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Photographs of the paintings can be seen at the above 

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INDUSTRY. 



Customs Tariff of Great Britain and Ireland. 



Now that so many countries in Europe and elsewhere 

 have gone back to protective tariffs, prohibitive in many in- 

 stances, I think it will interest the readers of the Humming 

 Bird to be able to compare the said tariffs with the English. 

 It is noteworthy that England is the only one important 

 country in Europe who has not altered its tariff, and I 

 think that it is the only country which understands its own 

 interests best, and it is not necessary to be a prophet to say 

 that in the long run, the advantages of such a system will 

 be in favour of that country. 



In England, less than twenty varieties of goods pay 

 import duties, and none pays export duties. Hence the 

 immense shipping of goods to England, and making all 

 other countries its tributaries. 



Not only I hope that England will not follow suit with 

 the European and American countries which have raised 

 their tariffs ; but I expect that at an early date, it will do away 

 altogether with the Customs tariffs, and I firmly believe that 

 if such a thing may come to pass, the prosperity of England 

 will increase considerably yet. 



A. B. 

 Ordinary Import Duties. 



£ s. d. 



Cocoa per lb. o o i 



Husks and shells . per cwt. 020 



Cocoa or Chocolate Ground, Prepared or in anyway Manufactured per lb. o o 2 



Coffee, Raw per cwt. o 14 o 



Kiln-dried, Roasted or Ground per lb. 002 



Fruit, Dried. 



Currants, Figs, Fig Cake, Plums not preserved in Sugar, Prunes and 



Raisins per cwt. 070 



Tea per lb. 006 



Tobacco. 



Unmanufactured, Stemmed or Unstemmed, containing in every 100 lbs. 

 weight thereof 10 lbs. or more of moisture ... ... ... per lb. 056 



Ditto, containing less than 10 lbs. of moisture ,, o 3 10 



Manufactured : — 



Cigars 



Cavendish or Negrohead 



Snuff, containing in every 100 lbs. weight thereof more than 



moisture 



Not more than 13 lbs. of moisture 



Other Manufactured Tobacco and Cavendish or Negrohead Manufactured 



in Bond from Unmanufactured Tobacco per lb. 044 



Wine. 



Containing less than 26 degrees of Proof Spirits per gallon 010 



Containing 26 and less than 42 degrees of Proof Spirits ,. 026 



With an additional duty of 3d. per gallon for every degree of strength beyond the 

 highest above specified. 



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lbs', of 







4 10 



per lb. 







4 1 



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4 10 



