Ml ol nt 





The Uulu had 

 M.-HI from $24,- 

 U-r. I-'.M;. i,, half that a: 



WM attributed U> want -f pi- 

 MpMstaftl :-n" - >-. f 



uuMrof tf I \ . 



'aUlM'r of fiartiea, the DC 



ung our. It j.n.i 



all. 

 .--I faith 



rnclomrea, 



f.i.l III ". i. . f ; '. i r ' * -.\ i . HH 



: thr 



UN. Wit- I.! 



. :.! *>f the year. ' 







innintaiii 

 ii ati'i i ational indii-triea. 



.-a-li-rii A 

 in tho collected regulations of 





Mil N \ 



- based on th. i;..\, M.J 

 Ktii|MT H Mipmne pa- 



ternal authority. The art- of thr * < 



art. Th 

 Miicil. 'I 



and 2 Main h . 



ehosen from v wat-h 



f thr 

 1 nfiicius. Suln't'ilmat. .I 



:ill .Itl-tirr. ali'l thr Admiralty, 

 MS a rhiiiiMit* and a Maiichu pn siding 



arned mandarins with a Chinese and a 



and thr censors ar -1 n,.liM.lually 



Emperor on any mil.Iic mutt 

 be ire*ent at all meeting* MI. nt 



board*. 'I Uim 



'l,1873,soii of Prince Hum. tl 



who succeedctl hi- 

 ,!.. on .la; 



|i-r 



v of 





aunt and 

 :. till 





.-T 



r thr pr -\mcea of 

 in the table above. Thr 

 ' in.-hur:a. hitting an 



10 square miles and aUi. 



1.SHH.- 

 JOO Jtrjuar nd thr | M ipii' 



8,000,000; TiU-t. w:?h ati area .f ..M>NI ,..,-. 



,-*ria, with an area of 147/XiO square miles 



and thin.'**) inhabitant^: and Chines I 



:- 





:; 



i- tl. .ddhista and Taoism are 



- , : !- - ... , 



\ .-.!..-. . : . 



h. thr 



aborigines, who pra*ii^r nature wonhip. The Ho- 







European pn, 

 Dumber of Pr 



\. < -A .:..' 



|aj - - ; - i. ' . 



II 



Vi0 native prieatlL Tht 

 MS in 1887 was esti- 

 r^lucation is very genern 

 lerary Unguagr and r 



.t b assiduously cultivated 

 rary da^ for appointment* t*. 

 pulilir . ili.t- are bestowed on those who pa- 

 - for litrrary degrem. " 

 . pirant.H to ofll , and hOBOffl ha\.- |M> 

 1 in math. -mat!- - a* well as in the 

 nese language, litrraturr. and law*. There are 

 many school* in hi 1. thr Wentern languages and 

 sciences are taught. In the foreign college h 

 kin. which is suppm Imperial Oovern- 



Kuro|M>an and American professors tearh 

 ^gifah, Russian. Fn -n. h. <>*rnuui. mathematics, 

 astronotnv. m.-tcorology. physk*, chemistrv. anal- 

 and physiology. The Government has also 

 and n*N the 



training of officers in modern warfare. The nnm- 

 U r of f. r.igners residing in the open treaty : 



8fl Japanese, 461 



r- - r - : : ' !'. 



Austrian*. 71 Belgians* 







BritUi nMeett\ U80 U pi SS i n 9U 

 Germana, 805 Portugt 



- i;:i - 



.nd 140 of 

 I in,.!..* -venue is mainly collected bv 



ml authorities. The ImpW 



n.. t . alN uj. n thrm to transmit to IVkm the sur- 

 plus o\rr thrir <>n rv.ji 

 a rvi|iiiition for a la Mim from 



at^l on the collections for paM years. In na- 

 extraonlinary ontributions are 

 to famine or poverty the 

 revenue of a province is insufficient for ita own 



Hal (iov< r mils the 



utrilnition. and snmetim 

 out of it- own trva> 



more than a thinl of 'the surplus revenue of the 

 provinces i actually paid over by the official* to 



\ makes the present imperial 



ue 804I7V.OOO taeU. equal to fflij888l l OOOL The 

 land tax yields a lit hich 



much lew than the amount actually 

 collected, which itself is capable of a large expan- 

 sion. Estimating 800,000,000 acres under cultiva- 

 tion, and an average tax of two third* of a tael per 

 acre, the Government receive* only 124 per cent, of 

 the amount collrctcd. The salt tax. y iclding some- 



