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Consulates.

WENCHOW—NINGPO.

門衙事領國英大

DIRECTORY.

Ta Ying-kwok ling-z-nga-mun.

GREAT BRITAIN.

Acting Consul―Alex. Hosie

Constable John Compton

GERMANY.

In charge of Interests-Alex. Hosie

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

Consul-Alex. Hosie

SWEDEN ANd Norway.

In charge Alex. Hosie

Imperial Maritime Customs. W On Hai-kuan.

Assistant in charge-F. A. Carl Assistant-D. J. Macgowan Clerk-D. Perceb. is

Medical Officer-D. J. Margowan, M.D.

Linguist- Huang Ping

Assistant Examiner–G. W. Luce

Tid wit rs- C. P. R. Hansen, W E.

Robisson

CHINA MERCHANTS S. N. Co

| Yeh Chang, shipping agent

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Missionaries.

CHINA INLAND MISSION

Rev G. and Mrs. Stott (absent)

R. and Mrs. Grierson, Ping Yong and

Wenchow

Miss Judd

ENGLISH UNITED METHODIST FREE

CHURCH MISSION.

Rev. W. B an1 Mr«, Sɔ ɔthill

NINGPO.

Ningpo is situated on the river Yung, in the province of Chokiang, in lat. 29 deg 55 min. 12 sec. N., and long. 121 deg. 22 min. E. It was one of the five ports thrown open to foreigners in 1842. Foreigners had, however, visited Ningpo at an early date. Portuguese traded there in 1522; a number of them settled in the place in that and succeeding years, and there was every prospect of a rising and successful colony soon being established. But the lawless acts of the Portuguese soo attracted the attention of the Government, and in 1542 the Governor of Chekiang ordered the settlement to be destroyed and the population to be exterminated. A large force of Chinese troops soon besieged the place, destroying it entirely, and out of a population of 1,200 Portuguese, 800 were massacred. No further attempt at trade with this port was made till towards the close of the 17th century, when the East India Company established a factory at the island of Chusan, some forty miles from Ningpo. The attempt to found a trade nart there, however, proved unsatis factory, and the factory was abandoned after a very few years' trial. The port was deserted by foreigners for many years after that. When hostilities broke out between Great Britain and China in 1839, the fleet moved north from Canton, and on the 13th October, 1841, occupied Ningpo, and an English garrison was stationed there for some time.

In March, 1842, an attempt was made by the Chinese to retake the city; but the British artillery repulsed them with great slaughter. Ningpo was

evacuated on May 7th, and, on the proclamation of peace in the following August, the port was thrown open to foreign trade.

Ningpo is built on a plain, which stretches away to a considerable distance on either side. It is a walled city, the walls enclosing a space of some five miles in cir cumference. The walls are built of brick, and are about twenty-five feet high. They

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