During the period from 1843 to 1863 we must allow in our estimate of the th of Shanghai for the regular increase to foreign trade and the founding of the foreign city. But at the close of this time an immense addition was made on account of the Taiping rebellion. The rebel army pushed its way from Nanking eastward and overwhelmed Soochow. Multitudes of fugitives rushed to Shanghai as an impregnable refuge. Out of the mass of people that pressed into the Settlement thirty years ago an immense number came to be temporarily out of reach of the rebels, so that it was said at the time that. 100,000 refugees were in Shanghai within the foreign Settlements, but as soon as they coll leave with safety they did so. _Consequently, a few years after this had taken place, in 1870, there were about 50,000
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