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ina by four, we have-- lbs. Total consumption of tea in China 1,411,464,048 Export of Great Britain and Ireland, for the year ending June 30, 1851. 64,020,000 Export to the United States, same period 28,760,800 Export to Holland, returned at 2,000,000 in Davis's "China" 3,000,000 Inland trade to Russia 15,000,000 Export to Hamburg, Bremen, Denmark, Sweden, &c., seven cargoes, about 3,000,000 Export to Sydney, and Australasian Colonies, at least 6,000,000 Export to Spain and France, four cargoes 2,000,000 --------- Total lbs. 1,533,244,848 The above is exclusive of the heavy exportation in Chinese vessels to all parts of the east where Chinese emigrants are settled, such as Tonquin, Cochin China, Cambodia, Siam, the Philippines, Borneo, and the various settlements within the Straits of Malacca. In comparison with such an enormous quantity, the 54 million lbs. consumed in the United Kingdom sink into insignificance. L The cost of tea to America, at the ship's side in China, say 29,000,000 lbs., at an average of 1s. per lb., would be 1,450,000 The cost to England, 64,000,000, at the same price 3,200,000 The cost to other places, say 25,000,000 1,250,000 Russia, 15,000,000 750,000 ---------- Total L6,650,000 It is therefore clear, that were the demand to be doubled from Great Britain, it would make very little difference in the Chinese market; since it would be only a question of letting us have six per cent, of their growth of the article, instead of three. When we remember that the tea plant attains to maturity in three years, and its leaves are then fit for picking; and that there is a vast extent of country to which it is indigenous, growing in every climate between the
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