Cuina is not so directly interested in the trade of Japan as it was in the early days after the opening of the eastern empire, when most of the houses at Yokohama were branches of China firms and when all Japan's communication with the outside world was through Shanghai. But the interests of foreigners in the two empires are not yet entirely dissociated. Foreign firms here still do some local business with. Yokohama, and buyers here of silk and tea still find it desirable to watch the Japanese markets, Even if the connection were entirely dissolved, however, we should require no excuse for drawing our readers' attention to Mr. J. J. Enslie's very exhaustive report on the trade of Yokohama for 1889. It would be difficult in the limits of an article to give a summary even of the report; we can only draw attention to a few points in it. The first thing we notice is that the trade of the port in 1889 was considerably below that in 1888, the falling: off being in imports, The comparative figures are
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