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CHOLON-CAMBODIA.

CHOLON.

C. E. Gillard, administrator of native

affairs, mayor

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

B. Fleith, A. Cornu, Ò. Du Crouzet, Tran Tuong Thoai, Nguyen Quan Bieu, Lai Huu Le, Ban Hap, Vuong Kinh, Luu Gia Du, Yo Sing Toung, councillors

Secretariat.

G. Guyot, secretary

P.C. Gogeard, accountant

Roads.

S. Prunier, architect of roads

L. Ippolito, draftsman

F. Batard, chief surveyor of roa is

F. Gonnord, Bazile, overseers of roads

MUNICIPAL Treasury,

Ange Costa, receiver

Mary dassou, writ server

POLICE.

Renard, brigadier, act. commissioner

Fardonnet, brigadier

Gérolami, Pech, sub-brigadiers

MUNICIPAL BOYS' SCHOOL.

Méric, bead master

Boutel, master

MUNICIPAL GIRLS' SCHOOL.

Sister Louise de Jesus, directress Sister Rose, teacher

HOSPITAL.

633.

Sister Lydia, superior, Sisters Emilienne,.

Ste. Paule, Antonie, and Natives

CHOLON STEAM RICE MILL. Administrator-Manager-A. Cornu Chief Engineer-B: sse

Mont de Piété

N. Reynand H. Péré

E. Duraffour A. Huyvenaar V. Léon

CAMBODIA.

Cambodia, or the Kingdom of the Khmer, as it is called by the natives, extends from 101 deg. 30 min. to 104 deg 30 min. longitude, and from 10 deg. 30 min. to 14 deg. latitude. It was reduced to its present proportions in 1860 by the annexation of its two richest provinces, Angcor and Battambang, to Siam. Its area is about 62,000 square miles. It is bounded on the south-west by the Gulf of Siam, on the south-east by French Cochin-China, on the north by the Laos, and on the north. west and west by Battambang and Angcor. The noble river Meikong flows through the kingdom, and after passing through French Cochin-China, empties itself, by a number of mouths, into the sea. The Meikong is the grand waterway of Cambodia, and, like the Nile in Egypt, lays the greater part of the country under water annually, greatly increasing its fertility. The soil of Cambodia is rich and productive, and rice, pepper, indigo, cotton, tobacco, sugar, maize, and cardamons are cultivated. Coffee and spices of all sorts could be grown. Among woods, ebony, rose, sapan, pine, iron, and other valuable sorts exist, no less than eighty different kinds of timber being found in the forests. Iron of good quality has been discovered, and it is affirmed that there are gold, silver, and lend mines in the mountains. The fisheries of Cambodia are very productive, and salt fish forms one of the chief articles of export.

Cambodia was once an extensive an: powerful state, and proofs that it possessed a much higher civilisation than now prevails are to be found in the architectural remnants of former grandeur. The noble ruins of the ancient city of Angcor are monuments of a people much superior to the feeble race which now inhabits Cambodia. The Cambodians differ entirely from their neighbours the Annamites, both in features and customs. Polygamy is practised an:ong them. The prevailing religion is Budd- hism. The people are apathetic and indolent, and have allowed the trade to fall into