PEKING.
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Prohibited City is, as its title denotes, forbidden to all foreign visitors. The numerous temples, the walls, the Imperial Observatory, the Foreign Legations, and the curio shops are the chief attractions to the tourist. The streets of the Chinese metropolis are kept in a most disgraceful condition. In the dry season the pedestrian sinks deep in noxious dust, and in wet weather he is liable to be drowned in the torrents that rush along the thoroughfares, where the constant traffic has worn away the soil. There is an air of decay about Peking, which extends even to the finest of the temples. The population of Peking is not accurately known, but according to a Chinese estimate, which is probably slightly in excess, it is 1,300,000, of whom 900,000 reside in the Tartar aud 400,000 in the Chinese city: There is no direct foreign trade with Peking, and the small foreign population is made up of the members of the various Legations, the Maritime Customs establishment, the professors at the College of Peking, and the missionary body.
Legations.
DIRECTORY.
大俄國欽差公署
大茄國欽差公署 Ta Ying-kuo Ch'in-ch'ai Kung-shu. BRITISH,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- potentiary, and Chief Superintendent of
British Trade in China.-Sir Thos. Francis Wade, K.C.B.
Secretary of Legation-The Hon. T. G.
Grosvenor, C.B.
2nd Secretary-C. T. Maude Chinese Secretary-E. C. Baber
Assistant Chinese Secretary-W. C. Hillier
(absent)
Acting Chinese Secretary-W. Warry Accountant-A. E. l'irkis, C.B.
Surgeon―S. W. Bushell, M.D. (absent) Acting Chaplain-Rev. W. Brereton Students-W. Warry, E. D. Home Fraser,
W. Cockburn, W. H. Wilkinson, H. E. Fulford, G. V. Fittock, P. O'Brien-Butler, R. H. Mortimore, H. B. Joly
Acting Sergeant of Escort-R. D. IIerring Constables-Posnett, Wilkin, Bruce
大法耶西國欽差公署
Ta Fa-lang-hei-kuo Ch'in-ch'ai Kung-shu. FRENCH.
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary—A. Bourée
First Secretary of Legation—
Second Sect. of Legation-Vte. de Semallé
Interpreter Chancelier-P. Ristelhueber Student Interpreters-V. Collin de Planey,
M. Jametel, C. Imbault-Huart
Ta O-kuo Ch'in-ch'ai Kung-shu. RUSSIAN.
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo-
tentiary-E. de Butzow
Military Attaché-Colonel W. de Bodisco Sect. of Legation-A. Koyander (abs nt)
First Interpreter-P. Popoff
Physicro-E. Bretschneider, M.D.
Student Interpreters.-J. Dmitrewsky, N.
Popoff
Postmaster N. Gomboyeff
大德意志國欽差公署
Ta Té-i-chih-kuo Ch'in-ch'ai Kung-shu. GERMAN.
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo-
tentiary-M. von Brandt
Secretary of Legation-Count von Tatten-
bach
Student Interpreters-Dr. Lenz, Baron von Secretary and Interpreter-C. Arendt
Seckendorff, Baron von Ketteler Constable-G. Ritter
大澳斯馬加國欽差公署
Ta Ao-ssl-ma-chia-kuo Ch'in-ch'ai Kung-shu.
AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN.
Minister Resident and Consul-General for China-Chevalier Hoffer von Hofferfeldt (residing at Tokio)
Interp.-J. Haas (residing at Shanghai)