The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-11 00:00:00

THE TEA TRADE.

Thursday a very numerous deputation, composed of mer-
chants and others engaged in the trade to China, as well as
of parties interested in the tea trade, had an interview with
Lord Melbourne, Mr. P. Thomson, and Mr. Spring Rice,
at the Treasury. The deputation consisted of Mr. Crawford,
M.P. ; Mr. Marjoribanks, Mr. A. Palmer, Mr. Thos. San-
derson, Mr. Travers, Mr. Sanderson, Mr. Richard Gibbs,
Mr. ntrobus, and other individuals interested in the trade.
Mr. Horsley Palmer, Mr. Sanderson, and Mr. Thomson
addressed Lord Melbourne upon the subject of the recent
order issued by the Commissioners of Customs directing the
paying of the congou duty upon Fokein bohea teas, and the
injury done to the trade by the impediments thrown in the
way of the merchants and others interested by the adherence
to the present scale of duties. The deputation referred to the
points pressed upon Mr. P. Thomson and Mr. Spring Rice
at the recent interview, and expressed a hope that measures
would be immediately adopted to allow Fokein boheas to pass
at the lower duty as they had hitherto done.
Lord Melbourne, after some discussion upon the point, as-
sured the deputation that the subject relative to the duty upon
Fokein boheas should have the immediate attention of his Ma-
jesty's Government, and promised that the determination he
and his colleagues might come to upon the question, should
be communicated previously to the period to which the large
sale of teas, which had been postponed in consequence of the
recent order of the Commissioners of Customs, had been
adjourned.
Some of the members of the deputation expressed a desire
to draw the attention of Lord Melbourne to the necessity of
an alteration of the sale of duties upon tea; but his Lordship
was understood to say that that question was under the serious
consideration of Government. The mode in which the East
India Company were resolved to dispose of their large stock
of teas in bond was also hinted at, but his Lordship expressed
a disposition not to enter into a discussion upon that point for
the present.
After a lengthened conversation upon the topic which more
immediately formed the subject to be brought before his
Lordship, the deputation withdrew. The feeling was that the
Government would allow Fokein bohea to pass at the low duty
as heretofore.

The following notice, in addition to that issued by the East
India Company on Wednesday, declaring 4,000,000 pounds of
tea for the September sale, was promulgated yesterday :
" Agreeably to the Company's notice of the 28th of May
last, the teas advertised for the September sales will be offered
to the public at the following upset prices :—Bohea at Is. Id.
per lb. ; congou, first quality, at Is. 3d. ; ditto, second grade,
Is. 7d. ; ditto, third grade, Is. 9d. ; souchong, first grade,
Is. 6d. ; ditto, second grade, 2s. ; ditto, third grade, 2s. 6d. ;
pekoe at 2s. 4d. ; twankay at Is. 4d. ; hyson skin, first grade,
Is. 4d. ; second ditto, Is. 9d., and hyson, first grade, at 2s.
Id. ; ditto, second grade, 2s. 7d. ; ditto, third grade, 2s. Ild. ;
and ditto, fourth grade, 3s. 4d. per lb."
These prices are from 255. to 30s. per cent under the are-
rages obtained at the June sale.