, 1840-06-27

SEES o1 the British Navy.
Mr.. Dodge thinks that If the consumption
OF tobacco in Great Britain were proportion.
ate TO the consumption in the United States
she would consume over 100000 hhds., SO
thatlf the present which is 70 cents on ever.
ry p~ound--or 900 per cent-were reduced
four-fiiths, Great Britain would receive the
same amount ofrevenue which she now gets.
BY following out Mr.. Dodge's statements to
their conclusions, we find that under this i'm.
provement in our tobacco trade with Britain,
our planters might add 7 or 8 millions Of dol.
lars yearly to the National income.
FRANcE.-Mr. Dodge thinks that France
treats us shabbily in relation to this trade
With larger population than England, she
consumes only about half as much. The
Reggie weighs heavily on American tobacco.
81 per cent, Of articles imported hither from
France pay no duty; while this is the case
with only 81 per cent. of imports from Eng
land. Our non-GG,iable imDorts from France
are equal to our entire expor: Of domestic
produce TO France. The French govern
ment derive a revenue of 81 millions of dol
lars from American tobacco alone; which is
more than double the amount Of revenue de
rived by our government from all our in
ports from France.
The restrictions on the cultivation of to-
b1cco IN France are incredible, and give Us
a much meancr opinion Of that people
than we before had. The Chinese are not
treated in n more vexatious and harrassing
manner by their perpetual government.
Thus. SAYS Mr.. Dodge, 'every plant is
counted, ny, every leaf on each plant is coun.
ted by the officers Of the Reggie. The result
Of an average year Of the crops Of 1880,
1881, 1882. 1888. and 1884, shows a pro-
dnca 3! 2o2,40o,S66 plants, ha-iHg I.77i,-
730;222. leaves. And TO prevent the cult.
vator from using even the refuse leaves,
which the Reggie will not take, they are i'm
mediately destroyed. the doing Of which
has frequently occasioned bloodshed; and to
prevent the cultivator from ever having n
chance Of getting a few leaves from the az
the roots, immediately of,he crop.
are pulled up by the officers Of the Regie!r
SPArN.-lmporis direct of American TO-
bacco, 100 hhds. Consumption 500. Rev.
enue derived by Government S5,OOO.OO0.
Our duty paying imports from Spain amount
TO some 100000; from which our govern
ment gets a revenue Of perhaps $4,000;
or only tenth part of what Spain gets upon
one article Of our produce. 81 per cent of
our imports from Spain come in duty free.
PORTUGAL derives about $4,000 yearly
from duties on American tobacco; Brazil to.
bacco pays S6,27 per 100 lbs; American
$3.50.
lTALr.-Sardinia consumes about 1900
hhds. American tobacco, Tuscany 425, Ma
pies 400, the Roman States 800, Parma 100.
GERMANr.-Mr. Dodge says that he con.
lerred with the governments Of the thirty
States, into which Germany is divided; but
he cannot now publicly disclose much
that he has discovered nor explain the pres.
,nt state of the negotiation, without %injurinc
Dur interests. He states, however. that the
consumption Of Austria is about 1000 hhds;
md that in the rest of Germany the revenue
from American tobacco is about
5 100000.
Tine conclusions of Mr.. Dodge, ought to
make a deep impression on all our citizens.
While our government derives from all Its
IMPORTS from Europe only Sl0,0OO,0oO; Eu-
'ope derives from the single article of tobac
%, exported from this country, $4,000, 900!
This article, tobacco, costs only 100000
% that, averaging all Europe, it has to pay
90 per cent.
Our tobacco planters and all the people Of
his country have a right TO complain and
emonstrate. By the adoption in Europe of
liberal scale of duties our planters would
id millions to their income, and the nation ut
arge millions to its income. Probably If
treated US in the matter of ruties
literally as we treat them, our nation
in a short time, be every year the rich
r by some IS or 90 millions Of dollars
The cultivation Of tobacco would be extern
ed; and this would Leave more room for the
rover of other articles. So immense a
timulous indeed afforded to one branch of
would lend new vigor TO every 9th.
Our foreign debt would be much less
bug-bear than it is now; for in good time
ur tobacco would pay it off; and thus all
ur fears would end in smoke. How deeply
lterested Missouri is in this question, we
eed not explain.
In a ermon delivered short time since by !
.ev A.. P. Peabody, before his Society (U-
itarian)at Portsmouth, N. H. on the subject
{ Religious Reyiyals-a sermon which has