July 18, 1895 J
THE CENSUS OF SHANGHAI.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
out of a total
of 3,443, or considerably more than half. Portuguese come next with The figures of the census of the foreign 731. Americans come next with 328; but population of Shanghai, taken on the night the Germans are running them very close, of the 24th of June last, cannot but be very in numbering now as they do 314 Then come teresting to residents here and to old residents Eurasians 260, Japaness 250-the Japanese now at home, who have still interests in the com- colony having been scattered by the war and mercial capital of the Far East. We have heard not yet re-collected-Spanish, chiefly from the so much of hard times and of impecuniosity Philippines, 154, French 138, and Indians 119; consequent on or contemporan-ous with no other nationality reaching the century. the depreciation of silver, that there were It may be noted that of those under some who expected that the tale of adult ten there are Greeks 7, Peruvians 5, males at any rate would show no increase over Persians 4, Egyptians 3, with one Arabian 1890. There could be no qn stion that an and one Korean. In all previous numberings | increase would be shown in the number of the people the Eurasians were included in of women and children, for the prevalent im the various nationalities of their fathers. In pecuniosity means among other things that the 1890 there were 1.514 British subjects, 564 majority of European exiles here cannot afford Portuguese, 3 6 Japanese (of whom there were to visit their native lands except at long intervals, 595 in 1885), 323 Americans, 244 Germans, 229 and must more and more. look on Shanghai as Spanish, and 114 French, out of the total of their home. So we find that while the total 3,821; while in 1870, ont of the total of 1,666. foreign population-excluding always the French 894 were British subjects, 255 Americans. 158 Concession-has grown from 3,821 in 1890 to Germans, 114 Portuguese, 45 Spanish, 16 French, 4,684 in 1895, au increase of 863, the number of and only 7 Japanese. adult males has only grown from 1,811 in 1890 Lovers of figures will find other points to to 2.068 in 1895, an increase of 257. The num interest them in the compact table published by ber of adult females has grown in the same time the Municipal Council; in this short article we from 979 to 1,227, an increase of 248, and of chil- have just touched on a few salient ones. dren, fifteen years being taken as the limit of may note in conclusion that the greatest jump We childhood, from 1,0 1 to 1,389, an increase in five years was between 1887 (2,197) and 1825 of 353. This large proportion of chil.
(3.673); and we may expect to see a still greater dren in the community is another proof jump between 1895 and 1900.-N. C. Daily
to a certain extent of the prevaleut im-News. pecuniosity. People cannot afford to send their children home to be educated in gold standard countries, while on the other hand the healthiness of Shanghai has so greatly improved under fifty years of enlightened municipal government, and the facilities for education here are so good, that children are not now handicapped as they were by being kept in Shanghai; and they do not forget their own parents, as they sometimes did in the days when it was thought necessary to ship them off home as soon as they began to be interesting. In 1870, a quarter of a century ago, there were 1,666 foreigners altogether in Shanghai, of whom 1,281 were adult males, 218 females, and 167 children. In 1895 there are 4,684 foreigners in all, of whom 2,068 are adult males, 1,227 females, and 1,3-9 children. To these 4,684 have to be added the residents on the French concession, say 430, and a floating population, on vessels in harbour, amounting to 1,306, making a grand total of nearly 6,500. The floating population, it must be remembered, is also a fluctuating one. When we come to details, we find several points of interest to notice.
knots.
LAUNCH AT HAIPHONG.
to France, which some Chinese in their usual loose and general way talk of as a thousand li, with two towns mentioned as Mengchiala and Wuto, which
may or may not be found. to place any great valne on their concession, but on most maps. The Chinese do not seemi then they are intensely ignorant of their own country and the commercial or strategic impor tauce of places on the frontier. They think it is a matter that concerns themselves and they cannot understand how other nations should be inter ested in it or feel called upon to remonstrate or protest. It may be taken for granted that the French would not ask for anything which was of cities surveyed and the treaty is based upon their no value. They have had the region and its capa- representations. Some of the Chinese bare the French; others that a portion of it only has been rumour that Yunnan has been ceded to the surrendered. they have not suffered any important loss and The Chinese official world says that if they had not agreed France might have taken Yunnan, It is understood that the right of France to import salt into Yunnan has not been copeedid. That is a monopoly which the Chinese guard with peculiar care. It is feared trouble may yet spring ont of this newest treaty - signed by the Tsunghi Yamen.
THE ** BIRKHALL" SUNK BY COLLISION.
the ebb tide, with pilot on board, took a sheer to starboard and Captain Yung seeing the danger rang his engines fall speed astern, bat it
was too late to avoid the collision, and she rammed the Birkhall just abaft the main- mast on the port side, sinking her in about a quarter of an hour. Fortunat ly nobody was drowned, but two of the Birkhall's orew were in- jured. Nobody saved anything. The Wantai and despatched them to the sinking vessel and directly the accident happened lowered all boats
rendered all assistance possible, and great credit is due to Captain Yung, who is a stranger in these waters. for the efficient way in which he abreast of the Prince's Wharf. acted. The Birkhall lies in five fathoms just
Shanghai, 11th July. A serious accident happened at Woosung yeu- terday at 6.20 p.m. when the steamer Birkhull, at anobor between the lighthouse and the Prince's for the Service Subventionné des Correspon-mau-of-war hantui when getting under way on The second light draft stern-wheel steamer jetty, was waiting for troops. The Chinese dances Fluviales au Tonkin was launched on Saturday, the 6th inst., from the yard of Messrs. Marty & D'Abbadie, in the presence of Monsieur Halais, Résident de France, Haiphong, Madame Halais, Mr. A. R. Marty, Hongkong. Mr. and Madame D'Abbadie, and numerous visitors. On leaving the ways the boat was named the Phou- lou. The Phoulou is of similar dimensions and power to the Yenbay, launched a few weeks back, feet of water with full carge on board; light, these but of the spoon bow type, and will draw three steamers draw barely two feet, and steam ten The Yenbay has just finished her trial trip and leaves in a day or two for service on the Pasha has now been running regularly on pas- rapids of the Red river. Her sister ship the senger and mail service for over a year, and makes
Shanghai, 12th July. the trip regularly from Yenbay to Laokay in A visit to the top 24 hours' steaming time, the time occupied on the
Preparations are being made to rai-e the of the tower of the new Custom-house, with a bird's-eye view of Shanghai from that elevation, return voyage being 7 to 9 hours. Larger stern- steamer Birkhall, sunk at Woosung on Wednes- has probably given most people their first idea wheelers of the Yunnan type take the cargo day, the operations having been placed in the of the enormous growth of Hongkew in the last from Hanoi to Yeubay, where the River Com-handsof Messrs. Boyd& Co., Limited, and as there few years. To those who have not realised pany have built godowns and formed a depot for this it will perhaps come as a surprise to find goods in transit. The time gained in transit of that of the total population of Anglo-Ameri-argo by these steamers will be enormous, as can Shanghai, only about one-fourth resides in formerly the junks from Hanoi to Laokay occu the English Settlement, about one-ninth on pied from six weeks to two mouths on the trip, outside roads, in opium bulks, etc., and at Poo- and only carried a few tons each, often coming to tung, the remainder, or nearly two-thirds of the grief in the rapids, whereas the steamer Yenbay whole, living in Hongkew. Of adult males only the trip in about five days with ease and safety.
leaving Haiphong for Lackay direct can make 697 reside in the English Settlement against 1,135 in Hongkew. Hongkow, too, is essentially the family quarter of Shanghai,. Of the 1,227 females and 1,389 children under fifteen in our community, 310 females and 264 children reside in the English Settlement, 770 females and 993 children in Hongkow, and 147 females and 127 children in the suburbs. In 1870, the first census of which the municipality has any record, there were 109 females and 81 children in the English Settlement. 92 females and 69 children in Hongkew, and 17 females and 18 children in the suburbs.
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When we come to the different nationalities that compose this motley throng of foreigners, for like the Great Twin Brethren,
By many names men call us,
In many landa ne dwell,
THE NEW FRANCU-CHINESE
TREATY.
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The Peking correspondent of the N. C. Daily
are no serious obstacles to be overcome, it is expected that the steamer will soon be afloat again. · In `addition to the man of war, the P. & O. Co.'s steamer Khedive sent assistance to the sinking vessel and some of the crew were received on board the Khediva, Yesterday morning Captain Cameron of the Birkhall went down to Wousung and collected his men Sailors' Home could not accommodate them all, and brought them up to Shanghai, but as the
Mr. Eveleigh had to provide for some of the men el-ewhere. We have been asked to state that the pilot on board the Wuntai at the time of the collision was not a for igner. The man was the native employed by the Nanyang squadron to pilot their vessels in and out. When he saw that a collision was inevitable, he tried to jump over. board and drown himself and is now under arrest on board the Wantai. Captain Yung, of this vessel, has only recently joined her. He was one of the American students educated at Yale Uni- versity, and at the battle of the Min in 1984 be Was a lieutenant on board one of
The French Minister, shortly after the signa. ture of the Chino-Japan treaty. handed in demands embracing nine articles and re- lating to the Yunnan frontier and its tradal facilities with that province, so beautifully termed South of the Clouds." Your correspondent is not sufficiently acquainted the vessels sunk by the French, When with the geography of that region, Dor the captains of the Nanyang squadron with its commercial or strategic importance, nor with the tradal facilities offered by Yunnan we find that the British still retain their pre- through Tonkin, nor with the relations of eminence by a long interval. There are 1,935 the new treaty signed on the 20th at the Tsangli British subjects in Shanghai out of the total of Yameu to the proposed buffer State, the river 4,684; and the preponderance is even more strik- Mekong, the Barmah delimitation treaty, or the ing if we exclude the Japanese and Portuguese, | Hallett-Colquhoun railway scheme, to pro-irou vessel of 1,447 tons gross and 937 net. She an exclusion that is not quite accurate, as und rnounce an opinion adverse or favourable. ife Portuguese those of European birth are not must leave it where it is for the present, separated from their colonial brothers But in his mind at least, in nubibus. It is excluding those two, and the Eurasians who asserted that a considerable tract of Yunnan are this year for the first time given a line territory, according to the Chinese, handed to themselves, British subjects number 1,936 over by England to China has been banded over
resigned during the recent war, owing to it having been rumoured that their ships were to proceed north to fight the Ja- pauese, Captain Yung volunteered and was appointed to the command of the Wantai. 1bo Birkhall, according to Lloyd's Register, is au
was built at Aberdeen' in 1878 and has five bulkheads, Per dimensions are:-Length 250ft. 6in., beam 32ft 3in., and depth 17ft. 5io. Her engines are 140 h.p. nominal. At present abo lies some 300 feet off the Prince's jetty in fire fathoms.-N. C. Daily News
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