Net cost of 54,000,000 pounds, average 1s. per pound £2,700,000 Export duty in China of 1½d. a lb. 337,500 Shipping charges, &c., in China 25,000 Freight, &c., China to England, about 2d. per lb. 450,000 Insurance, ½d. per lb. 112,500 Commission, about ¼d. per lb. 56,250 Tasting charges, &c., about 1/8 of a penny per lb. 28,125 Interest for 6 months on £3,709,375 at 5 per cent. 92,734 --------- Total outlay in China £3,802,109 Profit to exporters in China,(about 12 per cent.) 445,116 Landing charges, &c., in England 39,000 ---------- Cost price in bond in England £4,286,225 Duty received by government at 2s. 2½. per lb., about 5,985,482 ---------- £10,271,707 Profit divided among tea-brokers, wholesale and retail dealers, &c 1,878,293 ---------- Total outlay by British public for tea, at 4s. 6d. per lb. £12,150,000 The tea imported into England in 1667 was only 100 lbs., while for the year ending June 30, 1851, the export from China to Great Britain was 64,020,000 lbs., employing 115 vessels in its transportation; and to the United States, during the same time, 28,760,800 lbs., in sixty-four vessels. Within the last five years, the export has increased 10,000,000 lbs. to the United States, and 17,000,000 to Great Britain. These statistics will show the immense importance of this article to commerce, and the vast amount of shipping it supports. But let us follow out the statistics a little more in detail. The population of the Chinese provinces, as quoted by Dr. Morison, from an official census taken in 1825, was 352,866,012, and we may fairly conclude that during the last twenty-eight years this population has extensively increased. If we assume the annual consumption of tea at four lb. per head on the above population; and this is no unreasonable assumption in a country, where, to quote from Murray's valuable work on China, tea "is the national drink, which is presented on every occasion, served up at every feast, and even sold on the public roads;" we shall have a tolerably accurate result as to the total consumption in the empire. Indeed this computation falls short of the actual relative consumption in the island of Jersey, where, as we have seen, nearly five lbs. is the annual allowance of each individual.