The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-28 00:00:00

THE LONDON AND NORT
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-WESTERN TEA COMPANY.

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Extract from the circular of the London and North-western Tea
Company, dated May let, 1855.
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Extract from Mr. Robert Roberta', circular, of Royal Bank

Buildings.

" Our advices from China continue to be very discouraging;
and while the Chinese exports of tea have not failed in quant►ty,
they have sadly deteriorated in quality.
"Fine teas were scarce last year, and this year they are yet
more 80.

"Owing to the entire absence of speculative operations in the
market, concurrently
.with an increase in the imports, and a
marked improvement in the quality of good medium tea, which
has become the more observable as the season has advanced, we
are enabled to call the attention of families to the article which
can now be furnished at 3s. 4d. per lb.

"It must occur to every observing person, that where a country
is so convulsed with revolutionary struggles. farming operations
must be greatlY impeded.

" Although the duty upon tea was raised 3d. per lb. in the
month of April this year—still, in consequence of a large stock of
tea having been pressed on the market, which affords a wider
scope for the selection of suitable qualities, we are in a position to
supply families upon usually favourable terms
" The Effects of Speculation in Tea have been lately no less
conspicuous than disastrous :—Notwithstanding the clearest prac-
tical evidence, which has been furnished season after season, that
England, as well as every other country, can be abundantly sup-
plied with tea from China, of every quality, and in any quantity,
the spirit of reckless and inordinate speculation has continued as
rife as ever, until arrested this year by ruinous losses.—This foolish
propensity having been laid prostrate by the dire consequences
which it has brought upon itself, we may now anticipate for some
time a fiealthier tone in the market, and we have every confidence
that the change resulting from this will enable us to give every
advantage to our extended connection of consumers, which con-
tinued inflexible adherence to qualify is calculated to secure."

"Now, tea is a plant that requires the most careful attention,
both in its growth and its curing. Upon its delicate treatment
depends the delicacy of its flavour.
"Consequently, since the insurrection in China has assumed so
formidable an aspect, fine teas have gradually decreased in quan-
tity, and increased in value.
" The early arrivals were the best, and from the character of
more recent ones, we must expect the bulk of this year's supply
to consist of inferior classes, badly cured, and in bad condition,
which will be sold in the market as ' all faults.'

"Much of the tea imported this year will not be worth more
than from 6d. to Bd. per lb. in the market.
"Consumers or lovers of good tea should be particular, there-
fore, in buying of respectable houses, who have secured large
parcels of the first shipments."

Merchants will witness that succeeding imports aad the present state of the market corroborate the above statements of The
London and North-western Tea Company, _ . _

OLD POSTOFFICE-PLACE,
CHURCH-STREET, LIVERPOOL.

J. L. SMITH, MANAGER.