CHINA. 



103 



Import. 



()|ljlln> 



' .'UMlrl 



I mc|i< 



r.titnii, raw material... 







Coal 



Various article* 



Total tools 71.120.000 



l*87U,000811k,rW., 

 8,610,000 811k Goods 



I.: Ill H 1.1 K K I Vari.m-. 

 8,150.000 

 1,010.000 

 7,140,(iOO 



Total... 



8.inn,o(Mi 



4,300,000 



Tin.- total value of specie imported in 1867 



amounted to 54,980,000 tacls; exports, 66,950,- 

 000 taels. According to a correspondence in mi 

 Shanghai, the importations of opium in Hong- 

 Kong amounted to 88,148 pioulu, while the re- 

 port from the custom-house gives only 62,506 

 piculs. It is taken for granted that the bal- 

 ance of 25,582 piculs, at 183 English pounds, 

 was smuggled into the country. 

 The movement of shipping in all the Chinese 

 (arrivals and clearances) was as follows: 



The animosity of the Chinese against for- 

 eigners, during the year 1870, brought on 

 outbreaks of more than common violence. In 

 January a fierce attack was made on the French 

 and English missionaries at Hangkow, on the 

 Ynng-tse-Kiang Kiver, and a number of the 

 former were outrageously treated, their houses 

 burned, and one clergyman killed. The French 

 minister at once ordered the admiral to his 

 aid, and with several gunboats steamed up the 

 river, where ho demanded of the governor 

 reparation and punishment of all persons 

 engaged in the violence. The governor tried 

 to procrastinate, and attempted Chinese "di- 

 plomacy," but the Frenchman was perempto- 

 ry. His demands were complied with, churches 

 and missions were rebuilt, actual indemnifica- 

 tion made, and several of the known partici- 

 pants in the affair were beheaded. For a time 

 every thing remained quiet; but educated 

 Chinamen said openly that in a little time they 

 would kill every foreigner in China. In or- 

 der to accomplish this end, from Nanking to 

 Tien-tsin, a concerted plan of action was 

 agreed upon, under the plea that foreigners 

 were in China for the purpose of " kidnapping 

 young boys and girls," killing them, digging 

 out their eyes, mutilating their persons, stew- 

 ing portions of their bodies in a huge caldron, 

 and packing them in tin cans ; after which they 

 shipped them to Europe and America for 

 medicinal purposes, the preparation being a 

 sure panacea for baffling diseases. On June 

 6th the several governors of all the northern 

 provinces caused to be posted official notices 

 taking cognizance of the rumors, and giving 

 official color and sanction thereto. In every 

 village, hamlet, fishing-station, and city, these 

 notices appeared on walls and temples, 

 and the following, from the North China 

 News, at Shanghai, was circulated all over the 

 province : 



Proclamation issued by Wang, Chin sien of Tantu in 

 the Prefecture of Chinkeang. 



Dated 6th Juno, 1870. 



Whereas, It has been discovered by me that a 

 number of vicious characters are going about in all 

 directions, kidnapping^ children and young women, 

 by stupefying them, either through tne medium of 

 taste in something they give them to eat, or of vapor 

 conveyed in tobacco they give them to smoke, there- 

 by rendering them more easy subjects for abduc- 

 tion, the result of which is that they are cruelly mur- 

 dered for the sake of procuring, in the case of males, 

 their eyeballs, livers, and testes, and, in that of fe- 

 males, their breasts and privy parts, which are cut out 

 to be made up, it is presumed, into some strange drug. 



And as this is a matter of deep commiseration, 

 the Chih Hsien has taken secret and vigilant meas- 

 ures for their apprehension, and it is nis duty to 

 issue this pressing notice, calling upon all classes 

 not to allow their wives and children to run the risk 

 of being kidnapped by going out at will ; and any 

 one who can procure the conviction of one of these 

 kidnappers shall, without fail, receive a reward of 

 $100. Let all obey with trembling. A necessary 

 notice. 



The consequence of this official notice was 

 to cause great alarm among the lower classes, 

 and to intensify their bitter hatred of Euro- 

 peans. 



The first result of these inflammatory proc- 

 lamations was the bloody massacre of Tien- 

 tsin. Tien-tsin is situated on the Peiho 

 Kiver, and is at the head of navigation, the 

 depot for Peking which is one hundred miles 

 northeast and one hundred and seventy miles 

 from the sea. The mouth of the river is pro- 

 tected by two large forts, rendered almost 

 impregnable by their natural position. They 

 are furnished with a large number of improved 

 guns, among which arc twenty Dahlgrens of 

 the largest calibre. It was at this point the 

 English and French were so severely beaten 

 in 1858 by Chinese forces. The Sisters of 

 Mercy have had a mission' at Tien-tsin for 

 eight years. On Juno 19th, the mutterings of 

 trouble, heard for weeks previously, assumed 



