In our general review of the Reports and Returns of the foreign trade of Corea for 1885, we noticed the official given by Mr. Merrill for the scantiness of the export trade, which naturally reacts on the import trade, A graver reason is the oppr ture of the government of the country. The exactions of the mandarins are 80 con= stant, and carried out with such vigil ange, that no Corean is tempted to produce more than he requires for the immediate wants of himself and his family, and consequently there la little surplus production in the country, to form the subject of an export trade, It used to be stated and believed in China, that as coon as a Chinaman had accumulated the foundation of a fore.
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