Tue Report on the Forei Trade of China for the year 1888 wh up by Mr. McKean, Statistical Secretary to the Customs, and recently published by the 4 department over which he presides, deals entirely with the facts of the trade, without any attempt to consider its ten-doneies or results; and it is accompanied 2 by a series of valuable tables, which it is impossible to deal with properly in the limits of an article. The first thing to which Mr. McKean draws attention in his report, is that in 1888 for the first time the statistics of the trade of China are made almost complete by the 3 inclusion of those of the junk trade Hongkong and Macao with the mainland of China. There are still lacking to make the statistics quite complete, returns of the junk trade of the south of China with the ports of Indo-China, Siam, and the Straits Settlements "but," says Mr. McKean, " considerable as that junk trade undoubtedly is, its volume, considered for statistical purposes side by side with the volume of foreign commerce carried on in foreign and Chinese vessels, record of which is cognisable, may be disregarded without serious risk of a wrong deduction." After all, the trade with these southernmost countries of Asia hardly comes within what we understand by the for-
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