Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-03-06

FROM LATE LONDON PAPER RECEIVED THIS OFFICE.
depuation of the Associated Manufacturers of Tobacco,
accompanied by Dr. Bowrng, NJ. P, Mr. Henry Berkeley,
NJ p, Mr.. G. II. w. Heneage, M. p, and Mr.. Ludlow
Bruges, NJ p waited upon Lord John RUSSELL his house
Chesham place. Saturday, for the purpose of calling his
attention to the state of the tobacco trade and the injurious
influence of high duties the interests of the trade and
the comfort and morality of the public The depuaon
sisted of the following members of the trade Mr. John Lloyd
of the firm Of ]. q F. Lloyd and Co Mr. Williamson and
Mr. Back of the firm of Taddy and Co. Mr.. H. O. Wills
of the firm of Ricketts,, Wills and Co., Bristol Mr. Won der
Heyde Mr.. Thomas Huxley Mr.. Charles Lloyd Of the firm
Of Wishart and Lloyd Mr. Robert Roberts; and Mr.. Paul
Anste, of the firm Of p. * f. Anstie, of Devices.
Lord John Russell accompanied by the Chancellor of
the Excheque and received the deputation with much
courtesy.
Dr. Bowng referred the committee the House Of Com
mons the tobacco trade which in 1884, and the i'm
poan and conclusive of evidence which given be-
fore that committee. II shown that of the number Of
seizures of conraband goods made by the customs vese
vcnhs the whole consisted of tobacco and that the convic
for the crime of smuggling had increased during The three
years previous to January last than hundred per
cent that the duties tobacco enormous, varying
from 500 10 400 per cent the value of the article that
the temptation both to smuggling and adulteraon great
to forbid the hope Of collecting the duty that the evidence
proved such amount of these practices show that the
power of the entirely defeated Ii shown
that quantity fully equal that which duty had been
paid introduced audueny and consumed without pay
ment Of Duty to the injury Of the fair trader The Board of
Excise produced chemical evidence, with the intention of
showing that they had the of discovering adueraon
by analysis but in that respect they had entirely failed The
to show that the expenses attending the evasion
OF the duty great that could not introduce
bacco under which would render improbable to him
his goods the duty reduced Is pound
Mr. John Lloyd said that the trade had been complaining
of the operation duties for many years. commencing soon
aft he yhq
became open that the stringent regulations of the Excise
veyand the trade had readily assened the stringent
regulations the Government could devisehaving altogether
failed OF their intended effect of preventing smuggling they
abandoned in 1910 that the of duty much
cceded any other article the tariff that that ground
tobacco had the fist claim for reduction And now, the du
ties other articles having been reduced the tobacco duties
had become relatively still higher Thus all the operations Of
smugger had become concentrated tobacco Former
y, his consisted of brandy Silks and other highly
taxed foreign articles Now tobacco forms the whole
That the low prime of the article, and the consequent
profit realized, had led amount of SNUG
Cling that the condition of the fair trader than
at former period That this duty falls heavily upon the
working classes nasmuch of the revenue
derived from tobacco derived exclusively the
sumption Of the working classes Mr. Lloyd also referred
the general views of the subject which Dr. Bowng had
touched.
Mr. Paul Ansrie said that after Mr. Lloyds statement he
only anxious to prove that the calculations which the
trade had embodied in the papers they left with the Chan
celor Of the Exchequer strictly based evidence given
since published They had taken the proportion which exist
ed between seizures in London in the year ls3 he only
clear year after the passing Of the last tobacco ac and the
whole Of the seizures in the United Kingdom They had then
taken the positive testimony given before the committee
definite amounts introduced into London by smuggling during
that year The witnesses who had spoken to quantities Of
struggled leaf tobacco within their knowledge only
six, and the total quantity asceaned had been multiplied
only by threean estimate believed to fall far short Of the
truth This remark applied also to the calculation of the
quantities Of struggled foreign manufactured tobacco which
the quantities deposed by three witnesses multi
piled only by four The proportion which existed be.
tween the seized in London and in the whole king
dom IN S43 applied to ascertain the whole Of the guam
titles smugglcd and the result that If 1914 the duty
bad been reduced to Is pound leaf S. foreign c
gars and cheroos and Is Cd other foreign manufactured
bacco and snuff the from tobacco would have been
great, taking aduteraton also into account derived
from the present high Of duty Several official papers
had been published when Sir r. Peel introduced his last la
riff the associated manufacturers complained that he had
ken spirits instead Of tobacco the latter being largely
smugged, and subject TO the highest Of duty. They
have evidence in these papers that the they then
expressed had been fully realized Parliamentary returns
show that tobacco constituted ve-sevenths Of the SNUG
Cling and that the enterprise of the conaband trader had
been transferred tobacco The effect Of the reduction
the duty spirits had been positive increase Of
This would certainly in the of tobacco.
The depaation then retired, no intimaon so far
have understood having been given Of the intentions Of Gov
eminent in reference to the tobacco duties.
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Europe, Gaus Encke Sure and Hersche TO give the
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