CHEFOO, 25th Aug. Tue Customs publish their annual reports of trade all in one volume, which appears in the Spring, but the Consular reports having to go home first and be printed there, and " presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty," come straggling back to China one after the other well into the second half of the year. The facts and statistics which' the Consuls give are naturally the same as those given by the Commissioners, but the two authorities do not always make
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