The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-06-15
THE YANG-TsE TREATY PORTS.

| ildIIe De IOTCeu upon us py CHCulii- stances. In this we follow the Chinese, who hardly attempt reproduction of foreign sounds, so strange to monosyl- labe trained ears, and make such un- recognizable substitutes for the nomenclature of the West that in read ing translated works a special key is needed to the porper names, which not | infrequently vary with different writ CTS. Nor do the Chinese try to master | the names of the Europeans among them, who are, therefore, compelled to adopt Chinese names whosoe'er they | be, which can be ascertained by refer ence to the directory.
 But, while we in England are pre- vented by this nominal impeachment | from even following with interest the | histories of treaty ports in China, our | fellow-countryme on the spot, togeth- CT with all sorts of foreign devils" are engaged in steadily changing the face of China itself It Is true that they 1 hardly mingle at all with the natives, | that their business is transacted al- most entirely through 'compradores" trained Chinese agents who are in- l trusted with all kinds of negotiations and seldom fail in their trust-and that | hardly any Europeans but the mission aries and the customs or other foreign officials have any knowledge of the real l China, but they make their influence 1 both felt and seen.
 A treaty port in China is not a de- | lectable place. In the eyes of the for eigners resident there, the original na- l tive city is hideous excrescence; to | l ai, ie,y ho ha told Live there they could not, and would not to save their lives; they never en- | ter it's gates. Many boast that for twenty or thirty years they have lived 1 beneath the shadow of the city walls l without once passing within them; that is left to tourists missionaries and of ficials, whose duties call them to the yamen in their snug and swiftly borne chairs. The narrow, crowded streets, with numberless hanging shop signs, odoriferous cookshops and stalls, peril patetic barbers, corpulent tradesmen, street cries and ornnipresent dirt, are abhorrent to them, and, in their partic- ular settlement, woe betide the China man who ventures even to sit on one of the public seats.
 ASPECT OF THE FOREIGN SET
 ELEMENTS.
 | These foreign settlements are strange by contrast, and except where they have been invaded by bustling natives, as at Shanghai, where a large part of the European concessions has become transformed into additional Chinese quarters, they preserve a sedate dis tinctness which makes them seem quite out of place. Here, along wide tree planted streets, at right angles to one another, in ample residences with vast compounds" and "go- downs" or stores the European merchants spend their days, their evenings passed mostly at the clubs. The lives they live are en- tirely eotic, everything being planned to turn their thoughts from their sur roundings to their distant homes, for few foreigners make homes in China. Their ice houses, their race courses their travelling arrangements, their distractions, are things apart, to under stand which the Chinese have to be brought up in Singapore and educated at the Rallies school The days in which the Yang-tse was threaded in native bottoms are past, and to-day three companies each run a bi-weekly = SeTNlCp OI eXEelleuI SIpdIiltIS dS IiI dS Han-kow, luxuriantly fitted up in many cases, and with tables not to be sur- passed. !. In some, one may have na- tives of rank in the saloon; but, for the most part, the sons of the country are crowded aft or below decks, packed like herrings and enjoying the crush.
 To China Inland" missionary, liv- ing as those missionaries do among the Chinese in a semi-native style, a pass- age down the Yang-tse on a Butter field and Swire boat was the greatest luxury within his reach when in the saloon, but for English men and women to travel, as many of them do, in the native steerage means no little self-de- nial Only in loading Tamil coolies for Ceylon at Tuticorin can be seen such | a monkey-like scramble as takes place when the steamer draws up opposite some treaty port by the hulk of it's agents. The scene when the anchor is dropped in the stream and the passeng- CTS put off in boats baffles all descrip- tion, especially when it takes place at night. Through doors which open in the ships side on to lower deck there pours a stream of frantically violent, vociferating, seething human beings, crowding in like ants, each one as though his life depended on arriving first. Inside ensues a remarkable scramble for hunks and for corners about the floor, which soon becomes crowded.
 THE NAVIGATION OF THE RIVER.
 In summer, when the snows of Thibet are melting, the Yang-tse flows down a noble river for eight hundred miles from Han-kow, where it is increased by the junction of the Han, which gives it's name to that city Gin English, "Hanmouth'0 and to the city between the two rivers called after them both Han-Yang, where are the iron works and cotton mills of Chang Chi -Tung, the great Viceroy and rival of Lii But in winter, unless the rains are heavy, the river is difficult of navigation, with its shoals and rapids. having fallen some twenty feet. Even then the width across from Han-kow to Woo- chang, the city on the opposite bank-a great