Itwas, he said, on the 2Gch of August, 1847, tlinthe arrived here with two estecued one of whin was the Into Alexander man well xnd widely known as a Chinese scholar, On landing the xappearance of things was very primitive, though giving promise of n new etn having dawned Phot which snow the Model Settlement had deen in the main a native cemetery, with only a few Chinese living or squatting upon though in other parts there were intions of " considerable population and local trade, but altogether there was little to interest one in his walks aprond, except the novelty of the City and the surround country and the prospect of improvem in the state of things which was gradually taking place. Que recalls what was stated by the Into Sir Harry Parkes on the ocession of a banquet given him at the Club when leaving Shanghai for Japan, He told those present that on the coming up of the men-of-war in 1842, there was a Chinese fort. on the site of the present British Consulate and Supreme Court, and thetipsoof the neighbourhood informed years after that, ashe saw the ships up, he fired the Inst gun, and took gued ere to runaway immediately. However, xt the time of which the lecturer was speaking. a new order of things was being laid, under the hand of the Consul, now Sir Rutherford Alonck, in the direction and formation of better roads, the control of the foreshore, and arrangements were being carried out which hat issued in the magnificent British Settlement of the present day. In these early days the-harbour was studded with sailing ships, as many as°300 or 400 at a time, some of them being the beautiful American and English clippers, renowned in those days for their speed and the lines on which they were constructed. "But what," said the speaker, "shall we say in passing, of the
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