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Corporation, and the Chartered Bank of India. The Lyceum Theatre, situate in Museum Road, is a fair building seating 700 persons, opened in January, 1874. The members of the German (Concordia) Člub have also a handsome little theatre attached to their premises in the Canton Road. A new Custom House was com- pleted in 1893 on the site of the old building on the Bund. It is in the Tudor style, of red brick with facings of green Ningpo stone, and has high pitched roofs covered with red French tiles. The buildings have a frontage on the Bund of 135 feet and on the Hankow Road of 155 feet. In the centre of the main building a clock tower, supplied with a four-faced clock striking the Westininster chimes, rises to a height of 110 feet, and divides the structure into two wings. The elevation is a very handsome one. Mr. John Chambers was the architect, and the new building adds an imposing feature to the Bund. A monument to the memory of Mr. A. R. Margary, of the British Consular service, who was murdered by Chinese in Yunnan, was unveiled in June, 1880, and a statue of the late Sir Harry Parkes, British Minister to Peking, was erected in 1890. A bronze monument in memory of the heroic death of the crew of the German gunboat Iltis, lost in a typhoon off the coast of Shuntung on 25th July, 1896, was erected on the Bund, at the end of the Peking road, in November, 1898. The principal buildings on the French Concessio n are the Municipal Hall and the Consulate. A bronze statue of Admiral Protet, who was killed when directing an attack on Nan-yao on 17th May, 1862, stands in front of the Municipal Hall.
INSTITUTIONS
Among the institutions of the place may be mentioned the Volunteer Defence Force consisting of Field Artillery, Light Horse, Engineers, Rifle Brigade, comprising a battalion of four companies and a Naval Company, the latter formed in 1898. Originally formed in 1861 it gradually went to decay, until the fear of attack after the Massacre at Tientsin in 1870 caused its revival with considerable vigour. It again dwindled in num- bers, but the last re-organisation under Major Holliday proved successful, there being now over three hundred members, almost all of whom are effective. This is exclusive of the Home Guard and Band. The infantry is armed with the Lee-Metford rifle. A separate Company of Volunteers under the order of the French Consul-General was formed in May 1897. The Fire Brigade, which is entirely volunteer, consists of seven Engine and two Hook and Ladder Companies. It is pronounced to be the most efficient Brigade out of the United States. There is a Hospital for foreigners, the building for which, although only completed in 1877, is already found inadequate and so badly situated that a new one is proposed. There are also several Hospitals for natives. The other public institutions may be enumerated as, a Subscription Library containing about 20 000 volumes, a branch of the Rwal Asiatic Society, with the nucleus of a Museum, a Masonic Club, a Sailors' Home, a Polytechnic Institution for Chinese, a Seamen's Library and Museum, a well supplied Gymna- sium, a Wind Instrument Band, paid by the Municipality, which gives concerts in the Public Gardens every day during the summer months, a Race Club, possessing a course of a mile and a quarter, a Country Club on the Bubbling Well Road, Parsee, Portuguese, and Customs Clubs, also Pony Paper Hunt, Cricket. Rifle, Yacht, Baseball, Racquet, Golf, Skating and various other Clubs for recreation. There are ten or eleven Masonic bodies, with over 500 members. In 1876 a District Grand Lodge for North China was constituted, with Shanghai as its head- quarters.
INDUSTRIES
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There are four Docks at Shanghai. The one at Tungkadoo, opposite the city, has a length of 380 feet over all, with a depth at spring tides of 21 feet the Old Dock at Hongkew, is 400 feet long and 18 feet deep at springs; Messrs. Boyd & Co's. New Dock at Pootung, at the lower end of the harbour, measures 450 feet on the blocks, 50 feet wide at bottom and 134 at top, is 80 feet wide at entrance between pierheads, with a depth at high water springs of 22 feet.; the works connected with this dock cover in area of 16 acres. Farnham's "Cosmopolitan Dock, on the Pootung side about a mile below harbour limits, is 560 feet long on blocks, and 82 feet wide at entrance. A public company was formed in 1896 to build a fifth and larger dock, which is now in course of construc- tion. All steamers and most sailing vessels now discharge and load at the variou public and private wharves. The premises of the Associated Wharf Companies have a frontage of about three-quarters of a mile. The Chinese Governmen.. has an Arsenal, Dock, and shipbuilding establishment at Kaou Chang Miao, a shor,