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hwa-mun to the main street. The width of the main streets is much reduced by the construction in front of nearly every house of a rude wooden shanty used for a work- shop or for business purposes, which gives the streets a poor and squalid appearance, The city, like most eastern towns, is very dirty, heaps of filth being allowed to accumulate, and the open drains on each side of the streets are the receptacles for all sorts of abominations. The shops of the capital are small and unattractive, and contain no articles de luze or curios. The population of the city is variously estimated at from 150,000 to 240,000 persons. A recent return gave the numbe of houses as 30,723.

FOREIGN OFFICE.

President-Min Yong-mok Vice-President-Kim Hung-chip

do.

DIRECTORY.

-P. G. von Möllendorff

do. -Li Tao-yön

do.

-Kim Wan-shik

CHINESE REPRESENTATIVES.

Chief Commissioner-Chen Shu-tang

do. -Chen Yuen-chang do. -Li Haing-chu

Assistant

Do. Secretary--Fan Kuai-ban Assistant Secretary-Chen Wai-guen

do. -Cheng Chib-ting

Do.

JAPANESE LEGATION.

Minister Resident-S. Takezoye

Attaché-K, Yamada (English interpreter) do. Militaire-Captain S. Isobayashi, staff officer

Physician-H. Kainoshi

BRITISH LEGATION,

Consul General-W. G. Aston

UNITED STATES LEGATION.

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-

potentiary-L. H. Foote Secretary-C. L. Scudder

HIS COREAN MAJESTY'S CUSTOMS. Chief-P. G. von Möllendorf Commissioner-

Secretary of Legation-T. Kobayashi (Con- Chief Assistant-J. R. Macbeth

sul at Jenchuan)

Attaché S. Kinoshita

do. K. Asayama (Corean interpretei)

do.

E. Obe

do. -G. Kato (Chinese interpreter)

do.

S. Uchigaki

JENCHUAN

Assistant-H. G. Armous

do.

– Woo Chung Yen

ROYAL COLLEGS OF SCIENCE AND LANGUAGES.

Professor-T. E. Hallifax

CHEMULPO).

This port, known to the Japanese as Jinsen, is situated in lat. 37 deg. 28 min. 30 sec. N. and long. 126 deg. 37 min. E., at the entrance to the Saleé river, an embouchure of the Han-kang close to and immediately east of Roze island, on the west coast of Corea, in the metropolitan province of Kiong-kyi-to. Though only two years ago a mere fishing village, and now still in its infancy, many buildings of a substantial character have been erected and the port 18 rapidly rising into importance as a commercial

centre.

The sub-prefectural town of Jencbur is situated 10 li distant from the port, which latter locally known as Chem...po. Fut-bing on the Han-kang is the noarest prefectural city, and is distant sene 35 li, near which place is situated, also on the Han-kang, the rising town of Map", which lies on the main road to Hanyang (Soul) some 75 li distant from the port (Chemulpo), or 30 li from Soul. There are two steamship agencies here, one British, the other Japanese; two Japanese Banks; two European and one American firms, as well as some 400 Japanese merchants and traders. The whole o: the land forming the Japanese Settlement at Chemulpo was sold publicly early in 1884; and the first land salts in the general Foreign Settlement took place on the 7th November of the same year. There is a Municipal Council at Chemulpo composed of the Foreign Consuls, one Corean official, and three represen-