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London market, but would probably cause a deficit. We wonder if in 

 our time this golden era will take place. 



This from the Tea Gazette : 



TEA IN AMERICA. 



A petition has been presented to the United States Congress 

 asking for the prohibition of the importation of adulterated Teas from 

 China and Japan, which are at present extensively sold. This, it is 

 thought, will lead to increased attention being paid to Indian Teas, 

 which are well known to be pure and unadulterated. 



Again from same paper : 



The circular lately addressed to the local Tea planting interest by 

 the Committee of the Calcutta Syndicate, reporting the results of -Mr. 

 Sibthorp's efforts to create a market for Indian Teas in America, opens 

 up a vista of unprecedented prosperity in the future. 



That the population of America, the bulk of which consist of the 

 same races among whom Indian Tea has grown in favour so rapidly in 

 the United Kingdom, should persist in rejecting it after a fair trial was 

 d priori highly improbable. It was, therefore, reasonably to be 

 presumed that whatever difficulty might beset the opening up of this 

 new market would consist chiefly in the obstacles to securing such a 

 trial. 



Mr. Sibthorp's report not only bears out this view of the case, but 

 justifies a confident expectation that the obstacles in question, so far 

 as they have any real existence, will speedily disappear. In Chicago, 

 so far from having had to encounter any of those strong trade 

 prejudices which were met with at first in Australia, Mr. Sibthorp 

 found the leading importers, Messrs. J. Doane and Co., ready to render 

 every assistance and confident of being able to dispose of five thousand 

 half chests the first season, without forcing the market. Similar 

 success seems to have attended his efforts in New York, and a tele- 

 gram has been received from him ordering a thousand half chests for 

 shipment to that port. 



The importance of this new market is immensely enhanced by the 

 circumstance that the American consumption of Tea is destined to 

 increase, owing to mere growth of population, at a rate not to be 

 looked for in any other country ; at such a rate, in fact, that if India 

 could only secure the annual addition to the demand from this cause, 



