Some interesting tables and documents are contained in the Consular Reports upon the Trade of the treaty ports of China during 1880, which had just been issued prior to the date of our latest advices from home. Says a home contemporary, stimmarising these reports, "they are all, in one respect, satisfactory. They show that in spite of increasing competition we are firmly maintaining our hold upon the foreign trade of China." We note that of the direct foreign imports into China in 1880 as much as fifty-four per cent was from Great Britain and India, the corresponding proportion being in 1879, as large per cent, and in 1873, 56 per cent, and in face of these figures we must admit that we cannot quite follow out the conclusion come to by the authority we share in the traffic has increased in a considerably larger degree, and is now almost as much as the whole tonnage was five years ago. As compared with the figures we have given concerning British shipping, the following table shows how American tonnage and that of some of the other chief nationalities has fared within the same period American 561,577 96,553
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