in the west end of the city. The new French Consulate, a splendid' pile, stands on the most prominent site in the city, and the equally fine building which U.S, Consul Smithers has just erected is also considerably enhanced by its splendid site, The féngehui of the city, which is so dear to the heart of its citizens, must have been considerably outraged by the erection of these fine buildings on such prominent sites. What about the British Consulate? We Britishers, when business forces us to visit our Consul, have to hide our diminished heads with' shame, as we gaze on the sorry spectacle of the "Union Jack" floating over an old rickety, tumbiedown shanty which serves the purposes of Her Britannic Majesty's Consulate in these parts,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.