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Baltic at thirty-six per cent, to the consumers, 

 it would probably be near the amount ; the 

 quantity from the colonies is about two-thirds 

 of the whole. But the amount of duty alone, 

 let the per centage of it to the consumers be 

 what it may, proves an immense demand 

 above the present home-grown supply, and is 

 ample evidence that no extraneous importance 

 is attached to the subject. 



Various reports have been made to par- 

 liament of large tracts of waste land ; indeed, 

 some have gone so far as to state, certain 

 parts might be beneficially planted with trees." 

 There are also extensive tracts of crown 

 lands, which would grow " the common JBritish 

 oak;' and why should not a revenue be ob- 

 tained by growing it, as well as by a duty on 

 the importation of the sessiliflora and Turkish 

 species, which, if used in the construction of 

 ships of war of the largest class, is (according 

 to Mr. Symonds's evidence) hardly worth 

 the labor, therefore dear at the cost of the 

 freight. Let the Admiralty look at the 



