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TIENTSIN.

and known as the Treaty of l'rentsin. The port is also infamously notorious for the massacre of the French Sisters of Charity and other foreigners on the 21st June, 1870, by a Chinese mob, under circumstances of shocking brutality. A small daily paper called the Northern Post was started on the 1st December last. Tientsin is now connected with Shangbai by telegraph, a line baving been constructed overland last year and opened to traffic on the 28th December. The population of Tientsin is estimated at 930,000.

There is a fair foreign trade done at Tientsin compared with the other open ports. When the port was first opened, it is said that money was picked up very quickly by the few merchants then on the scene. In course of time, however, the Chinese began to make headway, and they have the trade now pretty well in their own hands. A recent Customs' report speaks of one great advantage that natives here have over foreign competitors. The former "purchase their stocks in Shanghai when there is a favourable market, rarely if ever insure their goods, and by selling in small quan- tities, and constituting themselves their own salesmen, at once procure ready buyers, and save the standing commission to which the compradores of foreigners are entitled." The export trade of Tientsin is very small compared with the import. Cotton is cultivated in the locality, and some years ago great expectations were entertained concerning it. Coal, it is believed, will shortly be exported in large The Tea exported goes quantities when the coal mines are in full working order. principally to Russia and Siberia, via Kiachta. In 1889, 296,869 picuìs were exported by this route, compared with 400,004 piculs in 1879. Opium to the extent of 3,219 piculs was imported in 1880, as compared with 5,181 piculs in 1879. The total value of the trade of the port in 1880 was Tls. 21,668,434 as compared with Tis. 24,365,442 in 1879.

Consulates.

GREAT BRITAIN.

(For Tientsin and Peking.)

Acting Consul―T. L. Bullock

Assistant-

Constable-H. comans

Consul-C. Dillon

FRANCE.

DIRECTORY.

DENMARK.

Acting Consul-C. Waeber

BELGIUM.

Consul-W. Forbes

PORTUGAL.

Chancelier Interprete-J. Hte. Frandin

Constable-J. Gall

大俄國領事衙門

Ta-ngo kwo ling-sz-ya-mun. RUSSIA.

Consul-C. Waeber

大美國領事衙門

Ta-mi-kuo-ling-shih-ya-men.

UNITED STATES.

Consul-Jas. C. Zuck

Vice-consul-

Acting Interpreter-R. H. Maclay

Marshal-Jacob Gall

大德國領事衙門

Ta te-kuo-ling-shih ya-men.

GERMANY.

Acting Consul-P. G. von Möllendorff

Constable-H. Kubart

Consul-John J. Hatch

NETHERLANDS.

Acting Consul--T. L. Bullock

JAPAN.

foo-Shinichiro Takezoye

Consul for Tientsin, Newchwang and Che-

Secretary-Hisasi Shimamura

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. -

Acting Consul-T. L. Bullock

工部

Kung-pu.

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

Chairman-G. Detring

Hon. Treasurer-S. A. Hardoon

IIon. Secretary-W. H. Gubbins

Members-A. D. Startseff, Wm. Forbes Superintendent of Police-S. E. Williams