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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. Tientsin is now connected with Shanghai by telegraph, a line having been constructed overland in 1881 and opened to traffic on the 28th December of that year. 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. One great advantage that natives here have over foreign competitors is that the former "purchase their stocks in Shanghai when there is a favourable market, rarely if ever insure their goods, sell in small quantities, 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.

The Tea exported goes principally to Russia and Siberia, via Kiachta. In 1881, 294,985 piculs were exported by this route, compared with 296,869 piculs in 1880. Opium to the extent of 3,421 piculs was imported in 1881, as compared with 3,219 piculs in 1880. The total value of the trade of the port in 1881 was Tls. 21,606,231 as compared with Tis. 21,668,434 in 1880.

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Consulates.

大英國領事官

Ta Ying-kwo-ling-shik-wan. GREAT BRITAIN.

(For Tientsin and Peking.)

Consul-Byron Brenan

Assistant-G. V. Fittock

Constable-H. Yeomans

FRANCE.

DIRECTORY.

大法國領事衙門

Ta Fa-kwo-ling-shik Yamên.

Consul-C. Dillon

Chancelier- Interprete—A. Mellottée

大俄國領事衙門

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

Consul M. Schishmarew

大美國領事廠門

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

UNITED STATES.

Consul Jas. C. Zuck

Vice-Consul—-L. W. Pilcher

Acting Interpreter-R. H. Maclay

Marshal-Jacob Gall

大德國領事衙門

Ta te kno ling shih ya-men. GERMANY.

Consul-A. Pelldram

Interpreter-Ch. Feindel

Constable-F. Mileck

BELGIUM.

Consul-W. Forbes

Ta Tan-kwo Kung-kwan. DENMARK.

Acting Consul-M. Schishmarew

PORTUGAL.

Consul-John J. Hatch

大和

団領車官

Ta Ho-lan-kwo Ling-shi-kuan

NETHERLANDS,

Acting Consul--Byron Brenan

JAPAN.

Consul for Tientsin, Newchwang, and Che-

foo-Shinichiro Takezoye

Secretary-Hisasi Shimamura