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85 per cent., which consists of cut or shag, and roll tobacco, while 

 the snuff, which comprises 13 out of 16 parts of the remainder, admits 

 of an increased weight to the extent of from 60 to 60 per cent. Ap- 

 plying these per-centages to the quantity taken for consumption in 

 1849, we arrive at the following results:- — 



Pr. ct. Lb. Pr. ct. Lb. 



Shag and Roll Tobac, 85 23,358,529 f adding | 15 26,862,308 



Snuff of various kinds, 13 3,572,480 i increase f 55 5,537,344 



Segars, . . 2 549,612 no increase 549,612 



Lb.27,480,621 Lb.32,949,264 



Manufactured when imported, .... 205,066 



So that the quantity for which the public pays as Tobacco 



and Snuff is, Lb.33,154,330 



The retail prices, obtained from a respectable shop in a leading 

 thoroughfare in London, at this time (June I860) are : — 



The average price of the six qualities of tobacco here given is at the 

 rate of 5s. 2d. per lb., and that of the five qualities of snuff is 7s. 6d. 

 per lb. The great bulk of the consumption falls upon the lowest 

 priced quality of tobacco, which is 3d. per oz. or 4s. per lb. It can- 

 not therefore, give an exaggerated view of the sum expended for this 

 article if we assume that lowest price as being paid for the whole. 

 In regard to snuff a larger proportion of the whole than in the case 

 of tobacco is used by the middling and easy classes, to whom the dif- 

 ference of a penny in the price of an ounce of snuff cannot be any 

 object, and who rarely, if ever, will buy the most inferior quality. 

 The prices, it will be seen, run from 6s. 4d to 8s. per lb. ; if we 

 take the mean of these two prices as the average of the whole, t. e. 

 6s. 8d. per lb., we shall probably be within the mark. At these 

 rates, the cost to the consumers generally will be as follows : — 



26,862,308 1b. of Tobacco, at 4s. per lb., . . . £5,372,461 



5,537,344 lb. Snuff, at 68. 8d., .... 1,845,781 



549,612 lb. English made Segars, at 98., . . 247,325 



Total for British-manufactured, . . . £7,465,567 



205,066 Foreign-manufactured, at 128., . . 123,040 



Total value as paid by consumers, . £7,688,607 



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