By Hiern w Treves, translated from the Oesterveichische Monatsschvift fiir den Orient, (Concluded.)
This staff is distributed among 19 ports, of which the above mentioned five were opened by the English treaty of Nanking (1842), while the ports of Newchwang, Tientsin, Chefoo, Tai-wan, Tamsui, Swatow, Hankow, Kiukiang, Chinkiang, Kiung: chow (only opened of Ist April, 1876) were declared open by virtue, or in consequence of, the treaties of 1858, and the ports of Tchang, Wali, Wenchow and Pakhoi were made accessible to foreign trade according the Convention concluded at Chefoo by the British Minister, Sir Thomas Wade. A part of the staff resides at Peking, where the Inspectorate-General is. According to the comparative enumeration of this list of service mentioned, the number of the members of the whole staff (foreign and Chinese) distributed at each port was as follows:—Shanghai 309, Amoy 292, Canton 171, Foochow 159, Hankow 118, Chinkiang 110, Swatow 108, Tientsin 104, Newchwang 85, Chefoo 88, Kiukiang 88, Ningpo $2, Tamsui 52, Takow 97, Wahu, 46, "Kiungchow 28, Pakhoi 25; Ichang 19. 113 members of the service belonged according to this list to the Inspeetorate General, 41 were on leave. 'The conditions of leave are such, that they are free after every seven years to ask for two years' farlouzh, which—as it is the case in the Indian Colonial service—i mostly spent at home, In the place of
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