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OHINA.

accounts published in the Peking Gazette,' it would appear that there are almost constant deficits, which the governors and high officers of provinces must make good by loans or extraordinary taxation.

The amount of land-tax not paid in money is chiefly discharged in rice, wheat, and pulse, which is kept by the government in immense granaries in the suburbs of Peking and Tung-chow.

The revenues of the various provinces of the empire were stated as follows in the official report of 1844-

Provinces

Provincial Treasury

Sent to the Capital

Money taels

Shih rice

Money taels

Chih-le,...

1,939,941

1,180,514

Keang-800,

2,564,728

1,431,273

1,471,543

Gan-hwuy,..

1,194,914

3,274,583

Keang-si,........

1,602,431

795,063

795,224

Che-Keang,.

2,287,346

678,320

907,905

Foo-Keen,....

1,035,290

309,380

Hoo-Pih,.......

776,173

96,934

365,741

Hunan,....

944,132

96,314

280,192

Honan.......

2,441,110

221,342

658,923

Shan-tung,..

2,730,736

353,963

743,532

Shan-se,.

2,702,285

898,081

Shen-se,

1,344.548

306,121

Kan-suh,

Sze-Conen,

182.644

218,550

133,061

306.366

24,271

Kwang-tung,

719,370

542,601

Kwang-si,.

278,559

113.725

Yun-Nan,

188.927

227,626

87,852

Kwei-Choo,.

53,346

27,056

Totals,...

23.313,146

4,119,385

12,120,407

Total in money. 35,430,552 taels,

The empire is divided into eighteen provinces, the area and population of which, according to the imperial census of 1812, is as follows:-

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Provinces

Provincial Capital

Distance from Peking

Area in English statute

Population

miles

in Lys*

Chih-le,

Shan-tung...

Peking...

58,949

27,900.871

Tse-nan-foo

800

65.104

28 958,764

Shan-se,

Honan,

Tae-yuen-foo.... 1,200

55,268

14 004,210

Kae-fung-foo..... 1,540

65,104

23,037,171

Keang-soo,..

Nanking....

2,400

37,843,501

Gan-hwuy,.

Gan-king-foo..... 2,700

92,661

34,168,059

Keang-si.

Nan-chang-foo... 2,850

72,176

30,426,999

Foo-keen,

Fuh-choo-foo..... 4,845

53,480

14,777,410

Che-Keang,.

Hang-choo-foo... 3,300

39,150

26,256,784

Hoo-Pih,.

Woo-chang-foo.. 3,155

37,370,098

Hunan,..

Chang-cha-foo... 4,550

144,700

18,652,507

Shen-se,

Se-gan-foo...... 2,650

10,207,256

154,008

Kan-suh,

Lan-choo-foo..... 4,040

15,193,135

Sze-Chuen,..

Ching-too-foo.... 5,700

166,800

21,435,678

Kwang-tung, or Canton,

Kwang-choo-foo

7,570

79,456

19,147,030

Kwang-si,.

Yun-Nan,

Kwei-Choo,...

Kwe-lin-foo....... 7,460 Yun-nan-foo....... 8,200 Kwei-yang-foo... 7,640

78,250

7,313 895

107,869

5,561,320

64.554

5,288,219

Total...

1,297,999

367,632.907

Lys-194 to a degree, or about one-third English mile each.

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