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CHINA.

accounts published in the Peking Gazette, it would appear that there are almost constant deficits, which the governor 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:-

Sent to the Capital

Provinces

Provincial Treasury

Money taels

Shih rice

Money taels

Chih-le, ..

Keang-800,..

1,939,941

1,180.514

2,564,728

1,481,273

1,471,543

Gan-hwuy,

1,194,914

3,274,683

Keang-si,

1,602,431

795,063

795,224

Che-Keang,

2,287,346

678,320

907,905

Foo-Keen,.

1,055,290

309,380

Hoo-Pih,.

776,173

96,934

365,741

Hunan,.

944,432

94,314

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-Chuen

Kwang-tung

Kwang-si

182,644

218,550

133,061

306,366

24,271

719,370

542,601

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:-

Distance from

Provinces

Provincial Capital

Peking in Lys*

Area in English statute

Population

'miles

Chih-le.. Shan-tung

Peking.

58,949

27,900,871

Tse-nan-foo.

800

65,104

28,958,764

Shan-se.

Tae-yuen-foo.

1,200

55,268

14,004,210

Honan

Kae-fung-foo..

1,540

65,104

23,037,171

Keang-800

Nanking..

2,400

37,843,501

92,661

Gan-hwuy,

Gan-king-foo..

2,700

34.168,059

Keang.si

Foo-keen Che-Keang. Hoo-Pih. Hunan

Shen-se

Kan-suh

·

Nan-chang-foo.

2.850

72,176

30.426.999

Fuh-choo-foo...

4.845

53,480

14,777,410,

Hang-choo-choo..

3,300

39,150

26,256,784

/

Woo-chung-foo..

3,155

37,370.098

Chang-chu-foo..

144,770

4,550

18,652,507

Se-gan-foo...

2,650

10.207.256'

154,008

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-si

Yun-Nan

Kwang-choo-foo

7,570

79,456

19.147,030,

Kwe-lin-foo.

7,460

78,250

7,313,895

Yun-nan-foo.

8,200

107,869

5,561,320

Kwei-Choo

Kwei-yang-foo..

7,610

64,554

5,258,219

Total...

1,297,999

367,632,907

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

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