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CAMBODIA-HAIPHONG.

Berthier, V., planter, Takéo (Pom-penh)

Foulon, lime-kiln (Pnom-lau-long)

Garcerie, A., timber merchant

Housti", lime-kiln (Pnom-lau-long)

Morice Jn. and Bailly, storekeepers

Parie, telegraph (Kampot)

Pellissier, cattle merchant

Cadet, E., assistant

Hunter R., planter, Takéo (Phnom-penh) Roque, V., Messageries à vapeur de la

Marrot, Vve., storekeeper

Cochinchine

C. F. Gueno, agent-

Molt, C., agent for Speidel & Co. (Saigon) Russell, H., importation and exportation

HAIPHONG.

This, the shipping port for Hanoi, is situated in lat. 20 deg. 49 min. and long. 106 deg. 40 min. n the River Ba-can, a branch of the Song-koi, about seven and a-half miles from its mouth. Vessels drawing 15 or 20 feet can anchor in mid- channel about a quarter of a mile from the shore, abreast of a creek communicating with the Song-koi. At low water the channel is not more than one-fiftu of a mile in w.dth. The banks of the river are low and consist of alluviai mud, from which the new French Settlement has with g... our been reclaimed. The port consists of two villages, which are wretchedly Cale, and the streets are narrow, repulsive, and dirty, but it is gradually in proving under French supervision. The bulk of the foreign residents are French, and a body of French troops are stationed bere. Two strong forts, which command the river on either side, are also occupid at present by ibe Fr. neh, who hold them until the indemnity for loss drring the lat war has been paid off. The population of Ha phong is about 10,000, of whom one thousand ar foreigners and Chinese. The only decent houses in the place belong to the two latter, most of the natives living in bamboo huts of a primitive description.

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Since the opening of the port in 1875 i ale has largely ner ased, as is evidenced by the returns for 1877, according to wu che total va ue of the trade is set down at 2,231,749 francs against 1,232,695 francs in 1876. This large iner ase is ascribed to the permission to export rice, but there was also a great advance in the imports as well as exports. The value of the inports for 1877 was fr. 1,134,448 compared with fr. 615,268 in 1876; that of the exports for 1877 fr. 1,082,002 ; guinst fr. 614,612 in 1876; while the coasting trade, iraports and exporis, rose from fr. 2,875 n 1876 to fr. 65,209 in 1877. The total number of clearances of fore'gn and Chinese vessels at the port in 1877 was 309, with a tonnage of 42,266, compared with 177 vessels gith a tonnage of 14,063 in 1876. More than half the total tonnage was under the The Caith flag.

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and customs, ng is distant from Hanoi, the capital, abt 60 miles as the crow flies, dhism. The peop river (the Song-koi), the only available route, is 145 miles. The to fall into the harmed by small steamers, which ply regularly between the capital and entire population of