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CHUNGKING—NINGPO

IMX Ta Ying ling-shih ya-men | JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.. Merchants CONSULATE-GREAT BRITAIN

Acting Consul-J. N. Tratman

關

Chung-ch'ing Kuan

CUSTOMS IMPERIAL MARITIME

Commissioner-F. E. Woodruff

Assistants-F. J. Mayers, A. G. H. Car-

ruthers

Tidesurveyor--W. Stebbins

Assist. Examiner—A. Diercking Tidewaiters-E. C. A. Deichen, J. L.

McDowall

LEENT 豐永

Yung.foong

DAESCHNER & Co., Rudolf, Merchants

Francis Tatlock, agent

會誼公

FRIENDS' FOREIGN MISSION

R. J. and Mrs. Davidson (absent)

Frederic S. and Mrs. Deane

Leonard and Mrs. Wigham

Isaac and Mrs. Mason Miss Margaret Southall Miss Mira L. Cumber

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY

Rev. A. E. and Mrs. Claxton Rev. J. W. and Mrs. Wilson

METHODIST EPISCOPAL MISSION

Dr. J. H. McCartney

Rev. W. E. and Mrs. Manly Rev. J. F. and Mrs. Peat Rev. Quincy A. and Mrs. Myers Miss H. Galloway

Miss F. E. Meyer Miss S. Kissak

Miss C. Collier

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Dr. H. L. and Mrs. Canright, Chentu Rev. H. O. and Mrs. Cady, do. Rev. J. O. and Mrs. Curnow, do.

NATIONAL BIBLE SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND

Jas. Murray, agent (absent)

A. L. Greig

III. Chêu Yuan Trong

堂原眞

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Mgr. Félix Chouvellon

Rev. L. Blettery, pro vicar

Rev. M. Bonnet,

do.

Rev. J. Lorain, procurer

局介慶重载電國中

TELEGRAPHS-IMPERIAL CHINESE

Yuen Ko Chuen, manager

Zee Shu Chuen, clerk-in-charge

NINGPO

Ningpo is situated on the river Yung, in the province of Chekiang, in lat. 29 deg. 55 min. N., and long. 121 deg. 22 min. E. It was one of the five ports thrown open to foreigners in 1812. 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 settlement soon being established. But the lawless acts of the Portuguese soon 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 mart there, however, proved unsatisfactory, 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 are fifteen feet wide at the summit, and twenty-two at the base. Access is obtained to the town by six gates. A large moat commences at the north gate and runs along the foot of the wall for about three miles on the landward side, until it stops at what is called the Bridge Gate. The main street runs from east to west. Several of the streets