'A cursory glance at the new Hong List, which will be delivered to subscribers and be on sale next week, i remarkable evidence of the increase in the foreign population of Shanghai during the past year in spite of trade depression, currency depreciation, and other evils to which In these Jate' days. we have fallen heir. It may be emphasised that the Hong List is a foreign directory of Shanghai anil Jof China, and does not attempt to list Chinese business firms: in any great number, though the principal Jones are inclided, To do £0 would require twenty volumes instead of Jone. The list of Shanghai Hongs }is prebably: the best guage of business extension, if not of prosperity jin Shanghai; "these fill 34 more Pages than in the previous edition, steady growth maintained year after year. The China Hong List now contains 1023 quarto pages Jand is priced at $10. Orders for it, revived tow lay and to-morrow Will be filled in rotation,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.