The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-28 00:00:00

COMMERCE.

China has .an immense internal trade, cut off by.the
policy of her conquerors from any dependence upon ex-
ternal commerce; her people have learnt, by the experience
all their wants; a few luxuries to be
were all they wished to obtain
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foreign
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the industry of her people, and
of soil and climate, amply supplied all her real
wants, and left a large superflux, which she exported to
the surrounding nations. Now and then bad harvests, cr
severe drought., have compelled the importation of rice
and grain ; tbis excepted, the Chinese must be considered
as an exporting nation ; her principal exports arc tea, raw
and manufactured silk, sugar, cotton, spices, porcelain,
and alum.
The English, Americans, French, and Danes are the
principal exporters, and their shipping is confined to the
pots of Canton. The Spaniards have the exclusive tight
to the trade of the port of Amoy, and the Russians are
prohibited from trading by the sea, and restricted to the
towns of Kiatcha on the Russian, and Marnaitelian on the
Chincsc frontiers.
The following table will show the European and Ame-
rican trade with China for the year 1834 :
Imports. Exports.
England 2,600,000 ... 6,000,000
America 827,000 ... 2,427,000
Dutch
Spanish
French
Danes
Number of ships which arrived at China during the
year 1834
British flag
American 43
Spanish 2B
Portuguese
French
D ish
Other European nations, flags un-
known
The bulk of the cargoes exported was teas and silk.
Tea is grown in all the southern provinces of China, in
like manner ; wine is produced. throughout France and
Rhenish Germany ; but good tea, like tine wines, is
grown only in a few places.
The Black Tea exported by Europeans is grown in the
provinces of Fuh- Keen and Quan-tung ; and the Green
Teas in Tche-Kiang and Ngan-Hoe.
There are thirty-six kinds of Tea, but of these thirteen
varieties alone arc exported by Europeans, viz.:—
BLACK TEAS.

Pekoe ........
Orange Pekoe ... First Picking.
Caper ....................
Ankoi Souchong
Souchong ............. ••• Second Picking.
Campoi
Congo .........•••
Bohea .....• ..........`TEAS.
Third Picking.
GREEN EAS.

Gunpowder . ............ First Picking.
Hyson .................
Yr,ung H v son• • ......... Second Picking.
(lyson 5kin........::::: Third Picking.

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Twankay '''''''''''''
The leaves arc plucked from the shrubs and trees three
and these buds arc sometimes
times a-year—in April, July, and September. The finest
Tea is the first picking ;
mixed with the blossoms of the sweet olive, which impart
to them a delightful fragrance, and the Tea is thaen
coarser
called
Flowery Pekoe. The later gatherings are of
aed darker leaf.
The average amount exported for British consumption
is 30,000,000 of pounds, and the total consumption of
England and her dependencies is 58,000,000 of pounds.
The annual income derived from Tea is 3,300,0001.,
during the last twenty years, 80,000,000/. has been
paid into the British Exchequer as duties upon Tea.
The following table shows the amount of tea exnorted
front China for the use of the world :
Great' Britain .................. 30,000,000 pounds.
British Dependencies ......... 28,000,000
Tartary and the States of /91 000 000 Chiefly
Central Asia 5- ' ' Black Tea.
United States of America ... 8,000,000
Russia ........................ ..• .5,000,000
East India. Islands .......•••••• 3,000,000
Holland and Belgium ......... 2,700,000
France ........................... 500 000
Denmark ........................ 130,000
3 500
Naples ...........................
.................. •- ••• 2,000
Germany
1,500
Austria .......................
It*
Nearly all the •
tea imported into the continent of
Europe is for the consump..ion of British residents indeed

* Fan-qul is literally white devil.