(Cranslated from the Buki: a Shimpo The Consular Trade Report from Ginsen, Corea,.as published in a recent number of the Kwampo, says:—The total amount of exports from this port for November,:1883, was 16,342.40 yen; of imports, 168,600.38 yen, giving-an excess of 152,257.98 yen over the exports. As trade in' this country is varely carried on in specie, but is mostly the outer me. of barter in exports and imports, the above-mentioned amount of exports actual transactions done in without that vei fe eternal, him struggling in the concluding paragraph of his closing remarks for aplenty which, if attained, would be a surfeit and a curse instead of a grace and a blessing. And the absence of this sume voice of truth from the articulations of his erudite medical opponent leaves both of their utterances in a state of -incoherence—like Pilate's What is trath have the honour. to be, Sir, Your moat obedient servant, Miscellaneous, 162,257 98 yen remained unadd, and were kept over till December. The exports for the mouth of December reached 36,673.20 yen, as agaiut.imporls amounting to 48,369.29 yen, showing again an excess of the latter over the former of 11,696 yen, which sum, added to thnt of the. prece month gives a total of 163,155.06 yen. this total represents the value of the goode accumulated at the The depressed condition of trade ut this port needs no furiller explanation." The same report says further:—'* Copper, lead, and shirtings, the most important articles in the import trade, have already given si of a future decline; shirtings, in especial, being no longer in the hands of our mex chants, The import of copper-is destir to fall off. rapidl metal has only been used itr mi But
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