The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-20 00:00:00

TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.

-- This is a question of vital importance to you. Tea is
one of the most valuable elements in your daily meals,
•a great comfort to all, and to very many of yea an ab-
solute necessary of life. It would be one of the greatest
-blessings to your families could you provide them with
this prime want more fi equently, more abundantly, and
of better quality. This you are prevented from doing
by the enormous duty which is now levied on Tea ; no
less than 2s. 2,fd. on every pound. The original cost of
Tea is only from Bd. to 2s. per pound, and this exorbi-
tant impost, therefore, is equivalent to a tax of 200 per
cent. on the average qualities, and no less than from 300
to 400 per cent. on the lower kinds. Coffee and Sugar
are admitted at a duty of from 20 to 30 per cent., and
it is high time that your wants in respect to Tea should
be provided for by a great reduction of the duty on this
commodity.
TO THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND.
The reduction of the Tea duty is a question interest-
ing to you, because it affects the comforts and attractions
of your homes and your firesides.
To show the evil at present in existence, you must
take a pound of Tea, and put one-third into one paper,
two-thirds into another ; the money paid in China, with
expenses added for bringing the Tea home, has procured
the whole pound for you; but you can only get one-
thirdi the other two-thirds must go to pay duty, or you
must pay three times the value to obtain the whole
pound.

- Is this true? Yes. The merchant sells at Is. per
pound that Tea on which 2s. 21d. is charged for duty;
and even at 9d. good sound Tea is sold by the merchant,
upon which the same duty is levied.
Thus a poor man's family paying 3d. for Tea only
procures Id. worth; and instead of the 2d. going to pay
for eatables, clothes, or instruction, it is paid away as a
tax for permission to drink ld. worth of Tea.
TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND.
Does the Tea duty affect you? It does, and for rea-
sons quite independent of those which are placed before
your wives and daughters.
What regulates your income, or wages? Employ-
ment. If two men do what is required, is a third man
likely to get a day's work?
The Chinaman has plenty more Tea to sell, and he
wants manufactures from us. But so much Tea as he
offers can not be sold here, because it_cannot be paid for
and the duty paid also.
Take more of the Chinaman's Tea and he will take
more manufactures ; and if more manufactured goods are
taken to China, will you or will you not have more em-
ployment? •
Think on these things. An association has been
formed in Liverpool for the purpose of procuring a great
reduction of the duty on Tea. With your hearty sup-
port and your aid in diffusing knowledge on the subject
by ;conversation or otherwise, and by subscriptions,
however small, as an evidence of your sympathy, the
public will soon be awakened to a sense of the import-
ance of the subject, and will then express its opinion in
a way that mast ensure success.

The convict Maynard, who was convicted at the
Central Criminal Court some time since for railway rob-
beries, though sentenced to transportation, has not been
sent out of the country, but remains in the Peniten-
; tiary, Millbank. Hu is allowed the use of pens, ink, and
paper, and busily employs himself for several hours each
day in writing communications to different railway com-
panies, in which he explains how and by what means
they can be and have been robbed ; also the facilities
with which their passengers can be plundered, and point-
ing out easy means for the prevention of such robberies.
Maynard's object is evidently to obtain a commutation
6 Or punishment.
a WEST 3.1.1D1NG UNION RAILWAY.—On Monday a
special meeting was held at Halifax, Mr. Ackroyd in
▪ the chair, when it was resolved to amalgamate with the
t 4 Manchester and Leeds.
• DEATH Or PROVOST JAMIESON.—In our obituary
• of to-day we notice the death of the death of this worthy
and influential gentleman, one of the oldest of our civic
• rulers. Mr. Jamieson was a member of the town
- council from 1793 till 1833, without a brdach, we believe;
in the term of his servitude. In the discharge of his
public duties he filled the various offices of treasurer,
bailie, and provost, being the second chief magistrate,
under the latter title, after the assumption of the dig-
nity by the council in 1812. Mr. Jetnies ma was inti-
mutely versant with town's affairs; he evinced great
urbanity in his manners, and was a most instructive as
well as a conciliatory adviser of his colleagues. But
what is even more to the crelit of the deceased gentle-
man, during all the conflicting questions and causes of
party strife which have presented themselves, he mover
took a single step, nor gave countenance to any pro-
posal whatever, that was calculated to injure the
. corporation. M.r. Jamieson was the last but ono xf the
surviving provosts who held office prior to 1833.—Paisley
's: Journal.
VA The directors of all the theatres at Berlin have
resolved to substitute the explosive cotton for gun-
powder, in their representations, because the canton
makes little or no smoke, which is not only annoying to
`. the public, but has an injurious effect upon the VOiett3 of
- the singers and actors.
We regret that our venerable and excellent
neighbour, Sir Anthony Lechmere. Bart., has been
lately suffering so severely from indisposition as to mt..
cite much anxiety amongst those around him for the re-
. suit. We are glad, however, to be able to state, from
inquiries which we have made just before our going to
press, that the worthy baronet is much better.—Woram-
ter Journal, Nov. 19.
SUDDEN DEATH or M. KERY.—M. Very, the 8( m
of the late celebrated restaurateur of that name in the
Palais Royal, died on Sunday night in a singular man—
ner. He had passed the day at his country house at:
Montmorency, but came to Paris at six o'clock with his:
• 'wife, and went to dine with a friend in the rue do Riche--
lieu. On entering the saloon he became completely'
chilled, attributing it to his having in the morning stood'.
too long on the bank of the Lake of Enghien fishing.
Ile placed himself close to the fire, became quite warm-
' again, and afterwards ate heartily at dinner. In the-
evening, while he was playing at whist, with his wife for
partner, and was talking gaily with a friend seated by
his side, the gentleman said that he felt he was growing
old, for he was already 53. M. Very laughingly replied,
" Why, at 50 years a man is still young. I have passed
ray 50th year, and never was better in my life." The
. words were scarcely out of his mouth before his lips be-
came convulsed, and the company laid him upon a sofa,
• where the next moment he expired.— Galignani.
TAB RECENT MILITARY OUTRAGE AT CORY.—
, An application was
e made on Saturday evening last, and
re
that in a very manner, by Colonel Beres-
_ ford, on the paPrtomp
of Lieutenant-General Turner, Com-
mander of the District, to his Won
rship I itihpe thee
case
se Mayor,
of "Mary
Ann 3a.
copy of the informations sw
Ann Waterman versus two Gentlemen bearing her
'Majesty's Commission in the t egiment of the •
Line. His Worship, after consulting of his
, and by this
brother magistrates, granted the
time the informations are on their way to the Horse
Guards.— Corh Examiner.
NAVIGATION or THE THAMES. The Resource
collier was stink last week in the mid-channel below
Blackwall; in five working days she was removed from .
'the bed of the river to within low-water mark by th,
successful method adopted by Captain Rowland, c
Greenwich, in raising sunken vessels.