isan accomplished fuct, the matter having been decided on the 81st of March, the last of Mr. H. B. Bristow's tenure of ofice as British Consul. The Hai-Kuan Tao will this week issue a proclamation announcing to the natives the nature and scope of the new departure. The optimists who believe in the future of Tientsin are disposed to regard the extension as not only the event of the year, but as the most momentous incident in their Municipal: history up to date: and even those who are less san; as to the commercial prosperity of the Northern port will welcome the new policy on sanitary grounds alone.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.