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PEKING
by the several offices appertaining to the Government and by private residences. of officials; while the outer consists of dwelling-houses, with shops in the chief avenues. The Chinese city is the business portion of Peking, but it presents few features of interest to sight-seers, while the enclosure known as the Prohibited City is, as its title denotes, forbidden to all foreign visitors. The numerous temples, the walls, the Imperial Observatory, the Foreign Legations, and the curio shops are the chief attractions to the tourist. The streets of the Chinese metropolis are kept in a most disgraceful condition. In the dry season the pedestrian sinks deep in noxious dust, and in wet weather he is liable to be drowned in the torrents that rush along the throughfares, where the constant traffic has worn away the soil. There is an air of decay about Peking which extends even to the finest of the temples. The population of Peking is not accurately known, but according to a Chinese estimate, which is probably slightly in excess, it is 1,300,000, of whom 900,000 reside in the Tartar and 400,000 in the Chinese city. There is no direct foreign trade with Peking, and the small foreign population is made up of the members of the various Legations, the Maritime Customs establishments, the professors of the College of Peking, and the missionary body. In August, 1884, the city was brought into direct telegraphic communication with the rest of the world," by an overland line to Tientsin via Tungchow.
署公司務稅總
DIRECTORY
Toung Shui-wu-ssü Kung-shu
CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME-INSPEC-
TORATE-GENERAL
Inspector General-Sir Robert Hart,
Bart., G.C.M.G.
Chief Secretary-R. E. Bredon Chinese Secretary-A. M. de Bernières Audit do. E. Ohlmer
Statistical do.
do. -H. Kopsch (S'hai) Non-Resident do. -J. D. Campbell,
C.M.G. (London)
Assist. Secretary S. Campbell (act.) Asst. Ch. Secretary-V. von Grot (act.) Asst. Audit Sec.-J. A. van Aalst (act.) Assistant Statistical Secretary—P. G.
von Möllendorff (Shanghai) Private Secretary-A. Michie (act.) Assistant-P. J. Grévedon
Do.
-A. H. Wilzer
Do.
- E. Denby
Do.
-C. E. Tanant
Do.
-T. T. Ferguson
Do.
-F. J. Maze
Do.
-W. MacDonald
Do.
-E. Wagner
Do.
-H. Oldham
Do. -E. K. Lowry
Do. --P. von Rautenfeld
Medical Officer-J. Dudgeon, M.D.
Postal Clerk-H. J. da Costa
Gas Engineers-C. B. Mears, A. Child
專匯 Hui-fêng
HILLIER, E. G., agent Hongkong and Shang-
hai Banking Corporation
HOTEL DE PEKING
Han-tah-lee
L. Tallieu, proprietor
館女同
IMPERIAL COLLEGE
Tung viên hoan
President-W. A. P. Martin, LL.D.
Profr. of Chemistry--A. Billequin (ab.)
Profr. of Anatomy and Medicine-J
Dudgeon, M.D.
Prof. of Astronomy and Mathematics—
S. Marcus Russell, M.A. Profr. of Mathematics-Sekan Profr. of Experimental Physics-C. H.
Oliver, M.A.
Acting Professor of Chemistry-C. C.
Stuhlmann, PH.D.
Profr. of French-C. Vapereau (absent) Acting do. -P. J. Grévedon
Profr. of English-Wm. MacDonald Profr. of Russian-V. von Grot
Profr. of German-A. H. Wilzer
Professors of Chinese Literature-
Three Chinese Chü-jin
Proctors-Four Chinese Officials
Chang-hsien-sheung
JEANRENAUD, CHS., Rentier
弗羅礽 Shi-lo-fu
KIERULFF, P., Commission Agent, Store-
keeper, and Dealer in Curios; Manufac
turer of Peking Enamels
P. Kierulff
C. Imbeck
A. Brandt
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