighteen and the sum' will be found to work out at 127,216,000 dollars which will doubtless be found in practice to be von siderably under-estimated.
Besides thie there is the military department and the higher civil list. The richness of the resources of China should not preclude this or even larger annal budget, but the 133 temporary collapse of the Iand-tax collateral with the necessary operation of the civil list, makes it pret ty evident thet China is living on borrowed money or accumulating debt that will face her very ominously in the near future.
The discontent between the local soldiers and the new troops still lingers with occasional outbursts, The former complain that while they are kept on continual police duty, poorly-clad and fed and with an wncertain stipend, the young levies are quartered in the best buildings in the city, are well paid and uniformed provided even with mosquito nets and have no hardships beyond their Iaily drill
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.