To the Editor of the ern-Cuxa Dany News.
While we are waiting for the project of establishing " commercial museum Shanghai to be taken up again and carried gut successfully, will you allow me to call the attention of your readers to the existence and design of the commercial museum of the State at Brussels, the commercial musemn at Liéye, patronised by the city and province of that name, and the commercial museum supported by the eomjune of Antwerp?
These institutions are qualified to render to foreign commerce in China services as fo valuable na they are hitherto unrealized, Practically, all that has to be done by a merchant in China who wishes to buy" or sell some article produced or consumed in Belgium, is to send musters, accompanied by the necessary particulars, and he will receive in return from those who frequent these commercial museums, offers or enquiries, with specimens of the article offered or enquired for.
The Belgian industries are so developed and varied, that it would be dificult to name any manufactured product importable into China which they could not produce on advantageous condition article of commerce, a new mate ported from China, for which they could not find a use, Meanwhile, I hold myself entirely at the disposition of persons who may: me the honour of consulting me as to the objects which it would be desirable to send to the Belgian commercial museums, and the explanations which should accompany them.
In certain cases T should be doubtless able to indicate at once the sources in Belgium of the articles in which they are interested, or the use to which the material to be exported from Uhina could be put in my country, without prejudice to the despatch of their musters to the above-mentioned museums.
Tam, Sir, Yours faithfully, M. Garnet, Consul-General jor Belgian. Consulate-General of Belgium, Shanghai, 8th May.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.