Nicotina 0·06 Concrete vegetable oil 0·01 Bitter extractive 2·87 Gum, with malate of lime 1·74 Chlorophylle 0·267 Albumen and gluten 1·308 Malic acid 0·51 Lignin and a trace of starch 4·969 Salts (sulphate, nitrate, and malate of } potash, chloride of potassium, phosphate } 0·734 and malate of lime, and malate of ammonia)} Silica 0·088 Water 88·280 ——————- Fresh leaves of tobacco 100·836 ======= TABLE XI. Return showing the quantity of Chests of Opium exported by the East India Company between 1846 and 1858. ——————————+——————————————- Years. | No. of Chests.[40] ——————————+——————————————- 1846-47 | 22,468 1847-48 | 22,879 1848-49 | 33,073 1849-50 | 35,919 1850-51 | 32,033 1851-52 | 31,259 1852-53 | 35,521 1853-54 | 42,403 1854-55 | 49,979 1855-56 | 49,399 1856-57 | 66,305 1857-58 | 68,004 ——————————+——————————————- TABLE XII. Amount of Income derived by the East India Company from the Opium Monopoly. ————————+—————————— Years. | Amount. ————————+—————————— 1840-41 | £874,277 1841-42 | 1,018,765 1842-43 | 1,577,581 1843-44 | 2,024,826 1844-45 | 2,181,288 1845-46 | 2,803,350 1846-47 | 2,886,201 1847-48 | 1,698,252 1848-49 | 2,845,762 1849-50 | 3,309,637 1850-51 | 3,043,135 1851-52 | 3,139,247 1852-53 | 3,717,932 1853-54 | 3,359,019 1854-55 | 3,333,601 1855-56 | 3,961,975 1856-57 | 3,860,390 1857-58 | 5,918,375 ————————+—————————— TABLE XIII. OPIUM STATISTICS OF GREAT BRITAIN. ——————+————————————+———————————— Years.| Imports. |Consumption. ——————+————————————+———————————— 1826 | 79,829 lbs.| 28,329 lbs. 1827 |113,140 ” | 17,322 ” 1830 |209,076 ” | 22,668 ” 1833 |106,846 ” | 35,407 ” 1836 |130,794 ” | 38,943 ” 1839 |196,247 ” | 41,632 ” 1842 | 72,373 ” | 47,432 ” 1845 |259,644 ” | 38,229 ” 1848 |200,019 ” | 61,055 ” 1849 |105,724 ” | 44,177 ” 1850 |126,318 ” | 42,324 ” 1851 |118,024 ” | 50,682 ” 1852 |205,780 ” | 62,521 ” 1853 |159,312 ” | 67,038 ” 1854 | 97,427 ” | 61,432 ” 1855 | 50,143 ” | 34,473 ” 1856 | 51,479 ” | 38,609 ” 1857 |136,423 ” | 56,174 ” 1858 | 82,085 ” | 77,639 ” ——————+————————————+———————————— TABLE XIV. ANALYSIS OF OPIUM, BY MULDER.
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