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TIENTSIN.

Tientsin is situated at the junction of the Grand Canal with the Peiho'river in lat. 39 deg. 3 min. 55 sec. N. and long, 117 deg. 3 min. 55 sec. E. It is distant from Peking by river about 80 miles. It was formerly only a military station, but towards the close of the 17th century it became a place of some importance. The walled portion is small compared with the suburbs, the circumference of the walls being only a little over three miles. The principal trade is carried on in the suburbs. The puy native city has the putation of being exceptionally dirty. There are a num- Ley of soup-boiling work the neighbourhood, and the smell that arises from them is most disagreeable.

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A number of foreigners live in the suburbs of the native city, but the concession, which is simated about a mile and a half farther down on the south bank of the river, has been largely taken up during the last few years, and is now pretty well covered with buildings.

Tientsin will always be famous for the Treaty signed by Lord Elgin in a temple Bin ald the Treaty Temple, or Elgin's Joss-house, on the 26th June, 188, and known as the Treaty of Tientsin. 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. The China

way Company, which took over the Kaiping Coal Mining Company's line, has now extended railway communication to Tientsin by a line from Taku. The official inspection of the line by H.E. Li Hung-chang took place on the 9th October, 1888. Tien-in is also connected with Shanghai by telegraph, and in 1884 a line to Peking w opened. A Chinese daily paper, called the Shih-pato, and an English weekly, entitled the Chinese Times, are published. The population of Tientsin is estimated at 950,000.

There is a fair foreign trade done at Tientsin compared with the other open ports; but the exports are very small compared with the imports. The Tea exported goes principally to Russia and Siberia, vid Kiachta. In 1887, 444,634 piculs were exported by this route, compared with 445,158 piculs in 1886. A trade in Coal from the Kaiping mines has sprung up, the export for 1887 being 46,492 tons against 34,100 tons in 1886. Opium to the extent of 2,109 piculs was imported in 1887, as compared with 2,106 piculs in 1886. The total value of the trade of the port in 1887 was Tlı. 28,582,606, as compared with Tls. 27,382,445 in 1886.

Consulator.

官事領國英大

DIRECTORY.

Tu Ying-keo Ting-shih-ki av. GREAT BRITAIN.

(For Tientsin and Peking.)

Acting Consul—-T. L. Bullock

Interpreter-P. F. Hausser

Constable-G. Fairley

門衙事領國法大

Tu-jah-kwo ling-shih ya-men. FRANCE.

Consul-P. Ristelhueber

Chancelier-Interprete-L. Flayelle

Constable-E. Bonneau

門衙事領國俄大

Ta-ngo-kwo ling-shik ya-men. RUSSIA.

Consul-J. W. Parlerin

門衙事領國美大

Ta-mi-kwo ling-shik yo-men.

UNITED STATES.

Consul--E. Smithers

Vice-Consul--W. N. Pethick

Interpreter-C. D. Tenney

Marshal and Student İnterperler-Geo.

Smithers

門衙事頜國德大

Ta-te-kwo ling-shih ya-men. GERMANY.

Acting Consui-Ch. Feindel

Interpreter--0. Emans

Constable-E. F. Boos

BELGIUM.

Consul-W. Forbes