B. An internal Error at Page 13 was unstruck in the original Copy, and has been corrected in them. The number of
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of sugar
shines be 21,529,600, not 12,110,400. 96
Observations in the Report of a Committee
of the House of Commons in 1847,
Creations
the
Commercial Relations with China, and
on the evidence taken..
Chief portion of the Report is occupied.. with arguments, (which are certainly quite unanswerable) on the necessity of lowering the duty on Tea, if we would possess the advantages anticipated from opening the new Ports in China. I myself urged nearly the
arguments as long ago
a letter addressed to one
as
Lord.
December, 1843, in-
one of Her Majesty's
Secretaries of State. The experience of four-
Years has since amply proved
amply proved that a duty
of 200 per cent on the staple produce of
China is neither liberal nor
on our own Manufactures from 5 to 10 per
average
duty charged by the