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of man was not beard/ that is sufficient evidence that 

 the benefits which must result to the country from 

 tea cultivation, will he immense. The Government of 

 India will certainly share in these benefits in many- 

 ways. But it is England that will gain most 

 largely by the capital her peopls invest in tea in 

 India. With the exception of an inappreciable 

 quantity, the entire of the teas grown in India, are 

 shipped for the London market; and as the duty 

 on every Ib. of tea sold there, is Is- od. the gain to 

 the revenues of Eugland next year, from Indian 

 teas, will exceed 200,000. But te;i in India 

 as mentioned, is yet in its infancy. A very few 

 thousands, only, out of the millions of acres that will 

 grow tea, are now under plant. The cultivation 

 will certainly extend rapidly. Every year will add 

 enormously to the quantity of seed available for 

 new plantations, and the application of machinery 

 to many of the operations of manufacture, will aid 

 in supplementing the efforts we may expect to see 

 Government making to increase the supply of labor. 

 Without being over-sanguine we may anticipate 

 that within the next twenty years, the quantity of 

 tea exported from India for the London market, 

 will not fall short of 30,000,000 Ibs, which, if the 

 duty be reduced to one shilling, as it must be, will 

 still represent of the revenues of England no less 

 a sum than .1,500,000. The profits on this 

 quantity of tea will be l,500,000; and the working 



