Tue Chamber of Commerce held th mal meeting on the 28th instant, when the report and accounts for the past year wore tendered and nccopted. Every subject referred to in the report has been 0 fully commented on at different times during the year, that no further notice iscallod for. Wo are glad to-ce that the Chamber is increasing in numbers, and that its accounts are flourishing. The total income during the year ended 30th June last was Tis, 3,937.22; and the oxpenditure Tls. 2606.07, leaving " surplus of Ts. 1,831.15." Arathor absurd proposition, that sollers should, in future, refuse to pay brokerage, was brought forward at the mooting, in terms of rather questionable taste; but found no seconder.
Wo havo'received the usual Customs reports of trade during the month of October at the dilferont treaty ports—excopt that on Shanghai; which was not ready in time, As it is on this that. interest, here, principally centres, we shall not attempt to sualyso the retitens from the other ports; further than to say that the notices are generally favourable, At Foochow, larger sports of opium and piece goods, and {S* larger exports of ton are; reported. The export of tea from Amoy fur the American market has also been large. An abundant ico crop is expected; and rates are consol quently low. An allusion is made to the destruction of the Titan light-house at this pork. Native pilots are believed to have been thoeulprits. The Chefoo report inenin they Thory as ben comiderale divination Fabrics during the month. the numer Shirtings imported having 415400, againat 8018. piecen a th. The quantities the Lat Jatt trast well with last year, for there have Ison 61,843 pesos Gray Shirtings sue period in. 1805, please 490,000 5 Againat pieces 47,000 for the axe po wilt of Cig war re 1094 peo, 1860. "Towands the eof the month price have alightly improved for Cotton. Gvod a Catto a ce Metals, Tw, of "which. thera hut been rapidly dispose nou itnported for the previ ths, Pjotls Zod wore imported. Of Sugar, Here as boot a fair quantity" arriving, 178,000 peculs having boun received, sin the st January of Brown, agains 134,000 peut in 'i ae ate ao of from 71,000. povala.to.39,000. pool wetter of Sevreot tae oft year £0. date, though "thie month howe ome recovery be Of leat month's arrivals, Noodles that commenced in the apting, has become more developed-—0,700 nile haying boon rectly imported, aguinat 2,300 alte feaportd in the early part of this ear, Some surprise has boon expremed that the desirability of opening the Yellow River to foreign trade, hax not boot advocated by the Shanghai Chataber of Commerce, at '\dosirabloconeeasion to be obtained when negotiating the revised treaty next year.
Our views on the feasibility of the scheme 2 are more fully explained in a leading article The old saying, that thoro is nothing now urier the sun, is ofctually disoreditad by Captain Kewloy's discovery of the new group of islands which ho describes, in a paper that we publish elsowhoro, 'Trug, the latitado and longitude ho giver soon to correspond wonderfully with the situation of Providence Islands; but it can huarily be that Captain Kowloy' has made such an oversight, A Sailing Regatta, in which principally American beals will contend, is to take Pleo on Monday. Thoro are fvo entries, A steanner will accompany the yachts, A wollattonded mooting was held on the 25th instant, for the purpose of wstaUishing Football Chub, when rales ware adopted, sul the subscription Gxed at $1 per annum,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.