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5C la Sugar, according to the annexed 
Table, a fall in price since 1*844, of 26' 
per cent. ha9 been attended by an increase 
in the consumption of 46 per cent. In 
Coffee on the contrary, with a reduction 
in the price since 1846, of 15 to 22 per 
cent, on duty paid descriptions, the con¬ 
sumption has not only not increased at a 
corresponding rate, but has for the last 
three years come to a complete stand still, 
being last year only 38.85 million lbs., 
that is to say no more than in 1846, and 
| of a million lbs. less than in 1847. The 
revenue derived from Coffee has in con¬ 
sequence also fallen off from £756,838 in 
1846, to about £710,069 in 1848. Dur¬ 
ing these three years, there has, with prices 
almost stationary, been some increase in 
the consumption of Cocoa and Tea. In 
the former it lias progressed from 2 06 
million lbs. in 1846, to 3‘96 million lbs, 
last year. In Tea, as the increase in the. 
consumption which last year exhibits is 
more apparent than real, it will be fairer 
to take the average of the last two years, 
which is 47*42 million lbs. or about H 
per cent, more than in 1846. It will be 
seen that, although, even with stationary 
prices, there has been some increase in 
the consumption of these kindred articles, 
it is not by any means of such a charac¬ 
ter as in the slightest degree to account 
ior the falling off in Coffee.” 
To what then is owing the change 
