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TOBACCO .

One of his experiments on the nutritious qualities of tea, as compared with mose ofsoup, was decidedly in favor of the former.

“ Coffee is grown in Brazil, Cuba, Hayti, Java, British West Indies, Dutch Guiana ,states of South America, French West India colonies, Porto Rico, Sumatra , Ceylon,Bourbon, Manilla, and Mocha. Brazil produces the largest quantity, 72,000,000pounds weight; and the other states and colonies according to the order in which theyare enumerated, down to Mocha, which produces the least, or 1,000,000 pounds ; ma-king a total of 346,000,000 pounds, equal to the consumption of the enormous quantityof 2,900 tons weekly, or 150,800 tons per annum.

“ From the official returns, the quantities of coffee exported in one year from thedifferent places of production were 154,550 tons :—

To France

TONS.

- 29,650

Denmark

TONS.

- 1,400

U. S. of America

- 46,070

Spain

- 1,000

Trieste

- 9,000

Prussia -

-

930

Hamburg

- 20,620

Naples and Sicily

640

Antwerp

- 10,000

Venice -

-

320

Amsterdam

- 8,530

Fiume -

-

170

Bremen

- 4,500

Great Britain (average of 10 y’rs) 18,250

St. Petersburg -Norway and Sweden -

- 2,000- 1,470

-

154,550

“ Every reflecting man will admit, that articles of such vast consumption as tea andcoffee (amounting together to more than 185,000 tons annually), forming the chiefliquid food of a whole nation, must exercise a great influence upon the health of thepeople, and that any discovery which tends to the purification of these alimentarydrinks, rendering them more wholesome, without rendering them less agreeable, is agreat boon conferred upon society.

“ The inventor and manufacturers of the ‘ Pure Concentrated Fluid Essence of Teaand Coffee,’ hope that the convenient and portable form in which they are enabled tooffer them to the public (in ‘ Rand’s Patent Collapsible Tubes,’ made of pure tin,whereby all the usual trouble and inconvenience of makftg tea and coffee are avoided),affords rational grounds (in addition to more important considerations) for anticipatingan extensive sale.”

TOBACCO . This important subject of our national revenue has been, during thelast session of parliament, very fully investigated in reference to the smuggling andadulteration carried to an enormous extent, and hitherto but little checked by all theefforts of the officers of the customs and excise. Mr. Joseph Hume , M.P., who movedthe appointment of the committee of the house of commons, and of which lie was chair-man , proposed a reduction of duty from 3s. 2d. a pound to Is., as the only effectualremedy against these joint evils; but he was counteracted by Mr. Goulbourn, chancel-lor of the exchequer, and a majority of the members of the committee, on the scorethat the state of the national finances did not permit such a defalcation of income a sthat reduction would occasion. It would appear, from a great mass of evidence, thatmuch more tobacco is introduced illicitly than what duty is paid upon, and that verygreat adhlterations are practised. The following statement shows the temptations:—

Ditto stripsKentucky leafDitto stripsHavana cigarsManilla cherootsEast India cherootsNegrohead and Cavendish

3 id. per5j d.

3|d.

A\d.

lib., the duty is 1,100“ 700

“ 1,200

“ 800

8 s.

“

112

6s.

(i

150

Is.

<«

900

6d.

“

1,800

Bates of duty on tobacco in foreign countries:—

Per English Pound.

Austria —leaf tobacco - - - - 3d.Belgium ditto - \d.

Bremen ditto, J per cent, ad valorem.

Denmark leaves and stems - - - jd.

Prussia '

SaxonyBavariaBrunswick WurtembergFrankfort on the Maine

Per English

Pound.

Other German states - - - -

Hamburgh f per cent, ad valorem.

Holland 2 per cent, ad valorem.

Ditto, cigars - * - - - - -

Ionian islands, leaf stems - - ‘ rr

Ditto, manufactured - - , "

Russia 30 per cent, ad valorem on

foreign.

Sweden and Norway - about J

I Zoll-verein )( States